@bodiloto, yo puedo admirar igual que a Domingo a otros tenores: Caruso, Gigli, Schipa, MDM, Corelli, Volpi, Pavarotti, etc. NO SOY FANATICO, TU SI LO ERES. A ti no te gusta PD por fanatismo, un poco de 'chauvinismo' lirico, y le faltas el respeto casi siempre, como un vulgar tifosi de teatro proviciano. La diferencia entre tu y yo es que, yo soy incapaz de faltar el respeto a otras grandes figuras de la opera....Saludos!
@bodiloto, Domingo es un magnifico cantante ( baritono-tenor), super flexible, capaz de ganar Grammy por Tristan o Traviata, una hora nada mas y nada menos de aplausos en Viena por La Boheme, cantar muy bien Mefistofeles, Carmen, Tosca, Aida y un larguisimo etc....una carrera incomparable! Cualquier experto ten opera te dira lo mimo que yo.
@bodiloto, Tu adoras la inmovilidad perpetua en la opera... Domingo es un estupendo Des Grieux con Caballé, Scotto o Freni como Manon. Sus interpretaciones en el Met son un magnifico espectaculo. MDM es uno de mis tenores favoritos de siempre. Fleta tuvo muy buenos agudos y pianissimi, y MDM es un portento vocal en la historia, sin duda. Pero Domingo tambien tiene sus meritos.....
@millonety123 POSTO NUMERO 1 TUTTI E DUE! MARIO DEL MONACO E MIGUEL FLETA ERANO VERI TENORI! Nella mia lista tutti tenori sono migliori dal tuo Domingo! TUTTI ! Guarda amico,l'ultima nota di questo duetto Domingo grida con tutta la forza! Questo non è arte amico,questa è agonia. MIGUEL FLETA era spagnolo come Domingo...ascolta Fleta e spero che dopo le sue interpretazioni 'sentirai' perché à me Domingo come tenore non piace. Domingo è un bel uomo,intelligente! Tu lo adori! Non ti basta?
@FranciscoArvizuH , Pero asi es la vida! A Domingo no lo valoran asi lo haga de bien. Si los agudos estan superior, dicen que los trucados en estudio....Claro, que cuando hay una mala actuacion, por que no utilizó la 'varita mágica' del estudio?, pregunto. Ayer fue su 71 cumpleaños, le deseo lo mejor! Bravo maestro!:....y a bodiloto, que todavia estoy espetando la gravacion de la Turandot de Fleta, ahahaha!
@bodiloto, ademas, vecchio bugiardo, (estoy esperando informacion sobre la 'fantastica' Turandot de Fleta) @GermanOperaSinger es otro antiespañol como tu. En su maravillosa lista de 20 mejores tenores, no incluye a tu 'adorado' Fleta, ni a otras 'vacas sagradas' del bel canto como Kraus...y por supuesto, Domingo ni por asomo¡...No se que es mas estupido las listas o quien las hace. Pienso que las dos cosas. Ciao caro bugiardo¡
@bodiloto, cual es ahora el problema?. Yo no puedo opinar. Tu si puedes? Que pasa? Tu eres el abogado de pobres? Mira, si no te gusta mi opinion es tu problema, no mio. YT es libre y tu te crees el Sheriff de la lirica, hay diferentes maneras de ver y criticar en opera tu eres un nostalgico y dices mas insultos por comentario que nadie, es que no te das cuenta que eres el campeon del insulto? Estas ciego o que? Tu haces lo blanco negro. Eres falso, mentiroso, malintencionado y ...violento.
he escuchado la version de MDM con Tebaldi de Decca 1960, y comparada con esta, me gusta bastante mas PD&MC que MDM&RT, curiosamente aqui Domingo canta con mas fuerza y mejores agudos que Mario y la Caballe supera a Tebaldi en delicadeza y finura excepcional. Comparen las dos y veran¡¡
@millonety123 En efecto, eso es mejor a la famosa grabación de DECCA de Del Monaco y una Tebaldi ya entrada en cansancio vocal. MDM todo grito, acá Plácido está en la efusión de su juventud. El registro EMI, con Bruno Bartoletti en la batuta, es el más completo en discos.
@GermanOperaSinger, you are a pure contradition made of your hate to Domingo and another spanish singer. If prime Domingo was fantastic, why he isnt (or another spanish singer) in your "famous" list of better tenors? No between 20 better? I think is something personal with Domingo, Mr. Contradition. Its my opinion¡
@Sgarbist, que mal te enrollas, tio¡ Para una vez que lo hace bien...pero ni por esas¡@pieritlyon, y tu? Porque no le envias tu comentario sobre Domingo a la Caballe, a ver que te contesta, listillo¡ Los he visto sinverguenzas, pero lo vuestro es de juzgado de guardia. Os he puesto (junto a bodiloto & Co) el glorioso nombre del "clan del alcanfor". Adivinais por que?
Can someone tell me between Caballe in this and Te Kanawa in another clip of the same duet why it is that Kiri gets panned but I hear that both versions are equally good and if not Te Kanawa had the sweeter voice. IMHO both divas had great techniques. I guess it boils down to personal preference most of the time!
