Ho avuto l'onore di conoscere il maestro Martinucci nel 1981 a Sassari nell'interpretazione di Tosca e, successivamente, nel 1989 nel Trovatore. Io giovanissima corista lui già grandissimo interprete. Per me è rimasto un mito dalla voce potente e dolce ed emozionante allo stesso tempo con un colore inconfondibile ed unico. Rimarrà fra i nostri tenori migliori mai esistiti. Complimenti Maestro!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Heard Martinuci in Atilla in Newark (with Gencer and Jerome Hines). I remember thinking where has he been hiding? Small guy, looks like he ought to be a lyric tenor, but big, spinto voice. Could have held his own at the Met.
I've heard all three of the Three Tenors many times live and in concert. I only heard Martinucci in performance once but it was in this role. Pavarotti and Carreras have other virtues. Calaf is not for them. Domingo is marginal. It has nothing to do however with fairness. Martinucci is simple right for this part. He's got the requisite wattage for a big American theater. Everyone sings this aria but it's not the hard part of the score. The challenge is in the first act where Calaf enters alone and has to be heard over all the chorus and orchestra. In the second act he has what amounts to a singing contest with the dramatic soprano. To sing a solo aria alone on an empty stage is what every opera singer does. I used to do that myself but about a octave lower. Carreras - a wonderful medium weight tenor - would do this aria in the theater wonderfully I'm sure, because the conductor would scale back the orchestra to suit his resources. But the conductor has no choice in the Riddle Scene if the soprano is someone like Birgit Nilsson. In the big scenes it's all 'Balls to the Wall' or that conductor will not be asked back. The only other really good Calaf I ever heard was Ludovic Speiss - another not very famous big voiced tenor. Lots of tenors sing Celeste Aida - another solo aria alone on an empty stage. But Del Monaco was who you wanted for the Temple of Vulcan Scene. Rhadames has to sing over everyone else who singing a loud as humanly possible. These parts are right for power tenors only, like Corelli, McCracken, Atlantov or Reggie Park. Vickers or James king would have also been great but neither had the top notes. It has a real C in the score.
@@elainenagano9829 How Nicola is not ranked among the top tenors in the world is beyond me. Along with the Belgian tenor José van Dam, Nicola is the most underrated tenor in the world of opera.
Leo Africanus just like everything else its Luck knowing the right people who will advance your publicity , like a publicity agent!! Look at all the Publicity Pavarotti got! He was put into the forefront of opera news by many famous people too! Sutherland furthered Pavarottis as Caballe furthered Carrara’s. Need a good Agent too who gets you out there too! Any news about you gets you out there!!
Qui Martinucci - un grande tenore, sia chiaro - appare in evidente difficoltà: linea di canto discontinua e fiati corti. Peccato, è stato un grande Calaf ma qui era (forse) in una serata negativa.
si è vero purtroppo....quando si volta prende qualcosa dal petto e lo mette in bocca con la mano destra,poi lo getta mentre si gira per tornare di fronte al palco, forse un po' d'acqua in una piccola ampolla.....franco corelli, in sfida con la soprano sul palco, in una spugna imbevuta assorbiva quel po' d'acqua per bagnare la gola per l'acuto finale...... bisogna sempre sapere che la voce è così delicata che non si è mai al top,anche perche spesso l'emozione e l'agitazione seccano la laringe.
@@xxsaruman82xx87 to each his own. He has easier high notes than Domingo, but Placido is much more expressive with considerably more nuance and subtlely in his singing.
