Roberto Alagna - Aldredo scene (La Traviata) - 1992

[elavellaneda]

Aunque creo que, personalmente, Alagna es una persona bastante engreída y que se las da bastante de "divo", como tenor me parece simplemente espléndido. Bravo, bravo y bravo.

[Akbartm]

Is full version of this breathtaking La Traviata available?

[OrtizHugh]

Magnificent, if I had any doubts about him,they have now all been cleared...He has a tenor untouchable in comparison. The textures rich, elagent, flowing...truelly a master.

[salomonroi]

Magnifique!!

[elavellaneda]

Bravissimo Roberto!!!

[aguacun]

Esto es lo mas pesado que debio cantar como repertorio... sonaba muy bien en su terreno.

[operagirl81]

Wow best version I've ever heard. Thank you for uploading!

[Trombligliotti]

- also, the High C doesn't make any sense what so ever, he's off to remedy a finacnial problem and embarrasment, it's not triumphant at all

[TheBunduBallerina]

This is wonderful! Thanks for uploading! I love Roberto Alagna in this role! Do you have any more of him in La Traviata that you could post? The "Drinking Song", etc?

I'd be delighted if you have.

[RoughSeaShineHusband]

日本人ではここまで歌える人が出ないだろうな。いやうまい。かっ­こいいな。

[matthieusarah]

I have a recording with placido domingo and cotrubras and Placido sings the High C and I always found this not "weird" if not horrible (for my ears). Is it because placido does it wrong (which I can't believe) or is it because the high C should not be sung? What di verdi wrote: high C or not HighC? anyway I prefer the whithout highc version.

[Pavarotti4eva]

@matthieusarah

verdi hated the high c. its prolly just domingo

[HeldenB]

Muti is complete prick who doesn't want anybody to be the star except him of course.

[GermanOperaSinger]

Younger Alagna here and he is still pretty good at this point. Of course that purist idiot Muti wouldn't let him sing the C at the end.

[emalag999]

he is making up the lyrics in the recitativo..

anyway, wonderful!

[ilwfrjp]

No he's not. He is singing precisely the correct text. Idiot.

[trem0lo]

It's ironic that he could have sung the bigger roles (that he later damaged his voice with) if he had figured out his technique earlier on, like here. He already has a tendency to force anything above his passaggio. You can hear it as his voice thins around F and stays muted and pushed all the way up. It's like an "airy" sound that mutes many overtones. His low/middle sounds fantastic, if only he kept that ease he'd have been the next Pavarotti.

[Honken]

He was self taught, something which probably explains his ... lack of technique at times.

[bigus]

its true, he barely makes it through this. his technique is basically good but unrefined. he knows just enough to get by but he isnt very smooth, and he pushes through things alot which is why he is sketchy

[estanteriax]

@Honken

Pero que dices. No tienes ni idea

[crazymanitaliano]

Third Class Performance.... He has transposed this aria big time.

[cjondoran]

This is in the correct key there big guy.

[iltenoredramatico]

this is the right key idiot.

[matthieusarah]

un ténor selon mon coeur

[HopePoisoned]

j'comprends complètement

[canio44]

el agudo no esta escrito...yo soy de los que piensa que el estado emocional de la situacion actoral lleva a expresar reacciones como el do del final de la cabaleta, pero verdi pensaba en todo... por algo es lo que es. a veces los cantantes pecan de ego y quieren ejecutar agudos donde no van...igual alagna estaba cansado al final...

[miyush1]

Without C3 (you call it high C) in the end...shame...

[principecalaf]

It's not written high C and Muti didn't allowed hm to do it.

[baritono81]

I agree, dont have to hold that high C, just nail it at end, and makes it 100% better! I dunno what ur talking about Muti didn't want the high C, I find that hard to believe. Sounds to me like Alagna just didnt have it that night.

[kgeorg1979]

Muti doesn't like high notes not written by the composer, such as the C at the end of this or di quella pira.

[ivancin25]

mal muy mal no da el agudo final cuando puede darlo..

[sigfridolopez]

ese agudo queda feo y verdi por algo no lo escribio. si puede o no puede es su problema.gracias alagna por cantar tan bien y no dar el agudo.

abrazo

[aguacun]

MUTI no deja... creo que es por eso. Alagna, a diferencia de tenores contemporaneos, no solo tiene buen apoyo del cuerpo sino que no tiene problemas con agudos. SU probema es el ego que le hace pensar que es un Spinto

[ninetta209]

No sólo no está escrito, sino que ni siquiera se puede considerar "de tradición" ya que lo tradicional en las representaciones y en las grabaciones de estudio era cortar la cabaletta O mio rimorso hasta entrados los años 70 ( a pesar de que creo que la primera grabación de La Traviata sin los cortes de tradición es la de Pritchard con Sutherland y Bergonzi). Así que es legítimo no darlo, o cortarlo.