@domi2020 The problem is not the duet per se. The problem is Puccini expected much from this young character vocally and often times you get someone who looks good on stage, or sounds sweet, when most of the singers most appropriate for the role as a whole aren't the best looking or don't have the sweetest sounds. Te Kanawa is perfectly lovely in this duet. It's the latter half of the opera where she gets into trouble because of the lack of weight in her voice.
opera at it's very best! the chemistry between Caballe and Domingo never fails to thrill. this is so beautiful and truly demonstrates why Caballe was indeed one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. the voice is secure and powerful, amazing when she had not long before had a caesarian to safely deliver her daughter. she declined to have a solo spot instead choosing to sing this with domingo. Caballe is undoubtedly a legend and this shows why!
Back in the 1970s, I had an LP of Caballe and Domingo in duets from various operas. I played it ragged. It is not available on CD. What a pity! They were wonderful together. And, yes, she is a goddess. The most beautiful voice of the 20th century. No successors in my opinion.
What happened to Domingo ? I wish he would have sang like this for 10 or 15 years and made some unsurpassed roled. Instead, he sang for 40 years and, in my humble opinion, comes in the best scenario always as second choice. I know he had Pavarotti to compete with but he should have put quality and not quantity in front.
I think Domingo was already at 31 the best tenor of the world. No other tenor could ever sing lyric, spinto and dramatic roles with lyric, spinto and dramatic color and timbre during the same period of time. Domingo did it during the 70s and part of the 80s until he lost a part of the lyric quality.
You are totally right.The man could sing Otello and Radames with a baritonal voice and perform during the same period lyric roles such as Duca and Hoffmann using a light timbre without a trace of baritonality .Actually,around 1980-1983 his voice went brighter more focused in the mask and his high notes had more squillo.After 1985 his voice went dark again but it was not as baritonal and heavy as it used to be in the 70's.
Recordings don't tell everything. Quality, size of voice, character, integrity, movement & the effect on an audience need describing too. Have you heard a great performance by this singer live, without a mic? If so please post an objective description to add the wonderful YouTube archive before the memory is lost for ever.
How I wish I could have been there to hear Farinelli entrance an audience with the power of a single note, but we do at least have Charles Burney's marvellous account.
I saw her twice in Tosca and twice as Elisabetta (Don Carlo) at the Met. Not only did her beautiful voice carry through the house with ease, her pianissimi projected equally as well. Every time she sang there was electricity in the air. And, in concert, her terrific personality equalled her singing. She was a Met favorite for twenty years. Just plain wonderful!
I never heard Domingo's voice sound so opulent . Maybe there is a correlation between physical weight and vocal weight after all!?! Again when Domingo was heaver in the late 70's the voice was much fuller.
He looks very handsome here as well, doesn't he? And she too was actually rather beautiful, back in the day. A wonderful little performance - and so nice to hear the audience reaction at the end (so many Youtube clips cut off at the last note). Thank you for posting.
I do not agree with you.Here Domingo sings more natural way,without focusing the voice too much like he later did,the voice was later much more squeezed and tense.That is the reason he had problem with hights,the voice was too focused from the bottom to the top.Here he sings with whole body,more open,trusting his perfect breathing and support (apoggio.This is the way all old school italian great tenors sing,even today this is the only way to sing italian repertoar.Comments?
I agree fully with you, he should have carried on this way. Singing as Caruso, Pavarotti, Bjorling and many others did... perhaps he would have been a great singer.
Yeah, check out operabitch77:s comment, i think her/his estimation is right. Germanoperasinger has good point too. So, almost all of us here agree that Domingo stopped using traditional oldschool italian way of singing after 70s, which caused more tense and less beautiful tone, which he still has here.
When she got way past her prime sometimes the high notes would sound screechy bu never flat.
In the 60's and up till the mid 70's Caballe's high notes were absolutely gorgeous.You also have to take into the account some distortion in lower quality recordings.
By the way her high notes here are out of this world.
She doesn't sound flat on top to me either. She never had intonation problems to my knowledge. I heard her starting in the early 70s. The breath control is amazing. You only have to hear the ending of her in "Don Carlo" to hear what I mean.
To me she has a voice that sounded better in person. Freni was another one.
Two of the greatest recorded voice in humanities histoy. Bravo La Caballe & Domingo sounds most 'dramatic/heroic' tenor i have ever heard. Great post kindest regards
I'm not convinced there were very many other performances like this... I have a couple of performances performed within a year of this one, the 1972 Turandot is pretty bad and the 1973 Rigoletto is even worse.
I've yet to see another performance where he sounds as breathtaking as this.
Theinquisitivestupid, shut up your nonsense critic, his voice is amazing and her voice too. He sung high C and C sharp anyway it is known that Domingo is not a high C tenor. He is a Conductor, sung in many languages, sung Wagner play piano and sing in live performances and have the same vocal and musical delivery like Delmonaco.
