Gino Bechi in the "Toreador Song" from Carmen

[nooloo3000]

18 and love this song



[TheMorgrad]

Does anyone have the link for this song in Italian? All I can find on the net is the original French one. Thanks in advance

[estuans0interius]

Sounds quite odd in Italian... I kind of like it better in French, however it it were any other language (German, English) it would be even worse!

Nonetheless, a GREAT work of art.

[76Basso]

Bechi is always exciting to listen to with those open high notes. Thanks for sharing this great performance.

[SenhorDaVoz]

Bravíssimo! Grande Bechi.

[thefrecklepuny]

Lovely stuff!

[Darthtouch]

BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Rigelcentauri58]

Beautiful singing, Especially his bright squillo.

[AKIRAMAIL]

Oh yeah, 13 incult people ¬w¬

am only i or gino really looks hot when sing on the carmen`s face? id loved that! ♥

[elkriverharmonicas]

I wonder who the 13 jackasses were who didn't like this. This is awesome!

[Thx1138d]

The kind of people who like Justin Bieber and Britney spears

[HCross2U]

they ARE SAYING TOREADOR BE ON YOUR GAURD SHOW US YOU ARE NOT AFDRIED

[LordMgls]

Very nice!!

[danawinsor]

Fabulous! I love this guy. The duet from Nabucco with Bechi & Callas is wonderful also. Thanks so much for the post.

[paulostroff99]

IMO,the very best version.

[65attila]

@paulostroff99

Thanks for sharing - what voice and swagger. I prefer Tibbett.

BelCantoSociety - thanks for posting-John

[mikemraz]

Hmmmm, sounds very strange in Italian instead of French. Thank God it's not in English! ;-)

[MrBasilego]

Don't you have any regret: difficult to find worse verses than those of the original french version's.

[BloodLostVampiress]

i love playing this song on my baritone its so much fun to play and thank u 4 putting this up :]

[jmthurow94]

i have to do it for solo ensemble its a drag.

[BloodLostVampiress]

i have to do this 4 solo ensemble 2 and i stared to look at like a week aggo and it stinks lol

[wattyler1]

He is GREAT! I've never heard him before.

[ZsaZsadoll]

DING DONG

[WhiteProfondo]

Well...I´m just no fan of goat-vibrato; it sounds not very nice to me- but thats only my personal opinion.

[bodiloto]

Bella Italia grande Becchi

[dfush]

golden standard

[GermanOperaSinger]

I can see why they compared his voice to Ruffo's. He sounds better here than on most of his other commercial recordings. Wish he sung it in French though. One of the greatest Italian baritone voices of all time.

[Villeneuve27rosso]

Bravo Gino!!!!

[Belcantoexpert]

Bravissimi tutti che cantati!!!!!

[voltape]

Con voi ber affé mi fia caro coi millitar tratar del paro al par/ Deve un toreador andar del paro, per piacer essi hanno il pugnar. Il circo e pien e di di festa gli spectator si dan del tu. ...

Toreador attento - Non obbliar ch eun occhio tutt'ardor ha di mirarti intento et che t'aspetta amor..

For Fernando an other - this is what I remember of thenitalian - (I have the score in Fr. It and English) Later I may add the rest

[svjatazarov]

i can listen to him hours on end, he shines like a great magnificient brilliant !!!!! He is beyond Death and all the hideous things on this Earth...

[svjatazarov]

Outstanding!!!!!! He is more than ammmmazing, he is...like God in flesh!!!!!!! His singing gives me strength to create and live on and be alive....he is beyond all stadards!!!!!! he is GOD!!!!!!!

[Delifine]

He's amazing, one of the last bel canto singers. It's funny that just looking in related videos you can compare and follow the way of decline of bel canto art. For instance, look R. Merill ten years later and then modern Hvorostovsky.

[htothenan]

was this opera done in italian often back then?

[xxflame360xx]

lol the ratchet and clank secret agent clank has this song with new lyrics on it :P

[xxflame360xx]

try secret agent clank quarks opera its a psp game so some may be bad quality camera ones and not screen recorders

[cortesbugslayer]

Hi Nina!!!!!!

[svjatazarov]

кумир моего детства! моё ухо у него слышит неполную школу на И, с возрастом с кантиленой могут возникнуть проблеммы, копирует кое в чём Титто Руффо...есть на низах горло, но он всё-таки просто великолепен!!!

[spyridon77]

goosebumbs!

[sverigregrabb]

Slightly off topic, but WHO is that magnificent woman (Carmen??)--she looks just like Merle Oberon!

