Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Don Carlo - Rodrigo's Death Scene

[13425613]

Катя. это- божественно и чудесно. Какой замечательный голос. Можно слушать вечно.

[LaMuerteAmarilla]

Sexiest man in the fuckin' world. And I'm a straight male. How do the ladies feel?

[eurydike]

@LaMuerteAmarilla even much worse :-))

[AfroPoli]

@LaMuerteAmarilla Yuck

[LaMuerteAmarilla]

@AfroPoli Ah you guys don't know a beautiful man when you see one.

[AfroPoli]

@LaMuerteAmarilla :D

[Sascopa]

@LaMuerteAmarilla This lady reckons you're a highly discerning fella :D

[vivaverdi1]

Bravoooooooooooo!!!!!!

[bodiloto]

la ptima aria grida,e stonato...

la seconda aria Posa é ferito,sta morendo... e poi tutta l'aria e scritta nel pp e mezza voce,come un ferito puo gridare quando sta morendo ? dove e la bellezza del suono Verdiano della interpretazione all'Italiana ? io personalmente non la sento.

[BRISEFER6]

Le chanteur ne comprend pas ce qu'il dit. Et ça s'entend. Fautes de style et mauvais goût assurés ! Dommage...

[sopranosd]

Is it my imagination or are DH's voice and technique here markedly different from his earlier performances (where his voice is much suppler and creamier, and the top notes sweeter)? It seems as if he is singing at his jaw hinge, and kind of shoving is face back into his neck. Is he trying to manufacture larger or lower sound, or is it just a bad camera close-up?

[BassoNero]

@sopranosd Your observations are good. He started to making darker and wider sound (by forcing his throat), which is ruining his technique. I think he has very colourful voice itself, i don`t see a point doing it "more" colourful.

I agree with you. F.e. his early count Almaviva is good.

[sopranosd]

@BassoNero - Thanks very much for the confirmation of my thoughts, although that does mean DH is pushing and being very naughty, technically. I so hope he returns to his sweeter tone, because I just love his voice. Especially with a rich voice, lighter is better, in my opinion. It releases the natural color. Pushing doesn't do a singer any favors.

[adamskyb]

@sopranosd I'm not sure about his jaw but if he is trying for a darker sound it's most likely because it's a Verdi piece.

[jsmoir1]

Just to think, I got sick at the Toulouse Vocal Competition in 1988, just so he could win first place! Amazing how life works. He's sure an artist, but I prefer a brighter, more italianate color. But there's no denying he can sing....

[durandal87]

Hahaha! I meant I really absorb myself in Dmitri's game as I do for my preferred Alfred Kraus and Elena Obraztsova!:))

[durandal87]

SUBLIME! I just took a crazy pleasure from this ! I really myself in Dmitri's as I do for my preferred Alfred and Elena! They all give a veritable sense to lyrics and opera! I just shall include this immediately amongst my other preferred videos! I thank you very much for these short and pleasant 7:41 minutes of this remarquable scene,Gabba02! Excellent continuation and Thursday!:) Durandal87

[bodiloto]

- 10 !!!! questo ruolo fu interpretato da:cotoni,amato,stracciari,dan­ise,giraldoni,battistini,ruffo­,de luca,casini,zenatello,tagliabu­e,becchi,taddei,bastianini ecc.....,accanto a loro questa e la  voce di un .....tenore !

[NOVOROS1]

А Вы все гадости пишите про гордость нашей нации? Может хватит? слишком много себе позволяете!!!!!!!!!

[MsDvornik]

Это гордость нации?? а что Вы тогда знаете про свою нацию??

да Вы слаще редьки и не едали!!! Послушайте Андрея Иванова!!!

да десятки совершенно не забываемых певцов Вашей нации!!!

и потом, что за постановка вопроса?? какая нация?Ещё какую гордость Вашей нации нельзя критиковать??

[NOVOROS1]

Секундочку! А кто Вам позволил таким тоном выражать свои эмоции в мой адрес?!? я даже парировать не буду, слишком много чести!