@ilbacioditosca Its nice that you appreciate Domingos artistry But to say that he has( the same vocal&musical delivery as MDM)isa bit of a stretch. Del Monacos voice is much freer&larger especially in the passagio&up.MDM phrasing&diction is impeccable, plus his high notes are really phenominal.MDM s delivery is much more constant&clean from bottom to top. Domingo has a nice quality of voice but he had struggled with the more spinto roles his fans always forgave him, Thats a good thing . ENJOY
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Prime Placido was still transposing La Boheme back in 1967. He never had a solid top. As you can see here, he still sounds throaty, hooted, monochromatic and pushed. He never developed a good technique. Here, he is 31 years old and shows all the limitations of his voice and singing, which became worse as he aged and kept singing an overextended repertoire. This type of voice is not compatible with the beautiful Italian repertoire.
You must be deaf or/and full of envy ...normallly original italian singers sound like badly played trumpets. Domingo sounds like a human being singing....and his voice is sheer beauty! If you want to answer...don't do it, I'm not interested in you and your "hatred". Have a nice day!
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Domingo sounds throaty, hooted and at times monochromatic. He lacks what experts call free vocal production. He would have made an excellent Mariachi singer.
I asked you...knowing your hatred against Plácido Domingo...not to answer, but you did....okay. Maybe your ears are formed differently, especially the way you hear singers voices must be a bit deformed poor guy! You're losing a lot of sheer happiness not being able to hear properly. Have a nice day.
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Choose your words properly you idiot. I don't hate him. I have no respect for him as he's been decimating the art of opera little by little over 4 decades now. And if you cannot discern the shortcomings in his singing I'd suggest you get a new set of ears.
Good grief, I never thought I'd say this about Domingo...but he is absolutely amazing in this performance! Singing with the correct technique, open throated, larynx lowered...whatever happened to him? He's wonderful here!
TOO many roles is what happened. boheme, romeo, otello and then a rigoletto in ONE month. balls my friend! singing so many roles in so many fachs eventually lead to his nasally top and upper middle registers and cautious singing throughout the mid to late 80's and 90's. BUT, prime placido is unmatched in voice and interpretations. there is a reason why SO many OLD school tenors tried to sabatoge this voice with cancellations (corelli)! this is PRIME placi! UNMATCHED in beauty and power!
He didn't sing with the correct technique and stay stay in his fach for long... Recordings like this are rare. He shouldn't have changed his technique so dramatically or sang lyrical roles... He lost this glorious sound as early as 1977
I agree that prime Domingo was fantastic, but your comment about Corelli is quite uncalled for...Corelli was notorious for cancellations long before anyone knew the name Placido Domingo...it is simply ludicrous to assume that he cancelled just to ruin Domingo's voice.
i didnt make that up. domingo personally knows this as does EVERYONE in the business at that time. corelli didnt like placido and vice versa. corelli is the king of high C's!! C=cancellations!! but, corelli is ONE of the finest tenors ever. period.
Corelli was indeed the king of cancellations, but not because he wanted to destroy Placido's voice...my grandparents knew him a little and talked with him once or twice; he canceled because he was overly paranoid about the condition of his voice (i.e. 'my throat is a little sore, get someone else to sing for me tonight, etc.'). This is why one had a very good chance of getting a high calibre performance whenever Franco DID decide to sing.
@operabitch77 One saturdayafternoon in the mid1960s there wasA Met production of DonCarlo& the announcer had said that Mr.Corelli isindisposed but he will attempt to proceed irregardless, to please forgive him if he is not at his best.He did sing & was absolutely phenominal.I also think that there was a mystiche surrounding himbecause of the cancellations.Will he appear orwont he? will he sound good or wont he?I always thought he sounded fantasticBut i think his vocal decline started around1970
I think your estimation about why did he choose nasality has to be correct. Someone said to him: you must not sing so open, so he focused it more wchich lead nasality and problem in hights. afterthat his best tone was gone, forever...
Both Monsterratand Placido are in 1972 at the peak of their art, a lesson of technique, beauty, interpretation and conviction! In a few words back then Perfection was audible.
I am so amazed I cannot believe what I just heard. I love Placido, have always done, but I've never heard anything as amazing as this. I even like Caballé here.
i can't believe the tone and power in domingo's voice. just speculation, but i wonder if he changed his technique as he aged; perhaps because he was starting to sing too big and losing control. or maybe he didn't actually get to that point, but someone warned him about blowing out the pipes. oh well. i can't stop listening to this!!!
domingo would not have blown his voice out. It is actually the opposite. He singing in this video with a much better body connction and open throat which results in a bigger sound. If you watch later videos he is putting more effort into his singing and pushing his voice way more but getting much less sound!
Those flats are fron Chagall's set for DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE. This is a rare clip-- many thanks. Supposedly the Japanese telecast from which this comes is the only extant copy of the Bing Gala on video.
Mr. Domingo sings with exuberance and slightly untidy phrasing. I have never seen Ms. Caballé look so relaxed or appear to be having such fun. Both artists are in their salad days, comfortable with the work and with each other. What great, great sound they produce!
The charming announcer (who is she?) credits Francesco Molinari-Pradelli as the conductor, not Mr. Levine. (He is credited by DG.) The event seems to be the 1972 Bing farewell gala, and both men worked that evening, apparently. Ms. Caballé starts singing at "È fascino d'amore; cedi, son tua!" This is quite a bit after "Tu, tu, amore! Tu?" but that's the way the duet is listed on-screen in Japanese and by DG on its soundtrack CD website.
