Mario Del Monaco Ingemisco G.Verdi

[ForAll23]

Monaco was a vulgar singers. He was better suited to sing Othello.

[Gary2837]

Thanks for posting this gem!!! What a voice!!

[14neutrol]

MdM's singing here is like the purest celestial light. Heavenly

[deutschefach]

Great great recording. Please post the recording number of this recording. It shows him off. He was the king of open throat singing. He found spinning the piano tone tedious which is sad. Caruso's secret weapon was that he sang with an open throat but played with the piano tones all the time to keep them open but not pressured. Caruso played with the voice more. MDM did not play enough...he is direct all the time, which is just one choice. A star and not a lazy bone in his body.RIP Maestro.

[14neutrol]

Sublime, so wonderful

Thanks for posting this gem

[krajncrocky1]

monster tenor

[ThePavafan]

pavarotti is far better than del monaco

[sugarbist]

@ThePavafan In this aria Pav is in his 30s&Del Monaco is in his 60s after his car accident.Although I do think Pavarotti's voice is more suited for Ingemisco.

[ThePavafan]

@sugarbist pavarotti had always a better voice

[sugarbist]

@ThePavafan Pavarotti had a beautiful voice with excellent diction, more suited for lyric and some lyric spinto operas.Pav also had the ability to sing high note operas like Daughter of The Regiment &Puritani.DelMonaco on the other hand was a Dramatic tenor & excelled in the more spinto&dramatic roles like Otello Forza AIDA where PAV couldn't compete.MDM also had impeccable diction&phrasing along with a huge voice which was phenominal (LIVE.)I like Pav but my favorites are MDM Corelli&DiStefano

[ThePavafan]

@sugarbist The bigness of the voice has often nothing to do with loudness. Pavarotti despite his medium voice,because of his perfect technique was still louder than Del Monaco. Pav could easly sing otello or Forza or aida ,but his voice wouldnt sound dark and heroic.

[sugarbist]

@ThePavafan Del Monaco'svoice was both big&loud with greater resonating qualities than most singers including Pavarotti.It's the resonating qualities that make a voice larger in the opera house.Del Monaco is in the dramatic class with Zenatello Martinelli Merli Vinay Pertile Piccaluga Tamagno.He shares the distiction with these singers that Pavarotti wiill never be Classified with.It's wonderful that you like Pav better than MDM buts its important to keep things in their proper perspective CONT

[sugarbist]

@ThePavafan Del Monaco's voice was also larger than Corelli's&FC'Svoice was larger than Pav's.If you check out StefanZucker's interview with FC&Jerome Hines,Hinesmentions that Del Monaco's voice was the most GIGANTIC sound he ever heard.Lauri Volpi was a lyric spinto voice that possibly rang out more than any other voice in history&The dark sound has nothing to do with it.Pav does not have the dramatic impact that Volpi or Fillipeschi had to sing Aida Trovatore or Chenier&Forza.Enjoy

[Bjoerrelli]

@ThePavafan I´m sorry to say that Luciano only recorded Otello and never performed the role. I´m convinced that Pavarotti and bjorling where about the same in vocalsize and that they where heard because of their great resonance. But in power I´m convinced that the great spintovoices of Tucker, Corelli, Filippeschi.or Pertile where alot louder through the whole register. But on a record the lyric voice the winner.

[ThePavafan]

@Bjoerrelli Pavarotti didn't sing otello because his voice was too bright. He could easily sing otello. Pav in Tosca 1985 drowned Dimitrova but MDM couldn't drown even Maria Callas who is a lot weaker than Dimitrova.Pavarotti despite his medium voice,because of his perfect technique which gave him an awesome travelling ability and a great projection was louder than Del Monaco.

[Bjoerrelli]

@ThePavafan I adore Luciano´s voice for it´s beauty, but to say that he was louder then Del Monaco who where famous for being loud is just not true. In this aria I prefer Bjorling, Gigli or Pavarotti because the need for lyricism and dynamics. A lyric tenor can´t compeat with a dramatic in the low and middle voice, above A-natural they might stand a chance.

[Sophiestelle]

@ThePavafan Is like if you say: a Corvette is a better car than Bugaty o than Ferrari!

(sorry about my english)

[Sophiestelle]

Is like if you say the Corvette is better than a Bugatty o than Ferrari!

[ThePavafan]

@Sophiestelle Pavarotti is the ferrari

[Sophiestelle]

@ThePavafan Imposible!, because Del Mónaco have the double of horse-powers! ...like the Ferrari!

[pippofan123]

Esse é o MDM, dando tudo de sí, como sempre. Se entregando ao máximo. Não se poupando nunca. Respeitando sua arte, respeitando seu público. Sempre. E sempre autêntico, cantando tudo com a voz que tinha... e ponto final. E que voz!!! Se ele fosse um piloto de fórmula 1, eu digo que não tiraria o pé do acelerador em nenhum momento. Nunca. Grande Del Monaco!!!

