Saw his performing the same role yesterday. What can I say, I like his singing (and his costume) in this video better.((( By some freakish accident I even end up on the same picture with him.
My God some of you people are ridiculously critical! He sings the whole thing magnificently and then has a little blip on the last b flat which he sucessfully sings through. If I'd paid to see him I'd have been very happy to hear such a great voice sing so stylishly, and I am a tenor who has sung Aida many times myself and know how difficult it is.
My God some of you people are ridiculously critical! He sings the whole thing magnificently and then has a little blip on the last b flat which he sucessfully sings through. If I'd paid to see him I'd have been very happy to hear such a great voice sing so stylishly, and I am a tenor who has sung Aida many times myself and knows how difficult it is.
crack... oh! dear... go to see any video of P.Domingo singing this aria and you will feel so stressed to see him struggling with the high notes. The crack on this man was just an accident, nervs... anyway I feel that nowdays he have a different place for his voice, I mean have more center, more body support. I like it.
all this fuss over a tiny crack...try it with the orchestra on stage in costume with lights and then you can talk..plus the hardest part of the aria he nailed....bravo
just so everyone understands, this is bar none the hardest role a tenor could possibly perform. almost every tenor who sings it sounds like balls excuse the term. there are very few who have the technical mastery sing it much less sound good. and NO one sounds good every night, its THAT taxing. Pavarotti had machine like perfect technique and he quit this role because of the toll it was taking on his voice. vlad was probably just tired here. if you are the least bit tired you will blow this aria
@Englishtenor2 different fach. this is still in the lyric spinto realm, maybe i should have clarified. the roles you mentioned are more heroic tenor roles that lighter tenors wouldnt be singing anyway. but for a sizable heroic tenor voice that doesn't need to push to be heard those roles wouldn't be too tough. most tenors say aida is the most difficult because of the tessitura etc, but maybe some would find siegried or otello harder for different reasons. or of similar difficulty.
@bigus yes, he ran out of breath at the end & missed some pitches but still this is a lovely, well-used instrument. I use this aria as a training for the breath, long after I've warmed -up. There are a couple bad MdM recordings of this on YT to help put this in perspective.
@Lovelytenor1 i agree. mdm sounded good sometimes but like you said he also sounded bad alot and i think went off pitch manytimes too later on. i heard some mdm recordings recently that left much to be desired.
@bigus If you work on this one, remember, sing it lyrically- including the first two b-flats. Where this guy & others screw-up is that they try to sing it heroically throughout (Verdi wrote a lyric aria in a dramatic role- very cruel) & save the heroics for the last b-flat. Guys get all tied up/fatigued & can't make it at the end. I just sang it twice in a row & it went OK.
@Lovelytenor1 i think your absolutely right, and i will remember that advice if i ever sing this. i dont have a heroic tenor voice so i will probably steer clear of most of these type of arias. if its not easy for me i dont even attempt it. i believe that no matter what you sing it should be easy on your voice. a helden tenor can sing the heavy roles easily because it doesn't hurt his voice where for someone like me it would be suicide.
@bigus Very true Bigus. The aria shows just how far one is with their technique too. This aria is written in such a way that anything that is "extra" or "too much" is immediately heard. Verdi put in piano all over so the singer can concentrate on open throat ringing tone and a spun yawn to spin every single tone and trust it to be enough. The music is heroic without the need for "extra". Even if you are the "best" what the end requires is specific. Few of us have solved these problems.
...he is in a bad shape this evening. First he is out of tune (beginning: celeste Aida....), then he is out of fokus (vicino al sol...). then he cracks (last ...als sol...). This recording shows, how difficult this aria really is. I think, we could find more recordings like this, even Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras, Alagna had Problems with this aria.
if you're implicating that all russians are unmusical and bawling, you must simply not be able to recognize pure passion and music that comes from the heart.
This also reminds me of a performance of Mozart's Tito here in Amsterdam with Jerry Hadley as Tito. As a fan of Hadley it was really painful for me to hear that almost everything went wrong, much like in this clip. Then I judged him for it, disappointed as I was. Only much later did I hear about his wife who had divorced him, which eventually may have been the main reason why he ended his life.
