Charles Craig & Sena Jurinac live at Covent Garden in 1959 - "Madama Butterfly" Act I duet

[francesca7564]

Beau document, merci !

[madgeson]

He recorded Il Trovatore with sadlers Wells Opera. Classics for Pleasure re-issued with 2 other Verdi operas in English. Highlights only. Craig excellent in the Trovatore.

[MCHEATH]

Wonderful Listen to my other Charles Craig posts

[mariandelochs]

Sena Jurinac is again wonderful - in this role - her repertoire was pretty wide - Puccini to Verdi to Mozart and Strauss! One of my fave sopranos from the golden Vienna State Opera days! Thanks for this.

[halavey]

Yes he was very good in my trov. LP and I had remembered that but have not heard it in years, probably still have it.

[VinylToVideo]

He's a tenor I'd like to hear more from but haven't seen many recordings available; there is one CD I could get I think. For an English tenor he's excellent actually.

[GermanOperaSinger]

I have a recording of him singing an English version of 'dein ist mein ganzes herz', where he sings a Db at the end. His voice had a great top extension.

[meyerhoff31]

I saw Charles Craig in Othello, he stepped in at the last moment, he was 63 but you never would have guessed it, he had great stamina !!

[Herur22]

Beautiful. Sena is one of my favourite sopranos.

[halavey]

I used to have hilite--I think it was Travviata or Rigoletto with him on a single LP from the English sadler wells opera co. studio rec. in English many years ago and he was very good on that one also.

[madgeson]

@halavey The recording you had was Il Trovatore.Craig was a great singer.Greatly inderrated by the U.K.

[Glenmed]

Very fine singing well discernible. Suggest Jurinac and Mme Butterfly be placed ahead of Craig in your tabs.  This likely to get more meaningful links in related videos.

[VinylToVideo]

For duets I usually go by who sings first in the recording and it happens to be him.

[gaytenor]

Jurinac is very, very good with her soaring tones but Mr. Craig, while having a really beautiful sound, seems more than a bit overparted when heard next to Jurinac who, after all, was a well known Fidelio.

[MCHEATH]

@gaytenor Craig was a highly rated Florestan too, listen to my posts

[TedinNY]

@gaytenor Craig actually had a fabulous, large, spinto/dramatic voice, much larger than Jurinac (as can be heard in his Otello and Manrico YouTube selections) Here he's doing a great job of singing lyrically, partnering Jurinac politely in a somewhat self-effacing manner, that was appropriate in England at that time. As a tenor you will note that his piano singing is quite amazing for a heavy voice. Now listen to his Esultate ...