molto bene, uno de los grandes cantantes liricos mas conocido en sus tiempos como el sucesor de caruso y una voz envidiable, muy buena interpretacion y pareciera q esta ensayando
Great rendition. Great aria. But IMO it sounds best of all in countertenors renditions. The most beautiful version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's
ACTUALLY i HAVE THE RECORDING AND MINE SOUNDS A LITTLE BETTER. THIS IS GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY DISTORTED SOUND . HIS VOICE COULD BE VERY SWEET AS A LYRIC BUT HE ALSO SANG CHENIER AND AIDA WITH SUCCESS, SPINTO ROLES IN BIG HOUSES GAVE HIM NO TROUBLE AT ALL!
@maxpertile IN fact on his biography he said that he never encouraged to students to sing in the way he sung not covered notes (for me different from opened notes) because he thought must need a very good air control to do that because , if not, you can damaged the voice. That´why he was GIGLI!!!!
@aguacun . I know. It's dangerous to open the notes but it is more dangerous to cover it. It is a fine balance. My teacher in 1990 was 80 years hold and had a very beautiful voice and a perfect way to sing. He sad to me I don't need to be afraid. I have only to follow my nature. I opened my sounds and all the peopel said you will ruin your voice. My voice becames indeed everyday better and now I'm 37 and I'm yet in top form :)
@maxpertile as Gigli said... you must to know how to do it well or you will damage your voice. Glad you had a good techer and that you are able to sing opened notes. :)
i don't like how he opens the vowel at 1:13 "di vege-TA-a-bile"... would prefer it much more closed and less "aperto". But still... what a singer. Amazing.
Well Heartlessiceboy if you knew anything about the time when this video was recorded this was the style that all operatic and art songs were sung.
Almost every singer around this time was taught to sing in a heavy dramatic tone because it was popular sound. So really it's not "OUT OF STYLE!".
Besides Gigli has such a gorgeous tone, and was a very versatile singer who could sing dramatically or lyrically. His artistry was top notch (Probably the reason Nessun Dorma was written for his voice)
Well, I should rephrase that: Nessun Dorma was written in honor of Caruso, because Puccini believed his voice to be the greatest medium of verismo music.
I've never read anything written about this (i.e. Nessun Dorma was written in honor of Caruso). We have to know that the operatic world is full of gossip and urban myth. However, we have lots of written accounts about how popular Gigli was in the late 20s (some belive that his voice had its prime when Gigli was in his late 30s). Therefore, it is more reasonable to say that when Puccini wrote this aria, he might expect certain voice, like Gigli's, to perform it.
Man, you purists are so annoying! I like it for what it is: a breath of fresh air and a new take, (love the pipe organ.) I so dislike people who go, "If it isn't done like, (fill in the blank,) then it is wrong...I CONDEMN THEE TO HELL!" Get over yourself. As Virgil Fox once said, "Purists are the people who talk about it and can't do it!"
I'm actually a countertenor I believe i know one or two things about baroque cause is my repertoire and I'm actually performed the alto part in Handel's Messiah 2 months ago and basically Handel is my whole repertoire...In opera the purist is the one who is capable to do things in a correct way.
singing is a very demanding career where you need to do researching all the time not just grab some sheet music and sing it anyway you want it.that would ignorant and disrespectful to Handel
Okay, so it's your repitoire. However, you should read some of the things Virgil Fox has to say about that, because Bach and Handel were also HIS repitoire. He took flak for the way he presented it, and he just laughed at those critics. So did Pablo Casals, and even Motzart faced that. Music is relative my friend, and it is left WIDE OPEN to interpretation, (e.g. listening to a rock band do an instrumental of Bach's Fugue in G minor the little: old style, new neat sound.) It's not disrespect
Im sorry but i really don't care to waste my time aswering to someone who is doesn't know anything about music.Gigli was an amazing Tenor very good for singing Leoncavallo,Verdi and other Verismo mater pieces,but this is not verismo is baroque and is not the way baroque should be performed so is OUT OF STYLE,oh and basically there is nothing you can do or say to change that.
