I have a concert with Jussi from 1951 San Francisco, with Sayo also. He sang this aria very well on that date but in no way close to This. This was a Tucker best from the first time in his debut doing it in 1945 till the last in 1974 in NJ.His Enzo was magnificent.
An astounding voice perhaps the best version of this I've ever heard. And folks, stop comparing him to Jussi. Love Jussi's voice and I love Hermann Prey too. But I would never compare Prey with Warren. Neither would anyone who knows anything about voice.
What old fart heard was a studio recording of it, with JB, not live. Try Tucker on studio rec. than. This is live and he didn't strain, anyone can hear that. When he first sang it he got 19 curtain calls and here the house went wild. Bjorling would never ever touch this role, he was lyric, can't compare and from Tucker was the Enzo, not Jussi.
@gaytenor WHEN A SINGER IS TOO GOOD THEY ARE A THREAT BUTJB WAS NEVER A THREAT TO TUCKER, HE WAS A LYRIC WITH A BEAUTIFUL NORDIC VOICE BUT NOT THE RT POWER OR ITALIAN SOUND ITALIANS LOVE AND THEY LIKED TUCKER JB HAD BETTER LOW NOTES THEN GIGLI OR ANY LYRIC TENOR, HIS TOP WAS NOT ANY BETTER THEN KRAUS, SCHMIDT OR ROSWANGE CORELLI AMONG OTHERS AND EARLY DI STEF. HA! FEW EVER COULD OUT DO HIM FOR DIMINUENDO'S OR WARMTH AND ITALIAN SOUND. THIS GUY JUST DOES NOT KNOW A RASP FROM A WHISPER IT SEEMS
@wiseoldfart Comparing Jussi to Tucker in the aria is like comparing MDM to Schipa. JB sang the aria Only live in a couple of concerts and he did not sing the role or own it, tucker did and you don't know how loud he was. All Bullshit. Why are you trolling Tucker on his sites? problem with him being too good? He had Balls. OK. shut up already.
@SHICOFF1 Boy are you right this trolling moron turns up on all too many Tucker sites spewing his crap and demented observations bragging that he is virtually illiterate. Perhaps we should just let this cretin prove what a total fool he is.If Bjorling was so damn good in the aria why didn't he sing it on stage simply because while the aria suits his voice the rest of the role especially the concertato would swamp his small voice. As for Corelli give me a break this aria demands lyricism.
@SHICOFF1 Did you miss the main thrust of troll's message which is mainly that he does not listen to operas only arias. He may not be willing to take enough time away from the boob tube and his beloved Simpsons to listen to a complete opera. On another site this worthless troll flamed Georges Thill despite the fact that, unlike Jussi Bjorling, Thill was very well liked in Italy and Lauri-Volpi had praise for him. Do you think that troll even knows who Lauri-Volpi was?
I just heard Bjorling and Tucker back and forth and back again on this aria. Tucker did very well despite the scratchy recording, but Bjorling is more polished, colorful, and displayed his almost perfect voice control as usual. Tucker sounded a little strained here and there and is just too loud for my taste. I thought Bjorling's Bb had better sonics and control, but that's only one note. Like Bjorling, Corelli also scales that final Bb back in Celeste aida. I don't know if Tucker can do that.
@wiseroldfart Did you take your meds today? If Tucker is too loud for you too bad. In an opera house you need power and projection to be heard clearly in the back rows of the house. You seem to live for your Bjorling records fine but this is a Tucker site. And pray tell where except in your imagination troll did Bjorling sing the ending of Celeste Aida as written. Your almost as silly as that fool that pretends to teach people how to sing like Tucker. Both of you appear seriously deluded.
A remark was made here about Bergonzi being superior to Tucker and Jussi in any shared role. No he was not in any Spinto role better then Tucker at all, no because his voice was about half the size and had little heft as a spinto. Tucker owned Forza at the met not Bergonzi and sure if you are in your house listening to recordings CB and JB come off beautifully, actually fantastic but in house I heard all 3 of them, no in Forza / Aida/Luisa- Tucker out does CB. JB did not sing Forza/Calaf/Luisa
@federic017 bravo,giusto Richard Tucker per la bellezza della sua voce era considerato dei critici come Caruso - americano.Dal vivo Tucker cantava con una voce enorme,voci come la sua non esistono piu.
