Mike, I certainly agree with your choice of this great tenor as one of the"100 Greatest;" I hope he becomes better known, as I believe he was one of the greatest tenors of all time.
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An EXCELLENT performance, not exactly brimming over with personality or charm.
He was a handsome man with a beautiful voice, good technique, very respectable musicianship and taste. But he just had no personality. His singing is completely anonymous.
Spain gave the world three superb tenors in the early XX Century: Hipolito Lazaro, Miguel Fleta and Antonio Curtis. They should be placed together with Caruso, Gigli, Schippa and all the other famous Italians. Perhaps the low immigration from Spain to the USA as compared to Italy did not permit the necessary publicity and noise to project them among the best of history at least in the USA market where the pay of better than in Europe.
cacata98-Please do not omit the awesome di Stefano,and yes IMHO these 3 Spanish tenors were all up there with the best Italians or any others for that matter. I cannot even choose between them they are all so great.
@cacata98 Reading your comment, which I of course agree with, I try to remember the name of a great Spanish tenor of the end of the 19th century, whose life was made a film too. Guillermo G…??.. Can you help me please? Thank you.
Antonio Cortis merita il luogo accanto ai grandi, perché anche se la sua figura non fosse come decisiva come Fleta (il suo contadino), se possedesse anche un buono registro lirico drammatico, ed il bel, ma bello colore mente meravigliosa che quello di "rival" Miguel Fleta
An unjustly forgotten singer, even in Valencia (Spain), the place he was born and died. He has a beautiful timbre and a style very ellegant and aristocratic. I like specially his version of "Oh Lola..." of "Caballeria Rusticana", because in this difficult aria, he phrasing without effort.
I agree that Cortis is a tenor not known as well as he should be, considering his many merits as a singer. Some still consider his performance as Calaf in Turandot the greatest.
Gayarre
cacata98 5 months ago
I had seen the name but never heard the voice. Nice, warm lyric(almost spinto) instrument- intelligently used. Thanks for posting.
Lovelytenor1 2 years ago
Not a great deal of feeling IMHO, but a beautiful sound
quakercub 2 years ago
In a word-awesome! Bravo TY.
paulostroff99 2 years ago
Ihm fehlt von allem ein kleines bisschen, Expressivität, Höhe, langer Atem. Und trotzdem, er ist bemerkenswert schön!
Sehr genau phrasiert, schöne Technik (von den drei erwähnten Tenören hat Fleta eine noch bessere) und eine tolle Kontrolle!
Ich wünschte ihm mir heute, er wäre ein Superstar!
tenorvoicefan 2 years ago 2
EL TRIDENTE ESPAÑOL
Brenthia 2 years ago
Mike, I certainly agree with your choice of this great tenor as one of the"100 Greatest;" I hope he becomes better known, as I believe he was one of the greatest tenors of all time.
billyguns2 3 years ago 4
uno de los mas grandes injustamente olvidado... Fleta cortis y lázaro 3 grandes de la ópera..
fantasopera 3 years ago
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An EXCELLENT performance, not exactly brimming over with personality or charm.
He was a handsome man with a beautiful voice, good technique, very respectable musicianship and taste. But he just had no personality. His singing is completely anonymous.
AulicExclusiva 3 years ago
Sadly, that's the truht, although his voice was beautiful.
mozzrt 2 years ago
Spain gave the world three superb tenors in the early XX Century: Hipolito Lazaro, Miguel Fleta and Antonio Curtis. They should be placed together with Caruso, Gigli, Schippa and all the other famous Italians. Perhaps the low immigration from Spain to the USA as compared to Italy did not permit the necessary publicity and noise to project them among the best of history at least in the USA market where the pay of better than in Europe.
cacata98 3 years ago 6
cacata98-Please do not omit the awesome di Stefano,and yes IMHO these 3 Spanish tenors were all up there with the best Italians or any others for that matter. I cannot even choose between them they are all so great.
paulostroff99 2 years ago
@cacata98 Reading your comment, which I of course agree with, I try to remember the name of a great Spanish tenor of the end of the 19th century, whose life was made a film too. Guillermo G…??.. Can you help me please? Thank you.
Aetion 1 year ago
@Aetion I got it! I meant Julián Gayarre. Dont't bother.
Aetion 1 year ago
Very similar timbre to that of Caruso. But wasn't his relative obscurity due to the fact that he hardly sang at the met?
laknaths 3 years ago
Antonio Cortis merita il luogo accanto ai grandi, perché anche se la sua figura non fosse come decisiva come Fleta (il suo contadino), se possedesse anche un buono registro lirico drammatico, ed il bel, ma bello colore mente meravigliosa che quello di "rival" Miguel Fleta
IlgruppoDiDocci 3 years ago
An unjustly forgotten singer, even in Valencia (Spain), the place he was born and died. He has a beautiful timbre and a style very ellegant and aristocratic. I like specially his version of "Oh Lola..." of "Caballeria Rusticana", because in this difficult aria, he phrasing without effort.
Kallistos07 3 years ago
I agree that Cortis is a tenor not known as well as he should be, considering his many merits as a singer. Some still consider his performance as Calaf in Turandot the greatest.
meltzerboy 3 years ago