One, I have been singing since I have been ten years old. Two, I know music better than you think. Three, I don't care what some stuffy professor says, music is relative, and can be played anyway you want. Four, Real musicians don't care about your nitpicking: all they care about is, did they like it? I interpret music in the same way the finest pianist interprets Chopin. Your nose is so high in the air you can't smell the very thing of which life is made.
You may be a great technical singer, maybe even better than me. However, it would seem to me that Gigli has more passion to sing this in his pinky than you have in your entire arrogant, stuck up body. I know for a FACT that Placido Domingo would laugh at you! "How many tenors does it take to change a lightbulb? One: he just holds it, and the world revolves around him!" Get passion for what you do, and you won't think this way, for with that, technique takes care of itself!
A total joy to see this on Youtube, thank you so much! One of my favourite all time singers. No one had passion in the voice, the sob, like Gigli! Amazing sends shivers down the spine every time I listen to anything he sings!
Wonderful sound, but i believe he's capable of much more resonance...and much better vowel pronunciation. This is probably my favorite song to sing, and this is definitely the best version of this song on youtube
...so many sang this.....and more delicate renditions...but the power of Gigli, the solidity of Gibraltar and sustaining line is unequalled to me...he gave over 1,000 concerts to benefit charity..
Sorry, I don't get your point, I'm comparing him to modern interpretations I've heard, not his contemporaries. You referring to types like Tauber etc?
nothing wrong with looking at it as a love song directed at a tree and singing it as such. It's hard to get "heroic" out of the words and setting. But whatever floats ones boat is the way to do it.
Sung with balls. Like I said, whatever interpretation gets you randy is good enough, but I just find a lot of irony and humor in your statement about balls, considering the class of vocalists that sung this back in the day.
Au dela de toute considération de style cet homme réussit toujours à faire naitre l'émotion, n'èst-ce pas le propre du grand artiste ? Mais allez écouter Wunderlich...
Incredible. How could anyone not give this 5 stars? I know some may not prefer his less than Baroque style, but his voice and technique were simply remarkable. The string of perfect high G's he pours out on the final "di vegetabile" and the "piu" are impossible for a lyric tenor to sing better!
ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS. Since first I discovered it I haven't stopped listening to it.I've listened to all the other "ombras" on utube but this is the only one I constantly repeat.
Oh, thank you so much for this reference. I just went to Caruso's Ombra and nearly fainted! So many Ombra voices to choose from--what's a girl to do? Really, though, very kind and helpful of you to direct us all to Caruso's robust version.
King of high Cs needs to learn his grammar and spelling, just like Corelli needs better subtlety and diction. I do agree that Caruso's is the greatest version.
excuse me... do you say Gigli needs to learn grammar and spelling and Corelli needs better subtlety and diction?????.... even if you are Muti, Abbado o Levine I couldn't take you seriously.
Read it a little more closely next time. King of the high Cs is the person who wrote that Corelli sings this better than Gigli, which is absurd to say the least. He needs the grammar lesson not Gigli. Corelli was a fabulous tenor, but he was notoriously not known for good diction, and did tend to oversing some phrases. With regards to the diction, my brother is a professor of Italian (at the Universtiy level), and can vouch for this. He also teaches opera diction to aspiring local singers.
I'd also like to know the date of this. I was lucky enough to see three Gigli recitals in the 1950s - and the voice was ravishingly beautiful still. Also caught an unforgettable Verdi Requiem in 1954 at the Albert Hall. I can still hear his opening 'Kyrie Eleison' as it grew to fill the huge hall - and I doubt if I have ever heard the 'Ingemisco' sung more movingly by any other tenor.
Just want to add that there's a splendid recording from the 1930s of the Verdi Requiem conducted by Serafin with Gigli and Siepi among the soloists. Well worth tracking down.
Holy Cow! Imagine being present at that performance and hearing Gigli in person singing that exquisite melody! My heart melts at the thought. Thanks for sharing!
Cool Vid!, check out the link in my profile. I have my WEB CAM live running most of the time on that site, so if you want we can chat, I love chatting and being naughty.
Gigli would sing an entire opera AND 20 ARIAS after that. That was Rosati's technique. The singers today have no concept of Chiaroscuro singing. As a student of Gigli's accompanist, who also studied with Rosati, it afforded the same ability to sing on the 'interest,' which again, is a lost art.