Another poor comparison would be tucker and di stefano, one lyric and one spinto but compare di stef. to bergonzi. Early Di Stefano as a lyric was hard to beat by anyone and that includes Bergonzi. he had it all. Gigli was another basic lyric who had a fantastic beautiful sound. He like Jussi did sing in Aida in a big house, the met and was not a success and not Jussi either in Chicago in 58' too lyric for the role. Bergonzi managed it better it seems. I heard him in Lucia and Recital both
Bergonzi you can compare to Bjorling in any shared role, both basic lyric or lyric spinto's but Tucker had a much larger voice, a Spinto, he sang roles that Jussi would not touch or BG and as far as Bergonzi again live it's a comparison against his lyric smaller voice. Compare tucker to Domingo or Corelli. On recording both BG and JB come off as well as Tucker easily but live ---I heard all 3 of them in house, that's the real test, not even live recordings. Bjorling was a great artist, true.
My preference is Carlo Bergonzi, as far superior to either Tucker or Bjoerling in any of the roles they shared. This is certainly not to detract from the excellent singing of the other gentlemen, I hasten to add!
Bjorling was a lyric basically or lyric spinto. Tucker was a Spinto, more the Caruso voice type and Bjorling 's was not like Caruso's darker bigger Italian sounding voice. My grandfather heard all 3 Jussi, RT and EC and told me Tucker's was the most like Caruso's in house. Jussi was a great singer/ artist with a great voice and Mrs. Caruso loved that as she said --the one closest to EC, surely she meant as an all around artist but Gloria Caruso his daughter gave Tucker his Canio outfit.
I don't know if tucker ever said Caruso was the greatest as in your comment but his favorite tenor was Gigli, that I know. Needless to say some of his recordings like this and the butterfly duet where sung as well or better then anyone . Caruso on the old rec. loses the squillo in his voice, my grandfather born in 1880 and died in 1980 at 100 heard him in 1919 and after (3 times in all) and twice in Chicago that I know of and told me on record it does not come close for Squillo like live.
Well for me actually Bjorling was one of the greatest Concert singers of them all and actually loved concert recitals. He sang in German very well, did French and Swedish songs and perfect English and he had that formal stature in his voice for it, refined a thinking man's tenor. Tucker IMO in dramatic roles they both sang was warmer then Jussi and seemed hot by comparison and in fact if you compare the Tucker recording of the 49' Butterfly duet to Caruso's rec. Tucker was sung better there.
Bjorling's voice was not nearly as large as Tucker's or as dramatic and he did not sing the same roles as Tucker, an entirely different voice type he was more a lyric or lyric spinto and Tucker was a Spinto. Jussi did not touch Forza and Chenier two of Tucker's best roles. Tucker did not sing Romeo but did do some Mozart opera's. One of JB's biggest hits was his 47' Romeo and his live Boheme, also his 1949 Lescaut was very fine. RT is the best Enzo live of them all, Jussi did not sing it.
Sorry to say the pitch is a half step low in this transfer. Tucker certainly never lowered this aria, but people who post some things have no idea about proper pitch. It would sound much, much better if it was pitched properly.
Actually Tucker did not sing Pag, Aida, etc like Caruso as his voice was just lyrical enough. I thought JB's singing of some of these more dramatic parts better than RT because the lyric/dramatic quality. Then again I hear RT sing the Chenier opening aria & I don't think JB could do it as effectively. But you & I could dance around this subject for hours. Thank heavens we have their recordings. As I said, I just can't think of any tenors singing like these two today.
Yes, Tucker was damn close in some ways. My pick is Bjoerling as the closest to Caruso as he seemed to have a better command of the lyric line. However, there were some roles that RT simply did better because of his darker, more dramatic gift. I'm trying to think of a living tenor who approaches either of these guys but I cannot. Both men were wonderful in concert as well, true singing artists, not just opera singers.
Bjorling may be second to Caruso in terms of purity of the voice, vocal production, etc., but I still think Tucker was the 'heir apparent' to Caruso at least in context of the repertoire they sang. Bjorling could never dream of singing Pagliacci, Ballo, Chenier, Lescaut, Gioconda, Forza, Aida, Tosca, etc. like Caruso because his voice was simply too lyrical, and not very Italian. Tucker like Caruso had a rich powerful (yet beautiful) Italian sounding spinto voice (even though he was American).
