Ramon Vargas - Barbiere di Siviglia - Ecco ridente in cielo

[escrapix]

bastante bueno,hay que pensar que no siempre "todos "pueden contar con la suerte de oir a los mas perfectos en el rol que mejor desarrollan,hay que conformarse con aproximaciones y la fortuna de tener ,no a los maestros ,pero si a los buenos.Deacuerdo con Nadir

[escrapix]

bastante bueno,hay que pensar que no siempre "todos "pueden contar con la suerte de oir a los mas perfectos en el rol que mejor desarrollan,hay que conformarse con aproximaciones y la fortuna de tener ,no a los maestros ,pero si a los buenos.

[MISSLUCYLIU123]

yay!! =)

[nourci]

désolé mais a part la voix il n'y a pas grand chose dans cet Almaviva... écoutez Araîza c'est vraiment autre chose... LA réference!!!

[natalakiii123]

poor..

[anselgoya]

muy bueno,ramon.

[schmup53]

I love the tempos, and that wig...he looks good here!

[basilevs96]

But, Romanovsky is better

[frenchyfrench]

With Blake, Meritt and Florez we now now how one should sing Rossini. Vargas is a vey honnest artist here but his best is Donizetti for sure where he is absolutely amazing.

[Nadir2711]

Bonne interprétation et bonne musicalité....il n'en reste pas moins que d'autres artistes sont plus à l'aise dans ce rôle,sans que cela soit une critique..il y a des voix vraiment faites pour certains rôles et d'autres moins.......c'est tout le charme de l'opéra......

[ALBERTOLE2009]

Excelente Ramón... de lo mejor que ha tenido América y el Mundo...

[saaalvaaadoor]

es mejor pavarotti

[danbar73]

This is an excellent performance of this aria, better than most out there. However, I believe this is only the third best by Vargas. The second best would be from the NAXOS complete recording of the Barber, where he also gave a stunning rendition of Cessa di piu Resistire, among the very best on record. His absolute best Ecco Ridente has to be from his CLAVES recording of Rossini & Donizetti arias -very clean and brilliant coloratura, superb control, ravishing tone and fantastic finish in hi C

[aguacun]

I think is is the repertory of Ramon VArgas and not the some heavier roles he use to sing now. Here sounds very good.. . I invite you all to see a video that is strange because are from people not famous and is not crap as much of the videos that people upload. Search this name in this same aria: Sergey Romanovsky

[flaviotrue]

You are right about Vargas. A week ago, I saw on TV the most recent performance of Vargas singing Boheme at the New York's Met. Beatiful voice, but not well suited to sing Rodolfo.

[FacePaster]

Totally agree with aguacun and flaviotrue on this. I got a lot of thumbs down on another video for saying so myself. The truth is that he sounded incredible in Rossini. I would say that in barber, italian girl, and cenerentola are the best he ever sounded, which was pretty phenomenal.

[Elried]

very noble voice! reminds me in fact a bit of wunderlich!

but the coloraturas are really too wishy washy.

but i also prefer florez

[Merryjest]

I concur, I think Wunderlich would be the standard here. Alfredo Kraus did an amazing recording of it, but a great deal slower, of course.

[voce29]

The gold standard is still Friz Wunderlich!

[thelivesofme1]

i actually prefer him over Florez for this piece, and I'm a Florez fan, I've never heard a better version of Ah! mes amis than Florez's performance

[fdebozo]

really? i love vargas, but florez's is just more accurate and a LOT more secure. a lot of the chromatics in this one are really fuzzy

[cucuchi1]

good effort. But still the best is Juan Diego Florez!

[bposton242]

IMHO, this is the voice type that should be singing Rossini. Vargas should have never tried anything heavier and all the tenors with lighter voices that sing this fach regularly shouldn't even be trying this much.

[mona0825]

Wow! what a great finding. I became an opera fan partly thanks to Ramon Vargas recording of Il Barbiere (Naxos). Thanks for posting this. Can you post more of this? (Alla idea di qual metalo, maybe)

[gruberosa]

His naxos recording supersedes this by a wide margin. Still feel that its the best rendition of this aria that I have ever heard.

[Operaphile]

Same!!!! That and the Pav/Suth "La fille du regiment"...Now I'm an operaphile :) Hell, I've got something like 14 or 15 recordings of this opera alone!!! Vargas is THE best Almaviva on disc in terms of a complete set. Has the Wunderlich been released on CD or just DVD. I still think Florez's met 07 barbiere was THE best ever recorded. His coloratura has become so refined, he now sings with the finesse of Kraus and the coloratura of Sutherland :)

[tenochtitlan83]

For me the best Almaviva, and Rossini singer of all times was and stays Maestro Francisco Araiza. Just my opinion.

[rupepill]

@tenochtitlan83

Certainly, Senor Araiza is a renowned artist, and like Ramon Vargas, another fine Mexican tenor.

[MrThevoice93]

@tenochtitlan83 I'm agree but not at all... One of the best is surely Araiza but Luigi Alva and Juan Diego Florez are other greats Almaviva Counts... :)

[David45NV1]

@MrThevoice93 Ramon Vargas is a good and solid Almaviva while Luigi Alva is far superior than Florez. However Luigi Alva was surpassed by Cesare Valletti in the1958 Leinsdorf recording and by Bruce Ford in this role. Francisco Araiza surpassed all of them and has been the absolute best Almaviva in records and in scene. A new excellent Almaviva is the young tenor Javier Camarena who just had a great debut at the Metropolitan in the role ...:)

[shwarov]

Exactly the voice colour is a bit warm and dark for Rossini and Vargas have some sort of a lirico spnto tenor timbre,the technique is not a 100% bel canto since the voice is a little bit heavily emitted but one cannot but notice that his voice is so much equalized in all the registers not 2 spek about all his nuances which are perfect ,some musician he is.

[LindoroRossini]

Maybe Vargas isn't exactly a coloratura tenor in the pure sense of the word, but he is still wonderful in this role :-) . I like the warmth of his voice!