Ideale - Rolando Villazón + Jussi Björling 

Villazon: Good; Bravo! Bjorling.... just unreachable, on a different (and far) planet called: "perfection"

Bjorling was the tenor I fell in love with at 9 and he is and always will be a force to be reckoned with always in the top 10 for eternity Villazon I loved from the very beginning his passion and vibrancy are remarkable depending on repertoire I can love equally Why ? Simple they both can give me goosebumps

Tener a Rolando Villazón es un regalo divino. Su voz es tan especial que no tiene comparación, es autentica.

Bjorling! He has clear, pure voice. He has the technique no tenor nowadays possesses. His diction even better than Italians. What a gift from heaven!❤️❤️❤️

Tenors may come and go ,but Bjorling ,his star will shine forever .

Bravo,Rolando!!!👏👏👏♥️

Both wonderful!!

Rolando, I simply adore your intensity, passion and charm... your voice make me feel Im alive. Te quiero!

It is not possible to compare anyone to Jussi Bjorling. He is clearly in a class by himself. His vocal talent and mastery of technique was absolutely incomparable. To listen to him is to know true perfection.

I've always admired Villazon's courage and I think he does a beautiful interpretation of this song. Bjorling is more solemn and is very beautiful with his elegant voice and impeccable vocal line.

Bjorling is the king of tenors. Just as Callas is the queen of sopranos. How I would have loved to have been in Chicago when they sang Il Trovatore together. Unfortunately, it wasn't recorded. Someone forgot to turn on the recording machine.

Et en plus du talent ce type est terriblement sympathique !

Sono due voci meravigliose! ❤️❤️

Maravilloso Bjorling…

I liked Villazon's rendition. Of course Björling is a legend that will always shine to show tenors that humans can attain sublime perfection.

Que grande interpretación sobre una de las partituras más maravillosas, dificiles y hermosas de Paolo Tosti, además, me enorgullece inmensa y gratamente que el Tenor Villazon sea MEXICANO. ¡¡¡Bravo Villazon!!!

Hermosisima obra del compositor italiano Paolo Tosti. Esta melodía inigualable fue interpretada la velada anterior al combate naval de Iquique por un oficial de la Esmeralda. La musica en esa ocasión fue ejecutada en violin.

Rolando, you are up there in our top drawer with Jussi

La bellezza del canto di Bjorljng,non ha confronti,se non con i veri fuoriclasse tipo Caruso Gigli ecc...Villanzon è un tenore senza lode e senza infamia...grazie

Villazón ! es puro sentimiento y emoción que llega al corazón.

너무 아름다운 음성!!! 유씨 뷔율링의 음성과 토스티의 이상을 어쩜 잘 표현하는지 감탄이절로 나오네요 감사~~~

I love Villazon’s mezza voce! Of course, I love all of his singing! Only two other tenors inspire such adoration in me: Corelli and Sergio Franchi!

Beautiful, Villazon, beautiful! Beautiful! Jussi, beautiful!

Bjoerling’s approach to this beautiful song has thrilled me ever since I heard his recording done at Carnegie Hall in the 1950s. This recording, made much earlier in his career, is absolutely wonderful, as well. Villazon’s performance is good, but, to this listener, not as moving. I also enjoy listening to the recording made by DiStefano very early in his career, even though he does not sing the high “A” near the end of the song.

Még mindig csodálatos hang! Still this is always a marvellous voice, a wonderfuull singer!

Fascinating! Thank you. Both magnificent.

This is divinely beautiful singing, especially by Villazon!!!

론란도 빌라존의 이데알‥ 부드럽고 매력적이다 간절한게 느껴진다 파바로티의 이데알‥흐느끼는듯 이어지고 애처로우며 아름답다 최현수님의 이뎨알‥ 멋지면서도 간절하다 아름다운 음악속에 멋진성악가들의 소리를 느낀다 행복하다

I get immense joy from both of these great master singers.

Considero um erro colocar um paralelo comparativo entre dos grandes profesionales tenores de tipo de voz diferentes e interpretación deferentes, cada un con su estilo.

The melody of IDEALE is captivating. It guarantees the successful performance of whoever just sings the notes as they are written!

Love them both.Thank you for posting.♪♫•*♫♪ ¨*•♫♪:

Each has their merits...I think both are lovely. Villazon, more powerful. Bjorling is like an Angel singing, softly and ethereal.

Los Caruso mexicano y sueco....Bravo México con tantos tenores en la actualidad buenísimos...!!!

Шикарно! Браво!!!!

사람의 아름다운소리는 너무나 멋진악기다

Grazie, Maestro!!!!! I❤U.

Villazon has one of the most beautiful voices of those singing today! This song is a perfect vehicle for his beautiful voice!

Sublime

Bravo~

Bless you Bjorling nobody ever sung it so well, with your magnificent raw great natural voice none better Including of course later moderns with their acoustic nonsense

Beautiful!

I don't know why everyone gives Villazon such a hard time. Yes he's had some vocal troubles as he's gotten older, but I think he sounds fantastic here. You can't really compare these two singers because they're very different. I think they both do a wonderful job with this beautiful song.

Bjorling perfectly consistent tone and legato line, real technique and real feeling ... Villazon ... pleasant enough

The comparison is quite unfair for Villanzon. Bjorling's voice is a moment of beauty, full of light and poetry. Unsurpassed!

I learned something from Bodiloto: 1 Björling = 100 Villazón

Rolando sings the song like an opera aria!

Such beauty makes me want to be pure of heart: oh that I could love all men, though I might be hated in return!

Perfect Rolando !!!! ... Yes , you are the best !!!

