Stefan Zucker - La Fille du Regiment - Ah mes amis

[vpo2g2]

Was he passing a stone?

[pacebbene]

Many great artists were never appreciated by their contemporaries. Maybe WE are too limited. On the other hand for a few years he conducted the best opera program on radio, The Opera Fanatic, which was better, I think, than my other favorites, Anthony Coggi's, Larry Holdridge's, Sokol, Jellinek, Boucher and Don Goldberg. In addition he is a very perceptive interviewer and possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of anything operatic. If Stefan Zucker didn't exist he should have been invented.

[magicmonkichi]

At least Florence Forster Jenkins was in pitch~! o.O

[Salomes7Veils]

@magicmonkichi Hmmm... Not that I recall... She was absolutely not in pitch most of the time.

[Weihafan]

This is not the world´s highest tenor - this is the world´s silliest clown!

[cccorsetti]

the worst thing I've ever heard

[abracadabranque]

Est-ce possible???

[OscarLevant1]

This is a form of psychosis! Amazing in that regard

[Deathhawk9]

I think his technique is quite good, but the problem is whatever genetic issue he has that gives him that high speaking voice, which results in his awful lower register. You can hear in his higher register that he's much more comfortable there.

[abracadabranque]

@Deathhawk9 Technique???Quelle technique???Où çà,où çà???

[AnonBatch]

It's kind of a haute-contre sound. But, it's also total shit.

[Jextxadore]

His technique surely can't be healthy — just listen to him speak.

[magicmonkichi]

@Jextxadore

what technique?~ o.O

[sallpario]

la scala! the best version in all over the world! magnifico legendary tenore. historical scale person.

[abracadabranque]

@sallpario Tu plaisantes j'espère!..

[vpo2g2]

It is good to not have any shame

[MsRuthes]

Ughhhh!!'! what in God's name is this???

[svanirlevoci]

sounds like a goat during electrocution.

[Chanteuredelopera]

A male version of Florence Foster Jenkins!

[tenorismo]

LOL I must be more disturbed because I have the LP. lol

[RADAMES1983]

E una giocca?...

:)

[vanzofaust]

is this for real? at least he's consistent. his singing voice is as repulsive as his speaking voice. a genuine fake.

[GERMANYFrankie]

I never would say this but  of sure, I sing a better high a flat!

[primohomme]

By the way, he seems to be singing in a higher key than original, by a semitone, and the highest note is Ab5.

[AmhranaiAlainn]

Monty Python!!

[njtenor57]

Bravo Stefan!!!!

[orlando098]

"He brings a lost virility to what have become sappy tenor songs. I suggest that everybody listen."--Bert Wechsler, Music Journal reviewing Zucker's album "Stefan Zucker: The World's Highest Tenor"

[gaytenor]

@orlando098 You have got to be kidding us. If that review of this horrendous falsetto bleating is accurate musical performance criticism has reached a new low even for it.

[orlando098]

@gaytenor

LOL. I don't know if it is genuine or not - it comes from stefanzucker doht com/reviews-stefan-zucker-worl­ds-highest-tenor

[aaronsande]

@gaytenor Surely this was meant to be a comedic performance? =D

[gaytenor]

@aaronsande No its wasn't meant to be a comedic performance he's serious. The recording shown above was actually released to the unsuspecting public and he makes those godawful sounds often. Historical tenors has a few clips including Ho-jo-to-ho he is a total freak and his duets with his mother have tp be heard to be believed.

[aaronsande]

@gaytenor OMG

So he got his wealth from something other than singing, I assume, and then he pays for this sort of recording for--what, attention? Wild! Very strange. Surely he didn't make his money from singing!

And his mother is that Helene Chutzpah? Seeing her name, I thought for sure this was all a known joke. I mean, seriously? Chutzpah? He's surely got more than 1 man's share!

[razdoburdina]

A mon humble avis, cette une nature du soprano, qui s'ignore, donc ici on entend une farce au lieux d'entendre une belle soprano ( avec un peut de travail, bien sur). AV

[gaytenor]

My ears are bleeding this guy stinks really stinks. The poor delusional man should take up anything but this falsetto braying. The last bleat actually made Cura and Licitra sound good by comparison which is exceptionally difficult to say the least. Fans should look on Historical Tenors for his performance of a lovely neopolitan canzone and his unspeakable version of Brunnhilde's war cry from Die Walkure.

[pasavant]

His voice is small but unpleasant.

[Zva26]

OMG ---- Juan Diego Florez needn't worry!

[FoggyRoad81]

I do NOT get the bravos.

[Cantormatis]

@FoggyRoad81 they are laughing precisely because he is awful, truly awfully.

[flaze3]

@Cantormatis what's bizarre is that he thinks this sounds good. I literally do not understand that!

[gaytenor]

@FoggyRoad81 Its over that's what the audience is happy about!

[Romeolirico]

Un cazzotto! ))

[Romeolirico]

Penis singing.... Hahahahaha! Мудило!

[omarchidofine]

sad...really sad!

[lubidog]

Oh my God..... I am speechless...........

[musicg1978]

what a clown.

[JCLAWS]

this is soo sad. Stefan Zucker is one of the smartest people about opera, the voice, and recording history. His singing voice is fucking ridiculous, to all us singers its an absolute joke. Unfortunately to him he is not joking. It makes him seem like an absolute fool. Uccck God I am listening this while I am writing this, It like the sound one would make when a hot poker is being stuck down your pee-hole lol,

[Umbelinodan]

péssimo

[Operaphile]

Speechless I am.

[fabrizzzio48]

The best singing I've heard in a loooong time. Bravo Maestro!

[fabrizzzio48]

@fabrizzzio48

That last note was out of this world!