..despite all the sobs..criticism from elite quarters.....from a penniless background....like Caruso....Rosati said... at last, I have found THE TENOR.....Gigli was a King.
check out robertino Loretti..old singer now.. but young then ..just a boy , but what a voice..got a feeling he lost it when he got to a teenager his singing gets to you ..he's in my favourites *enjoy*
Of course, a person would miss the point. My comment (clearly)was not to compare Fritz and Gigli. I compared history with the current lack of great, outstanding singers.
You are indeed fortunate! A shame that good recording quality was not available in his prime. It was the style of the time, but I don't care for the 'sob' in the singing.
of course this is grotesque from a stylistic point of you, not to speak of the fat and neckless gay singing without ever moving or changing the volume. but what a lush, beautiful and dark tenor voice!!
There shouldn't be one criticism of this performance. This man was a phenom. Try to imagine anyone in modern times to approach that quality. Caruso's is the only version I've heard greater than this.
somewhat unvarying dynamically, and it feels like he's thinking mostly about the notes, not the meaning of the text. but I'll say he had a great voice.
His Master's Voice Recording studio in Queens Hall, London 1933, in the audience some famous listeners, veteran recording ingeneer Fred Gaisber, and first DJ Chris. Stone who was also editer with Compton Mac Kenzie of the famous "the Gramophone" (still exists)
my friend a famous pianist said the short reel is not rightly pitched, exist on dvd with many other celebrated singers of the sound aera (1927-1950)
He's singing to a plant in bel canto and how wonderfully. Oh how lovely you are, you vegetable.
missgreeneyes56 4 weeks ago
This is Bliss!
voynaimir3 5 months ago
Es una verdadera lástima que no sea el aria completa. de todas maneras...
aSebastiangonzalez 5 months ago
Di più non si può.
sidelis 5 months ago
no puedo creer que alguien votara que no le gusto , como se ve su falta de conocimiento musical
avatar7881 6 months ago
molto bene, uno de los grandes cantantes liricos mas conocido en sus tiempos como el sucesor de caruso y una voz envidiable, muy buena interpretacion y pareciera q esta ensayando
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MrJOLERIUS 6 months ago
La più esplicita, meravigliosa lezione di canto.
sidelis 8 months ago
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6 people would rather hear this sung by an anemic English tenor who might as well have been castrated.
VinylToVideo 9 months ago
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VinylToVideo 9 months ago
Mai nessuno ha cantato con l' anima come lui: Beniamino Gigli.
Scorreggiaatomica 11 months ago
Totally relaxed body. Born to sing.
ForAll23 1 year ago
Handel's largo is one of the all time definitive pieces of music !!
pgzzz 1 year ago 3
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Great rendition. Great aria. But IMO it sounds best of all in countertenors renditions. The most beautiful version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's
tamerlano236 1 year ago
Why I am just now hearing this brilliant singer singing this beautiful music? What else am I missing?
muatlas 1 year ago
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どこがいいかは、皆さんが考えてください。
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"Ombra mai fu di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave piu' " - The dear and lovely shade of vegetation has never been sweeter.
apro1 1 year ago
"Ombra mai fu di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave piu' " - The dear and lovely shade of vegetation has never been sweeter.
apro1 1 year ago
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apro1 1 year ago
The Sound is not good. I have the same movie with much better sound.
vladi565 1 year ago
Gigli sings excellent ombra mai fu's
throughout his Illustrious life.
SO SORRY. This is not one of them.
garawall 1 year ago
Superb / Enough Said.
mhmhugtr 2 years ago
ACTUALLY i HAVE THE RECORDING AND MINE SOUNDS A LITTLE BETTER. THIS IS GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY DISTORTED SOUND . HIS VOICE COULD BE VERY SWEET AS A LYRIC BUT HE ALSO SANG CHENIER AND AIDA WITH SUCCESS, SPINTO ROLES IN BIG HOUSES GAVE HIM NO TROUBLE AT ALL!
halavey 2 years ago
To hear Beniamino Gigli is already an enjoyment, but to see him is moving.
This Largo, such as he sings it, is a marvel.
This classic does not have to die.
