This seems like a biased comparison. If you're going to compare the two, the comparison should be fair; same amount of time given to each artist in each segment, live concert versions for each, young Freddy against young Steve, up tempo against up tempo. Why is young Freddie compared to senior citizen Steve? Freddie is singing hits and the song included for review for Steve are obscure at best. It's an unfair comparison slanted toward Freddie.
Awesome, and yes very beautiful! I did not expect you to answer so quickly, if you are interested here are two more very beautiful arias with English translations: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CKLO06E-wfA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OlKjMpu4JFE.html
2024 both Freddie and Steve are great Burt Steve has had my heart since the early 70s Steve will always be the GOAT HIS VOCALS AND SONGS COME FROM HIS SOUL WITH PERFECT PITCH. He is just as great live, just an amazed blessed person . Love you Steve ❤ and always will I listen to your solo music, Journey and new music with The Effect. Thanks for sharing yourself with your talent. You made journey great, without you I truly believe they wouldn’t be a successful journey band maybe only to the young people who are listening to journey with Arnel. 💯Awesome guy!!!!
It's so sad that somebody has decided to apply noise reduction (or hiss reduction) to some of the older videos. One must have perfect hearing up to at lest 16kHz in order to avoid audio artifacts as a direct result of the audio cleaning process... Otherwise, all of these performers deliver exceptional performances.
Corelli and Lauri-Volpi sing in a lower key. I am most impressed with Kraus. Though his truly highest notes can sound a bit forced and are not spectacularly pretty like the Björling or Alva ones, he is such a fantastic singer anyway!
There is no contest here! It is Steve Perry!!! Technically he is perfect, where FM is more theatrical. But I did almost have a heart attack when Freddie sang an Elvis song! Forever The King!!!!
WOW! Love finding these gems! Thank you for sharing. I love also being reminded of singers I know were legends like Guelfi. Forgot all about him and am always impressed by his voice.
What a pity and shame on the producers of this movie they did not obtain Maria Callas for the main part ! She was at the peak of her career at that time, instead we must listen to a soprano long past its zenith played by an affected opera singer. What a nonsense! We could have had at least one documentary of the divine partnership of Maria and Franco. Pity, pity, pity......
Bello Corelli! Grazie per questo grande regalo. Ascoltarlo già è molto ma anche vederlo è meraviglioso! Credo il più bel tenore mai esistito. Una voce unica capace di trasmettere emozioni forti come pochi altri. Film bello tutto comunque. ❤❤❤❤
Freddy mercury from 73 to 78 was the best of the best, best singer best performer best in everything hands down anyway Steve Perry is GREAT no question
Когда впервые смотрела этот фильм, то было странно, что в роли Тоски исполнительница, явно много старше Корелли. Но потом привыкла, это же опера, где внешность и возраст играет второстепенную роль, главное здесь голос.
34 года всего. Очаровательный Франко с красивым мощным голосом. Забавно смотрится медальон с портретом Тоски, довольно возрастной ) Если что, не имею ничего против исполнительницы главной героини.
Young, Corelli! Yes, the portrait looks very old fashioned and it does not really look like the soprano who plays Tosca. The main painting could also have been more interesting, but it not the worst, the funniest one I have seen was a painting that was as big as an A4 paper. But ultimately we just want to see Corelli.
Franco, in addition to his incredible voice and beautiful appearance, possessed acting talent and stage charm!!!It's so exciting and mesmerizing for the viewer💯
'Remastered' and gone under water, but okay, we don't live in Afghanistan, anyone may experiment with buttons and random programs and post the 'results' :). So, now we finally have this Tosca in canned audio as an animated video travesty lol. A final (and true) compliment for the great, razor sharp subtitles, I'll give you that 😅
It was my first attempt, so it is not the best. But there was some very big problems with the original film. The original film was very green and dark in colour which was a pain to get rid off. The original sound was completely messed up it was pitched too high. The original sound of this film is completely unusable. The problem is that the sound wasn't exactly a semitone off it is somewhere between a semitone and a full tone. There are two other versions on YT where the sound is also pitched corrected and they also don't sound right. I likely would have been able to something better with the sound today. But I doubt it will ever be much better except if it was done by a real sound engineer. Look at my more recent Pagliacci, I think that it is much beter, although the sound on that one was also a pain to try and fix and it was not 100% fixable. Hopefully my efforts will inspire someone else to do a better job in the future, someone might simply be so irritated that they would do something better. The original; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8R7BZbWQx8U.html
Look at Michael Spyres' performance history he is only performing tenor roles actively. He only sings some baritone parts in the studio and on some limited recitals alongside a piano. He does not do baritone roles actively. There is link to Michael Spyres' performance Schedule in the description. Some people would say that Michael Spyres is an early bel canto or Rossini type of baritenor. Obviously he does not think so, otherwise he wouldn't be singing a duet from Verdi's Otello, that is obviously meant for a dramatic tenor. He also sing Tristain, Pagliacci, Tosca and Carmen. So he is trying to do normal Italian heaver roles, rather than bel canto roles. Spyres darkens his voice more and sometimes less during some of these examples, but there is no real robustness or power in his voice, his voice remains very light. He is basically playing around with the colour of his voice. The idea of the baritenor became popular with Donzelli. At 18 he did start as very light tenor. But his voice changed, he obviously did not sing high notes with chest voice. The tessitura of the operas that was created for him was that of a dramatic tenor in today's world. Donzelli was not known for his nuances and delicacy, people revered him for the power of his voice. He was viewed in a differently light to the normal Rossini and Donizetti tenors of the day. Why shouldn't we just assume that this was a dramatic tenor? Dramatic tenors often start as baritones, Melchior is a more recent example of this. In Rossini's era many dramatic tenors (of today) were likely baritones in that era. I don't think it is a strange idea to expect some vocal power, strength and a bigger size of voice around the dramatic tenor or baritenor voice type. It is certainly interesting, that Spyres is playing around with the colour of his voice. I am not saying he is a bad singer at all, he is obviously one of the best around today, but he is not a baritenor.
