Parigi o cara - Jose Carreras & Renata Scotto

[marcela21884]

OMG, can't stop listening to Carreras. What a voice, so handsome and sweet. I'm always delighted as have been for the last thrity some years. This is maybe the best rendition of Traviata I've ever seen.

[cesrra]

What a perfect sound of Carreras!

[sugarbist]

Carreras sounds beautiful here . His voice was most suited in the more lyric operas where his line of singing& quality of voice do not become distorted,

[Gustavocasanovatenor]

dios mio que artistas

[bravocarreras]

I must agree with mikeopera, tuadolcefanciulla and I'm sure many others. It is wonderful acting and singing. It is absolutely believable. Now is the moment and we are together again and even death itself cannot cloud this joining, we are in love for ever! Thank you for up loading this.

[bravocarreras]

I must agree with mikeopera, tuadolcefanciulla and I'm sure many others. It is wonderful acting and singing. It is absolutely believable. Now is the moment and we are together again and even death itself cannot cloud this joining, we are in love for ever!

[huahuacha]

Magnifique! La Scotto est sublime et est insurpassable dans ce rôle, surtout à parti de ces années 1970. Fil di voce, dramaturgie, couleurs, tout y est.

Et Carreras fait merveille avec son timbre unique.

Merci pour avoir posté ce document inégalable

[rayrac]

Why does the sound and vidio, keep cutting out? It's driving me mad and therefore I don't use YouTube!

[MissJessyeNorman]

I love Scotto!!!! I think she gets unfairly treated on youtube because she used so much squillo, which in performance sounds ridiculously gorgeous, but doesn't record so well. I am sick of the new breed of breathy singers. Give me point, ring, squillo anyday =)!!!

[joelp63]

Carreras in his prime...

[SunnyDeLynn]

I cant believe the talent and skill that this video shows. So powerful and yet warm. Thumbs up!! Thanks for sending it to me.

[bodoos100]

prachtig wat mooi.

[maxthecat14]

would like it to be me he was singing to . Trouble is i have no voice to sing back with! several versions of this on you tube, but this is by far the best.

[capomastrodicanto]

Godlike. Paradisiaco. Musensohn.

[barbieopera]

LOS MARAVILLOSOS DOS!

GRANDES! Absolutamente!

[johnmic64]

Thanks Xavier! Magic.

[eurydike]

the most beautiful tenor with the best voice...

[tuadolcefanciulla]

I've never seen Carreras look more handsome than this scene. So loving.

The way he carresses her hair and kisses her cheek. The duet is totally enchanting. Is this the mystique of

"the Latin Lover?" If "Ricky Martin" is

the new embodiment of a "Latin Lover"

you can keep him!

[MsF1Annie]

Thank you xavierfersanta. This is so beautiful it moves me to tears. I wish I'd seen Carreras in his prime but I am grateful I can listen to him again and again through all the wonderful recordings and thank goodness for YouTube!

Bravo Josep!

[castellomatese]

I'm glad to see this circulating; it's a treasure, with both of them in sublime form. Whether he had poor technique (I don't believe this in general) or made repertoire choices that were "unwise" (very debatable), the fact is that the freshness of a young and fragile voice fades. Is that really a tragedy any more than the passing of any other youthful bloom? We may be too greedy, but he did what he had to do as an artist, and left a very worthy legacy of incredible performances!

[joelweisberg]

@castellomatese God that was well said.

[baja6211]

@castellomatese Bardzo mądry komentarz !!!!! Jose Carreras zrobił bardzo dużo dla sztuki i dzisiaj nadal możemy go podziwiać. Jest cudowny ZAWSZE !!!!

[Schollistico]

Josep Carreras not CarrAras...it sounds horrible in spanish!!

He should have sang roles like this...he didn't have voice enough to sing Turandot, and Aida and stuff...when he started he was glorious!!!

[mrantiquedealer]

Scotto knew exactly what she was doing. Everything perfectly balanced to what she wanted.

