Che Gelida Manina Battle(B4-C5(-C#5)READ DESCRIPTION) 

One example of perfect covering and full tone with some chestvoice is Jerry Hadley! May he rest in peace!

Menção honrosa para Sabbatini, Beczala mas Bjorling e Pavarotti são demais.

I’m sorry but you forgot in your video others 3 BIG ITALIAN TENOR: MARIO DEL MONACO, FRANCO CORELLI AND GIUSEPPE GIACOMINI

Where is Murat Karahan ??????

When you hear opera, and a particular Aria, judging quality is much, much more than reaching a note!

jonathan tetelman actually kinda killed it, not sharp, not flat nailed all of the notes in the sequence right on the head.

Alfredo Kraus, Pavarotti and Jussi Biörling are perfect.

"Che Gelida Manina", cet air si bouleversant du génial Puccini, ici interprété par les plus belles voix de ténors, du passé et d'aujourd'hui! Comment ne pas être ému par tant de beauté vocale pour servir une œuvre magistrale, peut-être le chef d’œuvre du grand compositeur Italien?.

Hey at 7:59, that high note almost similar to Pavarotti

E Giacomo Lauri Volpi ??? E Giuseppe Lugo, forse il migliore???

Can anyone really compare to Pavarotti's composure on "Za" though? He's in complete control.

neue stimmen is actually the name of the contest/festival, not the name of the singer (6:29)

Sorry, but why are you trying to compare kids with adults?

There is only ONE CORELLI!!

Carreras for me not for the high note but for the whole aria - I really believed he is a young poet in Paris who has met this woman who has just by her presence captured his heart

Those guys doing the La Speranza challenge before it was cool

BJORLING...PAVAROTTI! Tetelman - Wow, where did he come from??!!

Now I see why my father rated Bjorling highly.. he made the hairs stand up on the back of my head! I still love Pavarotti though..

Franco Bonisolli should be here between great tenors too.

The c5 was always easier to sing for me than the b4. My stickiest spot was always b4 and bflat.

Where is Mario del Monaco? 😮

All wonderful but Jesse Bjorlings rendition is really special .His technique at holding that note is just amazing and produces the wow factor for me.

I've heard a lot of these guys live. The first tenor comparison I ever made was on cassette tapes while walking to college playing this same aria 'Che gelida manina'. It was 1960 when I was just out of high school. I compared Mario Lanza, Jan Peerce, and Jussi Bjorling. I had never heard the aria before or Jussi. I had heard Lanza and thought he was great but then as now a lot of 'experts' found fault with him. I decided to make up my own mind. Well Peerce and Lanza were easy. Peerce was legitimate - he sang at the Met. But he couldn't hold a candle to Lanza. Later I was to hear Peerce live several times. He was good of course but the voice was never a challenge to the the best guys. The voice just wasn't as pretty as that of the top tenors. Then I played this guy I'd never heard before - Bjorling. I expected his efforts to also not match up to Mario's version. Wrong! It was what you call a revelation. Lanza was really good in most of the repertoire but Bjorling owned that role. Half a century later I still remember that day when I compared tenors. I saw Boheme many times and sang three different bass roles (Colline, Alcindoro and Benoit) in the opera. Many different productions many performances. Every time I heard the tenor's big aria I compared it with the Bjorling version. Jussi is still the champ. Bergonzi like Domingo had been a baritone. Domingo of course was never happy with the High C but overall - and I've heard them both live many times - Domingo had a much better top voice. I don't care if Bergonzi sang the C once in a studio. Bergonzi not Lanza was the guy who only sounded good on records. Live Bergonzi had a small and somewhat pale voice. Not thrilling at all. Domingo had a great but slightly short top. Almost no normal star tenor sings a C in performance. Chris Merritt, Salvatore Fisichella, Bruce Ford, Frank Lopardo, and Juan Diego Florez pop out top C's and above with ease, but they are not mainstream tenors likely to sing Rudolfo at a major opera house. They are high note tenors. Some of them like Ford and Florez have small voices and would not do Boheme in a big American opera house. Some tenors with famous super high note come a cropper in live performance. I heard Pavarotti's C in Trovatore - thin. And Kraus' D in Puritani - spread. High notes are treacherous. High notes are just a matter of the length of your vocal cords. Short cords - you're a tenor - You get the girl. Medium length cords - as a baritone you're likely to be the villain. But with big manly vocal cords - in opera you stand at the back and wear a toga. High notes are only part of opera but they can be important. I once sang a high G in performance. Once. It was a concert and I sang an original song that wasn't too good. On the spur of the moment I sang a final climatic High G - something I'd never done before in performance. It made the song. The composer cried like a baby. High note magic.

This is so weird that all those men have the same voice when they reach high notes! That fascinates me considering our resonators are so different from a person to another!

Wow...that was amazing. Going to have to give it to Pavarotti #1 and Bjorling #2.

Roberto Alagna by miles

Bjorling is the best. Gedda , Aragall and Corelli are amazing too. I really missed Lauri volpi

Bjorling for sure. Last but the best!

The best ones integrate the high C within the phrase without interrupting the flow of the phrase. Roberto Alagna does an excellent job of smoothly singing the phrase as well as Pavarotti. The ones that "hiccup" before the high C are less musically and technically successful in my opinion.

I think Sabbatini is pretty underrated. He has excellent control.

How can the accompanying soprano withstand such a blast of sound in their ears if they are close and in front on the tenor?

Jussi Bjorling!!!!!!!

The Nordic dude Borjling always.

Perfect to save Rodolfo himself for the final appearance. Jussi Björling was Rodolfo throughout his career and will forever be Rodolfo!

Pavarotti owns this song

Jussi Björling!