RT was not better than Caruso, every tenor would have told you that- even RT. It has been said that there was no voice like EC in the 200 years before EC & there won't be another for 200 more. BUT, to enjoy RT one atom less is folly. I heard/met the man. I heard from him even better b-flats than these herein. Truly one of the great singers & a lovely man.
I agree with Gay tenor in many arias TUCKER WAS BETTER THEN CARUSO! this is one of them and his 1949 butterfly duet is better then Caruso's in his recording of it, not the sound of course but his emotion and singing is better then bjorling and di stefano and all the rest and to the idiot who made a remark about his teeth not showing my answer is your IQ must match the number of teeth you have.
This must be the broadcast of January 10, 1959. Tucker was indeed 45. Besides him, the cast that afternoon included Zinka Milanov, Nell Rankin, Robert Merrill and Cesare Siepi!! Fausto Cleva conducted.
Cleva could go to sleep sometimes, and the tempo here is pretty dead. Tucker's voice, none the less, sounds amazing.
Yes Vurria I heard it live in 59 and the house exploded and it went on for a long time he was 45 and in his prime and in house it was the greatest tenor I ever heard. Very big voice with squillo and plenty of it.
I can tell you this: if Tucker had sung this, like this, in a place like Teatro San Carlo a Napoli back in the 50's, it would have taken about 30 minutes to resume the rest of the opera. This is the greatest version of this. If you listen carefully to his final Bb, you can hear he is tempted to increase the volume of that note much more, but time ran out. But that final Bb is one of the all time greatest live Bb's ever heard in the verismo - tenor repertory.
Try the Manon Lescaut with Caballe with both artists in great voice. As for Peerce's Il Mio Tesoro listen to the beautifully done runs from a voice that is normally associated with heavier repertoire. I fully agree about the perfection of McCormack's singing but opinion wise I prefer hearing a voice like Peerce's or Hermann Jadlowker with a dark sound and amazing cantorial flexibility. Best since Caruso-Tucker was better than Caruso!!!
Given enough of us old guys perhaps people will not forget what REAL TENORS sound like. If we were set up a tag team of Tucker, Peerce, and Bjorling versus the 3 tenors guess who would win. Tucker would sing the Manon Lescaut act 3 aria, Peerce Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni, and Bjorling could do Nessun Dorma == game, set, and match.
Thank you VERY much for posting this performance by one of the OUTSTANDING artists and one of the outstanding MEN of our age. Tucker was in exceptionally fine voice in 1958-1959, not only on this January 10 matinee broadcast of La Gioconda, but also in the following week's MANON LESCAUT with Tebaldi, Guarrera, and Corena, also with Cleva conducting. NO tenor of today can come within miles of Tucker's singing of this role, not just the aria, but ALL of Enzo!!!
Wow! I had shivers the whole time, I can't imagine what it must have been like to be in the audience that night. Probably the best live version of this I've ever heard, thanks for the post!
Some of them never quit no matter what- I am surprised to see he is scheduled for a met brdcst. of Adriana this Feb. I don't remember a met tenor singing a brdcst. at age 68 in recent memory they will lower it down and he can always finish as he started as a Baritone. He could teach seeing as how he sang over 100 roles!
Yes it sure did and originally when I heard it I thought and still do that no other tenor live could match this and perhaps someday a better recording of this Tucker performance will show up. If not I am glad to have this and thanks for the post.
Pearl-Mingo would sing anything and everything for as long as he gets paid enough and for as long as the ignorant masses are brainwashed enough by the media prior to his performance (which will end up in the decimation of whatever role he'll sing). Whether he can sing well, do justice to the composer, and create excellence is a different matter.
Many thanks to the two folks responsible for presenting this for our enjoyment. The great tenor was in fine voice here and I had the sensation of standing in the wings as this magnificent artist delivered this "tour de force". Best wishes.
