Isn't it ironic? That millions of non singers argue relentlessly online about whose favourite tenor tops everyone else. Yet people of prodigious gifts & immense talent recognise & embrace the gifts of their peers with complete humility & deference? Bjorling loved & tried to emulate Caruso. Pavarotti loved Bjorling, & asked not to be compared. 'Please. I am only human..' Corelli loved Gigli, & spoke of his half voice singing as likeness of a nightingale.. Tauber hero worshipped Kurt Taucher, heldentenor. & meeting Enrico Caruso in the lobby of their hotel, Irish tenor John McCormack remarked: 'Good morning, Maestro! & how is the world's greatest tenor this morning?' To which Caruso replied without missing a beat: '& since when, John, did YOU become a baritone?'..
He's singing "E lucevan le stelle" from "Tosca" of Maestro Giacomo Puccini in such a passionate and astonishing way that I really can't hold back my tears ... This is called "Singing with the soul" ... Opera music is something I love in a very special way. And it's one of the few things that really makes me proud to be Italian.
@pierluigibelcaro9950 I agree with you.I Love Opera music.Listening to Pavarotti while cooking.I had to stop. Tears of emotion while He went up a Octave.Beautiful music. Di Stefano.Corelli.
It's a pleasure to read your nice words, Jackie, I thank you so much 🙂 You know, I usually cook while listening to some opera music, too, and sometimes it happens to me exactly what you say in your comment: I must stop a moment because of tears ... Most probably you know him already, but if maybe not, I would suggest you to take some time in order to listen to Mario Del Monaco ... he was in my humble opinion an unbelievably great tenor ... just listen to how he sings, for instance, the aria "Vesti la giubba", from "Pagliacci", of Ruggero Leoncavallo. I thank you once again for your kind comment and wish you all the best 🙂 ...
He’s so wonderful. To me, he’s magic. He’s the reason I like Opera and have since I was a teen in the early 70s, when everyone in my circle of friends were listening to disco or rock music. I was the only one buying his albums and cranking up my stereo as loud as it would go and opening all the doors and windows so the whole neighborhood could hear it too…..Pavarotti did that - no one else makes my heart fly like he did!! Yes, I’ve heard the others but I don’t get the same response from their voices as I do watching or listening to the Maestro. I miss him very much!!
El placer de escuchar a Pippo, es al go inigualable! Toda su forma de cantar es muy particular, pero especialmente sus pianissimos son increibles, en esta aria no tiene quien lo iguale.
Luciano Pavarotti geht es genauso wie mir und jedem, der professionellen Gesangsunterricht gehabt hat: wenn er einem guten Sänger zuhört, schwingt sein Gaumensegel mit. Das ist ein einmaliges Gefühl.
Giuseppe Di Stefano was also greatly admired by Jose Carreras, and Domingo. He was, and is, the greatest tenor of the 20th century. No one sang with such passion.
@[石のドラム]Stone I cannot argue your choice of Gigli. He, too, was a great tenor. Gigli was Maestro Di Stefano idol. Regarding your mention of Di Stefano's "short Prime," I am reminded of the short poem by Edna St Vincent Millay "My candle burns at both its ends, it will not last the night, but ah my foes and OH my friends, it makes a lovely light."
TBF, Di Stefano killed this aria, absolutely no competition. Pavarotti was incomparable in every other department but even he knew. RIP them both and thanks for the beauty they have left this world. ❤❤❤❤
He said, "This is Giuseppe di Stefano...this is the tenor that made me fight with my father." This is what I heard. I know the middle part is hard to discern. If anyone has other ideas that is different, I welcome it.
