Piero Cappuccilli "Nemico della patria" Andrea Chenier

[silverio3333]

troppo bravo  !!

[Fasolt100]

Eccezionale!!!

[OPERATEMIS]

Extraordinario!!! una combinación perfecta de apoyo y libertad!!! A incredible singer terrific!!!

[cesarefan]

Splendido.... commovente...pieno di energia positiva......!

[tenorjamestaylor]

FREAKIN' HOT!! What an amazing artist!!!

[98ris]

è fantastico, canta divinamente e bisogna dire che il direttore è un buon direttore.

[98ris]

è fantastico, canta divinamente e bisogna dire che il direttore è un buon direttore

[rovingdesertfox]

9 dislikes ?................ you have to be completely insane to dislike this.

[sirenadellopera]

STUPENDO. I worship Cappuccilli, and to hear him in this, perhaps the greatest verismo aria ever written for baritone, is a sublime pleasure. Thank you, grande Oneguin65! You have exquisite taste! :-)

[MegaZaver]

Grazie per le forti emozioni!!

[carisma0302]

아 존나 잘하네요.

[FernandoALR1]

Eu choro com Cappuccilli cantando essa aria

[otello31]

Mi vengono le lacrime ...!!!!

[loge1a]

Ein Belcantist höchster Ordnung. Beherrscht das Passagio perfekt und weiss noch was Vokalausgleich ist - bravo!

Tja ihr jungen Brüller, schaut es euch an und hört genau zu! Da gibt es Timbre, Emphase und gestisches Singen in höchster Harmonie.

[emilytransex]

KE EMOZIONE! RIMARRAI SEMPRE NEL MIO CUORE! SEI UN MITO!!!!!

[mediterraneo1000]

unico e indiscutible el mejor de todos los tiempos

[TheCraigMann]

Like? I LOVE!

[borneo230]

immenso



[cesarefan]

Bravo proprio che meraviglia....spettacolare!!! superbo!!!!

[cesarefan]

Spettacolare...!!!! emozionante!!!!

[BaritoneRobinson]

Fantastic!!

[BaritoneRobinson]

Fantasic!!

[puppetoz]

Sensational!

[ppperez]

Amazing

[SuperAida2010]

GRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAT PIERO!!!!!I love you!!!XXXXXXXXX.....

[AleBro83]

Grazie Dio per averci donato PIERO CAPPUCCILLI.

[malamutet]

Concordo perfettamente, Cappuccilli è stato grandioso e possente nelle sue interpretazioni verdiane e veriste, il tutto condito da una tecnica sopraffina.

[LUCIGNOLOPT]

brividi dall'inizio alla fine questo è il canto l'emozione che avvolge chi lo scolta e chi lo pratica e chi lo scrive....

[31122051]

Uno dei migliori baritoni di sempre.

[embenadorfinearts]

Cappuccilli pushes his voice perhaps a little here but it is for expression purposes. He is giving to the words and music meanings and the color of the voice demonstrate clearly this fact. This aria should be put in context and his enormous stage presence and expression transcend himself, he is no longer Cappuccilli but inside the drama of Andrea Chénier. Thank you for posting this video.

[alexandrevlad37]

Grande Cappuccilli!

[llcooljay1887]

I don't hear crude or ugly. I hear passion and excitement.

[Netfuturista]

gigante!!

[malfada22]

A claque. Oh please that is something Sherill Milnes would need. Not the great Cappuccilli.

[TheMusetta]

IMMENSO!!!!!!!

[MrRalissimo]

I still think Cappuccilli was capable of a more sophisticated rendition. However, he was clearly a house favourite (I recall a good 5 minute ovation which prompted the commentator, Humphrey Burton, to suggest the presence of a claque!) and gave them the old fashioned play-to-the gallery performance they expected. I could be unkind and say he didn't really have the top note on "baccio" in his armoury, or that the general delivery smacked of dispeptic barking......but I love it nonetheless.

[Gerilu40]

I Think it is ridiculous to talk abotut a claque. I was very often in the Viennese Opera House when Cappuccilli sang. A claque was really not necessary. There were so many people, old and young, who just liked him and were enthusiastic.