[kmillard]

Do you mean at 2:04?? :-O

[sverigregrabb]

Yes--close-up at 3.15! Amazing resemblance to Oberon!

[KingstonSteve]

If someone should make another version of Carmen in a different language, like this, it should be in SPANISH, NOT italian. Spanish is the autrhentic language of the story as you all know.

[phantom4087]

It's actually in French.

[blichilde]

And Merimée was actually French.

[phantom4087]

Excuse me. I hadn't watched the video yet so I didn't know it was translated.

[Y2H]

Youre right, this is just lame!

[ILuvNymphadoraTonks]

he is good... but it was written to in french, not italian

[mmarayy]

BRAVO! :D

[Clitoide]

tito gobbi's voice

[matiaszapata]

se canta en el idioma original... si no puede no cante!!

[JAKWIK]

DOSENT WORK

[dtpac]

AGREED!

[nero21]

you guys make it seem like being italian makes you a better singer. well I think not blindly following your teachers makes you a better singer they are only trying to bring out the best singer in you, not make you into the best singer. thats what you become after you find out the meaning in all the languages, the poetry, the love

[discofrog23]

I have 2 play 1:08 4 a CRO audition 2morrow

[ashleybremner]

No way is this a tenor. That top F would never be as rich as that as a tenor. yes, the low B flat is a bit week but this aria is famous for being hard for both Baritone and bass baritone. Judging from the comments that he is a tenor I can see that people want too rich a sound to wack out those top notes. Explains the boring baritones we have too suffer today.Shagged out with wobbles!

[PromMex]

I agree,

he was a very italian baritone very open and clear and of course a baritono with a beautiful voice

[ashleybremner]

Cheers mate. I find it strange that you don't hear these kind of voices anymore. they all sound so unatural now, overtrained, safe, unexiting. Why is this? I would much rather listen to the likes of these old masters than the kind of singers we hear today. Do you think it is a sad reflection of the times we live in, instant results! Greed for fame perhaps, or maybe style? Any ideas.

[marija3a]

@ashleybremner bellcanto school is the answer on your question. Non of the singers use it today and it's a shame! Have a good one.

[dpfilmsco]

@marija3a I'm afraid you forgot Juan Diego Flórez.

[cfreetenor]

@dpfilmsco Juan Diego Florez is a little goat tenorino who doesn't belong in a discussion about great singers. 

[swswapp]

@ashleybremner- I totally agree with you on that. I take voice lessons and I've had teachers steering me away from THIS natural sound, but I never could give into it. I now have a teacher wanting me to sound like this and he is the best teacher I've had.

[bunnyz324]

what year is this

[teamlegitdragon]

sad it's not in its original french. Amazing voice though.

[MakoThunderbird]

Agreed.

[JoshPedilla]

Interessantissimo documento, grazie per avere postato.

[bfflilly9]

no its not in Bel Canto its at lilly pastas duh dume ass

[ANDRPLD]

great voice.....

[tonnyytonnyy]

Thos ugly low notes tell me that he was probably a lazy tenor, Yes he has good vibrato and temprement. But is unable to sing the low notes, they are pressed.

[ssj3mohan]

Dude are you crasy? rsrs..Those ugly low notes?.He is or he was incredible as much in high and low notes.But yes ,probaly He is or He was a tenor,but not a lazy tenor.

[dude999998]

Bravo, Gino!

Great to hear baritones who are not afraid to sing wide open E's and F's!

[ssj3mohan]

Maybe he can sing as baritones ,but the timbre is a tenor´s timbre.i am saying this becouse my normal timbre is as tenor,but i can sing a lot better than Gino ,on the low notes .But some musics ,i can sing only if i sing as a true tenor.Its easy to me sing as a Baritone and as Tenor timbre . But what i am trying to say ,is his timbre "GINO" is as a Tenor .

Make you are right ,He is awasome.

[jaimito695]

this video is in Italian, original song, in French

[StevenRulzs]

it not french, I live in a french community and i can tell by there accent and sound, there speaking in italin.

[oscarperez14]

entonces porque estas viendo este video pendejo

[fredalbano]

adoro esta opera

[robertohelix]

It's italian, spanish or french? or all of them?

[odnenans]

French I think.

[radsvid]

The original libretto is in French; this particular performance is in Italian.