Patpoussin 2 years ago 2
he opens so because in that is the secret his singingin tecnik. i'm italian and I studied so. it's an old way to singing but it's the right one ;)
maxpertile 2 years ago 14
Chiaroscuro. ;)
amadeus1791 2 years ago
Entièrement d'accord avec vous!!
tidaliumpelo 1 year ago
@maxpertile IN fact on his biography he said that he never encouraged to students to sing in the way he sung not covered notes (for me different from opened notes) because he thought must need a very good air control to do that because , if not, you can damaged the voice. That´why he was GIGLI!!!!
aguacun 1 year ago
@aguacun . I know. It's dangerous to open the notes but it is more dangerous to cover it. It is a fine balance. My teacher in 1990 was 80 years hold and had a very beautiful voice and a perfect way to sing. He sad to me I don't need to be afraid. I have only to follow my nature. I opened my sounds and all the peopel said you will ruin your voice. My voice becames indeed everyday better and now I'm 37 and I'm yet in top form :)
maxpertile 1 year ago
@maxpertile as Gigli said... you must to know how to do it well or you will damage your voice. Glad you had a good techer and that you are able to sing opened notes. :)
aguacun 1 year ago
@maxpertile the male voice is in it's prime in the 40's and 50's of his life.
seektheforce 1 year ago
@maxpertile Agreed. Most singers today use a technique which tries to preserve something they never had to begin with.
VinylToVideo 9 months ago
i don't like how he opens the vowel at 1:13 "di vege-TA-a-bile"... would prefer it much more closed and less "aperto". But still... what a singer. Amazing.
LETTIS79 2 years ago
perhaps he is veget ta rian
ramron333 1 year ago
How amazing!
Manxypop 2 years ago 7
Excellent. A classic
amongequals1 2 years ago 3
Thanks for sharing this great voice!!!!!
Watch Lamara Chkonia videos and coment.......I have discovered her recently .......another GREAT SINGER!!!!
MissAlwaysMusic 2 years ago 3
sorry, should read....thanks for posting...
colfer222 2 years ago
beautiful,just beautiful.....thank or posting
colfer222 2 years ago 3
Belíssima versão com acompanhamento de Órgão!!
gutoruiz 2 years ago
Best version of Ombra Mai Fu on youtube, bery good high on 1:27-1:28
danilamikhaylov 2 years ago
For me on record too
aguacun 2 years ago
Well Heartlessiceboy if you knew anything about the time when this video was recorded this was the style that all operatic and art songs were sung.
Almost every singer around this time was taught to sing in a heavy dramatic tone because it was popular sound. So really it's not "OUT OF STYLE!".
Besides Gigli has such a gorgeous tone, and was a very versatile singer who could sing dramatically or lyrically. His artistry was top notch (Probably the reason Nessun Dorma was written for his voice)
elsian220 2 years ago
Nessun Dorma was written for the voice of Caruso.
phantom4087 2 years ago
Hardly, since Caruso had been dead 5 years before the aria was composed.
hiyadroogs 2 years ago 2
Well, I should rephrase that: Nessun Dorma was written in honor of Caruso, because Puccini believed his voice to be the greatest medium of verismo music.
phantom4087 2 years ago
That's much more believable.
hiyadroogs 2 years ago
I've never read anything written about this (i.e. Nessun Dorma was written in honor of Caruso). We have to know that the operatic world is full of gossip and urban myth. However, we have lots of written accounts about how popular Gigli was in the late 20s (some belive that his voice had its prime when Gigli was in his late 30s). Therefore, it is more reasonable to say that when Puccini wrote this aria, he might expect certain voice, like Gigli's, to perform it.
cyeh2 2 years ago 2
OUT OF STYLE!
good way to destroy baroque music
This is baroque is Handel
is not Puccini or Verdi.