First I pointed my finger: you've been cheating us with your fake singing, now I'm deeply ashamed.
i once went to see my singing teacher in a production and his singing was terrible. honest as i am, i said so and he told me that behind the stage he'd received a call telling his mom had just been taken to intensive care with heart failure. he said: it blew me right off my feet, i must have dropped years back in my technical development. that's what personal stuff can do to your singing, if you're sensitive to it. so don't judge someone by one performance if you don't know the story behind it.
Bueno, lo he escuchado en ,mejores arias. Prefiero escucharlo y verlo a él que a Placido Domingo. Indiscutiblemente el Gran Franco Corelli fué es y será el mejor.
no fue un buen dia para galouzine... aunque considero que esta area no siginifica un tropiexzo ya que a mi parecer le salio bastante bien sin contar el nifal que fue atropellado y opacado por una imperfeccion ,,, digamos quer tuvo un mal dia poero no por eso lo van a enterrar ,, es uno de los mejores tenores
aida can be scary. he starts really excited, with a good "vinto" , and then it never gets into place, like he cannot get the breath down or he can't breath, i think he needs a slower tempo. the last verse is really falling apart, maybe he is sick. then he rushes and tightens up on the "un trono vicino al sol", trying to sing soft but its out of position, and the last phrase---one way ticket to tightsville, "soluuuchgrind. " its funny because he is such a good voice....should have sung all FF.
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No todo es la voz, falta legato, fraseo y estilo italiano, muchas veces no se entiende lo que canta, la técnica es desigual como la voz dependiendo de la zona del pentagrama donde se mueva, arrastrando las notas feamente y sin clase......
this is the earliest video i've seen of him and he sounds great compared to some of the more recent videos. im singing in the chorus the pagliacci hes doing at hgo this season soooo i guess well see what happens
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Martinucci forever!!! Real Belcanto, pure wovels, intonation, vocal instincts!!!
And that one - unstable voice,that's change place all the time, killing intonation all the time( I mean some time it's can be flat, but not almost all continuation of aria),portamento it's great, but you must now how to do it. If don't - just don't use it! etc..
Estupendo, pero ya he comprobado que las notas altas (si bemol, si natural...) le resultan algo así como inseguras, escapa de ellas con rapidez, en ocasiones casi rompiéndolas, peligrando en el gallo. Pero, no obstante, qué chorrazo de voz.Estupendo.
moskwa123, might have her comments, but for singers out there, Galouzin in this rendition was too HYPER. moved around too muchh, lost concentration, otherwise he could have pulled it oof much better. Celeste Aida is a difficult opening aria. PERIOD, so approach with great respect, and CALM. In adiition the theme of hte song calls for a relaxed, beautiful feeling, Celeste Aida, go on the heroic path, or in this case the hyper path, and S U F F E R.
laboured technique, can tell how stressed he is after he comes down from the high B note at about 2:10. That and the fight for the llast note that when raspy. His voice won't last long like that.
My dear, I sung with this guy in Queen of Spades in ROH last season. He sung all morning rehearsals without worming up with amazing sound. Dont forget you listening live performance. I worked with all best singers at the moment in ROH and if you would like to listen great singing always perfect buy a CD... Just to let you know that this guy uses Melocchi metod like del Moncao. Everybody is stressed singing live only idiot takes it easy. I think it is professional to be worried and do your best.
My post was to rayhetse. This guy is now in his late 50's and still sings like that.. With this massive baritone timbre tenor voice it is great to hear singing with this quality. month ago he sung in Met in The Gambler also very very demanding role...
he still has a laboured technique and all the videos i've watched of him, his voice sounds dull by the end. And not everyone is stressed singing live. If you have the technique you can do it better with no stress.
great voice but off pitch most of the times, has an funny blend of Italian and Russian timbre: great voice no doubt! needs good coaching:) many tenors break their voices in this aria
Though he cracks couple of times and not always right on pitch, is a still great voice. Not very many dramatic tenors today,
Great discouvery for me was an unknown tenor from Canada Franco Tenelli who I had an opportunity to hear live: huge, inormous voice and not screamy at the same time and he sounded more like Verdian Baritone then a tenor
per me è troppo pesante ed ha una pronuncia che non lo aiuta. Devo dire che fa comunque piacere vedere un Radames che sorrida e cerchi di infondere emozione e non solo voce. bravo!