Thanks again GermanOperaSinger-- Glad to say the idiot who pretended to be me was removed from all and every post he made under Several names besides jerrodo4330 and used my name with one letter changed to get his sick disturbed messages against me and my late friend, Richard Tucker the great spinto tenor He also used my basic name to rant against Aprile Millo cause he knew she is a very favorite of mine, a wonderful person. He pretending to be me, writing against this great lady. Sick Man
his great voice at it's best, recorded slightly high on volume setting so it does distort on his power house top notes but his voice was beautiful, rich and big here, age 45 yrs.
This is a beautiful rendition of a very difficult aria.
sugarbist 1 week ago
MAGNIFICO !
bodiloto 1 month ago
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best opera tenor to come out of America
cccorsetti 3 months ago
I have a concert with Jussi from 1951 San Francisco, with Sayo also. He sang this aria very well on that date but in no way close to This. This was a Tucker best from the first time in his debut doing it in 1945 till the last in 1974 in NJ.His Enzo was magnificent.
SHICOFF1 4 months ago
An astounding voice perhaps the best version of this I've ever heard. And folks, stop comparing him to Jussi. Love Jussi's voice and I love Hermann Prey too. But I would never compare Prey with Warren. Neither would anyone who knows anything about voice.
countceprano 9 months ago
What old fart heard was a studio recording of it, with JB, not live. Try Tucker on studio rec. than. This is live and he didn't strain, anyone can hear that. When he first sang it he got 19 curtain calls and here the house went wild. Bjorling would never ever touch this role, he was lyric, can't compare and from Tucker was the Enzo, not Jussi.
SHICOFF1 10 months ago
@gaytenor WHEN A SINGER IS TOO GOOD THEY ARE A THREAT BUTJB WAS NEVER A THREAT TO TUCKER, HE WAS A LYRIC WITH A BEAUTIFUL NORDIC VOICE BUT NOT THE RT POWER OR ITALIAN SOUND ITALIANS LOVE AND THEY LIKED TUCKER JB HAD BETTER LOW NOTES THEN GIGLI OR ANY LYRIC TENOR, HIS TOP WAS NOT ANY BETTER THEN KRAUS, SCHMIDT OR ROSWANGE CORELLI AMONG OTHERS AND EARLY DI STEF. HA! FEW EVER COULD OUT DO HIM FOR DIMINUENDO'S OR WARMTH AND ITALIAN SOUND. THIS GUY JUST DOES NOT KNOW A RASP FROM A WHISPER IT SEEMS
SHICOFF1 10 months ago
Hi premiere opera-- was I nice enough to the fart man!
SHICOFF1 10 months ago
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SHICOFF1 10 months ago
@wiseoldfart Comparing Jussi to Tucker in the aria is like comparing MDM to Schipa. JB sang the aria Only live in a couple of concerts and he did not sing the role or own it, tucker did and you don't know how loud he was. All Bullshit. Why are you trolling Tucker on his sites? problem with him being too good? He had Balls. OK. shut up already.
SHICOFF1 10 months ago
@SHICOFF1 Boy are you right this trolling moron turns up on all too many Tucker sites spewing his crap and demented observations bragging that he is virtually illiterate. Perhaps we should just let this cretin prove what a total fool he is.If Bjorling was so damn good in the aria why didn't he sing it on stage simply because while the aria suits his voice the rest of the role especially the concertato would swamp his small voice. As for Corelli give me a break this aria demands lyricism.
gaytenor 10 months ago
@SHICOFF1 Did you miss the main thrust of troll's message which is mainly that he does not listen to operas only arias. He may not be willing to take enough time away from the boob tube and his beloved Simpsons to listen to a complete opera. On another site this worthless troll flamed Georges Thill despite the fact that, unlike Jussi Bjorling, Thill was very well liked in Italy and Lauri-Volpi had praise for him. Do you think that troll even knows who Lauri-Volpi was?
gaytenor 10 months ago
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SHICOFF1 10 months ago
I just heard Bjorling and Tucker back and forth and back again on this aria. Tucker did very well despite the scratchy recording, but Bjorling is more polished, colorful, and displayed his almost perfect voice control as usual. Tucker sounded a little strained here and there and is just too loud for my taste. I thought Bjorling's Bb had better sonics and control, but that's only one note. Like Bjorling, Corelli also scales that final Bb back in Celeste aida. I don't know if Tucker can do that.