Villazon dal vivo senza l'aiuto del microfono aveva una voce poco bella. Björling e semplicemente Meraviglioso! il primo era un entusiasta simpatico. il secondo era un fenomeno. nessun confronto possibile. Sublime Björling Grazie !

Thank you for this! ❤

Bravo!!

No hay que comparar cada uno con lo suyo

Villazon you are the greatest!

Se ascoltiamo l'inizio della romanza di entrambi capiamo subito la differenza che c'è tra un cantante normale e un fuoriclasse...

OH...I HATE TO COMPARE TWO GREAT ARTISTS....BOTH ARE GREAT IN THEIR OWN RIGHT! BUT....DEAR JUSSI....I LOVE YOU STILL!!!

Bravissimo!!!

Has any other tenor sung it more beautifully than Villazon? The mezza voce is divinely sung!

…JB is incomparable. Villazon was as good as he could get. A comparison to Björling is not possible as it is useless. As Pavarotti answered,when asked about Jussi Björling, „ I am only human…“ All in one brief sentence. With his perfect vocal line from bottom to the top, there was only Fritz Wunderlich. And Wunderlich is incomparable too.

bjorling is so far superior as to not need any comment. yet i will say that singers will instantly understand the difference that eludes the casual listener.

Maravilloso Bi

Both beautiful but hard to compare the two voice qualities as they are so different. The first time I heard this piece it was sung by Tito Gobi so if you want to hear a baritone rendition of it, his is the one to go for.

No entiendo la comparacion del grandisimo tenor mexicano Villazon con el Caruso sueco una de las 2 o 3 voces mas bellas de la historia de la lirica

jussi... one.

노래부르는스타일이 완전도밍고네요

I thought this was a fine performance by Villazon, without his usual histrionics and inattention to tempo and gave him a high score, but then the old master's perfection pushed him quietly aside. It was a great tragedy that Bjoerling couldn't put the bottle down until it killed him with heart failure at the tender age of 49....

This is second only to Pavarotti’s heart aching rendition!!! How beautifully Villazón sang it!!!

Mickey Mouse, It seems that you and I are not listening to the same singer. Ever hear an opera singer sing a pop song? Villazon’s versatility allows him to credibly sing a pop song AND sing an operatic aria just as credibly! Will you say that he did not sing that with great beauty? I will defer to your superior knowledge: I’ll just enjoy his singing as it is presented.

This is like comparing Lou Gehrig with Donn Clendenon

Does anybody know the name of the location where Rolando Villazón sang?

after bjorling rolando is like kitten

Welche Wonne!

롤랜도 빌라존, 유시비올링 두분 공통분모는 중음의 색채를 지닌 테너라고 생각합니다. 빌라존은 두텁고 남성적인 음색이라면 비오링은 섬세하지만 화창한 음색이랄까요?

records de la meva infantesa

Carreras's version is pretty wonderful too!

Wonderful by Villazon. The only downside is really that he looks like Mr Bean. In a way, you could say that Björling lived at the wrong time. The sound quality today is completely superior. On the other hand, Björling was in the right age to the extent that it was the golden era of tenors. During this era he was the leading tenor.

The best tenor is Villazon it is not comparable

Good villazon but bjoerling is the king !

Villazón is beautifully holding his own with the great Jussi!

Dear Mickey Mouse, Please view the video where Villazon sings “L’alba separa dalla Luce l’ombra”.

Music has a hesling effect

Recommend Di Stefano in 1945-

These two singers are quite different. Let me give you a rule of thumb. There is approximately one great tenor for every billion people on earth. When Bjorling was alive there were only about two and a half billion people - and there were about two and half great tenors. Now there are seven billion people but most of the great tenors today are orientals and unknown in most western opera houses. The same math applies to other rare occupations like theoretical physicists. Both Villazon and Bjorling had health problems. Villazon had a congenital growth in his vocal mechanism that shortened his career. Bjorling had a bad heart and died young. Carreras had health problems too but Pavarotti and Domingo both sang well into their late seventies. Modern health care could have saved Bjorling and Caruso. With his technique Bjorling cold have dominated the opera stage until he was ninety. Bjorling had an extremely pure silver voice. Some called it a 'choir boy' sound. But he also had a blazing top which can be heard here to good effect. But Bjorling was never much of an actor and not very emotionally available on stage. Villazon is exactly the opposite. He displays everything he feels - and he feels a lot. Both were fine musicians and excellent interpreters with good instincts for style and idiom. But Bjorling was much more reserved and Villazon almost goes out of control in many pieces when he gets excited. But Villazon is a superb Mozart singer and very well schooled in almost every genre of music. Both are better than Pavarotti in almost every way.

Villazon should never sing with JUSSI BJORLING.......

Es insultante poner a Jussi Bjorling y Rolando Villazon en la misma frase. Villazón es un amateur al lado del gran Bjorling

what a setup for Villazon. Ouch.

Still prefer Tito Schipa`s recording.

Villazon has or had a fine instrument & from what I have seen was a more skilled actor, in comic roles like Nemorino but is no match for Björling in beauty of timbre, musicality, or stylistic distinction. This selection here shows why.

I am a Jussi fan, but here I think he is either intoxicated or didn't get enough sleep. He is pulling all the attention onto his glorious voice - "just listen, folks, how GREAT my voice is" instead of actually feeling what he is singing. Villazón is singing his heart even if his voice may not match that of Björling, he is in my opinion much more compelling.

I think best version is ferruccio tagliavini !!!!

I always thought Rolando is the double of Mr Bean😀

Recommend Mario Lanza

For me is Villazon best! You can say what you want - maybe I am stupid but what are you ?

Jussi reincarnated

Guillén Maciá insultante es que digas tonterías envidioso ,no lo veas!!