What can I saw? I liked much better everytime I see it again!!!.It is like a reminder for me for where to place the voice, what to look when performing ...delicatessen even if having a big voice or approaching any kind of repertoire.Bravooo!!!!
PERFECT singing! I've been lucky enough to hear this incredible artist live, his artistry and control over the voice are trully amazing, and plus, he is such a nice and humble person! BRAVISSIMO!
Was für eine Stimme !! So gut wie keine Register zu erkennen. Der Wechsel aus der mittleren Lage in höchste Höhen gelingen ihm bravourös. Dazu die voluminöse Fülle
gestellt. Aber im Zeitalter der Südeuropäer (Domingo, Pavarotti ..) hatten offensichtlich die großartigen anglo-amerikanischen Rossini-Tenöre (Merritt, Ford, Blake, Kunde ...) das Nach-sehen. Will man die Amerikaner nur, wenn sie Popmusik machen? Seltsam ...
WHAT a nice combination of chest and head voice; he smoothly passes from high to low!!! His voice is full, his voice is beautiful...why he is not seen in central pages?, I guess his still young and active (isn't him?).Bravooo Ford!!!!!
The best tenor in the world to singing bel canto the likes of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini etc. This is is the most beautiful tenor voice on planet earth believe me
I believe you David. I am one of your oldest fans. Maybe you remember. I told you so that day in the bank in San Francisco. You had sung Roderigo to Somingo's Otello the night before.
Oops. My bad. As I remember I saw Domingo as Otello twice and McCracken twice. I sometimes get of the casts of performances more than thirty years ago a little mixed up. I heard Ford sing Rodrigo too, but the Rossini Otello of course. On a stage full of tenors he stood out.
As to who I am - just a fan. I gave the Merola and the Met auditions an opportunity to use me but they chose others instead - thousands of others as it happens. I sang big parts in small companies for thirty years.
I did a little research and found that the 14 year old Mozart wrote those wide intervals to accomodate the lead tenor Guglielmo d'Ettore. d'Ettore was a composer in his own right but no friend of the Mozarts. He made Wolfgang rewrite one aria five times and ultimately substituted music by Gasparini into the first performance. d'Ettore was a true tenor star, probably the best tenor Mozart ever had but he was dying by the time of Mitridate. He died at age 31 a year after the premiere.
He came to my University (Utah) a few months ago and he was absolutely fantastic. He was so knowledgable about technique and the game in general and so nice.
what a perfect balance of chest and head voice! this must be what the bel canto masters had in mind when they talked about blending the registers. I love this clip!
Excelente manera de abordar el aria, un aria muy complicada por la dificultad de la linea vocal, Ford la aborda con gran inteligencia en una mezzavoce muy bien trabajada y algo de voz mixta, me gusta mucho su trabajo.
He probably means that Mozart didn't start writing anything truly lasting before that age. Everything prior was written in the Classical style, whereas Mozart's own innovations start to show up later.
No. You probably don't know Gladwell's theories. He also tries to demonstrate that Bill Joy and Bill Gates were not truly exceptional but just the product of lucky circumstances. Mozart as a prodigy and genius is a real threat to his oddball notions of luck.
BTW I learned Colas aria from Bastian and Bastienne when I was about 19. Mozart wrote it when he was about 11. There are two or three recordings of it in the catalog. I would call that lasting.
Mozart considered Haydn his only contemporary competitor. I agree. I like the works of Johahn Christian Bach but he didn't write operas. Cimerosa has one surviving opera in the opera canon - Il Matrimonio Segreto. I have performed it many times. It's charming but it isn't Mozart. I have also done Prima la Musica Poi le Parole - Salieri's most popular opera. Junk. Salieri was not a good composer. His works are only performed because of his connection with Mozart IMHO.
JC Bach wrote a lot of operas, I've been uploading bits from 'Temistocle' these days.
2 acts are covered 1 to go.
