Beniamino Gigli - Nessun Dorma!

[BrandonShayMusic]

man i want to be able to sing like that. F***what the popular music scene thinks. they don't know anything about anything before their time. My cohorts are a bunch of ignorant twats. It's so frustrating !

[wiseroldfart]

This recording gives us an idea of how good Gigli was and why he was and still is so highly regarded.

[tomfroekjaer]

An inspiration for all later tenors. Great singing.

[wiseroldfart]

One of the best versions of this aria I've heard. It's in my top 5. No, Potts isn't even in my top ten.

I also like the chorus ending.

[VinylToVideo]

@wiseroldfart Pol Pot shouldn't be in anyone's top 100 list.

[wiseroldfart]

@VinylToVideo: I hear you! I just got blasted by a Potts fan for saying he's decent for an amateur, but not in the same league as the great tenors. The truth hurts. Not everyone has a great ear for music. I like the guy and wish him well, but he'll never achieve greatness. I'd never pay to see him or buy a Potts recording - not in a world in which so many great tenors have been recorded.

[VinylToVideo]

@wiseroldfart I don't even bother commenting on the awful singers' videos anymore; their ignorant fans are always bound to make a reply and it's just a back and forth comment war that never ends.

[dekercarol]

The last minute of the recording is the chorus finishing the aria. We do not here this in the other recordings and I do not remember hearing the chorus in the 2009 HD performance. Is this change in the treatment of this aria?

[VinylToVideo]

@dekercarol It might just be another thing to boost modern tenors' ego, even if the tenors years ago were better equipped.

[hortius]

@dekercarol The chorus heard at the end of this clip was taken from the end of the opera. Quite a presumptuous move to cut and paste it there...

[enzodanilo83]

Pavarotti loves this singer, like his maestro!

[bilkox]

One of the greatest tenors of all time. Thanks for sharing

[78Maniac]

En tant que collectionneur, je recherche ce disque et beaucoup d'autres, comme par exemple Ombra mai fu de G.F.Haendel chanté aussi par B.Gigli. Où pourrais-je le (les) trouver?

Il se trouve que je possède la même Dual 1214 que celle sur laquelle tournent ces deux disques! Je l'ai fait réviser et elle marche très bien.

[VinylToVideo]

Hmm j'ai deux disques. J'ai acheté la mienne à un brocanteur local; essayez eBay. J'ai encore cette platine, mais ne l'utilisent pas plus. Wish I avait dépensé un peu plus et j'ai acheté un 1219.

[buontenerone]

tanto di cappello.grande maestro.

[rugiadadisole]

Notevole brano eccellente super RUGIADADISOLE saluti festosi

[ilovemovie1968]

amazing...

[70Mack]

This chap was my dear old dads faverite.Thanks for putting this up.

[nicodemusd]

My Dad's favourite as well.

[Mooorhe]

The most beautiful voice of the 20th century... you can hear it here, even if he's not at his best.

[ipmoic]

Gigli sounds old here--his vibrato is starting to wobble. BUT, what artistry, musicianship and such a velvety, golden voice. Lucky us.

[raythetse]

Yeah I hear what you're saying, but that was a minor negative compared to the rest of the recording. Excellent performance.

[796824]

Gigli, a student of ENRICO ROSATI, was the greatest tenor, who was humble enough to say, "ALL TENORS should take their hats off to Tito Schipa," because he KNEW the artistry that Schipa possessed. Only a superb singer would make that statement

[crazygeo81]

Thank you Vinyl To Video . You really put up some treasures !! Especially in the Opera category in wich I love so Much. If records Were priced on , Lyric , feeling , Music , and on actuall Singing > And not on Just how Rare they are ?! THIS RECORD WOULD BE PRICELESS :]

[ilbacioditosca]

We don't have Miguel Fleta version either.

[TrovadorManrique]

Fleta no cantó Turandot más de un par de veces o tres, y la estreno de rebote.

[ilbacioditosca]

Si es por musicalidad, si es por belleza y potencia de agudos, si por bravura, si es por dulzura Fleta fue superior a todos los tenores ITalianos de la historia.

Nadie podria haber estrenado Calaf mejor que Fleta , conoce usted la discusion que tuvieron Puccini y Toscanini?

