Placido Domingo sings a high D! - Lucia Act II Finale

[millonety123]

@bodiloto, @Vinyl insulta constantemente en YT a Domingo, sobre todo en el canal de @vivadomingo, y cuando insultan a tu madre o tu padre tu que haces bodi? Seguro que los defenderias, verdad?...y Vinyl no es solo estupido, es un 'stronzo' total! ahahaha!....Piensa el ladrón que todos son de su condición...ahahaha!

[millonety123]

@VinylToVideo, Why do not you mess around and rather long, man! you are a mediocre and stupid!!!

[bodiloto]

@millonety123 ahahahahahahahah per te @VinylToVideo è stupido?

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Lo sai quanti youtubers hai insultato?

Più di 40!

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Per te tutti sono pazzi,idioti,stupidi vado avanti?

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Soltanto TU sei normale.

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[TheDakiniKathryn]

Domingo IS a very effective Edgardo and definitely has a "Byronic" aura appropriate for the role with his plangent tone. As to the very thrilling tenor high D - when I first heard it I thought it was Domingo as well, but then I realized it is really the Arturo of Fernando de la Mora!!!

[TheValentino74]

great final note by placido

[SHICOFF1]

Sometimes he had as good B flat early in his career 60's-70's but I never did heard Squillo in the house, nor with Bergonzi. His 1979 Luisa was his best that I heard and Canio both live early and in the 70's studio recording. The Lescaut with Caballe, studio LP was better then any live one he did IMO..

[GermanOperaSinger]

Well I'm not a fan of Domingo but I won't trash him because I'm tired of getting into pointless arguments. I will just say though that the final note was incredibly constricted and squeezed out, almost like a whine. What I'm surprised about is that Domingo actually allowed this to be released as the final edit.

[VinylToVideo]

A strained D in a studio recording! I don't even want to know how many times he had to re-record that final note to be spliced in during the editing stages.

[vivadomingo1]

@VinylToVideo Yes strained...I posted this more because I was surprised that a tenor who admits he does not have great top notes would attempt a D that no other tenor really attempts in this piece.

[mrluistena]

@vivadomingo1 No other tenor attemps in this piece? take a listen to Kraus. He often sung it.

[andytaylor100]

@VinylToVideo HAHA, respectfully, you' re deaf, dear friend. It was a supernatural high D...grande Plácido!!!

[VinylToVideo]

@andytaylor100 Someone with Mingo in every one of their favorites can't be trusted. Get a life.

[SHICOFF1]

I doubt he cracked here at all though as one comment said, because if he did they would have taken it off and demanded he do it again being a studio recording . Luckily his voice does not sound loud on the note so you don't hear that much sound on it..

[SHICOFF1]

@gaytenor having the note is one thing, even tucker, shicoff, peerce and bergonzi probably could have yelled it and they where not high C tenors but they never would have done it. I heard Peerce in rehearsal go up to high C at age 73 and actually it was not bad but not what he was when younger with Toscanini of course but because he still had it, that didn't mean he would do it live on stage and he never did later of course. Why Domingo did it only he knows and I Doubt he was happy with it .

[SHICOFF1]

@GAYTENOR YES I AGREE, EARLY HE DID MANAGE THE HIGH C ON OCCASION, NEVER HIS BEST NOTE AS WITH MANY OTHERS BUT LATER AS YOU SAY HE NOT ONLY HAD NO HIGH C BUT OFTEN A TIGHT B. HERE IT'S HIS VOICE FOR SURE--- I KNOW HIS VOICE, HEARD HIM MANY TIMES IN HOUSE. BUT THE NOTE IS JUST AWFUL, HE NEVER SHOULD HAVE SUNG IT. I HAVE HEARD KRAUS AND PAV. BOTH HIGH NOTE TENORS SING EDGARDO LIVE IN THE HOUSE AND THEY DID NOT SING THE D FLAT WHEN I HEARD THEM IN CHICAGO, SO WHY DID HE DO IT AND SOUND AWFUL?

[gaytenor]

You are really reaching when you claim that its Domingo or even the Arturo how in the hell can you tell? Domingo was very, very strained on the high a's of the curse and the interpolated b-flat wasn't worth the effort. Compare his curse with live performances by Peerce, Tucker, Shicoff, DiStefano, etc., to hear what EASY SINGING AND RINGING HIGH NOTES ARE LIKE. Your hero was approaching the point where he would shamelessly transpose even sections of Otello down and he had high d RIGHT hahahaha!!

[vivadomingo1]

@gaytenor I am not reaching and I think we hear different things. I will admit frelly that Domingo strained a lot, but I do not hear it in this scene! His A's and Bflat are ringing. I think the D was ill advised, and I posted this because I was quite surprised that a tenor that admits himself not to having great high notes would attempt a D here where it is not even customary. Thanks for listening, I appreciate your opinion even if it is sort of harsh!

[Baritanist]

@gaytenor You are the biggest idiot on youtube. If there is one tenor who was contricted on top notes it's Di Stefano. But listening to you singing makes me understand why you're writing all this crap. You are CLUELESS, stop LYING about Stanley. Compared to you, DOMINGO is a God. You are a pathetic asshole. LOL.

[gaytenor]

@Baritanist Even for you a new low! DiStefano in his prime was not CONSTRICTED in his top notes which were exciting for about 10 years before his ego and his poor technique caught up with him. Compared to your braying at the moon Domingo is Caruso reborn on his worst day Domingo in his prime had a great voice while yours is best suited with amplification of course to breaking a lease. Stanley destroyed voices! Oh, and by the way why don't you put your Tucker/Stanley tape on youtube putz.

