First met Sherrill in 1968. We studied with the same voice teacher, Andrew White, a Sidney Dietch protege. Sherrill was a gentleman then and remains so. Now 83 y.o. and going strong in Savannah. God Speed, old friend.
It is amazing how differently we all hear. To me this is sublime. The definition of beauty, flexibility, and extraordinary musicality. As an opera lover I listen to as many singers as I possibly can. Milnes is my absolute favorite baritone. I also love Robert Merrill and Piero Cappuccilli.
Sherrill Milnes was the greatest American "Verdi Baritone" that ever graced the stage of some of the biggest and most important opera houses in the world. Anyone who can't appreciate the voice, obvious technical superiority, and italianate approach really doesn't understand the male top voice.
What a fantastically slow tempo, perfectly phrased and sung! Look how easy and relaxed he is, letting the breath do all the work. And that high G he diminuendos!
Glorious singing. Technichally perfect, (listen to his messa di voce!) and diminuendo on top notes. At the same time fills me with sadness: how fast such a marvel deteriorated into a wobbly, lusterless effort.
Now this is the opera! Milnes is it. A giant. (also love Bastianini, Nucci, Bruson very much too.) Wish he could have sung some of the rare dramatic Donizetti parts----Nello in Pia de' Tolomei, Corrado in Maria de Rudenz. Maria di Rohan (Chevreuse), Le Camoens in Dom Sebastien, etc........ he would have been sublime....
Hampson can't hold a candle to him in this repertoire (or any really) and Allen - a magnificent baritone - specialized in an entirely different fach, sharing very few roles with Milnes.
A fine rendition of what may be termed Verdi‘s first great baritone aria courtesy of Milnes, two years or so before his vocal difficulties began to become seriously noticeable. The sometimes problematic flatting in the E to F area in earlier performances (which can be a danger in this particular aria‘s tessitura) are not present here & although he still likes to showboat his high notes, he gives a sensitive interpretation of the aria itself. The following cabaletta is predictably indulgent but impressive nevertheless.
Ce ne fosse di questi cantanti!!! Il guaio è che ce ne sono molto pochi!!! La voce , l'avrà anche brutta, tenorile, ma la usa come meglio non si potrebbe... un saluto
No, it simply doesn't. You cannot actually hear the natural vibrato in these old school recordings and they feature the voice far more than what one would hear in a hall. Stracciari is a legend, and every baritone takes notes from his old recordings, but they are not accurate representations of what the voice would be like in real life.
ARIA EVOCANDO el deseo de la meditación para entender si la vida en todos los sentidos tiene un sentido o todo es aleatorio, sin ningún director de orquesta que la dirija.
Com'è possibile confrontare un baritono e un tenore corto? Ahahahahahahah! Milnes è un baritono vero, L'ULTIMO GRANDE baritono; Nucci è un mediocre tenore corto.
@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 :: Yes ! Your, truth about Nucci ! His baritone always lacked a rich, powerful, imposing resonance ... but he had a long career ... maybe we missed the role that made him really stand out ? I have disliked singers until hearing them in a role that made them sound spectacular ( James McCracken, for example ).
@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 Como es posible que salga el nombre de Nucci en cualquier comentario y esté pendiente para denigrarlo diciendo que es tenor. Usted es un enfermermo.
@tenorismo: And you, tenorismo, if this is humanly possible, should be arrested for constantly being a condenscending prick, writing nothing but nonsensical, childish critique and like everyone else who writes against this wonderful, under-estimated(especially now) baritone in an ignorant and opinionated manner spoiling it for those who want to enjoy watching and hear him sing. This is beautiful singing, and as always his acting, legato, phrasing and vocal expression is outstanding.
Wow! Milnes was almost perfect--up to the last, horribly flat note. But I say "almost perfect" not because of that miss but because he doesn't quite match the pathos (vulnerability) of Ettore Bastianini. Sherrill is strong throughout; Ettore is strong and weak at the same time. Listen to the latter's performance from 1959 at Firenze--and you'll know that THAT was The Golden Age.