By "today," you mean turn of the century? His name NEVER comes up anymore, whereas a few years ago he was tauted as the "next big thing." His musicality is lacking for me too, I think part of it is his attempt to navigate the music without making too much of a fool of himself. This is tough stuff, no doubt, especially this aria.
Im really getting tired of non historical images being presented in the media. Like this for example... the Ancient Egyptians were an African group of people. The Romans and Greeks in movies are never protryed as African people. I wonder why there is a double standard.
Look at all the Hollywood movies of the Ancient Egyptians. Most of the chracters are played by European peoples... not African people which these people were!! In Hollywood you will never se King Leonidus played by a African American. But for Ramses its ok. Do some research!
And by the same token Barbra Hendriks should sing Aida, and let's have Kathleen Battle as Amneris and every madame butterfly should be strictly Japanese... and the next time we have Le Roi de Lahore we'll be off to Pakistan to get an authentic cast...and for The cunning little Vixen
@taythema I agree, every single opera house in the entire world should only hire an entire cast born and raised in Northern Africa with classical schooling of elite standard. Seriously, when was the last time you heard an Ethiopian tenor?
@taythema You are confusing Sub-Saharan Africans (Blacks) with the Hamites (Egytptians) and Semites(Cartheginians) of Northern Africa. Egyptians left lots of records of who they were. They considered themselves the Red People. They represented the Numidians as Black people. The plot of Aida reflects this. Aida is a Black slave. If all the Egyptians were also Black - no drama.
In most movies the Romans are played by the British actors and Americans typically play Jews.
Gosh, it turns out this is a pretty difficult aria! Every one of those phrases that starts out low and then rises, he attacks weakly. And lots of other pitch problems. He doesn't even sound like he has very good breath control except at forte. I'm not impressed. Notice the weak applause from the audience at the end!
I saw him recently at Covent Garden as Gherman in the Queen of Spades. Absolutely best Gherman in the last 50 years. What a heart-stopping, mellow, baritoney tenor. If anyone has a recording, please post!
Nikola Martinucci's Celeste Aida is the best so far posted on youtube, but Nikola is not a dramatic tenor but rather a lyric one with darkness in his voice, Galuzin is a dramatic tenor and Aida is not a piece of cake.Another great Russian dramatic tenor Atlantov never even tried to sing Radames. Bravo Galuzin!
This video does not do justice to Galouzine´s singing. Unfortunately, this is very poorly sung. I remember seeing Galouzine in Chicago singing the tenor role in "Queen of Spades" and it was one of the most beautiful tenor voices I had even heard in that opera house (Lyric Opera of Chicago) for years. This video doesn´t do justice to his singing. Very unfortunate.
Wonderful voice - naturally dark and heroic. He's just not a very good singer at this point in his career. Losing control as he goes into the aria - a little hoarsness shows a lack of technique as does the last note - he had it, but didn't have the technique to sustain it!
There are good things here: the smiling and the energetic movement fit the moment, several good top notes, but the diction is bad, there are some vocal problems, and unsteadiness in the middle of the voice. I wonder if he improved through the performance.
common,people, hi is good at the first pushing part, but after that - no line, no famouse brithing through the frase..everything remain the same color "at the enge of scream". That is why he couldn't get the last "B".
Saw his performing the same role yesterday. What can I say, I like his singing (and his costume) in this video better.((( By some freakish accident I even end up on the same picture with him.
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My God some of you people are ridiculously critical! He sings the whole thing magnificently and then has a little blip on the last b flat which he sucessfully sings through. If I'd paid to see him I'd have been very happy to hear such a great voice sing so stylishly, and I am a tenor who has sung Aida many times myself and know how difficult it is.
Cavaradossi10 9 months ago
My God some of you people are ridiculously critical! He sings the whole thing magnificently and then has a little blip on the last b flat which he sucessfully sings through. If I'd paid to see him I'd have been very happy to hear such a great voice sing so stylishly, and I am a tenor who has sung Aida many times myself and knows how difficult it is.