[deslome]

anda y cantalo vos, a ver como te sale...

[poupounakis]

very nice and his voice was very good...but in this aria i prefer Alfredo Kraus....you can also find it in youtube.

[slicerprime]

he has pavaotti's voice......just not the master's control or (more pointedly) his natural ease of use of the instrument.

[gutiasos]

es muy bueno

[dibeling]

What a glorious set

[calgar22]

Beautiful!

[busseto92]

Muezzab, thank you very much indeed.

I have watched Alagna's Alfredo in Scala the very year. This nice video makes me remember my

wonderful days in Milano 16 years ago.

Muezzab, thank you very much indeed.

I have watched Alagna's Alfredo in Scala the very year. This nice video makes me remember my wonderful days in Milano 16 years ago.

[busseto92]

Muezzab, thank you very much indeed.

I have watched Alagna's Alfredo in Teatro alla Scala the very year. This nice video makes me remember my wonderful days in Milano.

[aljart]

Hay que reconocer que actualmente Roberto Alagna puede considerarse el mejor tenor lírico a nivel mundial. Hay que oir no solo su Alfredo (Traviata), sino Romeo y Julieta, Tosca, La Boheme, La Rondine y estará convencido de esta afirmación. Arturo.-

[gossamerhall]

Sounds good to me!

[alfreditocanas]

Qué sabia esa frase que dice: El que sabe, canta, el que sabe pero no canta, enseña; y el que no sabe ni canta, es crítico de ópera.

[BufonCuantico]

@alfreditocanas TOTALMENTE DE ACUERDO QUERIDO!!

[janejones11]

He sounds better than today, but even early on he pushed his voice constantly. His style of singing is overly muscular and strangulated. It really ruins the elegance of the piece.

[spitface33]

I have to agree with Slimdawg03 he really pushes on this aria around the F# and G area, He has a great voice and is one of my favorite tenor's but he doesn't have pavarotti's vocal ease.

[SirGeorg]

In this performance, some notes, phrases, are really Pavarotti-sounding. Today, it's a completely different story.

[a57se]

Singing Alfredo is a lot less demanding vocally then Radames. Obviously Alagnas' voice can't handle the difference...unfortunately one doesn't become a superstar tenor singing Alfredo.

[elohssa2005]

This is not correct if you sing the whole cabaletta as he does. The Cabaletta in Traviata is the most difficult Verdi ever wrote and it is sung with the repeat here.

[girardje]

très bonne performance de Roberto Alagna braco

[tosca31]

And he should sing Traviata more often :) .

[tosca31]

...Perfect. I don't think this easiness is gone, but he indeed pushes more than before now. Actually it depends on which role he's singing. I hope he's gonna lose this tension he's got in his voice these days. I'm sure he's able to go back to that kind of self-confidence. It would be wonderful because he's really an amazing artist. I think no one can match him on what he does.

[annea1b]

It's heartbreaking watching this after the debacle of La Scala 2006. How wonderful he sounds and looks, the voice ringing with confidence, not at all stretched or reedy. Dommage, grand dommage.

[diehlan]

Buena performance... pero se nota una falta total de tecnica y de escuela, ya es sabido que Alagna es un autodidacta y eso se ve reflejado

[ferjelo]

Y qué importa si es bueno? Acaso hay una ley escrita para el arte? Acaso hay una regla para "EL BUEN GUSTO"?

[FamiliaOrero]

Excellent! Bravo!!!

Algunas partes un poco empujadas, tal vez; y el apoyo desaparece por momentos durante la cabaletta final... Aun así, es de las mejores que he escuchado. Me gustó muchísimo!! Thanks for Posting it!

[hightenor123]

he is fantastic. Ideally a singer gets better and warmer and fuller as he ages, but I find Alagna pushed and forced in the theatre these days.  I still love the tone, but this ease is gone, I think.

[slimdawg03]

Alagna, in my opinion, has never had that vocal ease. He's always had a tendency to push his voice and darken his tone too much. Many tenors have this problem because they want to sing the big tenor roles when their voice is not mature enough for them and never will be. He does however, sing this aria very well and it's nice to hear the full cabaletta for once although it got a little pinched towards the end.