When you sing something study first the style of the time period.
is like singing like la Traviata like if you were singing Purcell
OUT OF STYLE
Heartlessiceboy 2 years ago
Man, you purists are so annoying! I like it for what it is: a breath of fresh air and a new take, (love the pipe organ.) I so dislike people who go, "If it isn't done like, (fill in the blank,) then it is wrong...I CONDEMN THEE TO HELL!" Get over yourself. As Virgil Fox once said, "Purists are the people who talk about it and can't do it!"
paladin313 2 years ago
I'm actually a countertenor I believe i know one or two things about baroque cause is my repertoire and I'm actually performed the alto part in Handel's Messiah 2 months ago and basically Handel is my whole repertoire...In opera the purist is the one who is capable to do things in a correct way.
singing is a very demanding career where you need to do researching all the time not just grab some sheet music and sing it anyway you want it.that would ignorant and disrespectful to Handel
Heartlessiceboy 2 years ago
Okay, so it's your repitoire. However, you should read some of the things Virgil Fox has to say about that, because Bach and Handel were also HIS repitoire. He took flak for the way he presented it, and he just laughed at those critics. So did Pablo Casals, and even Motzart faced that. Music is relative my friend, and it is left WIDE OPEN to interpretation, (e.g. listening to a rock band do an instrumental of Bach's Fugue in G minor the little: old style, new neat sound.) It's not disrespect
paladin313 2 years ago
Im sorry but i really don't care to waste my time aswering to someone who is doesn't know anything about music.Gigli was an amazing Tenor very good for singing Leoncavallo,Verdi and other Verismo mater pieces,but this is not verismo is baroque and is not the way baroque should be performed so is OUT OF STYLE,oh and basically there is nothing you can do or say to change that.
Heartlessiceboy 2 years ago
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paladin313 2 years ago
One, I have been singing since I have been ten years old. Two, I know music better than you think. Three, I don't care what some stuffy professor says, music is relative, and can be played anyway you want. Four, Real musicians don't care about your nitpicking: all they care about is, did they like it? I interpret music in the same way the finest pianist interprets Chopin. Your nose is so high in the air you can't smell the very thing of which life is made.
paladin313 2 years ago
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paladin313 2 years ago
You may be a great technical singer, maybe even better than me. However, it would seem to me that Gigli has more passion to sing this in his pinky than you have in your entire arrogant, stuck up body. I know for a FACT that Placido Domingo would laugh at you! "How many tenors does it take to change a lightbulb? One: he just holds it, and the world revolves around him!" Get passion for what you do, and you won't think this way, for with that, technique takes care of itself!
paladin313 2 years ago
you should jus kill urself for being a countertenor in general
viv4life9 2 years ago
A total joy to see this on Youtube, thank you so much! One of my favourite all time singers. No one had passion in the voice, the sob, like Gigli! Amazing sends shivers down the spine every time I listen to anything he sings!
realitytunnel 2 years ago
How Exciting!
halpa8 2 years ago 3
wow...absolutely chilling/thrilling performance...
dorisboy52 2 years ago 2
God is one, Gigli is one!!!!!
Gdarte 2 years ago 3
I don't know much about opera but this sounds so beautiful...
CrackyChan 2 years ago 3
Wonderful sound, but i believe he's capable of much more resonance...and much better vowel pronunciation. This is probably my favorite song to sing, and this is definitely the best version of this song on youtube
PoeticChaosx 2 years ago 2
the best ombra mai fu - ever! He sings with real passion. What an exciting performance.
voxandreas 2 years ago
uno strumento...una voce che ha incantato il mondo per 40 anni. legato e fraseggio ottimo BRAVO GIGLIIII....
marcobenve 2 years ago 2
Da brivi .. questo e' cantare questo vuol dire cantare ............grazie per questa breve emozione...grazie di cuore
clownpipos 3 years ago
One of the best tenors of all the times, along with Caruso.
eduardoromera 3 years ago 4
...so many sang this.....and more delicate renditions...but the power of Gigli, the solidity of Gibraltar and sustaining line is unequalled to me...he gave over 1,000 concerts to benefit charity..
j72050 3 years ago
organ too big...he didn't quite sing as written but what a thrilling sound.
vickersman 3 years ago
as much as i like the organ,
it should just not touch arias.
Maestro2011 3 years ago
What a stupid and ignorant comment.
VinylToVideo 3 years ago
this is a reference.
jukkendahl 3 years ago
danke für grossen sohn händel an deutschland
gruss aus brazil
olehne 3 years ago
One of my favorite tenors in the 20th century!
I hope there will be someone like him soon in our time.
cyeh2 3 years ago
Sorry, I don't get your point, I'm comparing him to modern interpretations I've heard, not his contemporaries. You referring to types like Tauber etc?
donerlich 3 years ago
I love the way Gigli keeps one thumb hooked in his pocket while he belts this one out! Excellent! So Italian!
