Gigli, off-camera, sings the last part of "Di Quella Pira", while his manager Amadeo, played by German actor Paul Henckels, reads his fan mail and checks out the female admirers in the audience.
You are talking about Rodolfo Celletti, the great singing theorique, and it is true that in the begining of his career Gigli was only able to sing up to Si bemol. He himself expressed that his debut in Martha was a disaster for that reason.
@Baritanist speaking of "deaf" collectors.I ve met so many "teachers" in my life and you cannot imagine how many of them don't understand anything of music.I can accept if a beautiful and famous singer at the end of his career goes downt to teaching.but if somebody doesn't "make it"and protect themselves to teaching,it means that he is not an artist at all. In fact,as i told you,99 percent of teachers had better teach people in history or geography than singing.possibly this is your case
I disagree!!! A lot of singers are bad and they thinking only about themselfs! Their technique! To teach don't need a star or singer. People singing, but most of them have no idea how to train other people, they can ruin vocal ability!
@Baritanist I 'm not a fan of Gigli myself...not only for manrico...but to say that Mccracken was a good manrico means that you judges singers only from their capability of REACHING notes with a big voice.there are other ingredients:phrasing,goog RECITAR-CANTANDO, perfect italian diction. mccracken was crap. Corelli was good(I don t like Corelli on the whole but for some roles he was suited), a wonderful manrico was Di Stefano (possibly as a teacher you won't like him but it doesn't matter).
Sorry but this trick is impossible, it's a stupidity because the voice to the listener result very distort! it's enough a quarter of tone to listen the difference, I'm a 78 rpm collector, I know this argument wery well. Gigli have a brillant C and that guy you say speakes only to move the air!
@Baritanist I ve been collecting and listening to every voice of the last 2 centuries for 20 years...to take McCracken as a good example of singing is such crap that I cannot believe it.... He is one of the worst singers in terms of phrasing, I ve ever listened to.... by the way....being a teacher is not a proof of understanding The ARTE DEL CANTO... Sorry
@TrovadorI'm not a fan of Gigli...I prefer very much more pertile, martinelli ...but I never trust Celletti. Celletti wanted to become a tenor...he didn't make it and he accontented himself to become a critic...he hated the idol-singers...because they had made it...and privileged small-voices ....everybody knows it...to quote the stupid Celletti is a stupid thing to do