[VivaRenata]

Tusen tack Marisolde som lade ut inspelningen och till MDM - som alltid och i alla sammanhang är inspirerande. Tack för att vi fått höra detta!

[oresteus]

from what recording is this taken, does anyone know?

[julioalcorcon]

dios es la santisima trinidad, compuesta de Aureliano Pertile ( padre ), del Monaco ( hijo ) y Alfredo Kraus ( espiritu santo ),

[Cantateur]

Hi, every opera fan. I also am a tenor. I am new on the "Market" . Of course, I am not comparing myself to Del Monaco, Bjorling, Domingo, Pavarotti or any of those great tenors. I don't think anyone is going to be even close to be as good those tenors. They were the best. But I would like to have your comments. Just be honest that's it. Type "Luc Robert" in the Youtube search zone above. Tell me your thaughts.

[Nadir2711]

Verdi demande beaucoup aux chanteurs...seuls de très bon ténors peuvent chanter de cette façon....Mario en est un...ça s'entend....

[phantom8472]

The organ may also be a few cents sharper than 440 anyways....

[phantom8472]

Del Monaco is fantastic, but he does tend to sing flat. You can hear him trying to get up to pitch on the end of the first Bb. Then again, such a huge voice and fantastic voice deserves to be cut some slack.

[VivaRenata]

@phantom8472 BS

[clytemnestre1]

The best interpretation!

Golden voice of every time, golden technic; golden musicality!

Watching MDM in live was better!

Not to be comparable with other even great tenors I love too...

[aaronsande]

You don't consider Kraus a Lyric Spinto?

I agree with everything else you said there, but Kraus's upper register was extremely powerful...not leggiero at all to my ears...

[ShawDAMAN]

I would say Kraus was a very light lyric. *Maybe* leggiero. There was a reason he wouldn't even sing La Boheme. Kraus' top may sound powerful on recordings but in the house, by all accounts he was not very loud at all although he projected fine.

[aaronsande]

Absolutely brilliant...one of the greatest tenors of all time, and a personal favorite!

[btsg]

MDM is so wild, he always like he is going to blast off like a moon rocket.

and wow, overdrive on the top notes.

[egymagyar1111111]

Marisol, God bless you for this posting, Pavarotti is an angel but MDM is Archangel with the sword of flames

[MARISOLDELMONACO]

@egymagyar1111111 thanks for your coment

[oleschmitt]

You're absolutelly right, @egymagyar1111111 there's no comparison!

[Jonnybrams]

I don't know what you're talking about, topmeat69. America is classically known for its great baritones, including Merrill, Warren, Thomas, Tibbett, Macneil, Milnes--the list goes on. They sounded like REAL men, I'm pretty sure.

[MARISOLDELMONACO]

am sorry i to answer oscalinetto

[luigicorvi24]

what more do you want ?????this is all too rare in performance. 1st, this is a great voice ( one of the greatest) 2nd, and you guys have to clean out your ears, this man sings with a beautiful legato verdian line. 3rd, he4 has the breath control to complete every phrase fully , while blowing just about every other Tenor out of the water. what do you want , Blood!!!!

[topmeat69]

well the Americans were never comfortable with men sounding very masculine,like real men do,like a Russian male chorus,or an Italian mens opera chours from the 1950s .Americans are used to the more "artistic" lighter sound like the singing sissies called the gay mens chorus.But men sounding like REAL men ,in the USA? When is that gonna start?And Americans criticizing a non American Art form? oh its a HOOT.

[buontenerone]

questo è il miglior Ingemisco mai cantato.bravo mario

[antfreire]

Ok if the man had a huge voice with an stonishing squillo, extremely large high notes, and an extraordinary sense of histrionics.....what do you want him to do? ....sing like Kraus?

[smartsteve]

excuse me but Kraus and Mario are both my favarit tenors and i don't believe Kraus was singing lighter maybe his whole body type or idiosicracy look lighter than Marios ,perhaps you refer to Florez !

[Webarton]

del monaco didnt make the sounds Kraus made...its a recording, live is a different story

[markovican]

One of my favorite tenors, what would I give for a chance to hear him live... He was unbelievable voice, quite possibly the best dramatic tenor ever, I mean, at the end of a day, who came even close to his Otello? Ramon Vinay was too much of a Wagnerian sort. And MDM was not only unsurpassed Otello, but also very acclaimed Canio, Radames, Samson, Chenier, Don Jose, Cavaradossi, Alvaro, to name just a few. People tend to criticise MDM for being too loud,well,he was dramatic tenor not a lyric one

[deutschefach]

@markovican I see it differently. I have had teachers who worked with him. He was fabulous and the voice was remarkable. The technical problem is that he went down after the premiers.He was not patient or playful in working out interpretive solutions that would allow him to rest the voice. Corelli could but MDM chose not to. The point is his choices. The voice is spectacular but his interpretations are often only balls to the wall singing. It tires the listener too. Thrilling but tiring.

[pozzil]

Fantastico!!!!