I reember after seeing this buying the new recording of Manon Lesaut. I was very dissappointed in that, I believe, Bartoletti was the conductor and it just didn't have the same pasion.
Domingo at this moment, had a conbination of voice color, pathos, high musicality that none other tenor in the history had.This is the ideal Puccini sound and line, plus the genius of Caballe is the highest level possible.
It's funny, HE looks a little chunky and SHE looks quite svelte. I agree with aspsingr, his sound is darker and easier. I always thought he became so nasal in the 80s.
Still, he's one of the great ones. Caballe is in her prime here. Her technique is flawless.
domingo's voice sounds much more open, dark, and secure at the top then i've ever heard him before. sounds like he used a different ( and better) technique in his early years even though he was always great.
How terrific! (He's actually a little too loud for her in places, which I find hard to believe.) She is my favorite modern soprano. Thank you for posting this video.
There is a very nice picture of Sra. Caballe in the Metropolitan Opera Cookbook. Guess who wrote the foreword and included his recipe for zarzuela de mariscos, as if you needed to ask. (I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. Hint: HE wrote the foreword about ten years later.)
I couldn´t disagree more with you in here. Both great in their instrument, their best years, full color and energie. But, that´s the beauty of it, different opinions and taste. Other wise, how boring this world could be.
M.Caballe is my favourite, and of coarse P.Domingo is great, and I didn't mean to criticize, I rather meant that their voices don't sound as spectacular together for me as they do when M.Caballe sings with Jose Carreras.I only judge by the way I hear music.Apart from that I enjoy this...
@bodiloto, yo puedo admirar igual que a Domingo a otros tenores: Caruso, Gigli, Schipa, MDM, Corelli, Volpi, Pavarotti, etc. NO SOY FANATICO, TU SI LO ERES. A ti no te gusta PD por fanatismo, un poco de 'chauvinismo' lirico, y le faltas el respeto casi siempre, como un vulgar tifosi de teatro proviciano. La diferencia entre tu y yo es que, yo soy incapaz de faltar el respeto a otras grandes figuras de la opera....Saludos!
millonety123 4 hours ago
@bodiloto, Domingo es un magnifico cantante ( baritono-tenor), super flexible, capaz de ganar Grammy por Tristan o Traviata, una hora nada mas y nada menos de aplausos en Viena por La Boheme, cantar muy bien Mefistofeles, Carmen, Tosca, Aida y un larguisimo etc....una carrera incomparable! Cualquier experto ten opera te dira lo mimo que yo.
millonety123 4 hours ago
@bodiloto, Tu adoras la inmovilidad perpetua en la opera... Domingo es un estupendo Des Grieux con Caballé, Scotto o Freni como Manon. Sus interpretaciones en el Met son un magnifico espectaculo. MDM es uno de mis tenores favoritos de siempre. Fleta tuvo muy buenos agudos y pianissimi, y MDM es un portento vocal en la historia, sin duda. Pero Domingo tambien tiene sus meritos.....
millonety123 5 hours ago
@bodiloto, Cuantos tenores mejores que Fleta, caro, 30,40, segun tu?. y mejores que MDM? En que puesto pones a Fleta y MDM en una lista tuya?.......
millonety123 1 month ago
bodiloto 5 hours ago
@FranciscoArvizuH , Pero asi es la vida! A Domingo no lo valoran asi lo haga de bien. Si los agudos estan superior, dicen que los trucados en estudio....Claro, que cuando hay una mala actuacion, por que no utilizó la 'varita mágica' del estudio?, pregunto. Ayer fue su 71 cumpleaños, le deseo lo mejor! Bravo maestro!:....y a bodiloto, que todavia estoy espetando la gravacion de la Turandot de Fleta, ahahaha!
millonety123 1 month ago
@bodiloto, ademas, vecchio bugiardo, (estoy esperando informacion sobre la 'fantastica' Turandot de Fleta) @GermanOperaSinger es otro antiespañol como tu. En su maravillosa lista de 20 mejores tenores, no incluye a tu 'adorado' Fleta, ni a otras 'vacas sagradas' del bel canto como Kraus...y por supuesto, Domingo ni por asomo¡...No se que es mas estupido las listas o quien las hace. Pienso que las dos cosas. Ciao caro bugiardo¡
millonety123 3 months ago
@bodiloto, cual es ahora el problema?. Yo no puedo opinar. Tu si puedes? Que pasa? Tu eres el abogado de pobres? Mira, si no te gusta mi opinion es tu problema, no mio. YT es libre y tu te crees el Sheriff de la lirica, hay diferentes maneras de ver y criticar en opera tu eres un nostalgico y dices mas insultos por comentario que nadie, es que no te das cuenta que eres el campeon del insulto? Estas ciego o que? Tu haces lo blanco negro. Eres falso, mentiroso, malintencionado y ...violento.
millonety123 3 months ago
Fabulous performance of this truly wonderful duet!!!!
robertwbecker 4 months ago
he escuchado la version de MDM con Tebaldi de Decca 1960, y comparada con esta, me gusta bastante mas PD&MC que MDM&RT, curiosamente aqui Domingo canta con mas fuerza y mejores agudos que Mario y la Caballe supera a Tebaldi en delicadeza y finura excepcional. Comparen las dos y veran¡¡
millonety123 5 months ago
@millonety123 En efecto, eso es mejor a la famosa grabación de DECCA de Del Monaco y una Tebaldi ya entrada en cansancio vocal. MDM todo grito, acá Plácido está en la efusión de su juventud. El registro EMI, con Bruno Bartoletti en la batuta, es el más completo en discos.
