And as for 'the fact is the audiences are smarter' today, that's just amazingly patronizing to our elders. People are as smart today as they were in the past. Unless you really are 107, I'm quite confident that you never saw Nellie Melba peform. Why are these singers so famous so many years later? Because they were damn good, that's why. I'm 22, a student singer, and I think there's nobody in my generation to compare to the likes of Gigli. Many singers would agree with me.
The great italian tenor told me that one cannot imagine what the word tenor means if you hadn't heard Gigli. For him not only was he the greatest tenor he ever heard in his lifetime but the greatest singer ever. He said the voice was enormous and his F naturals could make the public go nuts, they were so large.
Guardate la postura di Gigli, avete mai visto gli usignoli quando cantano, tengono esattamente la gola ed il petto come lui. Questo è il canto naturale! Magnifico!
E’ proprio così caro amico! Anche la Callas guardava quand’era piccola i canarini in gabbia e come gonfiavano la gola! Ed infatti si canta con la testa alta la gola aperta e soffiando l’organo vocale! Un caro abbraccio
Today new singers can't do this. Gigli was a super star of his time. His voice was and still is one of our time most remakabe voices. Look at the choir girls, they can't but staring at him!
Viva, Bravo ! Beniamino Gigli ! Забытый на сегодняшний день, время 21 века А зря❗️Этот самый-самый итальянский голос- бельканто- тенор;- итальянской школы , которой и унаследовал Gigli , и плюс феноменально правильно, а возможно от природы поставленный диафрагмальное - дыхательный аппарат.! И когда его спрашивали ;- почему он не имеет учеников, он говорил так:- ( Я не могу дать то , чем я владею и имею ! Это либо есть у певца, либо его нет ! ) Beniamino Gigli уникальная личность , уникальный голос , владеющий Бельканто в той форме, которой, после никто не мог повторить ни один тенор- это факт !!!! ❤
@Mooorhe Gigli was one of the best singers of all times, Aragall is a very good singer (even with a beautiful voice) but not among the best in his generation. Gigli was the most recognized artist at his time: the golden age. Rivals were Martinelli, Pertile, Lauri Volpi, Lazaro, Fleta, Schipa, Thill, later Del Monaco, Di Stefano, Bjorling, Tucker, etc. All of them were much better than Aragall. Gigli had a technique incredible. He could fill the theaters with his fortissimo, with his mezza-voce.
Astonishing. One of my favorite tenors. As famed music critic Henry Pleasants wrote of Gigli's voice: "all silvery and produced with such ease in his prime that he could take Rodolfo's narrative seated." Remarkable
Сколько не слушаю ,все как в первый раз ...! Великий певец необыкновенный и незабвенный! Слышал бы он современный "мусор ", поющий неизвестно каким местом...!
I love all the Italian tenors of the golden era of bel canto singing! How I would be thrilled to have seen them all live! It's impossible for me to compare them because I hold all of them in such great reverence!
Tengo 40 años sin complejos, puedo decir que este señor es mi tenor favorito. Tiene junto a Pavarotti, el timbre más bello que he escuchado en mi vida. Grande Gigli!
Here is Gigli singing a spinto aria that is certainly outside his repertoire.However Gigli did very well outside the lyric repertory because of his beauty of voice and outstanding technique.Corelli, Del Monaco,Pav and Tucker were some tenors that made most favorable remarks about Gigli.
@everyday tenor Yes, I think so. I also never heard Gigli live. Again, Corelli Zucker here on YT, where Corelli states that Gigli was great in Chenier and Forza. Corelli seemed very impressed with him. However BG did not do well in Aida. Remarkably my parents heard him in Rome 1936-42 and thought he was terrific.
Gigli era perfetto grande in tutti i personaggi che interpretava,(qualche giggionata a volte), ma in conpenso c'era sempre il cuore. Passava con maestria dai Pescatori d. p., Manon Massenet, Arlesiana, Elisir, a Chenier, Cavalleria, Pagliacci, a ruoli di lirico spinto, pur avendo una voce angelica. Insomma faceva vivere il personaggio.. A mio modesto parere, dopo Caruso è stato il primo dei grandi immortali della lirica.
Negli anni 20 30 40 il tenore piu' conosciuto al mondo, stella Walk of fame a Hollyvood, ha cantato con 353 soprani, tra i nomi piu' importanti Ponselle Caniglia Farrar Cigna Bruna Rasa Tebaldi un concerto con la Callas mi pare nel 54.
@paulostroff99 Thank you for sharing this brilliant voice and singer. i have Live highlights of this opera from 1951 with Gigli and Elizabeth Barbato. Gigli to put it mildlu aged very well. Thanks to Calaf2006 for posting. Regards-John
iwannafuckjkrez: Gigli acted with his voice. How many singers now can even claim that? When I watch the supposedly great Jose Cura at Covent Garden today, I don't see (not to mention hear) a dramatic artist. I see a man shouting melodically. p.s. the person you accuse of having 'a bad perception of modern houses' is one of the finest sopranos I have ever heard.
I wonder if nowdays Gigli could do a siger carreer. He doesn´t looks like a model or macho man. MAy the today "empresarios" will listen a voice like this without the filter of their eyes? Beyound that, could the opera fans do that? This is a voice that is able to act without a body... the caracter is in the voice and not necessarily in the body. WHo could dot hat nowdays?
@JuillHope17 Most operas are hardly very realistic anyway; most opera fans don't go for the acting, but hoping to hear great singing. If you want great acting you can go to see a play. Something well acted but with mediocre singing would always be less preferable to seeing a great singer, who maybe doesn't completely look the part he's playing or move around the stage particularly dynamically etc but sings beautifully.
As compared to the ludicrous contemporary operatic world today with its bellowing singers (?), sumptuous scenery, costumes, props, and questionable stage directing, GIGLI'S VOCAL SUPERIORITY required NONE of the artificiality of the aforementioned since recordings, radio, and, when made available, films," were the ONLY means of TRANSMISSION. It was "AUDIO" that made him famous to listeners who had no other means of access to opera.
I completely agree! Gigli HAD technique. There was an amazing evenness to his singing, all throughout his register. His messa di voce is one of the best ive ever heard. Since he actually knew how to sing, his production sounded effortless. Today's singers, however, are chosen like MTV stars (selected for their looks not their abilities), and so they are screechy (all the while shaking and opening their mouths excessively wide) and uneven. Worst of all they sound like a mix between pop and opera: they scoop in a way that sounds like a horrible affectation. There is also a heightened sense of "musicality" now that is so exaggerated and false it ends up making performances convoluted and ugly.
fabulous! though disappointing to see his vtae blocked out (in the rectangle) near the opening.By his own admission it was his favorite opera> On his gravestone is a phrase from this aria.
@3Sunnyboy I think electronics and advances in technologies somehow tend to artificially enhance a voice and it loses it's natural touch. So in a way this sounds more pure to me.
Take the mike away from them today and watch them squirm as they try to sing...Some of them can only sing arias no opera!!! short cut to fame Paul pots come to mind
Jussi Bjorling was rated as one of the top 5 tenors of the 20th century. To this day his vocal purity and beauty have not been surpassed! I'm taking nothing away from fanatical Gigli and Caruso fans. They are included in the five! Anyone who calls Jussi "rubbish" does not have an ear for music or a good tenor. I suggest you see an ear specialist!
He was a great tenor, but I don´t agree with most people here. He sounds a little like he´s struggling. Too open sounds then he has to cover a lot, etc. Not a very good example of what he could do.