[bodiloto]

-10 !!! senza microfono la voce di hvorostovsky dal vivo e piccolina,brutta,urla e naturalmente  la sua voce non passa l`orchestra !

[ShawDAMAN]

I'm not a big fan but I must say, well done here.

Beautiful composing from Verdi here, one of my favorite passages.

[almusicam]

Tuve la suerte de verlo y oirlo en Don Carlo en el teatro de la Opera de la Bastilla en Paris, el año 2008. Pense que en vivo no me ibaa impresionar igual, pero tengo que decir que el teatro entero se ponia de pie para aplaudirlo al final de cada aria. Ademas tiene mucha presencia y buen manejo del escenario. Es un fenomeno de volumen, bien controlado y expresividad.

[stevevandien]

@almusicam Por favor, una pregunta -- es la voz de Hvorotovsky grande, pequeno, o entre los dos? Puede discutirla? (Lo siento; no tengo muy bien del espanol ahora:)) -

[almusicam]

Es el mejor baritono de los ultimos tiempos. Todo lo que hace es perfecto!!

[lamsalgado]

Sin duda almusicam !

[daruglon]

Signori un baritono verdiano!

[bobopera]

I've seen Hvorostovsky as Rigolette, Simon Boccanegro, in Un Ballo, and in concert. He is among our top baritones, with a stunning voice and technique; and, he can act. This clip is an excellent example of his talent.

[lamsalgado]

The wonderful, unique Dmitri Hvorostovsky doing his magic!

[Guerrillavox]

This is how it's done. End of.

[babajaga39]

nicriphone is because of the recording, you fools. Dima doesn't need a mic for singing an opera role.

[babajaga39]

microphone

[Fragenoa92]

@babajaga39 non c'è..il microfono..che palle

[tenorismo]

The rood screen behind , him is from the last act of Don Carlo . I  saw Sherril Milnes yowelll his way through these aris on a tuesday night during a snow storm in feb 1978 .

[canafinwe]

I would like too see him singing this on-stage. Doesn't somebody have such a video?

[canafinwe]

This whitish blonde hair is terrible for him. He looks like Draco Malfoy... :(

[evangelion53]

It's his real hair color. :/

[canafinwe]

I thought it was painted (or what's the word for it). But now I know him and love him. His hair too.

[cbrandonmorales]

I thought it was pretty funny. Relax guys.

[brendanemig]

When was this made? He doesn't sound as good as usual... it's really pushed and dark, i'm used to a more cantabile dmitri, his high is still ridiculous, but he's never looked like he's working at all, here he does...

[bmatt05]

i think maybe because its verdi

[JuillHope17]

maybe cause he's acting, and you're not just hearing it but your watching it. you've probably heard him more than watching him, because even in this song he's always but his emotion into it physically and vocally. with opera you have to act whenever you're singing a song, and that's part of where the emotion of a song comes in. it may sound pushed in some parts, but it's not pushed in an unhealthy way, he's pushing those parts because posa is sying in these 2 arias. learn about don carlo/carlos

[brendanemig]

I'll keep that in mind the next time i perform these arias...

[JuillHope17]

well that was conceitedly bitchy. you must not perform these arias well... i mean, a real opera singer with a real career doesn't comment like that on youtube, so you must be a little unknown and you think by saying "i'll keep that in mind when i perform these arias" that you're wearing the big boy pants now. THOUSANDS of baritones around the world perform these arias, but who's getting attention for performing them well? people like hvorostovsky, not people like you you conceitedly justify.

[achinghunger15]

I'm not sure of this but fom what I've seen by him he is an amazing actor as well as singer. This song is when the character is dying. Maybe he's trying to act like he's actually dying. I'm not sure but thats how I look at it

[Belcore14]

Eh. He's getting older. It's part of the process.

I heard him sing these in Carnegie Hall not but a week ago and he sounded excellent. But of course he will not sound the same way he did ten years ago.

[Leanare]

Help! I have very poor connect, so the song is interrupting. Please say - if it possible to download this video scene?