KufrAkbar 3 years ago 3
this is the way my grandfather would have sung it! No mucking around... let them have it!
markmimp 3 years ago 2
What a voice!!! I like this song sung heroically, not all soft and weak like too many singers do today. It is quite often over interpreted.
donerlich 3 years ago 5
nothing wrong with looking at it as a love song directed at a tree and singing it as such. It's hard to get "heroic" out of the words and setting. But whatever floats ones boat is the way to do it.
SANPH 3 years ago
Lol, when I say heroic, I mean sung with good support and some balls, not some breathy concoction of non-supported notes.
donerlich 3 years ago
Sung with balls. Like I said, whatever interpretation gets you randy is good enough, but I just find a lot of irony and humor in your statement about balls, considering the class of vocalists that sung this back in the day.
SANPH 3 years ago
like many tenors sings today with success. I agree with you... time pass and the balls of the tenors voices are more like castrattis.
aguacun 3 years ago
Hey dude, howzit going? long time!
donerlich 3 years ago
happy new year! =)
aguacun 3 years ago
Gigli was a very shy man, the opposite of Caruso.
j72050 3 years ago
one of my favorites tenors.
girardje70 3 years ago 2
Gigli's voice is so fantastic, powerful and great. He is just amazing.
davcos22 3 years ago 2
I love Gigli's almost unnoticeable little nod of approvement at the very end. My feelings exactly!
VinylToVideo 3 years ago 3
Never was the shade
of any tree
Sweeter, Dearer, More agreeable
is what I thought it was
pgzzz 3 years ago
Splendid.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago 3
i saw this video several yrs. ago for the first time.Oh my God! It just blew me away!
citrussorbet 3 years ago 5
FOR ME, the best interpretation of this aria! I love this because here Gigli use his full voice!
aguacun 3 years ago 3
Maravillosa interpretación.
danielore62 3 years ago 2
Ombra mai fu
di vegetabile,
cara ed amabile,
soave più.
Never was there made
a shade of a plant
dear and loving,
or more gentle.
crazygeo81 3 years ago 3
As a matter of interest, does anyone know when this was recorded?
stefakamelpash 3 years ago
Kingsway Hall, London, 1933.
diomipoteviscagliar 3 years ago
the best "ombra mai fu"...
ravaschieri 3 years ago 3
noboby has sang this better then this guy!!!!
citrussorbet 4 years ago 5
AMEN
crazygeo81 3 years ago
Au dela de toute considération de style cet homme réussit toujours à faire naitre l'émotion, n'èst-ce pas le propre du grand artiste ? Mais allez écouter Wunderlich...
jacquesurlus 4 years ago
What an amazing master he was!
mickel98 4 years ago
I agree, this is the best version ever, timing perfect,and note perfect, I love it
jimbogal46 4 years ago 2
Incredible. How could anyone not give this 5 stars? I know some may not prefer his less than Baroque style, but his voice and technique were simply remarkable. The string of perfect high G's he pours out on the final "di vegetabile" and the "piu" are impossible for a lyric tenor to sing better!
izar1234 4 years ago 2
one of my favorites songs
guy1938 4 years ago
It was my first classic record at the age of 7this version from Gigli and for me it is the most famos version of all until now (I`am 47 years now).
It is the first time I can see Gigli singing Ombra mai fu...
Thank so much for posting this clip!!!
Greetings from Germany
calla4711 4 years ago
ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS. Since first I discovered it I haven't stopped listening to it.I've listened to all the other "ombras" on utube but this is the only one I constantly repeat.
zairitasexybaby 4 years ago 2
AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELYRIGHT my sentiments exactly
zairitasexybaby 4 years ago 2
I agree - most feeling in this version - I love it
pgzzz 3 years ago
hay que ver la apostura que tenía este hombre!
TrovadorManrique 4 years ago
An sentimental favorite
mailpail10 4 years ago
bravo maestro.beniamino BILSTEW, IRLANDA .
bilstew 4 years ago
Exactly! Both are tremendous versions, and so different.
guglielmo64 4 years ago 2
Beautiful.Wish that I could hear the Caruso in order to compare,not that this would change either from being great but different!
paulostroff99 4 years ago
Actually, there is a version by Caruso and it is here on YouTube.