Good comp! Corelli reached C5 though

RU-vid is drunk as hell. Right after spamming me with clips of new in Arabic they put this in a Mix with the SMT IV OST, which not only has no lyrics but also entirely synthesized. Enjoyed this anyway, haven't listened to Opera since highschool

For years I’ve been a big fan of Bjorling (especially), Pavarotti and Corelli, but Beczala was really impressive in this short snippet. I know of him without having heard much. Have to seek him out.

Shicoff is excellent here as is lanza bergonzi hadley fishcella arigall

And then you compare salvatore fisichella teaching and then singing its exactly the same vocal strenght! AMAZING!

Was waiting for that 10:04. Björling dominates this one

You must put Franco Bonisolli. He is the best!!!

CORELLI-LANZA, LANZA-CORELLI.

AH! You saved the best for last!!! Bjorling!!!!!!!

Some of these tenors achieve that note so smoothly that I felt like I was soaring with them on wings. Rame Lahai wasn't necessarily my favorite - how could you choose just one - but his rendition seemed the most distinctive. Thanks for sharing. Could you post an Esultate - Otello battle, please?

Im fan of pink floyd beatles etc but recently discovered this gem of music i can't stop listening to this and now have puccini verdi rossini's brahm and wagner as my favourite

Jussi Bjørling ❤️

Alagna and Gedda for me. And where is Bonisolli?

Alagna is fabulous here!!

In studio recordings, all tenors (including even Domingo) sing it in the original key, meaning that they take the high C at the end of the aria. But in live performances, they seem to be divided: I used to think that transposing the aria down by half a tone was the exception, not the rule. However, according to Pavarotti, even many great tenors in the past were known to do this.

Saved the best for last. I didn’t even have to see who was sing but knew from just the sound. Luciano was more beautiful but Jucci was more rich.

saved the best till last

In this compilation, Pavarotti excerpt is the best.

they are all good , some excellent.... but nobody is as good as Jussi Bjorling, ever.......

Alfredo Kraus the best, but 1959 versión.

Where are Giacomini and Del Monaco?

El más hermoso C5, emitido, brillante, claro, luminoso, sin constricción, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI!!!!

Lanza, Pavarotti. Bjorling caruso, corelli

I can understand uncertainty in the pitch of older recordings, but with the moderns you know what key they are singing in (most singers lower the aria half a step, and there’s no dishonor to it), so I would prefer to know what note they intend to sing and let the listener decide if they are sharp - as Bjoerling is, very sharp). Controversy will always rage about what he sounded like live and unamplified, but in this repertoire I think Lanza is the best, as he would not be in ‘Trovatore’, where Corelli always lowered the ‘Pira’ but sang D flat at the end of the Act I trio. Go figure.

LANZA , CORELLI, BJRLING, ARAGAL.

Pavarotti has mastered this song

Very fun video! Good job.

So many incredible voices. Pavarotti takes my heart though. That soaring, bright, piercing and resonant high C and the soft control at the end just gets me every time.

If you hear this aria in its entirety then lanza is the best to sing it. I love jussi version.. These two tenor had so much emotion in ther voice. None of the rest do no compare. Pav voice is very thin and lacks emotional to me. Everyone to their own.

Jussi Bjorling and followed by Pavarotti. Great choices...

Man, lots of these guys are rushing it, there is so much time to let it breath.

Hay otra versión donde Don Alfredo Kraus la canta con un C#5

Have you heard Helge Rosvaenge? I think he's the best

1 Luciano Pavarotti

Virgilijus Noreika should be on this! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dRDhLxIjYFo.html

Hey Shinobi Vocals, did you know 2 of the tenors Piotr Beczala and Joseph calleja was going to be in this opera la boheme at the met opera this year but they did not because of pandemic? My best guess is Joseph Calleja would sing che gelida manina in the key of B

I see they wisely saved the best for last.

Aragall, Pavarotti, Bjorling ,Gedda, Carreras ¡Sublimes!

I guess Matousek and Fabiano are a mistake...

I want to Suggestion a battle: L a donna e mobile battle (B4)

At 6:24 I think you accidentally put the name of the competition, nit the tenor

Franco, Pippo and Luciano forever :)))

Não tem jeito, Pavarotti rouba a cena.

Crying

Some of these C5’s are large empty barrels

Just Bjorling was a magnificent Tenor but he is still on C5 not C#5.... Still Amazing.

Top 5 I'd say: Corelli, di Stefano, Pavarotti, Bjorling and Tetelman.... 6 thru 10: Bergonzi, Kaufman, Lanza, Fischella and Owens.

Bjorling and Aragall outshine the rest

Giacomo Lauri-Volpi? 😞

Only Pavarotti👌💥👑

Que bello ver mexicanos en dentro de los mejores :')

Galliano Masini is top notch imo. His voice shines more in Verdi's La Forza del Destino

Some of the greatest tenor voices of all time wonderful and then there's Jussi Bjorling saving the best until last. Something extra special about his voice

Spettacolare quello di Aragall

My 1. Gedda, 2. Bjorling, 3 Lanza, 4 Di Stefano, ... I would like to hear Gigli. Would be interesting what place he get.

why did Bjorling sing sharp? was that intentional?

Absolutely Jussi!!❤❤❤

Corelli, Fisichella !!!

manca del monaco

No Corelli?

Luciano Pavarotti greatest tenor in the world

So it’s a half step down in the beginning, then proper high C:s? I got confused, I guess nobody takes this a half step up? Why does it say C5 and C#5? Or B4 and C5?

And my vote goes to...Alagna!

Modern tenors are definitely inferior to old tenors. They do not know about Chiaro Scuro and Squillo.