Toscanini queria Pertile y Puccini queria alguien que fuera afinado y con musicalidad, ningun italiano de ese momento podia lo que queria el compositor.Toscanini le dijo el mejor en el mundo hoy es Fleta.

[tomfroekjaer]

Sadly we don't have a Caruso version...

[2mising]

It would be rather difficult as Caruso died four years before Puccini composed Nessun Dorma.

[tomfroekjaer]

Yes, unfortunately.

[violinmerchant]

damn that sucks

[78Maniac]

Un profond respect du texte et aussi du mystère: personne ne doit dormir pour résoudre avant l'aube les trois énigmes. Gigli vraiment EST le prince Timur; il respecte à la lettre les volontés du Compositeur. On admire aussi la clarté exceptionnelle pour l'époque, de l'orchestre et surtout des choeurs. Le son 78 tours est unique; on n'obtiendra jamais un tel résultat en repiquant de telles plages sur CD.

[VinylToVideo]

Je suis d'accord.

[juhanssson]

"Gigli is the best lyric tenor ever. PERIOD."

may agree, look up Björling from -44 here at youtube, very much alike Gigli i think, but i feel Björling has something more. But sure, Gigli is great! One of the 2 best for me.

[citrussorbet]

I agree.For me its hard to separate the two,with a slight going to JB.

[kmillard]

Interesting here how they cut from the end of the aria to the somewhat Disneyesque finale of the opera... "O sola e vita eternita.... luce del mondo e amore..." It's become fashioable the last few year for opera houses to stage Turandot with re-written endings speculating on what PUccini REALLY might have wrote... The was a Steven Mercurio version in Detroit and a Luciano Berio version in Los Angeles. The results were as different as night and day.

[Antoniottispqr]

Gigli é il migliori di tutti i tempi dopo Caruso. Pavarotti: Il migliore dei suoi tempi.

[Ankhsnammon]

Gigli è lùnico tenore di chi si diceve "La voce di platino".

Ed è il massimo di tutti i tempi!

Buon capodannom per voi!

ankhsnammon

[slfrstrnt]

Mooost intersting indeeed to meeet you heeere...

how ever could that happen???!!!

we must be Zi1111i000ns here!!!

((i am studying and memorizing

the digits of Pi to get a Feeel(!!)

what probability/chance/... REALLY is!

I have a degree in math and should know

a thing or two about the more abstract/theoretical

side of *stochasticity*... but NO such Thing as to get a real Touch on a Thing...))

Good Commentary, bytheby! (in other words i understand Italian ;) ) -SkyBergsDriffffting...Offf...

[Ankhsnammon]

Sir,please...can you make for me a profond study about the number RHO and its importance in the renaissence of souls?

ankhsnammon

[slfrstrnt]

the really,really most imporant number in mathematics is "e"

Pi is thought of as "quite a good" *random*-number (it is NOT random of course as it is given by an algorithm)

Pi is the number of CHOICE in the world of the mnemonicists (Only)! (sigh)

as for RHO...

well, i could wiki of course... but You Could TOO ;)

(don't call me "Sir", Lady ;) )

[eroticus7]

Gigli is the best lyric tenor ever. PERIOD.

[BARREDA1976]

Gigli is my favourite tenor but technically he is not a lyrical tenor he never got the high C

[tena2]

did he never get to that note? I must be going deaf then

[BARREDA1976]

he was a tenore di grazia up to b flat 4

[MPM1943]

Gigli had a very good high C, even if he never built his career on the top notes, as Lauri-Volpi did. If you want to hear some of his high Cs on record you can go to the "Salve, dimora, casta e pura" from FAUST (1931), "Che gelida manina" from LA BOHÈME (1931 & 1938), "O soave fanciulla" id. opera (1937 & 1938), and the finale of the love duets from MADAMA BUTTERFLY (1939) and UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (1943).

[arone64]

Release year is 1949.

[VinylToVideo]

Thank you. I didn't really research this one too much. He's quite old here I suppose.

[kmillard]

He would have been 59.

[jblo9]

59! Would be entitled to be taking it easy

[cipollaccio]

Dal punto di vista della musica lirica, Pavarotti non e' stato niente a confronto con Beniamino Gigli