[nestersg]

How can you not look at Carraras?

[Pertile23]

I agree with you, I'm usually not Carraras's biggest fan, but I've been uncovering some of his gems, and this is definately one of them.....incidentally, I don't like many Alfredos, so that must make him EXTRA good in this part.

[Englishtenor2]

Brilliant! You don't have the whole opera do you?

[biddypat]

oh this is fantastic. I think though the part , doesn't really require her to look at him.

[OperaLover84]

i get the whole 'play to the audience thing' but she doesn't look at him even once here. i think it loses some of the intimacy that way.

[OperaBohemian]

Maybe she's trying to convey that Violetta at this point has totally given up on life and knows she's going to die and also that she doesn't believe she'll leave and get better in Paris... just a thought.

[cleanears]

He was a glorious Alfredo and should have stayed there for a while longer before "beefing it up". Scotto ehre can do no wrong - Amen!

[upatoia]

If you already like JOSÉ CARRERAS check now THE 30 TENORS in my playlist SUPER TENOR ARIAS ( including CLAUDIO SOTELO performing ARIA DEL CIRUJANO as a world première ) and tell me which one you prefer !

But, please, dont forget, if you can, to help the JOSÉ CARRERAS LAUKAEMIA FOUNDATION ( Fundación Josep Carreras contra la leucemia ) !

Thank you

[novice1959]

This is GLORIOUS!! I think I already have it in my favorites, but I had to listen to it again!

[tenorisimo1975]

bravisimo

[JuillHope17]

you guys! his voice was not in decline hardly ever until he had cancer. listen to his performances, he sounds great until about... 86/87. in there is when stuff started to really go. he deff was not in decline in 1978, and if you think he was then you really need to re-study his voice in depth, and watch performances from every year down the line, plus take into account how he was feeling in those performances. see, there's really no way to pin decline down, it's opinion really. look at callas.

[Mooorhe]

He was definitely in decline by the late 1980s, his decline was only worsened by cancer.

There are signs of decline as early 1977 (whining high notes, slowing of the vibrato). This was because of his singing in the throat and the pushing that came about as a result of it.

[Andante735]

Yes it was, and it mean that with every possible good intention. He was very definitely on his way to vocal decline well before he became ill, and I personally heard enough of his live performances to attest to it. It's sad, but it's true. He over spent his intstrument by singing too much of too many roles that were too heavy for his lyric instrument. I personally adore him, but I respectfully disagree.

[sikn71]

This version/performance of "Parigi o cara" is damn beautiful!

Especially young Mr. Carreras' voice - a real jewel in the opera world, it still is.

Thank you very much.

[querilinto]

Grazie a Pippo Baudo, che qualche tempo fa ci ha fatto sentire questa melodia insieme a tante altre in un suo programma televisivo sulla Rai.

Mi fa commuovere.

[SidRoxTMBG]

Jose Carreras is my favorite tenor,and La Traviata is my favorite opera(so far),so this video is just awesome.His voice is absolutely wonderful.Thank you SO much for posting this!

[lmspr]

I have a CD version of this same 1973 performance. The conductor is Nino Verchi. I did not know there was a DVD of it. Thanks so much for posting it. I totally agree with

"hisalways922". It is wonderful to hear Carreras singing in an unforced, natural way. He started to force his voice years before the leukemia. But at this time, his voice was lyrical beauty at its peak.

[hisalways922]

Carreras' young voice is one of those precious things that just don't come around very often. Every time I hear an early recording such as this one, I could cry thinking about the damage he did to his voice. Here he is singing with his natural, real, unaffected voice--and it's so beautiful! I wish he had been wise with it throughout his entire career.

[rayrac]

hisalways922. Cancer may be a huge contributor to the damage afflicted!