[HeldenB]

You could be unkind and say that...but you'd be wrong. Capp's high notes were famous all the way up to a B flat many tenors would dream of having. IAnd don't mean to be rude, but if you can't hear this rock solid F sharp you need to get your ears examined! As to your dispeptic barking comment...well this is verismo not baroque...and this is a totally idiomatic performance by a superb exponent. (I will admit his other in the vienna staatsoper theatre version is slightly better)

[MrRalissimo]

@HeldenB

I have no technical knowledge of music. Nevertheless, it still seems to me that Cappuccilli shouts the note on "bacio" rather than sings it. Your reference to verismo is very interesting and, to an extent, I take the point. Mind you, the verismo school should not be lazily equated with coarse singing, crude histrionics or lack of style. It is not bel canto - nor should it deteriorate into CAN BELTO! You know your stuff and I respect that.

[HeldenB]

Dear MrRalissimo...thanks for your respect..you are right. Without wishing to appear immodest....I really DO know my stuff . I have studied singing intensely and been a big fan all my life and been a top level pro singer for 21 years. I know Capp could be a bit crude on times verging on pushing his voice into ugliness...but he such a blood and guts flesh and soul singer that I could forgive him the occasional indiscretion. Also soetimes one gives more in a concert to try and encapsulate all...

[MrRalissimo]

Your respectful response is greatly appreciated. One thing I know we are agreed on: opera at its highest level can only ehnance our sense of humanity in all its variety. Blood, guts, flesh and soul - what more could we ask of the art form? I hope we can keep in touch. Any suggested sites?

[rexeterna]

BRAVISSIMO

MA BRAVO

[rovingdesertfox]

Perfect voice.....reminds me of a young Kirk

Douglas............doesn't get any better than this!!!

[chupszg]

Alien... perfect in every aspect

[mongemark]

ho ascoltato e visto il Gerard di Cappuccilli in teatro (Roma 1973-74,) poi venne sostituito da Bruson alla terza rappresentazione (che lusso!)...fu travolgente tanto che chiesero il bis e lui bissò l'ultima parte dell'aria ...anche qui è ancora in ottima forma ..grande Piero

[raythespian]

Every phrase is perfection, and what a thrilling climax!

[aguacun]

This is the best version to me

[xav71176]

I can't imagine a better performance

[TieferBass]

This is like a voice lesson...a lesson on how to sing gloriously. Bravo Piero...il Grande.

[ahtenor]

guys....please comment on my vocal workout....look for "AH VOCAL 6"........any comment welcome...thks.

[Lluismasi]

Looking Manuel Ausensi's version. GENIAL!!

[rexeterna]

BRAVO

[babafofao]

ESTE É O MAIOR BARITONO QUE JA EXISTIU

[canagalilaeae]

TERRIFIC! GREAT!

We miss you Piero!

[cerezo1961]

Queridos gañanes, aunque creáis que el director es Pedro Martínez de la Rosa, se trata de otro español: D. Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, granadino y olé.

Por cierto, Capucilli no le sigue demasiado mal.

[babafofao]

Capucilli mal ??? hum

[emy1968]

piero il più grande!

[luisenes]

es como el JORGE NEGRETE ITALIANO

[Lluismasi]

Buscad a Manuel Ausensi. ¡De lo mejor!

[Vairguy09]

I had never really heard Cappucilli, and he sings one of my favorite arias with such a tone and vitality that is almost unequalled. I was just singing this aria this morning on my way to work, and I think I may have found a wonderful interpretation to study. BRAVO!

[Stefyna89]

eccellente audio e video

[iskenderuna]

I was there that night. On this same night Milnes had sung Eri Tu and Cappupilli followed with this. Cappuccilli brought the house down with 2x as much applause and bravi. It was the final showdown between the two, and the Vienese didnt hold back in showing who they thought had won the duel! A wondeful treasure and document of that night for me!

[nisticom]

Well, there is no comparison between the two baritones. The Viennese always had good taste...

[zanzarone]

Hey Bob, thanks.. Capucilli had great breath.. long phrases. A short guy, maybe five foot 7... I have 2-3 young baritones coming along, it is very exciting.. 3-4 tenors too!

[bobsopera]

to zanzarone: Keep the good work. I always felt the good baritones are rare commodity. Apropo, I still prefer the velvet voice of Zancanarro. (Here at 3.55 4.45 & last bar, I feel some strain and instability in the voice) Very good anyway. Tnx.

[miguelaosornio]

Guau!!!Que interpretacion!!!...extraordin­aria y en vivo.....si alguien tiene la version de Ettore Bastianini.....seria interesante escucharla.....

