Thomas Hampson - Macbeth - "Pieta, Rispetto, Amore"

[boagirl333]

Wish he realize that he is a BAD singer!

[bedove77]

Well,he can do worse ( look at Video of Scarpia's Te Deum. But today NOBODY can sing this role.I was in Salzburg listening Lucic and it was horrible. So in last analysis I prefer this pocket-baritone.

[TommyHaegin]

The music simply demands a more somber kind of voice. And he just doesn't have it. He sounds too lightweight, plain and simple.

[ONeirda]

I don't understand the criticisms below. What do you expect? This is highest art. It's live, full of most sincere emotions, tenderness, delusion, heart... Listen to the pianissimo at the end - which artist has the grandeur to let ring out as simply, truly, silently and eternally? Hampson is one of the greatest Verdi baritones to me, if not the very greatest. Anyone who's criticizing here should a) perform this with comparable perfection, b) be aware we're discussing the top level of singers.

[bodiloto]

@ONeirda  Ruffo Titta,Giuseppe Danise,Riccardo Stracciari,Apolo Granforte,Carlo Tagliabue,Giuseppe Taddei,Piero Cappuccilli,Salvadori,Popov,Pe­troff etc.etc.etc.

questio Signori erano veri baritoni.

Dal vivo Hampson è un orrore e la sua voce è un terrore per gli orecchie del pubblico(quello vero)...

no comment.

[ONeirda]

@bodiloto Dearest "Bodiloto", almost all of your comments which I found here on youtube.com on behalf of contemporary classical singers are - as I read them - considerably angry, full of hate, defence, revenge etc. etc. You don't need to do this to yourself. Life and human relationships, the achievements in art of others and oneself, can be very beautiful, blessing, true and peaceful. I had the honour of meeting Mr. Hampson personally and there's simply no room for your insult. Love

[bodiloto]

@ONeirda Dearest 'ONeirda,

La situazione è gravissima,la lirica sta morendo.Non crede che il Maestro Giuseppe Verdi merita più di rispetto?Ma ragazzi o voi non avete orecchio,o l'arte italiana non ha nessun valore per voi?Incredibile viviamo in un mondo cieco e sordo,che tristezza!

Che malore!

Oggigiorno L'Indifferenza e la Mediocrità ci fanno 'la compania',nuovi 'esteti' 'guidano' la lirica italiana verso la sua tomba!

La bellezza,la magia,la rivalità,la complicità artistica non esistono più!

[giampierone010]

Francamente rimango deluso da un cantante di fama mondiale come Hampson...un'interpretazione di valore e una tecnica di canto scadente ...completamente fuori dall'interno con conseguenza di suoni aperti e senza sostegno...ma canta sempre così? mi auguro per lui e per chi lo ascolta di migliorare la sua tecnica e di farci ascoltare un canto più bello, con la giusta tecnica...Vedi Warren, Cappuccilli, Bruson, Taddei...per citare alcuni grandi...o per lo meno tipo Carlos Alvarez...a presto

[HellasItalia4]

GIANGIACOMO GUELFI  G. Verdi MACBETH "Pietà, rispetto, amore"

[distefano13069609]

è canto mozartiano, non è Verdi. Ma quest interpretazione è magnifica, non vocalmente.

[bodiloto]

@distefano13069609 la prego di avere un po' più di rispetto per Mozart e la sua Arte.

Perché per lei questa interpretazione orrenda è 'magnifica'?

E che cosa lei vuol dire con le sue parole '........ quest interpretazione è magnifica,non vocalmente.'

Con rispetto.

[ruffatony]

Weak ---and sounds like a tenor.........................­.why bother to try and sing this when there are other lighter roles he could do much better?? Papageno. Figaro.Belcore.Valentin.

[ONeirda]

@ruffatony In my taste, Thomas Hampson suits the Verdi repertoire very very well. Why should a "Verdi baritone" be dark, somber, muffled, intelligible and barking? I had the chance of listening to him at a recital at the Tonhalle in Zürich, with a full late-romantic size orchestra, performing Verdi. He blew the audience off - not with force but by the sheer resonant power of his extremely well placed voice. His acutes made my skull shake (!) and I was 30 m away !!!

