Quartet from Rigoletto- Siepi/Peters/Valletti/Thebom

[maestroiea2]

Thank you for posting a wonderful quartet with Mr. Cesare!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ImmaculateRecovery]

they are brilliant, but the soprano is amazing, and the bass too

[kasha1932]

Just a little comment on how much I love watching/listening to the "out of this world" music. Thank you "operalover" for posting this;please keep this one forever! And, YOU TUBE people...I pray you never, ever stop this...I love it and apprieciate it so much, words are not enough. Always remember that there are some of us who just don't get out as much any more, and YOU TUBE makes our days...at least it does mine! Thank you so very much. Maybe someday I'll learn how to upload some I have.

[kasha1932]

MIss Thebom was pretty much a staple at the Met during those years. I remember listening to Saturday at THE MET programs, and wondering just what Miss Thebom looked like. She is TREMENDOUS! I LOVE her smiling all the way through rather than some who look as though they're in PAIN! Wonder whether it's true she never had her hair cut, and could have it fixed any way to match the role. Thanks so much for posting this...wonderful , marvelous singers of the past!

[rovingdesertfox]

Love the posture of the mezzo. Nice bod to boot.

[freezetop]

confuse :S

[MrPlattsmouth]

Great performance of this. I like the way they walk right up plant their feet and just belt it out. I also prefer the older finish they used over what newer singers are doing nowdays.