Cavaradossi10 9 months ago
crack... oh! dear... go to see any video of P.Domingo singing this aria and you will feel so stressed to see him struggling with the high notes. The crack on this man was just an accident, nervs... anyway I feel that nowdays he have a different place for his voice, I mean have more center, more body support. I like it.
aguacun 1 year ago
all this fuss over a tiny crack...try it with the orchestra on stage in costume with lights and then you can talk..plus the hardest part of the aria he nailed....bravo
vocetenor 1 year ago
sigh...
liEder89 1 year ago
huge stream of sound...lack of technique
osvaldoutube 1 year ago
It's out of tune, it's all over the place, mind that fraud is conducting but it's not very good.
jamesjmertins 1 year ago
Damn shame cos the guy can really sing.
Englishtenor2 2 years ago
You can always tell if there is something worth hearing
no matter how bad a night - phrasing of instance -
in this case he just yowls trying to sound like a half
dozen bad Italian tenors ..who often sing as badly
but to great acclaim being Italian .
dziady1 2 years ago
Martinucci is better.
hansquad 2 years ago
sembra una caricatura...
Samanthalastrega90 2 years ago
just so everyone understands, this is bar none the hardest role a tenor could possibly perform. almost every tenor who sings it sounds like balls excuse the term. there are very few who have the technical mastery sing it much less sound good. and NO one sounds good every night, its THAT taxing. Pavarotti had machine like perfect technique and he quit this role because of the toll it was taking on his voice. vlad was probably just tired here. if you are the least bit tired you will blow this aria
bigus 2 years ago 3
@bigus Bar none? Otello? Siegfried? Hello?
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bigus 2 years ago
@Englishtenor2 different fach. this is still in the lyric spinto realm, maybe i should have clarified. the roles you mentioned are more heroic tenor roles that lighter tenors wouldnt be singing anyway. but for a sizable heroic tenor voice that doesn't need to push to be heard those roles wouldn't be too tough. most tenors say aida is the most difficult because of the tessitura etc, but maybe some would find siegried or otello harder for different reasons. or of similar difficulty.
bigus 1 year ago
@bigus yes, he ran out of breath at the end & missed some pitches but still this is a lovely, well-used instrument. I use this aria as a training for the breath, long after I've warmed -up. There are a couple bad MdM recordings of this on YT to help put this in perspective.
Lovelytenor1 1 year ago
@Lovelytenor1 i agree. mdm sounded good sometimes but like you said he also sounded bad alot and i think went off pitch manytimes too later on. i heard some mdm recordings recently that left much to be desired.
bigus 1 year ago
@bigus If you work on this one, remember, sing it lyrically- including the first two b-flats. Where this guy & others screw-up is that they try to sing it heroically throughout (Verdi wrote a lyric aria in a dramatic role- very cruel) & save the heroics for the last b-flat. Guys get all tied up/fatigued & can't make it at the end. I just sang it twice in a row & it went OK.
Lovelytenor1 1 year ago
@Lovelytenor1 i think your absolutely right, and i will remember that advice if i ever sing this. i dont have a heroic tenor voice so i will probably steer clear of most of these type of arias. if its not easy for me i dont even attempt it. i believe that no matter what you sing it should be easy on your voice. a helden tenor can sing the heavy roles easily because it doesn't hurt his voice where for someone like me it would be suicide.
bigus 1 year ago
@bigus I do agree with you, but could those that pay lot money to watch him, will think like u and me? :-)
RonaldBarone 1 year ago
@bigus pav never quited this role
ThePavafan 9 months ago
@bigus Very true Bigus. The aria shows just how far one is with their technique too. This aria is written in such a way that anything that is "extra" or "too much" is immediately heard. Verdi put in piano all over so the singer can concentrate on open throat ringing tone and a spun yawn to spin every single tone and trust it to be enough. The music is heroic without the need for "extra". Even if you are the "best" what the end requires is specific. Few of us have solved these problems.
deutschefach 7 months ago
@bigus What hogwash. For Pavarotti, this role was too heavy and he cracked a million times.
TsarBovov 2 months ago
...he is in a bad shape this evening. First he is out of tune (beginning: celeste Aida....), then he is out of fokus (vicino al sol...). then he cracks (last ...als sol...). This recording shows, how difficult this aria really is. I think, we could find more recordings like this, even Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras, Alagna had Problems with this aria.
dg6da 2 years ago 2
what i find most difficult about this aria is the fact that it has so many ascending lines, the last one even in piano all the way up to b-flat.
but i'm a real fan of galouzine's and i simply cannot imagine he isn't really ill in this performance. this is not like galouzine at all!
yes, very painful, but no, no reason to judge someone if you don't know what was wrong.
aidavdbrake 2 years ago
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Bloody awful...out of tune unmusical Russian bawling at it's worst.