[countceprano]

This is a joke. He's fine in Schubert and orchestrated Mahler.... but Macbeth?? Totally wrong.

[HellasItalia4]

Questo non è canto Verdiano.

[iubanne]

infatti. sono d'accordo con te. è altro....nn canto Verdiano.....

[bodiloto]

@HellasItalia4  carissimo,già questo che fa Hampson non è canto!

E niente !

[HellasItalia4]

@bodiloto che mondo...... non so .... perche Franco Bordoni, per fare un umile esempio, non ha la fama di Hampson. La differenza e' scandalosamente gigantesca su tutto! Non capisco......

Un saluto da Thessaloniki!

[sergenovique]

come on! this isn´t bad! I love it, because I could feel the text, not only hear it

[epouvantay]

Hampson scheint wohl auch unter Größenwahn zu leiden, Verdi-bariton fürn Arsch.

[jhvorotin]

Zeljko Lucic outrules him by far...good acting though. The sound is not covered on the high notes.

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

Great production! I see a tribute to Kurosawa and Mifune. Boy, is he ever at the end of his rope!

[tenorismo]

LOL LOL LOL LOl hahahahahahahahahahahah hes horrible. A product of the american school of singing . No big voices.

[bodiloto]

orrendo .

[bluluvsrae]

I like Mr Hampson---in Don Giovanni and Nozze--this role is too big for his voice

[nisticom]

He sounds like he's singing a Schubert lied!

[Ehianten]

I rather like Renato Bruson's version but Hampson is doing great too... even if I think he thinks more about singing well than what he says... Maybe just an impression...

[pafnuzzi]

Verdi has to be sung with 4 balls - he does not even have two

[Dalmata1961]

Agree............

[tenorismo]

@pafnuzzi lol

[paldrich1]

This is a tenor. Why is a tenor singing a Verdi baritone role? At the MET?? And why can't the tenor hit the interpolated baritone note at the end of the aria? If anyone wants to hear a baritone sing this like nobody ever has, then listen to the recording of Joseph Shore in Arizona Opera's Macbeth here on Youtube. There was a 2nd Leonard Warren. His name was Joe Shore. I say that as someone who has always absolutely worshiped Leonard Warren. Please listen to the shore rendition.

[MaestroJosephShore]

I probably should not comment on this with my own name since I was a Verdi baritone and sang Macbeth, but here goes any way. This man is a good musician in many respects, but he is probably a tenor. He certainly has no business singing Verdi baritone roles. This could only happen in an ignorant society that knows nothing. In any previous era--clear up until the late 1970's--he would have been laughed off the stage. The fault is not totally his but the management who cares so little about truth.

[kleinerpapageno]

the voice is too light for a Verdian role. Nice voice but not in this context. He could sing Macduff anytime.

[ShawDAMAN]

Go listen to Leonard Warren :-|

No offense. High marks for effort but he just doesn't have it. I like him singing Stephen Foster but not Verdi.

[HellasItalia4]

click " Paskalis part 20" for a great old macbeth!

[pepeelsordo]

He is intelligent, dramatic and good musician, and...a tenor.

Naturally there are people (plenty) that think he is a baritone.

May be I am looking for a different sound and he is a lyric baritone. But if you like him that's all is important.

[xav71176]

this is unusual, but great

[ilbacioditosca]

After listening to Justino Diaz singing the same aria, he should sing Macduff instead.

Ramon Vinay, Carlo Cosutta would sound more baritonal.

[jtaylorbaritone]

Lovely, but lacks the color and balls.

But he is so musical, intelligent, and afantastic actor.

[rexeterna]

i'm going to have nightmares about this tonight

[chiara54324]

And why?

[operacat1]

The passion, the despair, he's really reached the end of the road and you can feel it!

[chiara54324]

Bravo,AnjutaWren!

Some days ago,I was thinking about posting the same video... This wonderful finale,the Macbeth's last aria!Your preferences are exellent!