PS
Salieri's most popular opera would be Falstaff,
that's pretty much standard these days and there are numerous recordings. I like Salieri in general, his style appeals to me a lot. I don't care much about late Mozart (except Tito) but I love early Mozart. I'm an opera seria man really, I care little about buffa.
I had a period when I advised people to never listen to any music written after 1791. I listen to a a lot of JC Bach's instrumental works at that time.
But I did move on (into the 19th century).
Rossini is the last of the true classical opera composers in the sense that he wrote so many operas on classical themes. His heroes come from Greek and Roman history and myth. Donnezetti and Bellini chose Romantic stories. If you like opera seria you should like Ermione or Semiramide.
But at the moment I'm happy with baroque and classicism.
Btw, I would draw the line at 1800-1805 (Cimarosa was dead, Paisiello was getting old and Salieri stopped composing operas, new composers with different style began to emerge).
Bruce has just displayed some of the best singing that has ever occured. This is near perfection. Ford is basically saying, "I can do whatever I want with this voice, and there is nothing anyone can do about it." And he does this all while maintaining incredible musicality and artistry.
This is near perfection...absolutely flawless technique and a fearless approach to this extremely rangy aria...sure the ornmanetation is a little strange in a Mozart piece but nontheless its tasteful and gorgeous!
From a traditional (and technical) persepctive, such ornamentation in the repeats of a Cavata-cavatina style aria are totally apropos and expected in a live performance. There are details in other performances and some in this one I like [more.] But as you said, tasteful and gorgeous!
I love his technique. He does not move his mouth when moving through different parts of his range he lets the acoustics do all the work. Truly perfection.
Not sure what you actually mean by "acoustics", but by keeping the lower jaw quiet and still, the voice finds the breath. .better sadi maybe is that the breath finds the voice. As long as Bruce sang like this, he was at the top of his game. He was the master. If more singers would SIMPLY learn to keep their lower jaws uninvolved and "free", they would find that the workload would shift to the breath and that their voices would develop exponentially. Bravo Bruce.
This is quite possibly one of the greatest lyric tenor performances I have ever personally heard..... in my short 30 years. And for all you Florez haters (aka-aguacun) Bruce and Florez are two totally different kinds of tenors; lyric and legero..... you need to learn your stuff and learn to appreciate true greatness in every fach.
Bruce Ford is really a full lyric tenor, while Florez is a lirico-leggiero. Lirico-leggiero meaning "light-lyric". However, both are tenore di grazia, meaning "graceful tenors". Basically the male equivalent to the Coloratura voice.
I like his voice very much and Ford is great in Mitridade. Last year I saw him in Brussels Mitridate. I was a bit disapointed with the power...but he was very very good, with a beautiful tone...
Totally agree with you. And this is because Ford use his body support and that´s why is more colorful. You feel that you are inftont a MALE voice. Mr. Florz uses too much head voice..good artist but a bit white voice. He saoid that he do this because Rossini have to be sung like that... I do not agree with him but, if so, then is too much Rossini for him. WHere is Mozart in his repertory? I think his type of voice must be able to sing repertory like Alfredo Kraus.
Hardly ever you see a tenor sing something so difficult with such finesse and elegance and at the same time a stage presence and masculine tone as we see Ford doing. I've had the luck to see him in a recital 2 years ago in Frankfurt, what an incredible artist this nice and humble man is!
disculpa me equivoque al marcar tu opinion , me confundi en dar la votacion de aprovado jejejeje estoy de acuerdo contigo es muy bueno este gran tenor
His singing is phenomenal, and he's surprisingly a committed actor, not to mention a very handsome man. This production calls for a comparion with that Ponnelle production, which is just as interesting. I wish the dancers were more synchronized in their movements, though. I mean, their choreography wasn't so complicated or difficult, and yet, they were all over the place.
QUALE MERAVIGLIA !!!