[nickditoro]

To clarify, Bechi's recording is not a "version" of the French piano-vocal score; it is a singing translation. There are true language versions of operas (Verdi's "Don Carlo" was originally written in French, for Paris). As for translations, it was customary at one time, even in international houses, for singers to perform in their native tongues. Customs have changed; most international houses produce operas in the native languages of the works. Supertitles have made this easier on audiences.

[shadowsbode]

what year was this recording

[bostijan]

maestro bizet ist gemacht sehr schene music.

[tenorismo]

My favorite Gino Bechi recording is " Veini chel nel strada del bosco " I hope the Italian is correct

[spaniarddamnit]

i just bought a cd with bechi and gigli in italian

[fredalbano]

maravilhoso

[64sembra]

Bechi is magnificent in the toreador song, and so are Pasquale Amato and Benvenuto Franci. My two favorite French versions are by Henri Albers and Robert Merrill.

[MacerD]

Lyrics are on wikipedia:

en . wikipedia . org/wiki/Toreador_song

[Mahasiah666]

I might be wrong, but I think they're asking for the lyrics written in ITALIAN, not FRENCH.

[fedemtzesc]

But I need in Italian languague, do you know where I can get it?

[kaptenunderbyxa87]

Where can I find the Italian lyrics for "Toreador"?

[COMMUNALISM]

Wikipedia

[voltape]

Con voi ber affé mi sia caro coi militar tratar da paro a par -- deve un torero andar del paro, per piacer, per piacer essi hanno il pugnar. Il circo e pien e di di festa, il circo e pien di su di giu. Gli spettator' perdon la testa, gli spettator parla tra lor, si dan del tu. e chimando, interrogando, gridando ognun fino al furor, perche la festa e del valore,si la festa e del valor - andiam, in guradia ..... ahhhhhhh

[voltape]

toreador,atento, Toreador, Toreador. Non obbliasr che un occhio tutt'ardor ad ammirarti è intento, e che t'aspetta amor, toreador, amor t'aspetta amor.

Well - that goes for the first part and the Toreador, en garde! .... et songe bien, oui songe en combattant, qu'oeir noir te regarde, et que l'amour t'attend, toreador, l'amour, l'amour, t'attend.

[fedemtzesc]

Hi!

Can you send me the whole lyric of this song please?

[voltape]

Well I provided italian and part of french (which you can also find in internet. This version in Spanish is mine and unpublished and is in progress. I am a Peruvian in Peru and my language is Spanish, the same language Carmen, Jose and Escamillo spoke.

Ha de ser muy grato para mi, mi copa levantar, con vosotros brindar. Pues los toreros y los soldados, en comun tenemos que luchamos por placer. Es domingo, que viva la aficion, la plaza llena esta......

[voltape]

and the central part, Toreador, en garde! I copied from an old Spanish film with Spain's superstar Carmen Sevilla: it went so: Toreador de ardiente corazon, toreador, toreador, piensa que mientras muestras tu valor los ojos de una bella, en ti se fijaran pues para ti su amor su amor sera!

[fernandodasilvar]

Dear Italian Speakers! Could anyone write the lyrics of the song Toreadore sang by Gino Bechi? Grazia!

[Webarton]

wow his voice is so bright for a baritone, a real breath of fresh air for me

[bitterclevelander]

The way he explodes into the high note on "pien di furOOOOOOr!" never gets old. Bechi had a huge voice and he really knew how to use it. My fave baritone of all time, hands down.

[m0rgause]

sublime

[paulostroff99]

Outstanding!

[Ankhsnammon]

Please,go to say to tthe russian white lion that he needs to study with Bechi...at least...a bit!!!!

God!

this is a BARITONE!!!!!!!

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!(Russian monster...go home!!!)

Ankhsnammon

[harryata]

Hard to duplicate! Excellent quality performance. Gino Bechi is perhaps singing in Romanian? I may be wrong but sounds romanian language to me.

Harry

Can anybody help my ignorance?

[fernandodasilvar]

dear harry

you are not far away because Romanian is one of the five Romance latin languages that include: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Romanian.

Gino sings in Italian.

[fernandodasilvar]

A bit more about Gino Bechi!

Born October 16, 1913 in Florence, Died February 02, 1993 in Florence. Country: Italy

I suppose this fact file clarifies that Gino is Italian and sings in Italian. Sweet Carmen, thank you for your beautiful message.

[Princeyugi232]

There was a a Hey Arnold episode about the opra Carmen

[fernandodasilvar]

do you know any way I get get the lyrics?

thank you!

[fernandodasilvar]

Gino Bechi in the "Toreador Song" from Carmen

I LOVE THIS SONG AND i AM DESPERATE TO FIND

THE LYRICS. COULD ANYBODY HELP ME PLEASE.