Roscieto 4 years ago
Thank you for that info.I shall access it immediately.
paulostroff99 4 years ago
Oh, thank you so much for this reference. I just went to Caruso's Ombra and nearly fainted! So many Ombra voices to choose from--what's a girl to do? Really, though, very kind and helpful of you to direct us all to Caruso's robust version.
miraonorma 4 years ago
p.s. Gigli is fantabuloso, a sweetly reverent rendition.
miraonorma 4 years ago
I agree -
Caruso is a most monumentale maestoso Serse.
EvaHartwig 4 years ago
King of high Cs needs to learn his grammar and spelling, just like Corelli needs better subtlety and diction. I do agree that Caruso's is the greatest version.
guglielmo64 4 years ago
excuse me... do you say Gigli needs to learn grammar and spelling and Corelli needs better subtlety and diction?????.... even if you are Muti, Abbado o Levine I couldn't take you seriously.
Birgitfan 4 years ago
Read it a little more closely next time. King of the high Cs is the person who wrote that Corelli sings this better than Gigli, which is absurd to say the least. He needs the grammar lesson not Gigli. Corelli was a fabulous tenor, but he was notoriously not known for good diction, and did tend to oversing some phrases. With regards to the diction, my brother is a professor of Italian (at the Universtiy level), and can vouch for this. He also teaches opera diction to aspiring local singers.
guglielmo64 4 years ago
sorry I misundertood you. :P
gahualli 4 years ago
Which years is this? I Guess the 1930`s..?
WinkelHoof 4 years ago
I'd also like to know the date of this. I was lucky enough to see three Gigli recitals in the 1950s - and the voice was ravishingly beautiful still. Also caught an unforgettable Verdi Requiem in 1954 at the Albert Hall. I can still hear his opening 'Kyrie Eleison' as it grew to fill the huge hall - and I doubt if I have ever heard the 'Ingemisco' sung more movingly by any other tenor.
TITO13ITALIAN 4 years ago
Just want to add that there's a splendid recording from the 1930s of the Verdi Requiem conducted by Serafin with Gigli and Siepi among the soloists. Well worth tracking down.
TITO13ITALIAN 4 years ago
Listen to the Bjorling Ingemisco and then tell me that IT is not the best of all others!!
paulostroff99 4 years ago
Still cant beat FRANCO CORELLI OR CARUSO......u lot need to learn your operah history!..tut ...tut
kingofhighcs 4 years ago
If I were present at that performance, I think I would cry, it was so beautiful!
guglielmo64 4 years ago
Holy Cow! Imagine being present at that performance and hearing Gigli in person singing that exquisite melody! My heart melts at the thought. Thanks for sharing!
erzbet07 4 years ago
assolutamente il Maestro di noi tutti!
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SexyGirl684 4 years ago
What a coincidence. I just posted a video of this record playing and here he is recording it!
VinylToVideo 4 years ago
Absolutely beautiful. Gigli had such passion and feeling for every word that he sings.
He gave so much pleasure to the public.
There will never be another tenor of his
greatness ever again.
345murphy 4 years ago
Gigli would sing an entire opera AND 20 ARIAS after that. That was Rosati's technique. The singers today have no concept of Chiaroscuro singing. As a student of Gigli's accompanist, who also studied with Rosati, it afforded the same ability to sing on the 'interest,' which again, is a lost art.
796824 4 years ago
Hey can you give me more info about Rosati's technique and history?.
What you say sounds very intereting to me!
thank you very much for the info
Birgitfan 4 years ago
..despite all the sobs..criticism from elite quarters.....from a penniless background....like Caruso....Rosati said... at last, I have found THE TENOR.....Gigli was a King.
j72050 4 years ago
is the best ténor in my mind
girardje 4 years ago
ma non e' un aria da baritono o mezzo soprano? comunque gigli la fa' molto bene
raffaelepolli 4 years ago
check out robertino Loretti..old singer now.. but young then ..just a boy , but what a voice..got a feeling he lost it when he got to a teenager his singing gets to you ..he's in my favourites *enjoy*
justabrit 4 years ago
Fabulous
cptnunderwhere 4 years ago
Absolutely Fabulous! Without doubt the greatest!
gilyat 4 years ago
One of the greatest voices we've been blessed with!!
