1983 MET100 GALA:Romeo et Juliette. Duet, Act IV / Gounod

[Huaimek861]

Thank you so much !!! I have never been a great fan of Alfredo Kraus and here he is a little past his best . I hear Catherine Malfitano for the first time ; what a beautiful voice , beautiful girl and so expressive .

[Cantormatis]

Beautiful singing- really. Compared to the garbage we hear at the Met now, it's almost hard to believe!

[iubanne]

orchestra fail...

[northbeachfilms]

can't say that i care for this woman's voice. maybe is it my speakers or the recording. but it seems grating. alas. thanks for posting. i do enjoy hearing variations on this piece.

[rivitas2]

Search, compare and if you find something better POST IT for christ's sake. Top quality, best interpretation of this magnificient piece in Youtube so far.

[JeeRant]

Malfitano looks like a spinster Princess Leia.

[medmai]

mein gott, kraus ist einfach unglaublich!

[cleanears]

She is just not right \or this... or much of anything else.

[WMP777]

Both singers sound very noble, beuatiful phrasing. The blending of styles is like a dream. Kraus was critiziced for singing Romeo to up in years. The modulation and perfect enunciation makes him the ideal Romeo. Malfitano forward crystal soprano is lovely. The soft messa di voce prior to the drammatic acuti finale is vocal art unequaled.

[ClaireConrad]

Catherine Malfitano has sweet notes at times (especially when she sings the name of the bird "le rossingnol"--but doesn't get the low notes. Kraus's tenor heavy & overloaded with vibrato.

They stage in the outdated ego-loving way, facing out to the audience most of the time. See Alagna/Netrobko's R&J videos to see the other-centric mode I prefer.

Still, Malfitano's and Kraus's voices blend better than those of Dessay & Kaufman in the same two roles.

[16JU61]

@ClaireConrad

heavy & overloaded with vibrato? To sing Romeo and achieve high C in the Met? Know poorly about singing

[16JU61]

Alagna's voice and tecnic is poor. Bjorling and Kraus are the best Romeos in 20th cetuntury. Too much marketing

@ClaireConrad

[nobisotti]

@ClaireConrad

first time someone calles kraus "heavy"

[martinyabel]

Me conmueven. IMPRESSIVE !!

[rovingdesertfox]

I love the professional move to gather together for the unbelievable high C... Whatever messing around they each had done up to this point, they got together and made that note count!!! Very cool.

[jamesjmertins1]

I sang in romeo with her in Nancy and I can tell you she was not Belle, she is not the most good looking woman. She sings this better than most thinks she sang.

[OrpheuCe]

Kraus whitout the moustache!!!

[Englishtenor2]

She looks exactly how she does now!

[Bigman240]

Hard to believe this was almost 26 years ago!!!!! Time flies...

[nobisotti]

OMG!!!! Why did they make her look so old!!!! Alfredo ist 20 years(!) older....but here Catherine looks older...this is NOT I Puritani!!!!

[nclysander]

Considering that this was a concert performance rather than a staged opera, I'm pretty sure Ms. Malfiatano chose her own dress, or at least had a large say in it. Certainly the piece performed had nothing to do with it.