HeldenB 2 years ago
..it is worst?
ralphoperaphile 2 years ago
if you're implicating that all russians are unmusical and bawling, you must simply not be able to recognize pure passion and music that comes from the heart.
aidavdbrake 2 years ago
das ist einfach nicht gut!
ivanopera 2 years ago
Not Italianate. Russian only.
Operaddict 2 years ago
This also reminds me of a performance of Mozart's Tito here in Amsterdam with Jerry Hadley as Tito. As a fan of Hadley it was really painful for me to hear that almost everything went wrong, much like in this clip. Then I judged him for it, disappointed as I was. Only much later did I hear about his wife who had divorced him, which eventually may have been the main reason why he ended his life.
First I pointed my finger: you've been cheating us with your fake singing, now I'm deeply ashamed.
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aidavdbrake 2 years ago
i once went to see my singing teacher in a production and his singing was terrible. honest as i am, i said so and he told me that behind the stage he'd received a call telling his mom had just been taken to intensive care with heart failure. he said: it blew me right off my feet, i must have dropped years back in my technical development. that's what personal stuff can do to your singing, if you're sensitive to it. so don't judge someone by one performance if you don't know the story behind it.
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aidavdbrake 2 years ago
Bueno, lo he escuchado en ,mejores arias. Prefiero escucharlo y verlo a él que a Placido Domingo. Indiscutiblemente el Gran Franco Corelli fué es y será el mejor.
pieritlyon 2 years ago
Great voice - but sometimes out of tune...
kopap74 2 years ago
no fue un buen dia para galouzine... aunque considero que esta area no siginifica un tropiexzo ya que a mi parecer le salio bastante bien sin contar el nifal que fue atropellado y opacado por una imperfeccion ,,, digamos quer tuvo un mal dia poero no por eso lo van a enterrar ,, es uno de los mejores tenores
2591740 2 years ago 4
I wish he sang like this today.
Operaddict 2 years ago 2
Fa troppa fatica, comunque é addirittura migliore Alagna come Radames(e questa la dice tutta)
liric01994 3 years ago
aida can be scary. he starts really excited, with a good "vinto" , and then it never gets into place, like he cannot get the breath down or he can't breath, i think he needs a slower tempo. the last verse is really falling apart, maybe he is sick. then he rushes and tightens up on the "un trono vicino al sol", trying to sing soft but its out of position, and the last phrase---one way ticket to tightsville, "soluuuchgrind. " its funny because he is such a good voice....should have sung all FF.
btsg 3 years ago
..he cracked on the final note....
Webarton 3 years ago
Ha ha ha U r great tenor ....
Rigoletto69 2 years ago
I had the honour of being on stage with Vladimir during 6 Manon Lescauts at the Valerie Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam.
Great voice... pitty he did NOT speak any english !
earlph 3 years ago 2
U can speak russian? dumm
Rigoletto69 2 years ago
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No todo es la voz, falta legato, fraseo y estilo italiano, muchas veces no se entiende lo que canta, la técnica es desigual como la voz dependiendo de la zona del pentagrama donde se mueva, arrastrando las notas feamente y sin clase......
liricraker 3 years ago
U can sing better then him show me fucker!
Rigoletto69 2 years ago
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highs difficult for him.
LucianoKraCore 3 years ago
this is the earliest video i've seen of him and he sounds great compared to some of the more recent videos. im singing in the chorus the pagliacci hes doing at hgo this season soooo i guess well see what happens
searnold56 3 years ago
wow i was blown away
Webarton 3 years ago 3
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Martinucci forever!!! Real Belcanto, pure wovels, intonation, vocal instincts!!!
And that one - unstable voice,that's change place all the time, killing intonation all the time( I mean some time it's can be flat, but not almost all continuation of aria),portamento it's great, but you must now how to do it. If don't - just don't use it! etc..
It's kind of painfull!!
Good Luck!!!
stalgert 3 years ago
can he sing the rest now?:(
OperaBaritoneJoe 3 years ago
Right voice for that role, no doubt, but sloppy with intonation and his"A" not supported well, last be flat is bad, schreamy like hell.