[Baritanist]

@gaytenor And you are lying and lying, you little putznasher. Domingo did not transpose down Otello. I am not putting on the Tucker tape because kuckers like you would come and TROLL. The tape is awesome and even your voice would have improved with Stanley's advice. But I am NEVER going to help a MOMZER like you. Tucker, Hadley, LoMonaco... all great American singers, all great Stanley voices. You are a troll, that's all.

[gaytenor]

@Baritanist You cannot post the tape because you cannot fake Tucker's unique sound. LoMonaco a great singer? LOL! Hadley owned his all too rapid decline to the so called method developed by that charlatan. Anyone can sound like a unique great singer just by filling the pockets of charlatan's learning by rote some mechanical rules of muscle control. Just give it up Jeremy and take your meds or use another one of your endless assortment of screennames. Domingo sang act 2 of Otello down a semitone.

[vivadomingo1]

@gaytenor He did, but only in 1999 during his last run of the role at the MET. I am not a fan of that by any means, but he did not transpose act II all the time. Just when he was 58 years old!

[gonzalordm]

@gaytenor IGNORANTE! BESTIA!

[Baritanist]

@gaytenor LoMonaco was GREAT and you are not, so why don't you just shut up. Muscle control is CRUCIAL for good singing and balance of registers. And just FYI I am NOT Mr.Cafiero. Cafiero is a great singer and a great teacher, so STOP LYING. You are a hopeless mixture of ignorance, jealousy and stupidity. Someone should amputate your fingers. LOL. MOMZER.

[gaytenor]

@Baritanist Take a chill pill Jeremy you have been outed by your own actions! If LoMonaco was even adequate there would be some aural evidence putz. If your tomcat in heat braying can be posted well draw your own conclusions. You try to lure suckers in by telling them that you know the method of singing that made Peerce and Tucker great as though it was the singing method that made them great not their innate ability to sing. That makes you a CHARLATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[millonety123]

SEguro que Domingo no da los agudos como Pavaroti, Corelli, Bjorling, etc, pero les gana en musicalidad y prestancia en el total de la representacion. El tiene suficientes con sus agudos medios y de cuando en cuando 'pega' el resto. Yo voy a ver operas enteras bien interpretadas no solo unos segundos de agudos altos.

[ThePavafan]

it was domingo. It is not a very good high d but it was still amazing but

[furdiani]

Veramente un C detestabile!!!

[ThePavafan]

It is a pity that almost all of his high Cs or Ds are only on recordings.In my life i have heard him sing a high C live in an opera house but unfortunately he did than incredibly rarely.I have never heard him sing a high D live in an opera house.

[ThePavafan]

ok we all have to admit that he is a great artist and a singer.he had a very fine voice in his prime.His technique was not good enough to sing beyond A or B,but on a very good day he could sing a good high C or D which sounded a little strangled but he could sing them.He was not as perfect as Corelli, Bjorling or the great Pavarotti but still was one of the greats.

[ThePavafan]

placido has never sung a good solo high C or a H in his life.He wasn't able to sing this high D ,and on this high D his voice cracked.not badly but a little.he could sing only a good A or B.

[vivadomingo1]

@ThePavafan - He sings a few good high C's on some of my posts here...take a listen - he did not have a great high C like Pavarotti, Corelli, or Bjoerling, but it was servicable

[MusicyLife]

@ThePavafan this is Fernando de la Mora ( Arturo ) not Domingo who hit th high D :)

[vivadomingo1]

@MusicyLife - Not true!!!! Doming ogets so mch flack for not hitting good top notes. When he hits one (that is not even GREAT by the way) all of a sudden it is not him? How do you know it is the Arturo? This would be the first time in history that I know of Arturo sings the High D and not Edgardo.

[MusicyLife]

@vivadomingo1 /watch?v=k5D4jRM1RPc and this the second

[ThePavafan]

his voice sounded strained and strangled on that high d

[vivadomingo1]

@ThePavafan Yes it sounds strained; its a high D sung by Domingo!  However, I think it is still exciting for this is a note Domingo rarely sang...One other time in the studio if i am not mistaken on his Vespri recording

[ubedajils]

No era una nota para él, ni en estudio.

[TheValentino74]

incredible high d at 50 years old

[siepido]

Frankly I don't think that Domingo is singing a high D: probably it's the tenor who is singing Arturo (Fernando de La Mora).

[vivadomingo1]

@siepido It's him....It may be a bit hard to believe, but it is a studio recording where he was capable of such a note every now and then

[vivadomingo1]

@siepido It's Domingo - It not, it is the first time that I know of that Arturo takes the D with the soprano. Secondly, its a studio recording and Domingo was capable of such notes in the studio on occasion.

[siepido]

@vivadomingo1 I know that it's a studio recording: that's why I think that they had chance to "cheat" a little bit. Of course on stage no Arturo could dare to take the D with the soprano. Anyway, maybe you are right, everything is possible (even if unlikely...)

[TheValentino74]

@siepido no is your mother singing my bro

[siepido]

@TheValentino74 If I am your brother, my mother is also yours...

[TheValentino74]

@siepido yes she sang beatiful like domingo

[Scalatti]

vivastuder !!!!

[vivadomingo1]

@Scalatti Studer sounds pretty good in the Lucia recording; she is a very unique artist.

[Placidani1]

Quelle voix merveilleuse !!!! VIVA PLACIDO !!!

Merci pour le téléchargement

[vivadomingo1]

@Placidani1 - you are welcome, please view and comment on some of my other videos as well...I have a lot of live Domingo on my page!!