Erdrick345 4 years ago
Grande Gigli!! Bravo!! you can hear the real bell canto school. Not like the singers today that are clueless.
operamanagers 4 years ago
even with the portimento-more common and acceptable then than now, and the Italainate 'sob'-this is still a glowing tribute to the Gigli gift!
vickersman 4 years ago
I had not heard this before. It's very beautiful because of Gigli's intensity of expression.
stan724 4 years ago
Of course, a person would miss the point. My comment (clearly)was not to compare Fritz and Gigli. I compared history with the current lack of great, outstanding singers.
vivomusique 4 years ago
It was my honour to meet him in Rome. There may be great singers - but none better than Gigli.
lackendara 4 years ago
You are indeed fortunate! A shame that good recording quality was not available in his prime. It was the style of the time, but I don't care for the 'sob' in the singing.
simmo303 4 years ago
BRAVO!!!!So grateful to have seen this clip!!!Thanks!
Wunderlich and Gigli--definitely two of the greatest discovered tenors...I wish history would quickly repeat itself....it seems to be stuck!!!
vivomusique 4 years ago
Sorry, but Master Beniamino are many steps up than Fritz.
pekeniadanuchis 4 years ago
Thanks for this. I'd never heard of him before.
Beautiful.
runbambirun 4 years ago
it gets better every time I hear it
sanglars 4 years ago
Surely one of the most beautiful melodic lines in all of western music, magnificiently sung by Gigli. Thank you so much for posting this.
taurus46 5 years ago
The best tenor voice of all ages.
singercanela 5 years ago
One of the greatest Italian lyric tenors of any era.He had a beautifully sweet timbre and tone. Che bella voce! Mille grazie for bringing this to us.
CraigFrancisSoto 5 years ago
i meant GUY, not gay, of course... ;-))
wwwoyzeck 5 years ago
n1! lol xD
Jaaakob 4 years ago
of course this is grotesque from a stylistic point of you, not to speak of the fat and neckless gay singing without ever moving or changing the volume. but what a lush, beautiful and dark tenor voice!!
wwwoyzeck 5 years ago
the voice IS beautiful. but does anybody worry about style? At Gigli's time this was perfect, but now we feel different about singing Haendel!
trojaio 5 years ago
I'm crying~
Time goes by,but his voice last forever
palapalaala 5 years ago
Gigli is/was great as is/was Caruso, may suggest that Richard Tauber is well worth listening to. Especially for his singing of Mozart Arias
Darbutz 5 years ago
There shouldn't be one criticism of this performance. This man was a phenom. Try to imagine anyone in modern times to approach that quality. Caruso's is the only version I've heard greater than this.
guglielmo64 5 years ago
somewhat unvarying dynamically, and it feels like he's thinking mostly about the notes, not the meaning of the text. but I'll say he had a great voice.
Jaaakob 5 years ago
An Octave Higher and you would need a soprano - This is exactly how it is written for Tenor
pgzzz 5 years ago
I don't deny that he is awesome but isn't it suppose to be an octave higher?
muzikbabe4444 5 years ago
This is a wonderful video. A great lesson in breath support and space.
nickbaritone 5 years ago
he has a beautifull powerfull voice:D Love that. But its not based on the text imo:x
gehaktmolen 5 years ago
Velvet!
Glenmed 5 years ago
Gigli is my all time greatest singer .Thank you so much for this . The faces of the peolple watching this performence says it all!!
onthehob 5 years ago
Mercy what a beautiful performance.
CWG40 5 years ago
Fascinating! I'd love to know more about when this was recorded and where. and why the audience seems to be entirely male!
Thank you for this.
LaDonnaMobile 5 years ago
His Master's Voice Recording studio in Queens Hall, London 1933, in the audience some famous listeners, veteran recording ingeneer Fred Gaisber, and first DJ Chris. Stone who was also editer with Compton Mac Kenzie of the famous "the Gramophone" (still exists)
my friend a famous pianist said the short reel is not rightly pitched, exist on dvd with many other celebrated singers of the sound aera (1927-1950)
jozefsterkens 5 years ago