GRAZIE PER IL VIDEO
klemperer100 6 months ago
Is it the man with 6 fingers on his right hand? I think so!
soren476 9 months ago
What can I saw? I liked much better everytime I see it again!!!.It is like a reminder for me for where to place the voice, what to look when performing ...delicatessen even if having a big voice or approaching any kind of repertoire.Bravooo!!!!
tenorschofield 9 months ago
Que maravilla!!!!, this is one of my favorite interpretations of this wonderful aria. Bruce Ford is superb!!!RAVOOO!!!!!
tenorschofield 10 months ago
Wonderful singing ! but terrible costumes ;D
Emajor7b5 1 year ago
What a man, what a voice!!! Great, wonderfull!!
monykagir 1 year ago
God has Blessed this mans vocal chords
rosetheatre 1 year ago
What is this from?! Absolutely gorgeous!
sonkch01 1 year ago
This is the first time that i have heard Bruce Ford...and now I am a fan!! Unbelieveable line!!
raycanto76 1 year ago
Naja teilweise etwas unsauber.... aber im großen ganzen ganz OK
LeClementable 1 year ago
My word, that is some voice! Four B naturals in the first 2 minutes! An inspiring piece of work. Excellent tenor.
EdmundStAustell 1 year ago
Great voice,great singing, very charming and tender, yet round and powerful voice!!!Bravoooo!!!!
juancristobal60 1 year ago
PERFECT singing! I've been lucky enough to hear this incredible artist live, his artistry and control over the voice are trully amazing, and plus, he is such a nice and humble person! BRAVISSIMO!
DrGarri 2 years ago
A perfect study in open throat, relaxed larynx breath-based singing. We all can learn from this! Bravo Bruce. BEAUTIFULLY sung!
RickChristman 2 years ago
what is the name of this aria?
jomoses07 2 years ago
se di lauri il crine adorno from mozart's mitridate
searnold56 2 years ago
Was für eine Stimme !! So gut wie keine Register zu erkennen. Der Wechsel aus der mittleren Lage in höchste Höhen gelingen ihm bravourös. Dazu die voluminöse Fülle
seiner strahlenden Stumme.
Warum hört man von ihm so wenig?
Grandios!
almebo(einherzundeineseele)
einherzundeineseele 2 years ago
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Antenorix 2 years ago
@einherzundeineseele
Diese Frage habe ich mir auch schon oft
gestellt. Aber im Zeitalter der Südeuropäer (Domingo, Pavarotti ..) hatten offensichtlich die großartigen anglo-amerikanischen Rossini-Tenöre (Merritt, Ford, Blake, Kunde ...) das Nach-sehen. Will man die Amerikaner nur, wenn sie Popmusik machen? Seltsam ...
Antenorix 2 years ago
Que voz! Timbre muito agradável!
pequenobaluarte 2 years ago
WONDERFUL!
laurabellisoprano 2 years ago 2
Genial !
AndresVera24 2 years ago
WHAT a nice combination of chest and head voice; he smoothly passes from high to low!!! His voice is full, his voice is beautiful...why he is not seen in central pages?, I guess his still young and active (isn't him?).Bravooo Ford!!!!!
tenorschofield 2 years ago
his top sounds quite different in quality--a lot lighter than his bottom. Maybe that's just his voice?
flaze3 2 years ago
The best tenor in the world to singing bel canto the likes of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini etc. This is is the most beautiful tenor voice on planet earth believe me
thapelo27 2 years ago
WOW, what an amazing Voice!!!! What is he doing now?
adamoperaman 2 years ago
This is the world's greatest tenor...believe me, I know!
David Hall Sundquist
tenordave 2 years ago
I believe you David. I am one of your oldest fans. Maybe you remember. I told you so that day in the bank in San Francisco. You had sung Roderigo to Somingo's Otello the night before.
Agorante 2 years ago
That was Jimmy McCracken...may he rest in piece...could you identify yourself, please.
tenordave 2 years ago
Oops. My bad. As I remember I saw Domingo as Otello twice and McCracken twice. I sometimes get of the casts of performances more than thirty years ago a little mixed up. I heard Ford sing Rodrigo too, but the Rossini Otello of course. On a stage full of tenors he stood out.