MOST APPRECIATED

FERNANDO

[fernandodasilvar]

I LOVE THIS SONG AND i AM DESPERATE TO FIND THE LYRICS. COULD ANYBODY HELP ME PLEASE.

MOST APPRECIATED

FERNANDO

[fernandodasilvar]

CAN ANYONE PUBLISH THE LYRICS SANG IN ITALIAN BY: Gino Bechi.

MOST GRATEFULL

FERNANDO

[elmendamendoza]

lol= laughing outloud, en español es riendo fuertemente

[Fozzymaple]

Any particular reason that Becchi sang this in Italian and not french?

[fernandodasilvar]

could you please publish the lyrics in Italian?

APRECIATED

[joanabanyeres]

ponsellelover. je me permets de t'écrire en français, car je crois que tu es françias.Quelle est cette dicussion sur "Oscurcer lo voz," d'abors j'ai connu Becchi personalement La voix n'etait pas oscure pour son emsission en arrière dans la gorge , mais parce qu' ik chantait dans le masque. Si le larynx est baissé , s'il y a a resoanance de poitine et si la voix est libre elle monte automamtiqumeentt dans le masque. Il n'y a pas d'autre manière de bien chanter

[nickditoro]

Not Spanish; Bechi was singing in Italian.

[fernandodasilvar]

DO YOU KNOW THE LYRICS IN ITALIAN?

may I HAVE THE LYRICS IN ITALIAN PLEASE?

[jowellaTR]

nice!

[bmwski0507]

This version seems different. ARe the lyrics different? It doesnt seem like he is singing in French. Can anyone clarify this.

[senioron]

It's spanish...y olé.

[Crysty8]

It's neither French, nor Spanish. It's Italian - he's singing in his own language, and I'd wish more people would do that. Sure, play the original too, but also perform for your local audience...

[Gerardeus]

No me suena a barítono, es tenor.

[PonselleLover]

Es que en esta época, los baritonos solian tener un squillo increible en la voz y alcanzar agudos de tenor. Pasa lo mismo con Galeffi. Tita Ruffo alcanzaba el do 4 !

[Gerardeus]

Enserio? Wow, eso no lo sabía pero.. entonces como es que se le clasifica como barítono si no tiene los graves requeridos y unos agudos tan brillantes?.

Nota: No contradigo lo que dices, es solo una simple pregunta curiosa.

[PonselleLover]

No, no, tu eres muy cortes y es un placer contestarte. A mi no me suena que falte tanto graves. Pero aquellas voces del pasado "en trompeta", con este metal y vibrato rapido, me encantan. Escucha a Galeffi si hay on Youtube. Pero tambien me gustan los baritonos mas graves como Bastianini, Protti...

[pakitomatrix]

mmm yo alcanso hasta si4

los demas son tonos bajos de

sol2

me dice mi maestra que soy bajo-baritono

pero aun me falta mucha fuerza y potencia en la voz, me gustan mis bajos, per me falta ponerle mas fuerza en el diafragma para que las notas salgan con mucha fuerza

[pakitomatrix]

pronto subire una cancion que se llama o del mio dolce ardor, aunque me encantaria subir esta aria, pero es muy dificl, apenas si tengo estudiando 4 menes, y necesito muchizima potencia y un diafragma muy trabajado

[PonselleLover]

Depende tambien del color de tu voz y del segmento en el que te sientes mas comodo, no solo de la extension. Cuales son tuyos ? Hay voces facilmente clasificadas y otras mas ambiguas. Y evolucionan tambien : piensa a Bergonzi, Bastianini, Gwineth Jones, Astrid Varnay... Pero ti mismo, como te defines ?

[pakitomatrix]

mi maestra de canto dice que soy, bajo-barinoto...

me gustan mis graves, en serio, no por que no pueda refeozar mis agudos, pero es que me gusta mucho mas las voces (en hombres) las voces graves y con potencia, en mujeres si... me gustan mucho las soprano coloraturas, y hasta las mezzo, hago buena copla con ellas.. tu estudias musica?

[pakitomatrix]

perdon bajo-baritono

[PonselleLover]

Lo estudié 10 anos y aun perteneci a un compania con la que he cantado I Puritani, La Favorita, Les Pêcheurs de perles, L'Elisir d'amore... Era tenore di grazia hasta lirico. Pero tuve que dejar a causa de mi trabajo que me afecto la voz (soy profesor). Pues, si te gusta mas el registro grave, trabajalo - con cuidado de no agravar artificialmente tu voz para parecerte a Bastianini IoI.