FranciscoArvizuH 1 month ago
@GermanOperaSinger, you are a pure contradition made of your hate to Domingo and another spanish singer. If prime Domingo was fantastic, why he isnt (or another spanish singer) in your "famous" list of better tenors? No between 20 better? I think is something personal with Domingo, Mr. Contradition. Its my opinion¡
millonety123 5 months ago
@millonety123 caro amico maleducato,LASCIA GLI YOUTUBERS A PACE !
Adesso tu stai attaccando e insultando ingiustamente @GermanOperaSinger !
MA LASCIA LA GENTE A PACE !
TI AVEVO DETTO CHE SEI FANATICO ?!?!?
MA FERMA TI !
A che serve il tuo FANATISMO?!?!?
Ragazzo svegli TI !
bodiloto 3 months ago
@Sgarbist, que mal te enrollas, tio¡ Para una vez que lo hace bien...pero ni por esas¡@pieritlyon, y tu? Porque no le envias tu comentario sobre Domingo a la Caballe, a ver que te contesta, listillo¡ Los he visto sinverguenzas, pero lo vuestro es de juzgado de guardia. Os he puesto (junto a bodiloto & Co) el glorioso nombre del "clan del alcanfor". Adivinais por que?
millonety123 5 months ago
Terrific! Glorious singing!
Fegen 5 months ago
Somebody tie me up and dip me in chocolate!!! This is so good you could wax my legs and I wouldn't complain!
godivapaw 8 months ago
LA GRAN MONSERRAT CABALLE; AÚN LO ES. Domingo mediocre al lado de ella y fea estampa.
pieritlyon 1 year ago
Can someone tell me between Caballe in this and Te Kanawa in another clip of the same duet why it is that Kiri gets panned but I hear that both versions are equally good and if not Te Kanawa had the sweeter voice. IMHO both divas had great techniques. I guess it boils down to personal preference most of the time!
domi2020 1 year ago
@domi2020 The problem is not the duet per se. The problem is Puccini expected much from this young character vocally and often times you get someone who looks good on stage, or sounds sweet, when most of the singers most appropriate for the role as a whole aren't the best looking or don't have the sweetest sounds. Te Kanawa is perfectly lovely in this duet. It's the latter half of the opera where she gets into trouble because of the lack of weight in her voice.
Dymension 1 year ago
opera at it's very best! the chemistry between Caballe and Domingo never fails to thrill. this is so beautiful and truly demonstrates why Caballe was indeed one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. the voice is secure and powerful, amazing when she had not long before had a caesarian to safely deliver her daughter. she declined to have a solo spot instead choosing to sing this with domingo. Caballe is undoubtedly a legend and this shows why!
emf1918 1 year ago
Che voce aveva qui placido! Bravissimi.
armonopera 1 year ago
@armonopera
Veramente!
A dir poco meravigliosi...
CateSoprano 1 year ago
jooder que pasada
jessrs16 2 years ago
Back in the 1970s, I had an LP of Caballe and Domingo in duets from various operas. I played it ragged. It is not available on CD. What a pity! They were wonderful together. And, yes, she is a goddess. The most beautiful voice of the 20th century. No successors in my opinion.
dsenRuskin 2 years ago 4
What happened to Domingo ? I wish he would have sang like this for 10 or 15 years and made some unsurpassed roled. Instead, he sang for 40 years and, in my humble opinion, comes in the best scenario always as second choice. I know he had Pavarotti to compete with but he should have put quality and not quantity in front.
castorp278 2 years ago
I think Domingo was already at 31 the best tenor of the world. No other tenor could ever sing lyric, spinto and dramatic roles with lyric, spinto and dramatic color and timbre during the same period of time. Domingo did it during the 70s and part of the 80s until he lost a part of the lyric quality.
greattenors 2 years ago 3
I don't think he was ever the best tenor in the world.
tdeane34 2 years ago
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ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
You are totally right.The man could sing Otello and Radames with a baritonal voice and perform during the same period lyric roles such as Duca and Hoffmann using a light timbre without a trace of baritonality .Actually,around 1980-1983 his voice went brighter more focused in the mask and his high notes had more squillo.After 1985 his voice went dark again but it was not as baritonal and heavy as it used to be in the 70's.
cer1n 2 years ago 2
y al final del dúo con su sonrisa un parecido incredible con su hija Monsita, no olvido sus sonrisas, un gran beso a las dos!!!!
Marinausbcn 3 years ago
Montserrat Caballé esta espectacular, guapisima!!!
Marinausbcn 3 years ago 3
Recordings don't tell everything. Quality, size of voice, character, integrity, movement & the effect on an audience need describing too. Have you heard a great performance by this singer live, without a mic? If so please post an objective description to add the wonderful YouTube archive before the memory is lost for ever.
How I wish I could have been there to hear Farinelli entrance an audience with the power of a single note, but we do at least have Charles Burney's marvellous account.