[hisalways922]

I see what you mean, rayrac, but his voice was already becoming rigid and wobbly years before he got his leukemia. He was a true lyric tenor, not a natural spinto, yet he got into repertoire that did not fit his voice. He had neither the quality nor the size to get into that heavier repertoire. Any time that a lyric starts singing spinto repertoire, he has only one option--to force the voice (if he wants to be heard). The result from that forcing is always damage.

[tdeane34]

No, it wasn't. The damage was done long before that. His voice was in decline by 1978.

[rayrac]

What is the point of getting into a dispute over something that has happened? He did have a superb voice and like everything in this world, it doesn't last forever.

Enjoy it as you hear it here now, I would give a kings ransom for just one month of being able to sing like that!

[tdeane34]

There is no dispute, I was stating a fact. I loved his voice, the 6 or 7 years that he had one.

[rayrac]

We, or most of us, know that his voice deteriated greatly. But what's your point in stating the obvious?

[tdeane34]

Actually I didn't bring it up, I just corrected the inaccurate info. Enjoy.

[rayrac]

Enjoy, that's the word!

Regards

J

[noncondition]

Truly masters and giants, both of them.

[rayrac]

Here here, absolutely superb! There's not a word good enough to describe it.

[billyguns2]

Proof positive that two nasty people can be great artists, It doesn't get any better than this, and if Carreras had not become ill he would be the best of the "three tenors;" Surely the man had one of the most beautiful voices of all time.

[rayrac]

Nasty?!

In 1987, at the height of his career, acclaimed tenor José Carreras was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

José Carreras recognized the importance of research to develop life-saving therapies for patients with diseases like leukemia. In 1988, enlisting the aid of noted physicians around the world, he founded the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation in his home town, Barcelona, Spain. The U.S. Friends followed, founded in 1990.

[billyguns2]

What is your point? Hitler loved animals and children.

[billyguns2]

Before you go off on an emotional tangent over my comment, I am not comparing Carreras and Scotto to Hitler; my point is that people can be personally nasty and still do great and magnanimous things. Anyone who really knows these two people personally knows how nasty they can be.

[billyguns2]

If you read my original comment you will see that I lavishly praise the artistic contribution of both Scotto and Carreras, saying "it doesn't get any better than this" and that Carreras had one of the "most beautiful voices of all time." You choose to only seize on the negative comment and completely ignore the positive. I am not an idolator.

[rayrac]

Your 'nasty' comment didn't seem to have any relevance, so why make it? Is it you who also might be termed 'nasty'?

[billyguns2]

I am still smarting from run-ins I had with Scotto and Carreras, and I quite irresponsibly took the opportunity to vent my unexpressed feelings via YouTube. I have been nasty myself on occasion, as I make no pretenses to being holier than thou. Do take a moment and see what Scotto says about Callas and Pavarotti on YouTube; this is hardly a gracious person in those moments.

[candidnt]

This is the first time I've heard Carreras (I specialize in the ladies). I clicked on this, thinking "what's all the fuss about?"

Approximately twenty seconds later: "HOLY SHIT!" His voice is glorious and tender and rich and gentle and powerful and delicate all at once. Wooooow. Now I see what the fuss is about!

[cOviimOrena]

esto es cantar joder//

[Bjoerrelli]

Here Carreras is at his best about 26-27 years old.

[Krizia65c13]

yes he's 27 old...(born 1946)

[Bjoerrelli]

I know he´s born -46 but not the date or the date on this recording that´s why I wrote that he were 26 or 27 years old my comment was really about how good he were at such a young age and also the vocal decline from the early 80th and until now and not nearly all is caused by his leukemia

[Krizia65c13]

on the video that I have compare the date 19 september 1973.

[woytynowska]

Ah.... Scotto. She's wonderful.......

[Phaedrax2]

Aahhhh Carreras - what a beautiful voice and such a handsome face - sigh.............

Thanks so much for uploading. :-D

[nozomikae]

Very intelligent performance.

Beautiful..

[novice1959]

This is SO PRETTY!! Thank you!

[epa300]

Wow, a video of Carreras from 1973. Thank you so much! Most of the ones on on YouTube 80s, past his prime.