As to who I am - just a fan. I gave the Merola and the Met auditions an opportunity to use me but they chose others instead - thousands of others as it happens. I sang big parts in small companies for thirty years.
Agorante 2 years ago
I did a little research and found that the 14 year old Mozart wrote those wide intervals to accomodate the lead tenor Guglielmo d'Ettore. d'Ettore was a composer in his own right but no friend of the Mozarts. He made Wolfgang rewrite one aria five times and ultimately substituted music by Gasparini into the first performance. d'Ettore was a true tenor star, probably the best tenor Mozart ever had but he was dying by the time of Mitridate. He died at age 31 a year after the premiere.
Agorante 2 years ago
He came to my University (Utah) a few months ago and he was absolutely fantastic. He was so knowledgable about technique and the game in general and so nice.
Iareto 2 years ago
il migliore tenore lirico puro di tutti i tempi.
fafalio 3 years ago
He's singing in Armida in the next season alongside Brownlee. Have to go see that...
baritone426 3 years ago
Yea thats a good idea thanks for the suggestion. And Sjambro you got your wish.
IbranandoBaritone 3 years ago
he is much better than brownlee.. and brownlee is beyond words... just Fords time was sooner.. befor the markeded era
jstarro59 2 years ago
what a perfect balance of chest and head voice! this must be what the bel canto masters had in mind when they talked about blending the registers. I love this clip!
FacePaster 3 years ago
This is a revelation. I had only heard the Rockwell Blake version prior to this, but this is much better. I shall keep my ears open for Ford!
tenorsanyone 3 years ago 2
Great voice and stage presence;simply GREAT!!
Bravo maestro!! please to his manager, advertise him much more; the world needs this kind of tenor ou there!!!
juancristobal60 3 years ago
Excelente manera de abordar el aria, un aria muy complicada por la dificultad de la linea vocal, Ford la aborda con gran inteligencia en una mezzavoce muy bien trabajada y algo de voz mixta, me gusta mucho su trabajo.
verdiotello 3 years ago
Take that Malcolm Gladwell!!
I'm reading his book "Outliers" in which he claims Mozart wasn't really a prodigy and that he never wrote anything remarkable before he was 21.
Mithradate was composed when Mozart was 14.
Agorante 3 years ago 2
Exsultate jubilate at 19!
He probably means that Mozart didn't start writing anything truly lasting before that age. Everything prior was written in the Classical style, whereas Mozart's own innovations start to show up later.
g4thz 3 years ago
No. You probably don't know Gladwell's theories. He also tries to demonstrate that Bill Joy and Bill Gates were not truly exceptional but just the product of lucky circumstances. Mozart as a prodigy and genius is a real threat to his oddball notions of luck.
BTW I learned Colas aria from Bastian and Bastienne when I was about 19. Mozart wrote it when he was about 11. There are two or three recordings of it in the catalog. I would call that lasting.
Agorante 3 years ago
You're right, I was guessing.
If MOZART wasn't the composer of Bastien, do you think there would be any recordings? How many recordings are there of Mozart's famous contemporaries?
g4thz 3 years ago
Mozart considered Haydn his only contemporary competitor. I agree. I like the works of Johahn Christian Bach but he didn't write operas. Cimerosa has one surviving opera in the opera canon - Il Matrimonio Segreto. I have performed it many times. It's charming but it isn't Mozart. I have also done Prima la Musica Poi le Parole - Salieri's most popular opera. Junk. Salieri was not a good composer. His works are only performed because of his connection with Mozart IMHO.
Agorante 3 years ago
JC Bach wrote a lot of operas, I've been uploading bits from 'Temistocle' these days.
2 acts are covered 1 to go.
PS
Salieri's most popular opera would be Falstaff,
that's pretty much standard these days and there are numerous recordings. I like Salieri in general, his style appeals to me a lot. I don't care much about late Mozart (except Tito) but I love early Mozart. I'm an opera seria man really, I care little about buffa.