CharlotteinWeimar 3 years ago
I saw her twice in Tosca and twice as Elisabetta (Don Carlo) at the Met. Not only did her beautiful voice carry through the house with ease, her pianissimi projected equally as well. Every time she sang there was electricity in the air. And, in concert, her terrific personality equalled her singing. She was a Met favorite for twenty years. Just plain wonderful!
patjan92 2 years ago 12
I was there that night working as an usher at the Met. It was the Bing Gala in 1972.
While a bit sharp at times, I think Domingo sings like a God here.
To me, Caballe always sounded better in person than on recording. Her breath controll and high pianissimi are amazing (Listen to "The Masked Ball").
The sound quality of this recording is not the best.
Woof............HT1998
Houndentenor1998 3 years ago 3
This is the really interesting sort of posting I mean. Thank you.
CharlotteinWeimar 3 years ago
the Met should take all these great performances on DVD...they would hit it so well for us the opera lovers....LISTEN MET!!!
conmaleta 3 years ago 2
I never heard Domingo's voice sound so opulent . Maybe there is a correlation between physical weight and vocal weight after all!?! Again when Domingo was heaver in the late 70's the voice was much fuller.
Operafiend22 3 years ago 2
He looks very handsome here as well, doesn't he? And she too was actually rather beautiful, back in the day. A wonderful little performance - and so nice to hear the audience reaction at the end (so many Youtube clips cut off at the last note). Thank you for posting.
rossmcl177 3 years ago 2
esto es único....
Caballé es la mejor soprano que ha habido jamás en el mundo.Sí.Brava,la piú brava....absolutamente algo increíble....
pichuchoni 3 years ago 2
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Matt54e 3 years ago
I do not agree with you.Here Domingo sings more natural way,without focusing the voice too much like he later did,the voice was later much more squeezed and tense.That is the reason he had problem with hights,the voice was too focused from the bottom to the top.Here he sings with whole body,more open,trusting his perfect breathing and support (apoggio.This is the way all old school italian great tenors sing,even today this is the only way to sing italian repertoar.Comments?
1Ooppera 3 years ago
I agree fully with you, he should have carried on this way. Singing as Caruso, Pavarotti, Bjorling and many others did... perhaps he would have been a great singer.
Mooorhe 3 years ago
Yeah, check out operabitch77:s comment, i think her/his estimation is right. Germanoperasinger has good point too. So, almost all of us here agree that Domingo stopped using traditional oldschool italian way of singing after 70s, which caused more tense and less beautiful tone, which he still has here.
1Ooppera 3 years ago
She doesn't sound flat at the top at all.
When she got way past her prime sometimes the high notes would sound screechy bu never flat.
In the 60's and up till the mid 70's Caballe's high notes were absolutely gorgeous.You also have to take into the account some distortion in lower quality recordings.
By the way her high notes here are out of this world.
Caballe is the goddess of opera.
montsyblackmaddona 3 years ago
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Matt54e 3 years ago
She doesn't sound flat on top to me either. She never had intonation problems to my knowledge. I heard her starting in the early 70s. The breath control is amazing. You only have to hear the ending of her in "Don Carlo" to hear what I mean.
To me she has a voice that sounded better in person. Freni was another one.
HT1998
Houndentenor1998 3 years ago
She was incomparable as Elizabetta,I have heard the ending it was otherworldly.
Caballe had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard,and I have heard over 3000 of the top opera voices.
Caballe sang like a goddess,the voice of thhe ages.
I am always happy to meet other people who are touched by her divine voice.
montsyblackmaddona 3 years ago 3
Bei tempi!Duetti ormai non più godibili nei teatri italiani.
tagliasiepi 3 years ago
Two of the greatest recorded voice in humanities histoy. Bravo La Caballe & Domingo sounds most 'dramatic/heroic' tenor i have ever heard. Great post kindest regards
WiseMonki 3 years ago 3
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There was never a voice to begin with. FUCK!
bazzlanD 3 years ago
He's a hell of a lot better than what we have today. Quite frankly, I'd be happy enough to have a singer as good as 70s Domingo today.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago
I'm not convinced there were very many other performances like this... I have a couple of performances performed within a year of this one, the 1972 Turandot is pretty bad and the 1973 Rigoletto is even worse.
I've yet to see another performance where he sounds as breathtaking as this.
Mooorhe 3 years ago
Try this old La Boheme
Placido Domingo in Leoncavallo's La Boheme: Non parlate cosi
bazzlanD 3 years ago
Try this old La Boheme
Placido Domingo in Leoncavallo's La Boheme: Non parlate cosi
bazzlanD 3 years ago
Theinquisitivestupid, shut up your nonsense critic, his voice is amazing and her voice too. He sung high C and C sharp anyway it is known that Domingo is not a high C tenor. He is a Conductor, sung in many languages, sung Wagner play piano and sing in live performances and have the same vocal and musical delivery like Delmonaco.
ilbacioditosca 3 years ago 19
@ilbacioditosca Its nice that you appreciate Domingos artistry But to say that he has( the same vocal&musical delivery as MDM)isa bit of a stretch. Del Monacos voice is much freer&larger especially in the passagio&up.MDM phrasing&diction is impeccable, plus his high notes are really phenominal.MDM s delivery is much more constant&clean from bottom to top. Domingo has a nice quality of voice but he had struggled with the more spinto roles his fans always forgave him, Thats a good thing . ENJOY
sugarbist 1 year ago
Рыдаю, когда слышу... до чего же красиво...
