Cornell Macneil "Di Provenza il mar il suol" La Traviata

[MrSjoback]

Although, still, I found his voice and interpretation brilliant!!!

[batoldo]

grande anche se l'eta' si sente e' sempre grandissimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alecs1976]

actually he is under pitch most of the piece...

[MrSjoback]

@alecs1976 true...

[MsRuthes]

Saw him at the Met in Tosca with Pavarotti and Verrett. He was an unforgetable Scarpia.

[iriisblue]

Ah, yes. In performance WITH Joan Sutherland and John Alexander for the Met's first appearance in Japan. They don't make casts like that anymore.

[ettoreB1961]

Really an amazing singer!

[witkola]

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

[pepeelsordo]

Cambras: to these days, he is a basso profundo. To those days, he was a Verdi baritone (if the great Thomas let me say so, ha,ha)

[abracadabranque]

@pepeelsordo Je ris avec toi!

[FernandoCambras]

sounds like a bass, a little unadaquate, not?

[abracadabranque]

@FernandoCambras Ah bon?Je trouvais celà presque trop clair!..

[brunosilvershadow]

Sorry, i was completely wrong! This is of course MacNeil! Bravi Maëstro!!!

[yosoyamorverdadero]

excelente

[Erdrick345]

Well, Tita Ruffo is the greatest. Listen to his 1906 recording on You Tube!

[MsDvornik]

Fraseggio di un cantante che non conosce bene l'italiano!Le frasi non sono chiuse con il fiato!

Gli acuti sono fatti in modo qualsiasi per sopravivere!Sicuramente è una voce bella e grande,altrimenti non si capisce perchè deve cantare..

[marciscorp]

One singer has a more darker,bigger, and better baritone voice.

Alexander Sved.

[Operafiend22]

I looked up Sved. It is a very impressive voice, especially give the crude recording equipment used to document his sound. Thanks for introducing me to him. McNeil is great too :-)

[trendyyy]

superb bariton !

[Agorante]

McNeil had the best baritone sound in the world for a while. Here he is at or near his best. But it started to unravel about this time and he sang badly more and more often. In the early days you never would have guessed it. He was better than Cappuccilli who never sang badly in decades on the stage. Strange.

[nisticom]

I think one could not say that McNeil was "better" than Cappuccilli. They had different voices. Certainly the former had a darker sound. But that does not mean better, in my opinion. Cappuccilli's sound was very beautiful and always very secure technique. They were both great. Just different.

[MrCafiero]

INCREDIBLE!! I bet in the room his voice was incredibly loud because it is huge here on the stage. Many people train the voice for the room size forgetting that it has to sound big on stage.

[divobari2]

funny.... i just basically said the same thing on one of your other clips of him!!

[verdimex]

Viva la opera, viva verdi que bueno que hay fantasticos baritonos como cornell macneil es un maestro.

[robertwbecker]

The Big Mac, one of the greatest Verdi baritones of the century!!! That was a huge beautiful sound in the theater!!!!!

[jhvorotin]

never heard of him but he's uncredibly easy and fluent!!!

[stevevandien]

Look around on YouTube and the Net and you'll find more MacNeil. And you're in for a treat -- he was one of the last great Verdi baritones:) --

[Mooorhe]

How can you not have heard of him? He's incredible!

[2471002]

Danke Onegin65! Wundebar!

[stevevandien]

Not thrilled about the staging, but I love MacNeil's great Verdian singing:) --

[girardje70]

excellente performance de Cornell Macneil

[oakroom48]

A very real, emotional performance of one of my favorite arias in opera. Thanks!