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I just discovered this video station. How wonderful! It is GREAT to hear Richard Tucker in these performances and to learn yet more about this great vocalist. I count myself lucky to have seen Tucker so frequently as I did. Tucker was one of the Great Three of dramatic tenordom of those momentous years: Corelli, del Monaco, Tucker. What a triumverate!
The first time I heard him,I went,Wow,I thought I'd heard the best,but he's my favourite.Hihh notes fabulous,but it's the sheer joy in his voice that I love most.
Just wonderful. His singing and the emotions conveyed place him among the best: Gigli, Bjourling, Domingo, Pavarotti. Not quite Lanza or Caruso, but then no one is. I would love to have seen his Turridu or Don Jose.
I couldn't comment on Richard Tucker's performed of English language songs. No means. But they were beautiful. His v diction was perfect. He sounded like Kathryn Hepburn, Gregory Peck, all movie stars in the forties who were coached to sound upper and uppermiddle class. Sadly, no more. Now they sound just as ignorant as the rest of us. I heard an interview of one of the most well-known actors of today. He was "goin' here, doin' that, livin' and actin ' Help! No more! I am coaching myself not to say, "gonna," "wanna," "cuz," and not to write "u" for "you." I may be alone in this but at least my students, friends and family may make the effort as well.
Agree about Earl W. An utterly wonderful vocal artist. Had a perfectly balanced tone and ease of singing. Not sure if Opera would have been his lane, although the production was correct. He fit the classical musicals of the era as well or better than any!!
Agreed, so one night in the run of several performances, Tucker "suddenly" when the time came for the big Aria--- he broke the rule and sang the aria in "Italian" bringing the house down with great applause!.
Too bad there isn't a recording of the night Tucker suddenly against the rule, sang just the aria in Italian, instead of English as the opera in all the performances was being done. The audience gave him great applause.
There’s something about opera that the WHOLE WORLD loves irrespective of their knowledge about music, voice, drama, etc. Something that reassures and even inspires them. That thing has been systematically drained out of the art form over the past decades leaving something completely inscrutable.