[mosifchi]

Stefan Zucker never dissapoints.  He's very consistent!

[MattiaBattistini]

Meraviglioso, straordinario! Il timbro è brutto, ma tutto il resto è sublime: Questo, davvero, è il "cantare che nell'anima si sente".

[31122051]

" MattiaBattistini " mi auguro che Lei stia scherzando, se questo è il " cantare che nell'anima si sente " allora vuol dire che abbiamo proprio toccato il fondo. Qui non è questione di timbro vocale : questo è un obbrobbrio TOTALE sotto tutti i punti di vista, a dir poco INASCOLTABILE e, a mio giudizio, ha molto della presa in giro. I miei saluti.

[MattiaBattistini]

La pensiamo diversamente: penso anche io che Zucker prenda un po' in giro: ma in che senso? si prende in giro perchè ha ovii limiti che gli hanno impedito una carriera, ma resta il fatto che il modo di cantare, di variare, ecc. ecc., e in generale l'intenzione estetica, se vogliamo dire così, sono per me eccellenti, e unici. Zucker (come sotto altri aspetti Morino, o come Jean de Reszke) riesce quanto meno a riprodurre un'immagine del bel canto che io vorrei.

[31122051]

Anche questo è vero per certi aspetti.

[31122051]

Uno schifo autentico, INASCOLTABILE, anzi peggio, inascoltabile non rende bene il concetto ! Con quella vocetta da castrato farebbe meglio a cantare da contralto, anzi no da soprano leggero di coloratura. I miei saluti.

[bodiloto]

pazzo perverso,tutta la sua vita ha profitato,idiota!

[ThankYouAndHello]

I hear money

[AZo9jojo]

He sounds like a comedy!!!!!!!

[AntW11]

Very good comedy. I would like to see him live.

[jcruss]

Is this like a Florence Foster Jenkins or Anna Russell type satire?

[harmonieautog]

It's dead serious to him.......the capon rides again!

[baritonebynight]

Florence Foster Jenkins is more like it.

[ajepo7]

SWEET JESUS MAKE IT STOP.

[flon5flon]

mental and vocal disabled

[Webarton]

Mostly Mentally Disabled, I'd say.

[musicalrapture]

Audience laughing to the male(or really?) version of jenkins...

Seriously, someone said he's a student of TIto Schipa, that's very amusing..

[LAROUCHEpunktSE]

Excuse me... Does anyone have some pieces of cheese to put into my ears? This was truly horrible!

And to "the world's highest tenor," I would ask: High on what? Whatever he is using, he shouldn't push it on other people.

No wonder he was more or less the only "singer" who opposed the call for returning to the Verdi tuning and the true principles of bel canto singing:

watch?v=JwNntY4BTdw

[SOPRATENOR]

Ce mec est complètement taré...Mais pas autant que les malades qui l'applaudissent!!!!!!

[manny2many]

This is just sad. And he has the GALL to dedicate it to Pavarotti.

[Lovelytenor1]

Florence Foster Zucker. Sounds like an old Warner Bros cartoon......someone is choking a chicken.

[jaaaaaayynnee]

I have Stefan's mother's voice which quite horrid! The picture is no better either!!

She however, does sound like an old witch!

Rosina Wolf

[TsarBovov]

Zucker is a student of Tito Schipa. It is true Belcanto... Balsamico for the ears...

[cyeh2]

This is tenor version of Florence Foster Jenkins indeed!

[mrrk]

No, this has to be a joke, right?

[maniacbgd]

nop ;)

[preruminator]

Beware of too much Zucker = sugar. Hyperglycemia has awful symptoms :-))

[bodiloto]

-100!!!!!! PAZZO  !!!!!

[einherzundeineseele]

Schrecklich, diese Stimme - oder was man dafür hält. Jedenfalls würde mir die Milchsuppe immer anbrennen wenn ich das hören müsste.

Gott bewahre mich vor diesem Gesülze.

[aglezponce]

Is this a joke? Who told the poor guy that he actually sings????

[phanface]

His mother, his friends, and most of all, HIMSELF.

[HMW]

i've come to the conclusion that zucker is simply a countertenor. he's a falsettist. probably a baritone in actuality. his speaking voice at the beginning is a load of bull. he's simply intentionally speaking in his falsetto.

[madbeetz11]

calm down, this is not him

[HMW]

what do you mean?

[flaze3]

oh god this is hideous!

[Leonnidik]

JOAN SOUNDS GREAT HERE.

[jwbtenor]

God this man is terrilble. Watching his interviews with singers I find him to be rude and just an opportunist - trying to make a name for himslef on the coat tails of past singers.

JESUS, he sounds like a dying calf!!!!!

[Spats47]

No, he sounds a little like Alessandro Moreschi!

(If you don't know who he was, Google him!) ;-)

[tenor9216]

he's just a freaking emulation of Moreschi !!! i don't say Moreschi was particularly great, but at least he didn't sound like a old witch with a partially changed voice !

[Stereo4102]

Pavarotti is rolling in his grave!

Pavarotti si sta girando nella tomba!

Pavarotti está revolcándose en la tumba!!!

Poor,pobre, povero Luciano!!!!

[musicalrapture]

pavarotti wasn't that great on this piece either

[mrrk]

get real Pavarotti was supreme in this music & role

[musicalrapture]

no he's overrated

[VinylToVideo]

Overrated is right but a hell of a lot better than this shit. I think Zucker really was "the world's HIGHEST tenor."

[ciociosan]

laaaaaaaaaaaaawd help me!

[harmonieautog]

Curly or Kermit on acid........

[PenneallaNorma]

Is this a joke? I assume it is since people are laughing. This is another Florence Foster Jenkins!

[carroyoq]

Sounds like kermit