wiseroldfart 10 months ago
@wiseroldfart Did you take your meds today? If Tucker is too loud for you too bad. In an opera house you need power and projection to be heard clearly in the back rows of the house. You seem to live for your Bjorling records fine but this is a Tucker site. And pray tell where except in your imagination troll did Bjorling sing the ending of Celeste Aida as written. Your almost as silly as that fool that pretends to teach people how to sing like Tucker. Both of you appear seriously deluded.
gaytenor 10 months ago
A remark was made here about Bergonzi being superior to Tucker and Jussi in any shared role. No he was not in any Spinto role better then Tucker at all, no because his voice was about half the size and had little heft as a spinto. Tucker owned Forza at the met not Bergonzi and sure if you are in your house listening to recordings CB and JB come off beautifully, actually fantastic but in house I heard all 3 of them, no in Forza / Aida/Luisa- Tucker out does CB. JB did not sing Forza/Calaf/Luisa
SHICOFF1 11 months ago
Una registrazione impressionante,che voci /il coro/ che bellezza.
Sublime Tucker Grazie!
bodiloto 1 year ago
Per mio parere è uno dei più grandi Enzo, di tutti i tempi...saluti
federic017 1 year ago
@federic017 bravo,giusto Richard Tucker per la bellezza della sua voce era considerato dei critici come Caruso - americano.Dal vivo Tucker cantava con una voce enorme,voci come la sua non esistono piu.
Bravo sei troppo forte!
bodiloto 1 year ago
unfortunately, this clip is playing 1/2 tone flat, which totally changes the color and greatness of the Tucker voice.
premiereopera1 1 year ago
Another poor comparison would be tucker and di stefano, one lyric and one spinto but compare di stef. to bergonzi. Early Di Stefano as a lyric was hard to beat by anyone and that includes Bergonzi. he had it all. Gigli was another basic lyric who had a fantastic beautiful sound. He like Jussi did sing in Aida in a big house, the met and was not a success and not Jussi either in Chicago in 58' too lyric for the role. Bergonzi managed it better it seems. I heard him in Lucia and Recital both
SHICOFF1 1 year ago
Bergonzi you can compare to Bjorling in any shared role, both basic lyric or lyric spinto's but Tucker had a much larger voice, a Spinto, he sang roles that Jussi would not touch or BG and as far as Bergonzi again live it's a comparison against his lyric smaller voice. Compare tucker to Domingo or Corelli. On recording both BG and JB come off as well as Tucker easily but live ---I heard all 3 of them in house, that's the real test, not even live recordings. Bjorling was a great artist, true.
SHICOFF1 1 year ago
HE REALLY WAS THE ENZO, JUST BEAUTIFUL. LIVE IN OPERA HE WAS FANTASTIC!
shiicoff1 1 year ago
прекрасная техника
1Markofff 1 year ago
My preference is Carlo Bergonzi, as far superior to either Tucker or Bjoerling in any of the roles they shared. This is certainly not to detract from the excellent singing of the other gentlemen, I hasten to add!
DonPaolissimo 1 year ago
Bjorling was a lyric basically or lyric spinto. Tucker was a Spinto, more the Caruso voice type and Bjorling 's was not like Caruso's darker bigger Italian sounding voice. My grandfather heard all 3 Jussi, RT and EC and told me Tucker's was the most like Caruso's in house. Jussi was a great singer/ artist with a great voice and Mrs. Caruso loved that as she said --the one closest to EC, surely she meant as an all around artist but Gloria Caruso his daughter gave Tucker his Canio outfit.
halavey 2 years ago
I don't know if tucker ever said Caruso was the greatest as in your comment but his favorite tenor was Gigli, that I know. Needless to say some of his recordings like this and the butterfly duet where sung as well or better then anyone . Caruso on the old rec. loses the squillo in his voice, my grandfather born in 1880 and died in 1980 at 100 heard him in 1919 and after (3 times in all) and twice in Chicago that I know of and told me on record it does not come close for Squillo like live.
halavey 2 years ago
Well for me actually Bjorling was one of the greatest Concert singers of them all and actually loved concert recitals. He sang in German very well, did French and Swedish songs and perfect English and he had that formal stature in his voice for it, refined a thinking man's tenor. Tucker IMO in dramatic roles they both sang was warmer then Jussi and seemed hot by comparison and in fact if you compare the Tucker recording of the 49' Butterfly duet to Caruso's rec. Tucker was sung better there.