Sodashi81 3 years ago
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Prime Placido was still transposing La Boheme back in 1967. He never had a solid top. As you can see here, he still sounds throaty, hooted, monochromatic and pushed. He never developed a good technique. Here, he is 31 years old and shows all the limitations of his voice and singing, which became worse as he aged and kept singing an overextended repertoire. This type of voice is not compatible with the beautiful Italian repertoire.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
You must be deaf or/and full of envy ...normallly original italian singers sound like badly played trumpets. Domingo sounds like a human being singing....and his voice is sheer beauty! If you want to answer...don't do it, I'm not interested in you and your "hatred". Have a nice day!
Fehlzeiten 3 years ago 3
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Domingo sounds throaty, hooted and at times monochromatic. He lacks what experts call free vocal production. He would have made an excellent Mariachi singer.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
I asked you...knowing your hatred against Plácido Domingo...not to answer, but you did....okay. Maybe your ears are formed differently, especially the way you hear singers voices must be a bit deformed poor guy! You're losing a lot of sheer happiness not being able to hear properly. Have a nice day.
Fehlzeiten 3 years ago 3
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Choose your words properly you idiot. I don't hate him. I have no respect for him as he's been decimating the art of opera little by little over 4 decades now. And if you cannot discern the shortcomings in his singing I'd suggest you get a new set of ears.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
Good grief, I never thought I'd say this about Domingo...but he is absolutely amazing in this performance! Singing with the correct technique, open throated, larynx lowered...whatever happened to him? He's wonderful here!
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago 2
TOO many roles is what happened. boheme, romeo, otello and then a rigoletto in ONE month. balls my friend! singing so many roles in so many fachs eventually lead to his nasally top and upper middle registers and cautious singing throughout the mid to late 80's and 90's. BUT, prime placido is unmatched in voice and interpretations. there is a reason why SO many OLD school tenors tried to sabatoge this voice with cancellations (corelli)! this is PRIME placi! UNMATCHED in beauty and power!
operabitch77 3 years ago 3
He didn't sing with the correct technique and stay stay in his fach for long... Recordings like this are rare. He shouldn't have changed his technique so dramatically or sang lyrical roles... He lost this glorious sound as early as 1977
Mooorhe 3 years ago
I agree that prime Domingo was fantastic, but your comment about Corelli is quite uncalled for...Corelli was notorious for cancellations long before anyone knew the name Placido Domingo...it is simply ludicrous to assume that he cancelled just to ruin Domingo's voice.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago
i didnt make that up. domingo personally knows this as does EVERYONE in the business at that time. corelli didnt like placido and vice versa. corelli is the king of high C's!! C=cancellations!! but, corelli is ONE of the finest tenors ever. period.
operabitch77 3 years ago
Corelli was indeed the king of cancellations, but not because he wanted to destroy Placido's voice...my grandparents knew him a little and talked with him once or twice; he canceled because he was overly paranoid about the condition of his voice (i.e. 'my throat is a little sore, get someone else to sing for me tonight, etc.'). This is why one had a very good chance of getting a high calibre performance whenever Franco DID decide to sing.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago
@operabitch77 One saturdayafternoon in the mid1960s there wasA Met production of DonCarlo& the announcer had said that Mr.Corelli isindisposed but he will attempt to proceed irregardless, to please forgive him if he is not at his best.He did sing & was absolutely phenominal.I also think that there was a mystiche surrounding himbecause of the cancellations.Will he appear orwont he? will he sound good or wont he?I always thought he sounded fantasticBut i think his vocal decline started around1970
sugarbist 1 year ago
I think your estimation about why did he choose nasality has to be correct. Someone said to him: you must not sing so open, so he focused it more wchich lead nasality and problem in hights. afterthat his best tone was gone, forever...
1Ooppera 3 years ago
Such a shame he stopped singing like this so early on. Bravo
Mooorhe 3 years ago
Both Monsterratand Placido are in 1972 at the peak of their art, a lesson of technique, beauty, interpretation and conviction! In a few words back then Perfection was audible.
Thank you for such a talent.
gillesnyc 4 years ago
I was there in '72, and of all the great preformances, this was the highlight for me. I still get gooseflesh. Both of them are sublime.
cpanati 4 years ago
I am so amazed I cannot believe what I just heard. I love Placido, have always done, but I've never heard anything as amazing as this. I even like Caballé here.