purtroppo talvolta l'orecchio non è perfetto: Capecchi era solo un galletto che poteva cantare al mattino alle galline; Manuguerra aveva voce sgraziata; per Fioravanti....lasciamo perdere; salvo solo Cappuccilli ( un grande ) come era un grande Milnes Roberto49
Grande performance...baritono di fama mondiale tra i più grandi di ogni tempo...per quanto riguarda la qualità vocale sono d'accordo con giampierone010...è piuttosto brutta...grazie
My last comment was put up before I saw the recit before the cabaletta - more dreadful acting! He says the door won't open (porta fatal) without even trying it, which you think he would do in time to the chords, at least. (How does he know it won't open?) He tells the soldiers he has recovered his wits as if telling them he has recovered from a nasty cold, (it's no big deal) asks Abdallo for his sword as if saying "pass that fork over there" then when Abdallo hands it over (as if he is passing the fork) saying he can regain his kingdom with it, Nabucco kind of informs him in a very off hand manner "actually I want to save Fenena first" Fenena is a Jewish woman captive, rather less important than his kingdom you would think - but no, it's an everyday task of once-deranged and deposed now recovered kings, apparently to go round rescuing lowly Jewish women first - no shock, no surprise, no dramatic tension...poor
Nice singing but terrible acting - when he realises that God is actually hearing his prayer (when the lovely flute part kicks in) he stands up and goes for a stroll as if thinking "I must stretch my legs and go make a cup of tea!" then at "Dio, verace, omnipossente...", surely a moment of true, humbling worship on Nabucco's part: nothing!
If you want to see good acting, stop listening to this kind of music and start going to the theatre ;). I would rather hear someone who stands still but sings amazing than someone who acts like a pro but sings like crap :)
+Tudor Anghelina Than you're missing the entire point of what opera is. Opera is dramatic theatre with dramatic plots and even more dramatic music. If you come only for "good" voices, then you're crazy to think that's the only thing for Opera.
+!mrdunn brucvald And when you do get "voice, voice, voice," the voice tend to be boring and dull. No emotion, no intensity, no "dying for the art". Like it's crazy me to even fathom people want singers to stand there and sing and look like some robot. Humans MUST have emotion while singing, there is no other way.
tonshaad1230 , while you have a point, I think you can cut the singer some slack. It's not that easy to both sing properly and do great acting at the same time. In vocal music, the voice is the primary conduit for both singing and emotion. It's much easier to talk the lines instead of singing them. Maybe you should give opera singing a try ;)
You are not difficult, the stamp of Milnes is blocked, lack of flexibility, safe in its treble, which is for me its only talent. Not to mention ,its mediocre scenic capacities. Milnes is very down, Piero Capuccili, Alain Fondary, or Ettore Bastianini and at the moment Leo Nucci, which are real baritone verdiens and gives the role with much more talent than him. When in the castingof this Nabucco of 1979, there is nothing to hold it, any real Verdian's voice, same Raimondi as I like very much nevertheless, do not find his place, in a directory which is not his, and a narrow direction, with cumbersome costumes and one decorations overloaded.
How nice of you and how polite... I find it annoying, boring, too mannered, stylistically not appropriate, far from the text, and did I say boring? You can insult all you want, my dear deaf friend, but it's still ugly!!! Be well and enjoy the boring baritone...
Voice can be a matter of taste, but no one who ever SAW Milnes onstage would call him boring! Even after the voice became hollow, he was still an immensely effective Jack Rance.
Non pare uno dei peggiori, anzi! A parte la pronuncia un po'.....americana? Certo se ascoltiamo Bastianini, Bruson, Cappuccilli, Nucci etc. Crescono le riserve. Comunque, bravo!
@@eugeniogentili1048 cosa c'entra Salsi,che è un modesto cantante odierno...Milnes è un tenore mancato,e la sua voce è come un tenore comprimario,tipo Nucci...non voglio dire che non sia un ottimo elemento nel panorama lirico,ma che non ha ne il timbro,ne la voce dei suoi predecessori americani,tipo Tibbet,Warren Merrill,ma neppure la solidità di Bastianini,di Protti,per non parlare dei vari London e i baritoni wagneriani e dell' Est europeo...è un buon cantante.
@@giampierone010 Hahahahah come Nucci lo sguaiato, non scambiamo l'oro con l'argento, Milnes ha 653 recite all'attivo al met, eppoi London era un basso.
Non posso dire che è una voce brutta? Chi è Lei? Ho detto che la qualità vocale è tra le peggiori del panorama lirico..ed ho detto anche che la tecnica e l'interprete sono di prim'ordine...glielo ripeto se vuole...voce brutta ma tecnica e interprete di prim'ordine...saluti
@Barone Vitellio Scarpia Che c'entra Nucci,egli è un tenore secondo...ho ascoltato Milnes in Italia,e precisamente a Torre del lago Puccini,nella parte di Scarpia,ed è stato un ottimo interprete...tuttavia la sua voce non mi piace per niente...tutto qua
Столько восхищения здесь! Но, ребята, это очень дурацкое пение! Дурацкое произношегие, странное шевеление ртом, ненастоящий звук( это не итальянский баритоновый звук, а амерская жвачка)
Inoltre l'acuto non ha niente. Voce brutta , poco espressiva, dizione dubbia. Non si può paragonare con i grandi : bruson, protti, taddei, warren anche cappuccilli..