halavey 2 years ago
Bjorling's voice was not nearly as large as Tucker's or as dramatic and he did not sing the same roles as Tucker, an entirely different voice type he was more a lyric or lyric spinto and Tucker was a Spinto. Jussi did not touch Forza and Chenier two of Tucker's best roles. Tucker did not sing Romeo but did do some Mozart opera's. One of JB's biggest hits was his 47' Romeo and his live Boheme, also his 1949 Lescaut was very fine. RT is the best Enzo live of them all, Jussi did not sing it.
halavey 2 years ago
I never ever heard a live rendition to match this, not even Corelli.
halavey 2 years ago
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halavey 2 years ago
Sorry to say the pitch is a half step low in this transfer. Tucker certainly never lowered this aria, but people who post some things have no idea about proper pitch. It would sound much, much better if it was pitched properly.
operabeauty 2 years ago
Actually Tucker did not sing Pag, Aida, etc like Caruso as his voice was just lyrical enough. I thought JB's singing of some of these more dramatic parts better than RT because the lyric/dramatic quality. Then again I hear RT sing the Chenier opening aria & I don't think JB could do it as effectively. But you & I could dance around this subject for hours. Thank heavens we have their recordings. As I said, I just can't think of any tenors singing like these two today.
Lovelytenor1 2 years ago
Yes, Tucker was damn close in some ways. My pick is Bjoerling as the closest to Caruso as he seemed to have a better command of the lyric line. However, there were some roles that RT simply did better because of his darker, more dramatic gift. I'm trying to think of a living tenor who approaches either of these guys but I cannot. Both men were wonderful in concert as well, true singing artists, not just opera singers.
Lovelytenor1 2 years ago
Bjorling may be second to Caruso in terms of purity of the voice, vocal production, etc., but I still think Tucker was the 'heir apparent' to Caruso at least in context of the repertoire they sang. Bjorling could never dream of singing Pagliacci, Ballo, Chenier, Lescaut, Gioconda, Forza, Aida, Tosca, etc. like Caruso because his voice was simply too lyrical, and not very Italian. Tucker like Caruso had a rich powerful (yet beautiful) Italian sounding spinto voice (even though he was American).
GermanOperaSinger 2 years ago 2
RT was not better than Caruso, every tenor would have told you that- even RT. It has been said that there was no voice like EC in the 200 years before EC & there won't be another for 200 more. BUT, to enjoy RT one atom less is folly. I heard/met the man. I heard from him even better b-flats than these herein. Truly one of the great singers & a lovely man.
Lovelytenor1 2 years ago
Speed is close enough.
halavey 2 years ago
I agree with Gay tenor in many arias TUCKER WAS BETTER THEN CARUSO! this is one of them and his 1949 butterfly duet is better then Caruso's in his recording of it, not the sound of course but his emotion and singing is better then bjorling and di stefano and all the rest and to the idiot who made a remark about his teeth not showing my answer is your IQ must match the number of teeth you have.
halavey 2 years ago
Yes Jan 1959 met brdcst, prime tucker in his debut role!
halavey 2 years ago
This must be the broadcast of January 10, 1959. Tucker was indeed 45. Besides him, the cast that afternoon included Zinka Milanov, Nell Rankin, Robert Merrill and Cesare Siepi!! Fausto Cleva conducted.
Cleva could go to sleep sometimes, and the tempo here is pretty dead. Tucker's voice, none the less, sounds amazing.
AulicExclusiva 2 years ago
Yes Vurria I heard it live in 59 and the house exploded and it went on for a long time he was 45 and in his prime and in house it was the greatest tenor I ever heard. Very big voice with squillo and plenty of it.
halavey 2 years ago
I can tell you this: if Tucker had sung this, like this, in a place like Teatro San Carlo a Napoli back in the 50's, it would have taken about 30 minutes to resume the rest of the opera. This is the greatest version of this. If you listen carefully to his final Bb, you can hear he is tempted to increase the volume of that note much more, but time ran out. But that final Bb is one of the all time greatest live Bb's ever heard in the verismo - tenor repertory.
vurria123 2 years ago 6
Sounds very strange at wrong speed.