[zanzarone]

I sang with this guy in the mid eighties, in Chicago... I now teach, in a Pittsburgh major university, and he is on my lips every day... wow... fab, Italian technique...

[nonsoloopera]

Ragazzi che meraviglia!! Come si fa a preferire Pons o Zancanaro...?!?Bah...GRANDE CAPPUCCILLI!!

[alvarito45]

É vero!! Nessuno meglio che Capuccilli. Che triste che è morto.

[ettore001]

piero was the best. I own to him my passion for opera. here he was at the peack of his vocal power. Incredible!

[orthochrom]

Bravo Capu! Forget all baritones today.

[Gaslight61375]

I also prefer Zancanaro, but I'm not going to be an ass about it. I love Cappuccilli's, Milnes's and Nucci's renditions as well. It's an aria that's hard to wreck, IMO.

[zany59]

in questo ruolo è il più grande di tutti!!!!!Fantastivo Cappuccilli....

[stybboon]

the ebst baritone ever, much better than warren or milnes

[kazakhbass]

Boys! It is the best execution!

[Gerilu40]

I don`t think that Zancanaro was that excellent. And his career was not that impressive and rather short compared with Cappuccilli, Bruson or Nucci.

[Guercoeur]

Zancanaro was better, I agree.

[Krawi6]

Gratecourt, did you hear Cappuccilli and Zancanaro as Gerard shortly one after the other? If you had, you would have been able to compare the success they had with a very similar audience. Zancanaro was good, but Cappuccilli was really great und unforgettable in this part.

[gratecourt]

Overrated. Why can't someone post Zancanaro singing this like a god?

[sandrik100]

Piero Cappuccilli was Verdi bariton, Renato Bruson dramatic and Juan pons too.

[sandrik100]

Piero Cappuccilli was Verdi bariton, Renato Bruson dramatic and Juan pons too.

[escr76]

¡Impresionante interpretración! Aunque creo que su voz es mucho más adecuda para Verdi que para el verismo. Claro que con esa técnica perfecta podía hacer lo que le diera la gana. Simplemente el mejor.

[walkure48]

Can't describe what it is about Cappuccilli...he wasn't famous for vocal color and didn't have the most beautiful voice in the world. But everytime I hear him the hair raises up on the back of my neck! After all his big solos, he's one of the few singers who got a huge ovation every single time. He and Bergonzi are my favorite duo of all time!

[luisenes]

yes...you have the perfect comment to capuccilli,he was the most emotive baritone,you can fell what its singing.(sorry for my english)

[jacquesurlus]

Pas mal mais allez voir Pons et surtout Bastianini.....

[solideo726]

unglaublich.....Mein Gott

[mohammedhaidar]

Too perfect to be true !

[zanzarone]

dont worry, I am training more of them....

Ask if you want to know more.

And also, this is an unbelievable rendition of this aria....

[mozart200657]

Very simply,the last baryton voice...grande Piero!!!

[zoltankelemen]

The last bariton voice? Is this a joke? Cappuccilli is great, but Renato Bruson sigs still now! Isn't he a bariton too? :-P

[mozart200657]

No jokes,my friend...Cappuccilli was really the last dramatica bariton voice...Bruson was always a lyric bariton,who efforted himself to sing dramatical roles...

[zoltankelemen]

We hear very differently. But Bruson is the best bel canto-baritone, this is true. But in dramatic roles is he great too.

[sandrik100]

What about Pons?

[sandrik100]

What about pons?

[luisenes]

muy buen comentario

[sardelica]

Pier is forever

[puccinislarondine]

while I feel Pons' voice is more beautiful, Capucilli really puts his whole heart into this aria. This recording is even better than the one of his in my video w/Carreras & Martón.

Ah! this is one of those moments when libretto, music and musician come together to create something WONDERFUL! Is there anything better than opera done well? (the answer is no.)

[carpark1009]

a master at work, flawless characterisation and that volcanic voice,

he simply has no peer!!

[dawidkimberg]

That is truly breathtaking. What intensity and subtlety!! A real master.

[tenorismo]

I saw him as Macbeth in Philly almost 25 yrs ago he was terrific. Hes also great Boccanegra . Elias

[Piacevole]

Oh wow! Incredible!

[Krawi6]

Thanks heaven this video has reappeared. It is such a great performance. This was one of Cappuccilli's great evenings in Vienna.

[sirenadellopera]

Oh, thank you so much, Onegin65. Love Cappuccilli, and love Chenier. THIS is how it's done!