Mitridate, rè di Ponto: "Se di lauri il crine adorno" 

Michael Spyres does a pretty good one too. Not sure how it stacks up in your eyes, but I'm a fan of both. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-diIdhxNBfuI.htmlsi=q497tqmsks5NLcd2

Most people don't know the aria or opera, so they didn't really know when it was over. Besides, there are plenty of people responding very well at the end. No reason to judge the audience here. I'm sure they were mesmerized. It's an unknown opera for most.

lol saaaaame, I’ve been listening to this for years. It’s so good.

@@emeraldlessley5906 haha. Same. This is my gold standard

indeed. perhaps one of the best singers of his time, and yet how many people - even opera fans - have heard of his name? instead people only know of the mediocrities that are considered “stars” because studios and impresarios tell us so.

You sing this one very well, Jack :)

Yes. Simply amazing, beautiful singing

That's because the supposedly cultivated audiences will not applaud the composer, only the exceptional singer or, at most, the exceptional work: they would faint over either "Don Giovanni" or, say, Gösta Winbergh singing this same cavatina, but never over the exquisite craft of a score like that of Mozart's "Mitridate", or the barely acceptable skills of a Bruce Ford trying to do justice to that composition.

Because it's royal opera house...the English can't appreciate this stuff.

@@haranoe If you listen to Winbergh first, Ford seems a bit cold and strange. Winbergh is much more touching.

@@dubbelhenke854 Ford does sound cold and "strange" because he has a feeble command over an equally underdeveloped voice. Gösta is far from being a perfect singer, but he sounds more like a singer than Bruce Ford. That he would seem more or less touching, would be a gift...

@@haranoe What are you talking about, for heavens sake ????? (" Ford does sound cold and "strange" because he has a feeble command over an equally underdeveloped voice.") Have you ever in your life listened to a tenor ??? OMG, this is the top of ridicule comments I have ever seen here !! CONGRATS, you are the winner. 🤣

Maybe some people don't like his overly forte singing of Mozart. Maybe too loud for Mozart in places? And parts seem messy, phrase wise.

los cantantes no tenemos por qué mejorar nada de otra persona, ni superar a nadie. No somos futbolistas. ¡Somos artesanos, músicos! Cada uno hace, deshace, falsea o no en función de lo que quiere, puede o desea hacer. ¿Mozart quería una voz plena para esto? ¿Una voz que sonara como Pavarotti en todo el registro? No lo sé. Sé que tanto esta versión como la de Croft me gustan, por ejemplo. Una voz puede ser plena, con una técnica genial si quieres, pero ser menos interesante que una voz que falsea (como dices) pero con timbre y una musicalidad preciosa. Humilde opinión de alguien que está cansado que traten a los cantantes como pilotos de fórmula 1.

Es verdad que cada cual tiene sus características y que cada uno trata de superarse a sí mismo: tener su estilo propio. También es verdad que hay personas que tienen un don especial ( en cualquier actividad) y esa peculiaridad, que irradia con más brillo que el común, es la que sorprende y maravilla gratamente y ello no implica ser detractor de los demás. 👌👍🇪🇸🌿

I think the conducting was dull & featureless & that may have something to do with the audiences lack of enthusiam.

@@anthonyehrenzweig1635 who cares about the Conductor......no one

I think I account for at least half of those views

@@vocetenore I think I have to put my hand up for about 90 per cent of the rest.

The best thing Bruce Ford probably ever sang was the role of Agorante in Rossini's "Riciardo e Zoraide", His entrance aria is a hoot. Fabulous music and he sings it in Blackface. The music is fiendishly difficult.

Um, what are you talking about?

he did, long time ago. they only gave him a few Barbers

Michael was a huge admirer of Bruce

I know your comment is 7 years old, but as a practicing tenor the trick to this aria is voice placement and once you nail that technique, it opens so many doors, It’s taken me years to figure out the proper placement for notes like the high B and C, and only discovered the voice placement for those notes only a few days ago, I’m still not certain if my placement is correct, but I’ve previously never reached these notes with the purity and vibrato that I can now. It feels so different from singing high A, and B flat, and it doesn’t feel like an outward expulsion of pressure, it actually feels like an in and upward intake of whatever this action is. Play with your voice placement, find your passagios and very carefully test out different ways of getting through them using different head and facial pressure placements. Like I said, I’ve only just discovered a way for my own voice to comfortably reproduce what Ford has done here, but our voices might be very different so you must take great care with how you handle reaching these notes. Keep at it, I never thought I could ever touch this aria, but the possibility is there now, and if I continue to carefully study how to manage my voice during this brutal aria, I too might post a video of me singing this. Keep at it, I’m certain you sound awesome!

croft??????😮

And you think with your intestines and speak through your ass hole.

@@senna6773 Unfortunately a typical RU-vid fault.