RAMON VARGAS- MOZART- IDOMENEO- FUOR DEL MAR

[corzoidor]

Mejor que se meta a mariachi.

[moesq1]

@corzoidor y tú métete lo que te quepa.

[primalamusica3]

sensational!

[4elovekorkester]

best Fuor del mar

[AntW11]

This is a very good tenor! Bravo for handling that big voice over those very tricky passages. Great technique and breath control.

[ruizdechavez]

@AntW11 Bravisimo! I agree... It is the best Four del Mar version here on youtube. Outstanding job! I can tell that he even sweated! Bravo tenore!

[babajaga39]

i don't really like it. his voice is too throaty, sometimes false. araiza or kaufmann sing it better. maybe he wasn't in shape.

[pinznrom]

@babajaga39 I just listened to two LIVE perfomances of Kaufmann singing this aria and they were good, but not better than this performance. The same can be said of the Araiza version here in YT. Maybe you were comparing a live performance with a studio recording. I'm sure Mr. Vargas can polish up those "false" notes in studio, as Mr. Kaufmann and Mr. Araiza did.

[jradetzky]

that empty space in the middle is kinda dangerous

[jradetzky]

wow, this is sublime and intense

[schuberthomas]

@me148:

Pavarotti is also a lyric tenor!

[RADAMES1983]

Brilliant performance!

[Merryjest]

The singing is sublime. The regie, atrocious.

[jradetzky]

@Merryjest true, especially that creepy Nettuno and that dangerous empty in the middle of the stage

[mediterraneo1000]

el mejor belcantista de esta epoca.

[TheAleph74]

Bravisimo! I agree... It is the best Four del Mar version here on youtube. Outstanding job! I can tell that he even sweated! Bravo tenore!

[230536]

@TheAleph74

well, then check out Richard Croft sining it in concert with Minkowski! It's much better than this version, in my opinion, especially Croft's coloraturas are outstanding and brilliant.

[eselpajaro]

@230536

Croft is a very good singer, but there's just a problem with his version: he can't act at all. Though I know opera is mostly music, I think acting is quite important, too. Vargas is a great singer, and acts quite a bit, too.

[gestas60323]

Ramon Vargas is magnificent, near unsurpassable - but the production is absolute garbage of the worst kind. What a waste !

[tamalesytortas]

no hay pero que se le ponga al maestro

[tenordramaticitm2]

Bravo Ramon Vargas!

[aguacun]

Wow!

[spintotenor83]

Actually this is not suppose to be for a zwischenfach singer. This is written for a tenor in particular and he kept the tessatura manageable for the 66 year old. Yet, still for a true tenor however heavy.

[jcatenor]

I have always loved Varga's voice. I bought his Verdi arias CD some years back. I did not know he had the capability of moving his voice like this. The melismatic passages were absolutely splendid. Bravo Ramon

[mjmacmtenor]

@jcatenor Vargas also excelled in some of the Rossini roles. Check out his version of Cenerentola with Bartoli (Met, I believe)

[cocoloco707]

mi version de araiza y esta son mis favoritas! bravo

[Torquemada0]

las versiones de Araiza y Vargas muy superiores a las de Domingo y Pavarotti!!

[jradetzky]

@Torquemada0 por supuesto

[me148]

this isn;t the vienna version is it? It sounds much more trciky than the one Pavarotti sang

[ruizdechavez]

If you are comparing with Pavartti, you will notice Ramón very different. Mozart composes this for a lyric tenor. That was before the Italian popular opera that Pavarotti uses to sing.

[sobatinyela]

Thank you for posting this! I find it to be the best "Fuor del mar" on Youtube! However, Mozart composed this for a specific singer, not the lyric tenor fach.. further, this is a zwischenfach role and is also listed in facher lists as a Jugendlicher Heldentenor (Spinto) role... not that any of that matters of course! I just find it hard to let an inaccuracy past.. our era started the categorization, they were just tenors in Mozart's day!! thx again, :)

[danbar73]

This is not the Vienna version that Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo sang on their YouTube videos. This is the extremely difficult original 1781 Munich version,and the video was from a 2006 live performance of Idomeneo from Salzburg.

[me148]

Thank you - I thought so!

[me148]

Never seen Vargas act this well

bravo!

[twhit007]

how f'in inspiring. totally great!

[SonoPortoricano]

Wow, this is really really good. Another tenor I have never heard from 'til now; he is a lyric, right?

This is great.

[ruizdechavez]

Good for you that now you know Ramón Vargas. Check him up over You Tube. He is a remarkable Tenor preferred by the great Directors.

[deepeyes29]

hell yes.