[sandraNorway]

So - anybody that can sing louder than him is better is that it ? He makes the most gorgeous sound, size isn't everything

[Operafiend22]

I have been to several recitals and operas where Dmitri was singing and he projected just fine. I think that some on Youtube are confusing the terms "Large" and "projection". Dmitri does have a "large" voice, but it's quality does not allow it to carry as well as someone like Bastianini, who sang with a brighter Timbre. That's not to say that Dmitri has a small voice though, it is just that his voice has different acoustical qualities.

[raphabenbenjamin]

absolutely correct

[francotenelli]

I heard the rumors about Dimitry, and I don't realy care. One of my favrites, Mario Lanza was also a mike artist but he remains one of my favorite singers upto now. The sad thing that if that's true(miking) it's realy misleading the audience.

Great recording anyway, thanks to Gabba!

[francotenelli]

Soon there will be no need for real opera singers, opera will turn into somewhat Broadway show.

Remember, that old bradway did not use mikes.

Tecknology today is so good that usual opera goer will not hear the difference, but there is a difference between pure accoustic and ampl sound, of course we absolutly cannot tell if from the recordings.

[Cesaare]

There no reason that we should dislike him))) God gave him a beautiful voice,he is a very good musucian and knows how to act but as I said before there are operatic voices like Del Monaco, Siepi, Callas, Domingo ect and classicly trained but small ones like Dimitry, C.Bartoli, Netrebko etc who are making huge careers today because technology allows that.

[hightenor123]

I dont think Netrebko has a small voice, I think it is quite full in the house,

[stevevandien]

I've always liked Hvortovsky, but have never heard him in person. Is there anybody who has here who DOESN'T think his voice is small or that it doesn't carry? Just curious -- years ago, I knew some guys who heard him not at the Met, but another venue (Carnegie Hall, I think), and they had no trouble hearing him there with full orchestra --

[ackstrom]

I have heard Dmitri at the Covent Garden and at the Teatro Real at Verdian roles and as Onegin too.I have heard him perfectly and his voice was not covered by the orchestra. Unfortunately, nowdays we don't have voices of the quality of Callas, del Monaco or Bastianini to mention but three, we're living another times, but I think we are talking of a good opera singer.

[stevevandien]

@ackstrom Thanks very much for your message:) --

[Ariadne7710]

@stevevandien I have heard him in live performances in whole opera productions with full orchestras in Vienna, Covent Garden, the Met and various other opera houses (with no mikes in any of them) and in Salzburg in the Grosses Festspielhaus which is a very big opera house and his voice is big enough. They most certainly do not use mikes except for broadcasts and videos and then you see the mikes hanging over both orchestra and singers.

[pantanegro]

I am soooo tired of this! whenever someone has a "small" voice but somehow manages to project, people always say they're miked. I remeber some "learned" persons saying the same thing of a few Fischer-Dieskau recordings here on Youtube. Enough!!!

[Cesaare]

Miking opera is now quite popular these days(Met, Chicago, etc) they never admit it but its a reality. What more dissapointing is that they don't mike everybody so big voices actualy sound rather small in comperison to singers like Dimitry or Cecilia Bartoli. As a recording artist he's one of my favorire baritones, but don't tell me he's an opera voice, please)))

[Cesaare]

Hey gyus, for those who like Hvorostovsky I'd say he is a real classy singer but one thing is bothering me that he's pretending to be an opera singer, which he is not simply because of his small voice, yes he sounds great, I agree.

I had rare possibility to hear him without mike and it was very dissapionting. As far as I know his agent would never sign a contract with the operas who don't have miking technology.

[Fragenoa92]

@Cesaare ...but I don't see any mike...

[Fragenoa92]

@Cesaare ...but I don't see any mike

[Fragenoa92]

@Cesaare ...but I don't see any mike...

[hightenor123]

This is a true star turn. Dimitri used his breath support in a virtuosic fashion. A voice need not be enourmous to make an enourmous emotional impact. If Gabba is in the possesion of James Morris's contribution to this gala I would be very grateful, I received a phone call at that time in the broadcast and missed it

Thanks for the wonderful posting!