Thrax1982 2 years ago
Well, I learn something everyday. I've never heard a JC Bach opera and I've never heard of Salieri's Falstaff.
Nowadays I listen to Rossini's opera seria. I was knocked out by the Ermione from Glyndebourne.
Agorante 2 years ago
Well, JC Bach and his operas were a big influence on young Mozart. The other composer with the same effect was "Il Divino Boemo" - Josef Myslivecek.
Hehe, Rossini is bit too late for me, I rarely leave the 18th century.
Thrax1982 2 years ago
I had a period when I advised people to never listen to any music written after 1791. I listen to a a lot of JC Bach's instrumental works at that time.
But I did move on (into the 19th century).
Rossini is the last of the true classical opera composers in the sense that he wrote so many operas on classical themes. His heroes come from Greek and Roman history and myth. Donnezetti and Bellini chose Romantic stories. If you like opera seria you should like Ermione or Semiramide.
Agorante 2 years ago
Hehe, who knows how my tastes will develop.
But at the moment I'm happy with baroque and classicism.
Btw, I would draw the line at 1800-1805 (Cimarosa was dead, Paisiello was getting old and Salieri stopped composing operas, new composers with different style began to emerge).
Thrax1982 2 years ago
Indeed, you are still a baby. As I remember I listened to a lot of JS Bach cantatas at that age.
BTW I think the vocal style of this aria is Bolognese (extreme jumps in pitch). Is that a feature of JC Bach's opera music too.
Maybe I'll just listen to some of your postings..
Agorante 2 years ago
Be my guest ;)
You're bass, right?
I've posted two of his bass arias from Temistocle, you might want to start with them. Both are good too in my opinion.
Just run a search for:
jc bach bass aria
Thrax1982 2 years ago
Absolument Magnifique quelle leçon...
nourci 3 years ago
This aria couldn't be sung better...go 'head, Bruce!!!
InformedListener 3 years ago 2
I'd never considered that Pontus could be a far, FAR Eastern land, such as mediaeval Japan, but this is a very interesting take on Mitridate.
I do think the costuming and scenery are all far too dark (and stark) but the weird suppliants observing and serving their King are way cool.
Now then, the SINGING... nothing short of awesome. One of the best tenor voices in the world at present, I do hope to find more of Bruce Ford.
UlfenDaddy 3 years ago
Where to begin? Well, that's simply one of the most elegant and beautiful tenor voices around. Bravo!
spgtenor 3 years ago
Incredible, this voice is simply fantastic.Bravo!!!!
pecabi 3 years ago
Bruce has just displayed some of the best singing that has ever occured. This is near perfection. Ford is basically saying, "I can do whatever I want with this voice, and there is nothing anyone can do about it." And he does this all while maintaining incredible musicality and artistry.
aarontenor 3 years ago
This is near perfection...absolutely flawless technique and a fearless approach to this extremely rangy aria...sure the ornmanetation is a little strange in a Mozart piece but nontheless its tasteful and gorgeous!
yesblanche 3 years ago
From a traditional (and technical) persepctive, such ornamentation in the repeats of a Cavata-cavatina style aria are totally apropos and expected in a live performance. There are details in other performances and some in this one I like [more.] But as you said, tasteful and gorgeous!
UlfenDaddy 3 years ago
Thanks for the information....As an avid opera fan (not a practitioner) I'm always thrilled to learn more about the art form.
yesblanche 3 years ago
I love his technique. He does not move his mouth when moving through different parts of his range he lets the acoustics do all the work. Truly perfection.
bigdigger87 3 years ago
Not sure what you actually mean by "acoustics", but by keeping the lower jaw quiet and still, the voice finds the breath. .better sadi maybe is that the breath finds the voice. As long as Bruce sang like this, he was at the top of his game. He was the master. If more singers would SIMPLY learn to keep their lower jaws uninvolved and "free", they would find that the workload would shift to the breath and that their voices would develop exponentially. Bravo Bruce.