I don't think he is moving because he chose to, it's stupid stage directors fault who have no idea about how it should be done in opera
patimomus 3 years ago
Estupendo, pero ya he comprobado que las notas altas (si bemol, si natural...) le resultan algo así como inseguras, escapa de ellas con rapidez, en ocasiones casi rompiéndolas, peligrando en el gallo. Pero, no obstante, qué chorrazo de voz.Estupendo.
ubedajils 3 years ago
moskwa123, might have her comments, but for singers out there, Galouzin in this rendition was too HYPER. moved around too muchh, lost concentration, otherwise he could have pulled it oof much better. Celeste Aida is a difficult opening aria. PERIOD, so approach with great respect, and CALM. In adiition the theme of hte song calls for a relaxed, beautiful feeling, Celeste Aida, go on the heroic path, or in this case the hyper path, and S U F F E R.
fabrizzzio48 3 years ago
laboured technique, can tell how stressed he is after he comes down from the high B note at about 2:10. That and the fight for the llast note that when raspy. His voice won't last long like that.
raythetse 3 years ago
My dear, I sung with this guy in Queen of Spades in ROH last season. He sung all morning rehearsals without worming up with amazing sound. Dont forget you listening live performance. I worked with all best singers at the moment in ROH and if you would like to listen great singing always perfect buy a CD... Just to let you know that this guy uses Melocchi metod like del Moncao. Everybody is stressed singing live only idiot takes it easy. I think it is professional to be worried and do your best.
moskwa123 3 years ago 3
My post was to rayhetse. This guy is now in his late 50's and still sings like that.. With this massive baritone timbre tenor voice it is great to hear singing with this quality. month ago he sung in Met in The Gambler also very very demanding role...
moskwa123 3 years ago
Galouzine is just now 51 years old, an age in which Martinelli sang his first Otello!
Gerd276 3 years ago
he still has a laboured technique and all the videos i've watched of him, his voice sounds dull by the end. And not everyone is stressed singing live. If you have the technique you can do it better with no stress.
raythetse 3 years ago
great voice but off pitch most of the times, has an funny blend of Italian and Russian timbre: great voice no doubt! needs good coaching:) many tenors break their voices in this aria
wapakeko 4 years ago
Martinucci is the best Radames though he is not a dramatic tenor like Galuzin but he sing on pitch and has more consistant voice.
This part is very difficult for any tenor attempting it and aria is a killer.
operacritique1950 4 years ago
Though he cracks couple of times and not always right on pitch, is a still great voice. Not very many dramatic tenors today,
Great discouvery for me was an unknown tenor from Canada Franco Tenelli who I had an opportunity to hear live: huge, inormous voice and not screamy at the same time and he sounded more like Verdian Baritone then a tenor
northoperafreak 4 years ago
very good! but it is not his best day.. listen how tierd hi became in the second part of the aria, and the end. I think he was ill in that day.
RADAMES1983 4 years ago
very good until his voice breaks while holding the last note still it was good
TheRealEmit 4 years ago
what's the date of this performance?
btsg 4 years ago
i love his style, 20 stars, bravo
wenarto 4 years ago 4
everyone cracks my friends...it wil happen to all. he sounds amazing truly melochi sounding tenor.
songsofscarlet 4 years ago 4
per me è troppo pesante ed ha una pronuncia che non lo aiuta. Devo dire che fa comunque piacere vedere un Radames che sorrida e cerchi di infondere emozione e non solo voce. bravo!
udilio 4 years ago 4
4/5 considerando anche l'immane difficoltà di questa (da me) odiata aria...
benanescas 4 years ago
Bravo, this was great!
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ZaqCapone 4 years ago
the word is Vicino al sol not al suol. Bravo.
Cantachepassa 4 years ago
I like most voices but
Franco Corelli is the KING.
Cantachepassa 4 years ago
By "today," you mean turn of the century? His name NEVER comes up anymore, whereas a few years ago he was tauted as the "next big thing." His musicality is lacking for me too, I think part of it is his attempt to navigate the music without making too much of a fool of himself. This is tough stuff, no doubt, especially this aria.
drdre333 4 years ago
Im really getting tired of non historical images being presented in the media. Like this for example... the Ancient Egyptians were an African group of people. The Romans and Greeks in movies are never protryed as African people. I wonder why there is a double standard.
taythema 4 years ago
eh?