There's no diminishing Freddy's enormous voice, but Steve could hit AND HOLD HIGH NOTES comfortably Freddy could only dream of holding. Both SENSATIONAL singers but Steve without question the higher tenor. THAT SAID, FREDDY was, without question, the king of the lower range notes Steve never played with. STEVE NEVER sang as low as Freddy could. Both, again sensations in their careers.
Merli: It was OK. DIdn't like tone quality. Cortis: The "All'alba" was very well heard. This one was better than Merli, but still not the best yet. Favorite out of the first three. Pertile: Pretty good and powerful. Volpi: Clear vowels in the beginning. His high b was quite powerful. Rosvaenge: Very good. I loved the clarity in the vowels. Martinelli: His low D was not my favorite. Another good one. Filippeschi: His "Dilegua notte, tramontate stelle" wasn't the easiest to hear. Neither wasn't his high B. Del Monaco: Another "Dilegua notte, tramontate stelle" that didn't cut through the orchestra. Fortunately, the high B did. Corelli: Very good! Not his best, though. Not the best here, though. Tucker: Very good! His high B wasn't long, but it was still powerful. Giacomini: Some vowels were not clear, unfortunately. Not one of my favorites. Bonisolli. He wobbled on the "Tramontate, stelle" Muehle: Not my favorite. My favorite was Rosvaenge.
Rosvaenge did have a great great sound, I think he is slightly overlooked sometimes because he most sang in German. Obviously he also sang Mozart so he could sing with clarity.
Мой фаворит Франко Корелли, настоящий принц. Кроме трех исполнителей понравились все. Голос Джакомини среднее между тенором и баритоном, мне так показалось, но я просто рядовой любитель оперы и могу ошибаться.
Giacomini is an interesting case. He was really more of a spinto tenor, but he was taught by Marcello Del Monaco, and over the years he began to depress his larynx, so his voice became darker and darker like Kaufman. His voice sounds massive on recordings but in real life he had a medium sized voice. I think if you listen to these tenors one after each other from all of the different periods, you can hear how voices became more muffled over the years. All of the tenors in this example have squillo, but when it comes to Giacomini, Cechelle and Bonisolli they had artificial darkness in the voice. Whereas you can hear that Corelli fit in more easily with prewar tenors. And today no one has squillo expect for the rare exceptions like Martin Meule.
Pavarotti does it okay, he is certainly not the worst at all. In today's world he would have been a decent Calaf, but overall there are just many better versions. The worst examples are Bocelli and Jonathan Antoine, in my opinion.
@@bradycall1889 Yes, Bocelli actually has good technique for a contemporary singer, he still sounds quite good. I don't really have that much of problem with him personally. It is more the reality TV singers like Jonathan Antoine. And it is more about the genre of popera that don't work that well, in my opinion. People do think that popera singers are really opera singers. They sing opera arias in a subpar manner and they are not creative as what you might expect in contemporary music, they don't write new music or do something interesting.
@@ZENOBlAmusic Yes indeed he's a pop singer with opera-like elements incorporated. I don't, however, agree that "popera" didn't work out that well. I think it's still an overall good genre of music. It just isn't true opera.
Lol. He does not show a lot refinement in this version. But this an extremely early version in 1927, perhaps he didn't yet know what could be done with the aria. The premier of the opera in Italy was in 1927.
The passagio can move to a degree. Training and technique is very important. You might not know your passaggio point unless you are an experienced singer. Basses are extremely rare. What tends to happen is that many singers sing up to G4, and they think they are baritones, but they sometimes just need to learn to singer over the passaggio.
@@ZENOBlAmusic interesting! definitely not trained at all. But I am heaps more comfortable in head voice especially as I enter the 4th octave. very rarely can I sing above F4 but again that can be attested to training. So I should probably get lessons first.
Tenor, anyway, for me is irrelevant what kind of tenor he is not singing opera but nice work trying to find the exact fach(or voice type/classification in this case). Nice work you've done in your channel! this educative content is very interesting.
En tu video pones a Freddy con un buen audio y a Steve lo pones con pésimo audio y aún así hasta el mismo Fredy reconoció que era mejor Steve y hoy a sus 75 años se escucha igual, lamentablemente Fredy no podemos compararlo pero al final de su vida por su enfermedad mermo mucho su voz