2ManyHighCs 3 years ago
I meant his placement in conjunction with you stated.
bigdigger87 3 years ago
Man, reading your response really makes me want to work with someone like you. You certainly know how to describe a lot in a few words! Thanks!
rosetheatre 3 years ago
Not only does he sing like a god, but he's one heck of a nice guy to work with.
spintobear 3 years ago
This is quite possibly one of the greatest lyric tenor performances I have ever personally heard..... in my short 30 years. And for all you Florez haters (aka-aguacun) Bruce and Florez are two totally different kinds of tenors; lyric and legero..... you need to learn your stuff and learn to appreciate true greatness in every fach.
tenorlegero 3 years ago
Bruce Ford is really a full lyric tenor, while Florez is a lirico-leggiero. Lirico-leggiero meaning "light-lyric". However, both are tenore di grazia, meaning "graceful tenors". Basically the male equivalent to the Coloratura voice.
josephlemon 3 years ago
so beautiful overall but what was up with that cadenza .... it seemed a little out of tune and unnecessary ... Either way thank you for the post!!
coremdeo75 3 years ago
he makes me so upset! with his amazingness!
jomoses07 3 years ago
I like his voice very much and Ford is great in Mitridade. Last year I saw him in Brussels Mitridate. I was a bit disapointed with the power...but he was very very good, with a beautiful tone...
albertogrilo 3 years ago
so what is the actual name of this aria
jomoses07 4 years ago
"Se di lauri il crine adorno" from Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto
justelipse 4 years ago
Just GREAT! This is a great voice with easy top notes but witout loosing color in the voice...good body support.
aguacun 4 years ago 4
This is truly phenomenal singing. Bruce has such a robust, yet warm and elegant tone that you don't hear from tenors anymore. Bravo!
spgtenor 4 years ago 3
Great voice and performance both! TY
paulostroff99 4 years ago 2
Stunning rendition, a marvelous voice.TY
Dobrib 4 years ago 2
he's SO much more interesting than Florez. and I suspect its a larger voice.
altodivo 4 years ago
Totally agree with you. And this is because Ford use his body support and that´s why is more colorful. You feel that you are inftont a MALE voice. Mr. Florz uses too much head voice..good artist but a bit white voice. He saoid that he do this because Rossini have to be sung like that... I do not agree with him but, if so, then is too much Rossini for him. WHere is Mozart in his repertory? I think his type of voice must be able to sing repertory like Alfredo Kraus.
aguacun 3 years ago
Hardly ever you see a tenor sing something so difficult with such finesse and elegance and at the same time a stage presence and masculine tone as we see Ford doing. I've had the luck to see him in a recital 2 years ago in Frankfurt, what an incredible artist this nice and humble man is!
DrGarri 4 years ago
Guau
What a voice.I don't understand why he's not as popular as others since he's a fenomenal singer.
pabloco2627 4 years ago 3
GREAT SINGING
francotenor 4 years ago 3
This is a lesson in tenor bel canto. Wonderfully perfect, even, poised and yet still heroic in the true sense.
ballyboreen 4 years ago 4
disculpa me equivoque al marcar tu opinion , me confundi en dar la votacion de aprovado jejejeje estoy de acuerdo contigo es muy bueno este gran tenor
dannysnigh 3 years ago
His singing is phenomenal, and he's surprisingly a committed actor, not to mention a very handsome man. This production calls for a comparion with that Ponnelle production, which is just as interesting. I wish the dancers were more synchronized in their movements, though. I mean, their choreography wasn't so complicated or difficult, and yet, they were all over the place.
vitellia 4 years ago 3
this is nothing short of amazing!
bluemusicman1982 4 years ago 2
an incredible performance of an incredibly difficult aria
owud 4 years ago
What a fantastic voice. Thanks so much for posting this.
He is actually an alumni of the college I'm currently out.
plyxdex43 4 years ago
Uno de los mejores cantantes liricos,su especialidad Mozart y Rossini ,lo maximo............
dannysnigh 4 years ago
What a great singing!!!
massimo600 4 years ago