Gabba02 4 years ago
Look at all the Hollywood movies of the Ancient Egyptians. Most of the chracters are played by European peoples... not African people which these people were!! In Hollywood you will never se King Leonidus played by a African American. But for Ramses its ok. Do some research!
taythema 4 years ago
Whoa kid - Shut the hell up!
AUDlOPHILE 4 years ago
And by the same token Barbra Hendriks should sing Aida, and let's have Kathleen Battle as Amneris and every madame butterfly should be strictly Japanese... and the next time we have Le Roi de Lahore we'll be off to Pakistan to get an authentic cast...and for The cunning little Vixen
Please Taythema get a life
CzarDodon 4 years ago
cause its hard to find 40 african volunteers that sing italian opera chorus in russia or praga?
opera is "the media?" this is a bootleg tape.--and what was that yiiup on the end of sol?
btsg 4 years ago
@taythema I agree, every single opera house in the entire world should only hire an entire cast born and raised in Northern Africa with classical schooling of elite standard. Seriously, when was the last time you heard an Ethiopian tenor?
Honken 1 year ago
@taythema You are confusing Sub-Saharan Africans (Blacks) with the Hamites (Egytptians) and Semites(Cartheginians) of Northern Africa. Egyptians left lots of records of who they were. They considered themselves the Red People. They represented the Numidians as Black people. The plot of Aida reflects this. Aida is a Black slave. If all the Egyptians were also Black - no drama.
In most movies the Romans are played by the British actors and Americans typically play Jews.
Agorante 7 months ago
You Don't say slobone...;) Celeste Aida is an INSANELY difficult aria, even for a dramatic tenor.
motherussia 4 years ago
Gosh, it turns out this is a pretty difficult aria! Every one of those phrases that starts out low and then rises, he attacks weakly. And lots of other pitch problems. He doesn't even sound like he has very good breath control except at forte. I'm not impressed. Notice the weak applause from the audience at the end!
slobone 4 years ago
hes got the slavic ce/se on the italian here--normal.
the vinto is great.this was years ago,and his voice is all lined up. ergerti un trono-was a taste of things to come.
btsg 4 years ago
I saw him recently at Covent Garden as Gherman in the Queen of Spades. Absolutely best Gherman in the last 50 years. What a heart-stopping, mellow, baritoney tenor. If anyone has a recording, please post!
contessa670 4 years ago 2
poor
malcolme01 4 years ago
Nikola Martinucci's Celeste Aida is the best so far posted on youtube, but Nikola is not a dramatic tenor but rather a lyric one with darkness in his voice, Galuzin is a dramatic tenor and Aida is not a piece of cake.Another great Russian dramatic tenor Atlantov never even tried to sing Radames. Bravo Galuzin!
francotenelli 5 years ago
This video does not do justice to Galouzine´s singing. Unfortunately, this is very poorly sung. I remember seeing Galouzine in Chicago singing the tenor role in "Queen of Spades" and it was one of the most beautiful tenor voices I had even heard in that opera house (Lyric Opera of Chicago) for years. This video doesn´t do justice to his singing. Very unfortunate.
andredemesquita 5 years ago
just not good enough
vladupe 5 years ago
Wonderful voice - naturally dark and heroic. He's just not a very good singer at this point in his career. Losing control as he goes into the aria - a little hoarsness shows a lack of technique as does the last note - he had it, but didn't have the technique to sustain it!
cyfieithydd 5 years ago
There are good things here: the smiling and the energetic movement fit the moment, several good top notes, but the diction is bad, there are some vocal problems, and unsteadiness in the middle of the voice. I wonder if he improved through the performance.
Samurai9 5 years ago
common,people, hi is good at the first pushing part, but after that - no line, no famouse brithing through the frase..everything remain the same color "at the enge of scream". That is why he couldn't get the last "B".
margopera 5 years ago
B-flat.:D
Fitz65 5 years ago
I think since '95 his voice has come under more consistent control,
hightenor123 5 years ago
Love the quality of his voice, but a lot of underpitch singing and quite hoarsy sometimes.
Cesaare 5 years ago
Galouzine sin duda el mejor tenor dramatico de la actualidad, aqui un regalo con esta version, para que aprendan que es un Radamez Heroico
verdiotello 5 years ago 2