Turand0t 4 years ago 2
i can't believe the tone and power in domingo's voice. just speculation, but i wonder if he changed his technique as he aged; perhaps because he was starting to sing too big and losing control. or maybe he didn't actually get to that point, but someone warned him about blowing out the pipes. oh well. i can't stop listening to this!!!
phillytenor1 4 years ago
domingo would not have blown his voice out. It is actually the opposite. He singing in this video with a much better body connction and open throat which results in a bigger sound. If you watch later videos he is putting more effort into his singing and pushing his voice way more but getting much less sound!
aspsingr 4 years ago
Why did Domingo stop singing like this. That's the most beautiful dramatic tenor sound i've ever heard.
powerinpraise2000 4 years ago 3
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I prefer Jose Carreras with her...
gheeah 4 years ago
What in the world happened to Domingo? HE IS A GREAT SINGER HERE! Did some awful voice teacher tell him to put his sound in his nose?
billyguns2 4 years ago
oh my! beautiful! Im all hot and bothered! What a fantastic pairing! Domingo is fantastic! Caballe, well need i say anything? SUBLIME
kamikazekate 4 years ago 3
WOW.
GREAT VIDEO! EXCELLENT SINGING!
singinginachurch 4 years ago 2
This is like eating good Swiss dark chocolate!!!!
godivapaw 4 years ago 2
Those flats are fron Chagall's set for DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE. This is a rare clip-- many thanks. Supposedly the Japanese telecast from which this comes is the only extant copy of the Bing Gala on video.
Pastroni 4 years ago
Thank you Vilaph, I think this is the oldest video about Domingo in youtube.
usun83 4 years ago
Oh boy! Singing like this gets me all hot and bothered!
godivapaw 4 years ago
I wonder if those are Chagall flies. It would be good to see them more often.
uTubeVwr 4 years ago
Mr. Domingo sings with exuberance and slightly untidy phrasing. I have never seen Ms. Caballé look so relaxed or appear to be having such fun. Both artists are in their salad days, comfortable with the work and with each other. What great, great sound they produce!
uTubeVwr 4 years ago 2
The charming announcer (who is she?) credits Francesco Molinari-Pradelli as the conductor, not Mr. Levine. (He is credited by DG.) The event seems to be the 1972 Bing farewell gala, and both men worked that evening, apparently. Ms. Caballé starts singing at "È fascino d'amore; cedi, son tua!" This is quite a bit after "Tu, tu, amore! Tu?" but that's the way the duet is listed on-screen in Japanese and by DG on its soundtrack CD website.
uTubeVwr 4 years ago
The announcer is Rise Stevens.
patjan92 4 years ago
the young domingo was so amazing!! i have never heard him so good.
BristerHay 4 years ago
The conductor was James Levine in his 2nd or 3rd season at the Met!!
miding 4 years ago
Anyone know who's conducting?
majorcana 4 years ago
I reember after seeing this buying the new recording of Manon Lesaut. I was very dissappointed in that, I believe, Bartoletti was the conductor and it just didn't have the same pasion.
miding 4 years ago
Domingo at this moment, had a conbination of voice color, pathos, high musicality that none other tenor in the history had.This is the ideal Puccini sound and line, plus the genius of Caballe is the highest level possible.
ilbacioditosca 4 years ago
Caballe is so pretty and thin!
Kendrick2021 4 years ago
It's funny, HE looks a little chunky and SHE looks quite svelte. I agree with aspsingr, his sound is darker and easier. I always thought he became so nasal in the 80s.
Still, he's one of the great ones. Caballe is in her prime here. Her technique is flawless.
daddy2foots 4 years ago
Beautiful. The sound's a little wacked out on this clip, but wow how great they were. Great Puccini singing.
drdre333 4 years ago
On the Afternoon of this gala MMe caballe sang an entire matinee of doncarlo!
pfeliks 4 years ago
Very beautiful!
patjan1992 4 years ago
domingo's voice sounds much more open, dark, and secure at the top then i've ever heard him before. sounds like he used a different ( and better) technique in his early years even though he was always great.
aspsingr 4 years ago
Amazing Placido! A dreamed tenor. More piano in the end would be better.
nlupos 5 years ago
How terrific! (He's actually a little too loud for her in places, which I find hard to believe.) She is my favorite modern soprano. Thank you for posting this video.
Ruffiello 5 years ago
There is a very nice picture of Sra. Caballe in the Metropolitan Opera Cookbook. Guess who wrote the foreword and included his recipe for zarzuela de mariscos, as if you needed to ask. (I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. Hint: HE wrote the foreword about ten years later.)
tahirih163 5 years ago
bellisima la voz de Placido enesa epoca
mas oscura, mas cuperta q en años posteriores
Lescautttt 5 years ago
Placido is only 31 years here! Only 4 years after his spectacular debut at the Met! And he is invited to sing with the greatest stars of that time.
Wonderful duet.
julia59 5 years ago
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Domingo is as always splendid and Caballe is so young here... Wonderful!
By the way, for the first time I can see this clip in colour. Thank you very much for sharing!
Jolantabuk 5 years ago
for my taste not enough contrast between these two voices, not enough individual appearance..
gheeah 5 years ago
I couldn´t disagree more with you in here. Both great in their instrument, their best years, full color and energie. But, that´s the beauty of it, different opinions and taste. Other wise, how boring this world could be.
ezayitas 5 years ago
M.Caballe is my favourite, and of coarse P.Domingo is great, and I didn't mean to criticize, I rather meant that their voices don't sound as spectacular together for me as they do when M.Caballe sings with Jose Carreras.I only judge by the way I hear music.Apart from that I enjoy this...
gheeah 5 years ago