jose carreras - lamento di federico cilea

[Nikio23]

It is almost like this aria was written for him personally. I don't see anyone performing this better!

[donaldrose]

I took a while to warm to Jose's voice because of the break when he moves through the passagio. But his warmth, musicianship and other qualities won me over. Now I listen to him more than perhaps any other tenor and I am a Bjoerling lover so that is saying something. Probably better sound with more modern recordings is a factor.

[succesboy]

typical area for this voice

[MARISOLDELMONACO]

Bravo!!  es un guerrero de la vida

[MARISOLDELMONACO]

Bravo!!  es un guerrero de la vida

[TheSoleilbrillant]

The original Three Tenors Concert, Rome, 7 July 1990, Zubin Mehta, Conductor...

[felipesobiech]

I agree, he does this much better than anyone else. I'm attempting this in about 2 weeks in front of our boarding school during chapel. I hope I show it some justice.

[donniebrasco24]

Bravo Carreras! que orgullo!!!

[505KingPin505]

@donniebrasco24 indio

[donniebrasco24]

@505KingPin505 lo seras...

[505KingPin505]

@donniebrasco24 lmaooooo shut up you big headed chicanito de mierda, indio azteca cara de pinga como tu abuela, puto cabezon piel color caca LMAOOOO

[Ellenica100]

Carreras un amore ..bravo!!

[francesca7564]

MAGISTRAL ... malgré l'avion ....

Monsieur Carreras vous savez faire contre (tous) les éléments .

Admiration et respect !

Merci pour le post .

[changkwonchung]

I love it.

[maxhansendk]

This is painful to listen to, Carreras finishes very badly and the start is also very strained.

I have no doubt Carreras was very good in the past. But try to listen to Nicolai Gedda in this particular aria ("Lamento di Federico").

There is singing - and there is singing, if you know what I mean ;-)

[elisabeth1741]

Besides the beauty of Carreras's voice, he has the unique ability to technically deliver this aria as it is intended to be delivered. The music itself and the aria is meant to be sung, overwrought with sentimentality. I have always found his interpretations of the original composers' works are done with exceptional sensitivity.

[atomhigh]

J'ai beau écouter pavarotti, cette partie de l'arlésienne est chantée magnifiquement mieux par José Carreras.. Il y met tellement plus d'émotion,on ressent de la peine et de la souffrance dans sa voix lorsqu'il chante ce morceau. Pavarotti me semble beaucoup plus détaché.

Bref, Pour ça au moins José Carreras l'emporte haut la main pour moi....

[francesca7564]

@atomhigh

En toute amitié, écoutez aussi Alfredo Kraus, Tito Shipa et ... Jonas Kaufmann .

Lyriquement vôtre .

[jeanmolin55]

@francesca7564 Grazie Signora Francesca: Carreras è un gran tenore e un gran signore! E’ inutile fare paragoni con altri tenori del passato e del presente. Possiamo ricordare anche una splendida interpretazione di N. Gedda. Ma ogni voce ha la sua caratteristica e Carreras è un generoso, bel timbro, voce, grande classe! *****

[francesca7564]

@jeanmolin55

Je ne fais pas de comparaison mon bel ami, je donnais seulement des noms pour faire découvrir d'autres chanteurs ...

On le sait que chacun est unique !

Amitiés !

Francesca

[heesendr]

A jet flies over at 2:53 and following. Jose acknowledges it with a quick glance.

[flaze3]

@heesendr and a kiss...

[rapperzondernaam]

i love this BUT to me it sounds like there's two seperate lines here, the music and the voice... but where do they meet? They should touch and bond.. that's why I prefer Luciano! but this is still really great..

[MsF1Annie]

He shows such passion and emotion and these complement his voice perfectly. Bravo Josep!!

[mezereum]

que bello timbre de voz, la falta de tecnica le pasó la cuenta a traves de los años , al igual que di stefano , pero la entrega , la naturalidad de la voz y el arrojo con que aborda cada pieza lo hacen merecedor de un puesto entre los grandes cantantes de todos los tiempos.

[maxhansendk]

Jussi Bjorling is master of this song!!!

[radiologist301]

Very poor effort....the PASSAGIO is terrible....poor Carreras...

[ortodossa]

Si , ma Carreras e comunque grande !!

Ciao!!

[Generalfieldmarshall]

Oh, ya lo recordé....1990 en Roma XD

[ortodossa]

Grandioso Carreras , Grazie

[Generalfieldmarshall]

Esta es, para mi, la mejor interpretación de esta aria. En que año se llevó a cabo esta extraordinaria performance?

[Kraus4ever]

maravilloso timbre y maravillosa ejecución, pero poca dominio de la técnica en mi opinión, en los agudos se pone histérico...aun así, carreras es de los que más me transmiten...