Wonderful anyway,thanks for sharing!
ideiao 2 years ago
Wonderful here, live.
halavey 2 years ago
Try the Manon Lescaut with Caballe with both artists in great voice. As for Peerce's Il Mio Tesoro listen to the beautifully done runs from a voice that is normally associated with heavier repertoire. I fully agree about the perfection of McCormack's singing but opinion wise I prefer hearing a voice like Peerce's or Hermann Jadlowker with a dark sound and amazing cantorial flexibility. Best since Caruso-Tucker was better than Caruso!!!
gaytenor 2 years ago
Given enough of us old guys perhaps people will not forget what REAL TENORS sound like. If we were set up a tag team of Tucker, Peerce, and Bjorling versus the 3 tenors guess who would win. Tucker would sing the Manon Lescaut act 3 aria, Peerce Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni, and Bjorling could do Nessun Dorma == game, set, and match.
gaytenor 2 years ago 2
Sehr gut gesungen. Das ist ein super Tenor!!!!!
vocede 2 years ago 2
Wow! I'm not usually a Tucker fan but I've got to give it to him on this one. Magnifico, maestro! I'm moved.
lattmjolk81 2 years ago 2
Bravo Bravo, what a voice
Michaelbos 3 years ago 2
Yes he was the best in it and it was his debut role at the met in 1945.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago 2
Thank you VERY much for posting this performance by one of the OUTSTANDING artists and one of the outstanding MEN of our age. Tucker was in exceptionally fine voice in 1958-1959, not only on this January 10 matinee broadcast of La Gioconda, but also in the following week's MANON LESCAUT with Tebaldi, Guarrera, and Corena, also with Cleva conducting. NO tenor of today can come within miles of Tucker's singing of this role, not just the aria, but ALL of Enzo!!!
jmccracken1963 3 years ago 2
Wow! I had shivers the whole time, I can't imagine what it must have been like to be in the audience that night. Probably the best live version of this I've ever heard, thanks for the post!
spgtenor 3 years ago
Some of them never quit no matter what- I am surprised to see he is scheduled for a met brdcst. of Adriana this Feb. I don't remember a met tenor singing a brdcst. at age 68 in recent memory they will lower it down and he can always finish as he started as a Baritone. He could teach seeing as how he sang over 100 roles!
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Yes it sure did and originally when I heard it I thought and still do that no other tenor live could match this and perhaps someday a better recording of this Tucker performance will show up. If not I am glad to have this and thanks for the post.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Pearl-Mingo would sing anything and everything for as long as he gets paid enough and for as long as the ignorant masses are brainwashed enough by the media prior to his performance (which will end up in the decimation of whatever role he'll sing). Whether he can sing well, do justice to the composer, and create excellence is a different matter.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
Sorry it was recorded at high volume and was slightly distorted but is such a great performance anyhow. Great singing with a great voice.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
thanks ivanhoe, we oldsters remember him well.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Thank you, Pearlmuth3, for sharing this.
Herur22 3 years ago 2
Many thanks to the two folks responsible for presenting this for our enjoyment. The great tenor was in fine voice here and I had the sensation of standing in the wings as this magnificent artist delivered this "tour de force". Best wishes.
Ivanhoe2 3 years ago
This somehow shows the size, power, and passion of Richard Tucker's voice more than many other clips.
BJustinBrasfield 3 years ago 4
Thanks again GermanOperaSinger-- Glad to say the idiot who pretended to be me was removed from all and every post he made under Several names besides jerrodo4330 and used my name with one letter changed to get his sick disturbed messages against me and my late friend, Richard Tucker the great spinto tenor He also used my basic name to rant against Aprile Millo cause he knew she is a very favorite of mine, a wonderful person. He pretending to be me, writing against this great lady. Sick Man
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
THANKS FOR REMOVING HIM, PEARLMUTH3
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
IF YOU LOOK AT THE ABOVE HIS NAME IS SPELLED differently THEN MINE I am pearlmuth NOT PEARLMOUTH THIS MAN IS A SICK DIRTY BASTARD.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Nice squillo voice! Bravo!!
terumino 3 years ago
his great voice at it's best, recorded slightly high on volume setting so it does distort on his power house top notes but his voice was beautiful, rich and big here, age 45 yrs.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago