Gli Ugonotti in Verona with Lauri-Volpi (rare footage)

[TheManonDeGrieux]

Io amo la sua voce, amo i suoi acuti, la sua interpretazione!!!...io lo amooooooo <3 <3

[ricardoluizvaladares]

My God, the most beautiful singing I've ever heard!!!!

[19olivier72]

FANTASTICHE IMAGINE!!!!!!! Quando penso che ci sono stato quest'estate.....Grazie!!!!!

[oliveranthonyrowland]

Oh, sorry, Verona arena of course. 

[oliveranthonyrowland]

Where was this staged - the venue looks huge. Also, do you know anything about how it was recorded? The amount of volume that seems to come across, especially at the end, is amazing.

[MadameBorgi]

Único sabio del canto....

[assindiastignani]

che bestia!!

[Nello7]

That's all incredible technique. That is real vocal fold adduction at work folks. It's a pure thrill to listen and watch this! Thank you for posting!

[sugarbism]

Hes real a phenomenon just amazing in every way 

[MrPipposiculo]

Grazie per questà raritatà.

[abracadabranque]

Je n'aime pas beaucoup,mais pour ce qui est de tenir tête à l'orchestre...Aujourd'hui,au moindre tutti il n'y a plus personne.Ils avaient la santé,les anciens!

[Cantormatis]

Fascinating! Tell me, was Meyerbeer banned in Italy once the Nazi racial laws banned "Jewish" music in Germany (i.e., Mendelssohn)? This must have been filmed by the Germans before the rise of the Nazis then? Just wondering. And Lauri-Volpi sings like a GOD here.

[20478]

Innarivabile, veramente impressionante!!!!

[TenorCoyle]

I'm so blessed to be able to see this, his voice is just so beautiful.

[horowitz109]

Giuseppe Adami, librettista di Turandot e "alter ego" di Puccini scrisse in un articolo sulla "Stampa sera" che LV era stato "desiderato e sognato da Puccini vivente" come creatore della parte di Calaf. La protagonista femminile sarebbe dovuta essere la Jeritza. Invece Toscanini, contravvenendo ai desideri di Puccini, scritturò per la prima Fleta e la Raìsa: voci fenomenali, ma non quelle che aveva "desiderato e sognato Puccini", appunto.

[alleviso]

E giusto perché il vocabolario non contempla aggettivi ancor più esaltanti....no, uno ce n'è: DIVINO!

[horowitz109]

Ha ragione: Gabriele D'Annunzio, che era un grande ammiratore di Lauri-Volpi ed era padrone di una ricchezza lessicale sterminata, dichiarò di non avere aggettivi sufficienti ad elogiare la voce del fenomenale tenore, e gli donò una foto con la dedica: "A Lauri-Volpi, un poeta che invidia i "lauri" della grande voce". Mascagni scrisse che LV era "un Turiddu ineguagliabile, forse più grande di Roberto Stagno" (che era il creatore del ruolo e uno dei miti tenorili del XIX secolo)

[alleviso2]

@horowitz109 E non poteva essere altrimenti: d'Annunzio e Lauri Volpi erano due ARTISTI IMMENSI. "Similia similibus curentur".

[circearte]

MERAVIGLIOSO, STRABILIANTE.

[Agorante]

Wonderful stuff! I thought I had or had heard everything Lauri-Volpi ever recorded. I was surprised by the high mezza voce.

This must have been about the peak for LV. In the acustic era recordings his vibrato is too much for modern years. Only a few years later the top got shorter and the tone got harder. Here in 1933 though, he's stupendous.

[horowitz109]

I beg to differ, but LV top never got shorter. I wonder if you could listen to his 1954 Amsterdam Trovatore: at the end of the terzetto "Di geloso amor sprezzato" he produced a stunning, totally effortless high C-flat. In the 1955 Ugonotti aired by Italian radio, he produced the same high D natural which can be heard in this clip.

[horowitz109]

Sorry, I should have written "high C-sharp".

[horowitz109]

Sorry, I should have written: "it can't be affirmed" instead of "it can be affirmed".

A thousand thanks to TrovadorManrique for this never-seen-before footage (It seems that no unabridged copy of the movie "La Canzone del Sole" survived ".

[wongmartinez]

This is a jewel that defies description. I agree with Viverito; this footage is so amazing it leaves you breathless!

What if they have filmed the whole opera?

[viverito]

Some things are just so amazing they are beyond words. This is definitely one of those.

[hiyadroogs]

Huge, fantastic resonance on all notes, but especially the high D natural! Marvelous, marvelous singing. Not only is the voice possessed of stentorian power, but more importantly, beauty of tone & dynamic control. Those pianissimi are completely unexampled in tenors today, - as indeed is the upper voice squillo. How thrilling it is to hear it!

[Pollione88]

@hiyadroogs I agree, fantastic voice indeed! You wrote that those pianissimi are completely unexampled in tenors today, well then I'm curious what you think about the pianissimi of this guy, search in Youtube for (MICHAEL SPYRES Les Huguenots - Tu m'aimes)

[reeferisme]

Incredible singing thankyou so much

[PonselleLover]

Thank you so much for posting this priceless testimony in its full version. I can't get tired of hearing again LV's ringing trumpet and his throwing his incandescent javelines ! IoI

[aulavocal]

Muito Obrigado pela postagem e pela grande generosidade!

Grande abraço

Brazil

[sospello]

Muchas gracias. Thank you so much for posting this clip in a full version with much better sound and picture than I have seen before--historic and legendary Raul.

[TrovadorManrique]

Thanks for your instantaneous comment. :)