[Samurai9]

Two wonderful singers who continued their careers long after losing their peak form. Carreras, who here shows a glorious, creamy, rich lyric voice, is one of the big tragedies of opera because his prime years were so marvelous and so short.

[inmylife9]

I agree with you as regards the prime years of his carreer, he was really really marvellous but I think that even if he does not have no more a voice as powerful as before, he still can give emotions to his audience: less elasticity, less power, different repertoire but still great emotions, great voice, great artist, great person. This is forever.

[Krizia65c13]

he sing with passion and heart that's all I want to hear from hime!Great man forever

[libro07]

Bang on, Samurai. I could not agree more. Carreras was incredibly good, for such a short period. When you compare this to Pavarotti's long career on the top (without much decline in vocal splendour), it really highlights the tragedy. However, we have, thankfully, many superb recordings. The at once intense and lyrical voice here is gorgeous - I wish I could have heard him live in those days. Scotto, of course, was very good as well.

[Flfally]

GAHHHHH he is so wonderful!

[GEVORK6]

Glorious!

[Sono1Tenore]

jesus christ...this is THE BEST i've ever heard carreras sing. freakin leukemia.

[icegirlpnr]

Oh Carreras I love you...This singing is killing me softly... The top point is emoatinal singinggg

[dugbin]

Excellent singing by Scotto! I haven't actually heard her voice before this, but now, I am convinced that she is a great singer! Bravo to both singers!

[glasgopinkkitten]

Excellent video.Both singers are wonderful.thanks.

[libro07]

A thrilling example of Carreras in his heyday. Scotto always an excellent listener.

[ErnestoPetti]

here 27 years old...wao

[gheeah]

Jose Carreras' voice is most expressive and thrilling of all tenors...

[mikeopera]

This is about the best performance I've heard of this. I love how softly she starts and how neither oversings. Whoever was conducting was brilliant!

[xavierfersanta]

Nino Verchi was the conductor of this performance and was recorded at Tokyo in 1973.

[JLeeGraham]

@mikeopera: I couldn't agree more. This is easily in my top two performances of this duet (the other being Domingo and Stratas). In particular, I feel that Carreras in is prime had one of the most exquisite vocal instruments around. Great emotional depth is also in evidence from both singers here; Scotto appears close to losing her composure as Carreras sings (note her dimpled chin), pulling herself together just in time to make her own masterfully controlled pianissimo entrance. Phenomenal!

[B0712]

Sensational!! Jose at his best.

[xavierfersanta]

It was normal in those years to cut everything, now you have to sing all the opera and in the original version (i don´t like Verdi´s original version of La traviata) and not always are the singers who decide which cuts goes or not.

[sanvocals]

I think that Carreras Cut this part beacuse of the high notes in piano that are written. We all know his "high note fear". And he almost never sung the high C....that doesnt mean he was a bad singer. Many tenors have a great career without the high C. I love Carreras anyway. The last Chenier till now.

[eurydike]

@sanvocals i love his chenier :-)

[martafloria]

Hi!! does anybody know if renatta has sung tosca or anna bolena ?I would love to have a lokk at those videos!! And does renatta scotto have any solo albums

[dugbin]

Yes, as I know of, Renata has a recording of Anna Bolena, though I'm not sure about Tosca. Maybe if you try to look for it here, something will surface.

[Phaedrax2]

He was so wonderful at his time of his life - what a fabulous voice!

[pugacci]

WOW ! ! !

[hymnforlorca]

Such a beautiful voice he had in these early years. I have a recording of these two singing the entire love duet from Madama Butterfly a year after this. It's amazing. They end with this soaring trumpeted high C.

[GABYCONSTANZA]

yea grand carreras! Remembering him in this form is a thrill. what a cutie. she sounds good too.

[MarioLanza2]

Grande Jose Carreras!!!

You remember me of my father. :(

[gheeah]

oh, this is the best, breathtaking...