[pakitomatrix]

como gravarla artificialmente?

oie que significa "lol"??

[PonselleLover]

Queria decir oscurecerla, hacerla mas grave que es naturalmente.

[pakitomatrix]

aaaa. ahora entinedo, pues, mmm pues me han dicho que mi timbre es muy oscuro.

aunque yo escucho a baritonos como Dmitri Hvorostovsky y tiene un color muy oscuro, y tiene mucha potencia, que es lo que me falta, pero no me respondiste que significa "lol"?

[PonselleLover]

Oscurecerla significa quedarte la voz mas en la garganta, crecer el volumen, en vez de proyectarla en la mascara. Te aconsejo escuchar a Bastianini, Valdengo, Tagliabue, Gobbi en vez de Hvorostovsky que es un baritono de segunda cualidad comparado con estes.

[elmendamendoza]

lol es laughing outloud(ingles), en español riendo fuertemente

[Batistabomb999]

I'm sorry fedemtzesc, but i know francais version too.

[fedemtzesc]

Thaks any way!

I just loking for it thorugth all internet but i can't found it!

[fernandodasilvar]

ok

the subject of finding the lyrics of "el toreador is becoming a challenge"

I want to perform this song in london and have failed so far to find the lyrics.

We should reward the person who managed to find the lyrics of " il toreadore2 sang in Italian by Gino Bechi. The popular saying says, " He who dares, wins

Chi osa vince e vinceremo.

[Batistabomb999]

splendido!!!

[fedemtzesc]

Somebody has the lyric in italiano? I know this song in francais but I want to learn to singing in italian.

Thanks!

[OperaGhost1990]

Very good rendition

[dattor]

This might well be the best baritone of the post World War II era.

[ingriddoppler]

I just saw your comment ( you made one year ago); Gino Bechi was without any doubt a great Artist however,in my opinion, the best baritono of the post Worl War era was Ettore Bastianini.

[mornaymariedomini]

Ho avuto il maestro Bechi alla Chigiana di Siena comme professore di tecnica vocale. Queto pezzo da una limitata idea della magnifica voce del maestro, ma a sufficienza per qui sa sentire attraverso questa registrazione. Bravo Maestro!

[epicondyles]

He is amazing, he has one of the most amazing voices I have ever heard.

[vkaminsky]

If you have the opportunity to see this movie (it is available on Netflix), it is amusingly corny.

[allinvideo]

Amazing they're singing in italian instead of french (original idiom of this opera). Common at that time, to translate everything to italian. I prefer the original, but it doesn't compromise anything. WONDERFUL voice of Gino Bechi, became famous also for launching such famous song "La strada del Bosco".

[fernandodasilvar]

HELLO

I AM TRYING TO FIND THE LYRICS FOR THE ITALIAN VERSION:

Gino Bechi in the "Toreador Song" from Carmen

IS THERE ANY CHANCE I CAN GET THEM?

thank you

[fernandodasilvar]

thank you

still I want to find the lyrics in italian

fernando

[aharpe2]

Wikipedia has the lyrics in italian

Just look up Toreado Song

[fernandodasilvar]

Dear Aharpe Thank you for your reply however the Lyrics that appear in wlkipedia are the original French Version! Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre, Senor, senors car avec les soldats Oui, les Toreros, peuvent s'entendre; Pour plaisirs, pour plaisirs, Ils ont les combats! Le cirque est plein, c'est jour de fete! I am Still interested in the Italian version! Thank you , anyway for your effort!

[Crysty8]

Couldn't find more than a few verses, but here they are (searched on some of the words i thought i heard here, brought up only one result, a German pdf :-< , but at least it provided these): Vivat le Torero [...] Andiam, in guardia Andiam, Andiam! E!! Toreador, attento Toreador, toreador Non ombliar che un occhio tutto ardor ad ammirarti é attento e che t'aspetta amor Toreador, a ti t'aspetta amor. [...]

[fernandodasilvar]

my god

very much appreciated for the words for toreadore in Italian. I like them so much but my Italian is poor.I want to perform this song

and thanks to you i am starting right away!

I know is Gino sings in Italian. Have a llok and you will see I quote myself " GINO SINGS IN ITALIANN"

Please, if you find more I can prepare for my first performnce. I might record them and upload it. Gracias tanti caro!

[creidhe]

I have this on my dvd of art of singing...

he was great!

[lokjeff]

Bravo, Gino!