[bsharppianomajor]

~~~that was a LONG time ago! Memorial Hall had fold-up , boxing was Wednesday nights opera a concerts on Saturday........great memories.

[Herur22]

Beautiful.

[Devastator1988]

Какой смешной квартет.

Много раз слышала эту музыку,обожаю эту оперу.

И исполнителей этих знаю,Сьепи очень люблю.

Но здесь они как бы отдельно,вне друг друга.Поют каждый о своем.А момент между прочим трагический.

Поэтому и смешно.

Особенно у Сьепи тупой вид.

[Devastator1988]

Какой смешной квартет.

Много раз слышала эту музыку,обожаю эту оперу.

И исполнителей этих знаю,Сьепи очень люблю.

Но здесь они как бы отдельно,вне друг друга.Поют каждый о своем.А момент между прочим трагический.

Поэтому и смешно.

[Phonologie]

I don´t like siepi sound this time

[babydrane]

A triumph for Siepi and Valetti!!!

[stomentendo]

grandissimo Cesare Siepi

[bsharppianomajor]

Best I have heard so far~~Peters gave a concert In Dayton in the 40's. During one of her arias she was dive bombed by a bat. Guess what her encore was~~~~~?

Those were the days!

[racheleleeba]

@bsharppianomajor I heard about the bats at Memorial Hall. They were flying around during a Die Fledermaus performance which my parents attended :-)

[billyguns2]

Cesare Valletti, my favorite ever Nemorino, Ernesto, and Alfredo; all the others here are great too and they all know how to take a proper operatic breath, something that has vanished from the opera stage today. The lungs go to the TOP of the shoulders.

[greve]

Une exécution très belle de ce quatuor.

[mozart200657]

fantastica esecuzione!!!

[gmodicag]

Siepi su tutti !!

[jeanmolin55]

Il più bel Rigoletto: Bella Figlia dell'Amore, che ho ascoltato !

Poi il quartetto, da 2:20 in poi è assolutamente il

NUMERO UNO !!!

Pieni voti 5*****

Grazie per il post e

grazie Amica Fan

[francesca7564]

@jeanmolin55

Grazie Jean ...

Fan

[MARILOLY50]

BRAVISIMO

[cornucopia2]

Ma che meraviglia! Valletti da brividi!

[vstasov]

They certainly all are beautiful people. I can see why Furtwängler developed a crush on Thebom.

Not the most musically delivered quartet from Rigoletto, but a great and glamorous performance nonetheless.

Thank you.

[bodiloto]

youtube- E UNA FORTUNA DI AVERE LA POSSIBILITA DI "VEDERE LA VERITA " IN FACCIA !!!!! IMMORTALI  ,UNA STUPENDA INTERPRETAZIONE !!!! GRAZIE !!!

[TedMichaelMorgan]

I remember this broadcast.

[rockgor]

Very nice job. Valletti made lots of recordings, but his voice did not record well. On stage he had a golden tenor like Corelli or Tucker, just not so big.

Peters had a lovely but tiny voice. She could only be heard when singing above the staff.

Thebom looked and sounded great. Don't know why she made so few recordings.

Siepi was a big star and still sounded great when I heard him in Don Carlo. He was in his 60s.

Tx 4 posting

[josemuso1]

Roberta's voice could be heard perfectly well all throughout her performances. I saw her glorious debut as "Zerlina" at the old Met and did very well vocally with the excellent Don of Paul Schoeffler's powerful instrumet, as well as in all the ensembles of the great opera, Don Giovanni. JRT

[Ettoredipugnar]

@rockgor What do you mean his voice didn't record well ?? His recording of his carnege hall concert is wonderfull

[jnbelcantu]

Youtube is a fantastic repository for the whole world of the great artists of the modern world. I love to search this endless treasurehouse. ! ! !

[Catwink41]

@jnbelcantu I think we will never be able to watch all of the videos.......GOLD!

[vanzofaust]

too bad that someone apparently thought that opera was synonymous with fff singing. Why fortissimo all the way through?? Pity. a dream team of singers forced to sing full out on every single note, every single phrase......

[saribu]

Viva Verdi!

[RADAMES1983]

Bravo!

[Agorante]

Most basses soon learn that if they want to get gigs they have to do the baritone parts in ensembles with tenors. I did this quartet once too. Its not that high. It only has a very brief F. Other than that one note it doesn't go above an E Flat.

The other part that tenors expect basses to know is the baritone line in the duet "Solenne in Quest Ora".

[EvaHartwig]

Чудесный, неправдоподобный ансамбль.

[cyfieithydd]

Wow!!

[urierman]

Thebom looks like a movie star - what a figure, and a voice to match it!

and Peters cracked me up with her little jumps around 2:52, trying to make herself more audible...

[KatherineXIX]

Shouldn't Gilda and Maddalena switch outfits? The other way around would fit their morals better...haha.

[18768546498]

this is confusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[rollsroyce59]

Yep. It's confusing..but think of the composer for a minute. Many opera singers got the title of primma donnas not for their offstage behavior; but, for their demands to showcase their vocal skills over the composer's intent of the music that they had written.

This quartet; to be performed well, takes a discipline of the singers to conform to the score...AND .. listening skills to hear the other singers . This recording is a top notch example of those skills!

[rollsroyce59]

Yep. It's confusing..but think of the composer for a minute.

Many opera singers got the title of primma donnas not for their offstage behavior; but, for their demands to showcase their vocal skills over the composer's intent of the music that they had written.

This quartet; to be performed well, takes a discipline of the singers to conform to the score...AND .. listening skills to hear the other singers .

This recording is a top notch example of those skills!

[mertsungu]

Siepi singing Rigoletto wonderful:)

Cesare Valletti as Nemorino or Ernesto... Wonderful!

[rockgor]

A wonderful quartet. Blanche Thebom was under-recorded. It didn't help that she recorded the same two operas more than once.

Cesare Valletti made a lot of recordings, but his voice sounds dry and raspy. In the theatre, however, his voice was a golden tenor that sounded better than many more celebrated tenors like di Stefano.

Peters had a pleasant, but tiny voice. In the theatre she couldn't be heard unless she was singing above the staff.

[jayboytheplayboy]

If Cesare Siepi is singing Rigoletto who in the world would sing Sparafucile? Leonard Cohen?

[mertsungu]

ha ha:)

[chrisibzu]

Hahahahaha you're right!

[ceccopisa]

Grandissima Peters! Spettacolare questo video con Siepi nella rara veste di baritono (sempre eccellente), e un Valletti inedito, diverso da quello conosciuto tramite le registrazioni Cetra. Buona scoperta anche il mezzosoprano Thebom.

[olgamarga]

¡Extraño,muy..interesante de oír.Siepi es fan-

tástico.

[meltzerboy]

Interesting group of famous singers. Not the best performance of the quartet I've ever heard, but very well sung, and certainly historic. The old-style high note ending, of course, not approved of by Verdi (I believe).

[Jgrant3919]

Absolutely wonderful. Too bad Siepi never sang the role, I would have paid to see that. Thanks for posting this, I am not sure how it could be sung any better.

[Tenderness6]

Quite an honour to sing with the legenday Cesare Siepi!

[ah332]

omg where do you get this stuff from! amazing!