[sandrik100]

Only Begniamino Gigli and Mario Lanza can compare with him in this aria, but they did not sing it in correctn key last high note must be A and they were taking H. Del Monaco was singing it in correct key.

As regards to Pavarotti, he never had such a fire as Carreras owns. Besides Carreras has stronger voice than Pavarotti He was siging allways higher and we thought, that he had stronger voice.

[rayrainbows]

sandrik100, wow, i believe you are right ... Carreras is other-worldly ...

[phantom4087]

I respect your opinion, but the wobble is a little bit irritating for me.

By the way, Lanza's recording of the aria was in this key.

[eur8ftm]

Pavarotti was always 5 classes better than anybody else!

[misio15]

WOOW!!! No hay como carreras para esta aria !!!

Grandioso!!!

[ortodossa]

Si grandioso !!! ciao

[coreTenore]

Una gran intepretación ,en un fantástico lugar, en una noche tan emotiva, que más...?

[ortodossa]

CARRERAS TI AMO , GRAZIE!!!

[ortodossa]

SUBLIME

[30martin082007]

Maestro!!!!!! BRAVO!!!

[1217jesss]

que barvaridad de sentimiento y entrega. Bravisimo carreras!

[martynblackburn1977]

He suits this aria much better than Pavarotti. Pavarotti seems to sing this aria a bit too quick and without much feeling.

[martynblackburn1977]

You can sense that he sings with feeling and purpose. Pavarotti has a trumpet-like voice that can hit the high notes but often he does sing like he`s trying to get through the aria quicktime. Of course, Pavarotti`s studio album stuff is good and some songs have feeling but his live singing is a bit too quick for me.

[krajncrocky1]

@martynblackburn1977 are you crazzy

[donniebrasco24]

@martynblackburn1977 thats because he's spanish!

[MrCuruco]

@martynblackburn1977 couldn´t agree more, i honestly like pavarotti better but when it comes to il lamento di Federico Carreras hands down!!...chears

[MrCuruco]

Responder a este video...  i just can not believe those 4 deaf bastards who cliked not like this area, there´s something wrong with them, i mean there´s got to be....

[ortodossa]

Bellissimo sito di Roma , magnifico brano

un grande Carreras

GRAZIE

[brazil55]

when he hits those pianos, god is singing through him

[brazil55]

and he knows it, he looks up to the sky

[romanazazel]

He looked up at the sky because there was a low flying airplane and he was afraid the noise would ruin his aria.

[martynblackburn1977]

I hope you don`t mean that literally.

[Flfally]

ahhh my idol <3

[LeoImage]

Even after 2000 his voice didn't loose its power and expression. I watched his concert "Around the world"(2002) on TV last year. It was just live acoustics of concert hall there, he sung without any microphone and the sound was much better than in this famous concert of Three Tenors.

So I think his voice is still with him in all of its richness, beauty and strength.

P. S. Sorry for my awful English)))

[colungacamilli2]

i know that most of you dont prefer carreras over nobody else but i am sure you know the story of his cancer so the therapy destroyed his voice completly so why dont you watch his videos from the 80s and before they are great

[rennaps]

Carreras loves to live dangerously.... he seems to favour little known or very obscure operatic pieces, he is a very major, unique talent, long may he live, and even moreso now the big fella's gone. sempre mi amore (i think!), Jose.

[tena2]

I agree all the way with whitehairedsamurai

carreras has a very magic and extraordinary voice

i love his voice, its divine

luis tena

[1jammot]

This is one of the best renditions of one of the top songs. It's a shame Carreras got caught up in the "power competitions" of the 3 tenors. Carreras never lacked power, and here he is back to his pre-illness best, with a song that needs expression before power. Pavarotti's version is too powerful, he loses the emotions.

[BlueSea23]

Wonderful performance!

[danielpavarotti]

Bravo maestro...

[smartsteve]

what happened ?the video is incomplete,anyway Carreras seems to have a lot of problems here ,he does not even remember the lyrics..

[WhiteHairedSamurai]

rubbish... this man had one of the greatest tenor voices ever recorded... one must remember that his voice has diminished here. the man had a 1 in 10 chance of survival due to a relentless form of leukemia. he fought and won, he survived and still had a voice like this. you know nothing of music.

[Tenor5274]

I completely agree with you! Carreras truly had one of the most beautiful tenor voices of the 20th century. It is only sad that he didn't sound like he did particularly in the mid 1970's when he sang Rodolfo( La Boheme), the lighter Verdi operas and of course his Donizetti peformances (Edgardo-Lucia di Lamermoor)...fantastic performances!

[runbambirun]

What lyrics did he not remember, exactly?