Mario Del Monaco 1952, Pagliacci "Vesti la giubba"

[miketallica665]

he looks like he is floating up there

[matt7178]

Bellissimo!!!!!!! si può solo imparare........sublime!

[Helen2657]

Н-да, те времена..те голоса...Нереально красиво.

[mauriciomille]

Just beauty, but still prefers Caruso's version

[odontotazio]

prodigioso

[bodiloto]

Sublime !

[Gerardeus]

What happened?

This version is too high!!!

[bettygirven8]

I fell in love with Mario Del Monaco as a young girl (Thanks to Opera Cameos). I haven many vinyl recordings (and now, CDs).... How wonderful to be able to see him on YouTube!!

[FuerzaMexicana]

When was Mario born?? WHen I sing paliacci, I always sing it a half step higher. This way makes it esier when I sing it in the right key.

[topmeat69]

born in 1915

[pearlmuth3]

I believe his first live opera as a young tenor may have been Ballo in 46 and that was 6 years before this but he is still young here and very fine.

[Leorozum]

Amazing voice !

[elcantante45]

tengo conciertos,operas completas en dvd,discografia completa de mario del monaco,interesados escribanme

[Randidan]

I would be very interested in his discography, the dvd's and even a chronology of his career! ...if you have that information! Sorry, no hablo bien el Espan~ol...

[ceorr]

Hola el cantante 45, hace poco que conozco a MDM, pero me he quedado maravillado y estupefacto, es de los mejores. No soy un gran conocedor de opera para hablar de notas, matices, y tonalidades, pero si soy un oyente de siempre.Bueno tal vez me puedas recomendar algun disco.Creo que las canciones napolitanas eran sus favoritas, y como dice en la entrevista, esas se cantan con todos los pulmones y el alma. Bueno, saludos.,y ave Divo Del Monaco

[jzhappy25]

WOOOOOW!! he is/was incredible, superb,and in a league of his own. Thank you for posting.

[mdcdiva]

such incredible despair, THIS is the torment which truly expresses Canio's position...vocally, dramatically, it's all one...Del Monaco absolutely mind-blowing...thank you so much for sharing this video!!!

[tukkomi2]

The year maybe 1952.

[chrisibzu]

Con la vocesota tan pesada y cantando esto medio tono arriba... wow!

[KalElFuhrer]

thank you very much for this video

from brazil

[TomBarrister]

The playback speed is faster than the actual speed was (common for television from that era), and as a result, the aria sounds as though it's a full tone too high. Del Monaco is, of course, excellent.

[Jextxadore]

Why was it common?

[Randidan]

It is a very low aria for a "regular" tenor--the highest note is properly A!!! A lighter tenor(such as I was, for instance) finds it uncomfortably low--what you might call a heldentenor range...

[louvet66]

Indeed on, dear friend, it is not an aria for light tenor, hardly lyric. It is an aria for a tenor dramatic as was him Del Monaco and was never replaced.

[hiyadroogs]

Randidan, I don't know if I agree with you on Vesti la giubba being a low aria. Certainly it only rises to A natural at its peak, but the climactic phrases have a higher tessitura than many arias with more extreme high notes. Amor ti vieta, for example, also only rises to A, but the approach to it makes it one of the most difficult A naturals in an operatic aria for a tenor.

[Randidan]

I agree wholeheartedly!!! Amor ti... was one of the real 'doozies' for me and I gave up on it early on. Vesti was not so difficult for me, but still lay very low--I had a 2.5 octave range but it was mostly UP!!! lol

[hiyadroogs]

lucky you! lol!

[Dtenor87]

OMG THANK YOU!! lol I'm learning that aria from Fedora

[hiyadroogs]

Good luck! As long as you don't give the voice too much tonal weight you should be fine. : )

[detre15]

what a bullshit. It's Bb.

[Samurai9]

I believe the high A's are a half step up, and so they are B flats. Yes, yes?

[ttlms]

Compare and contrast with his famous performance with Tokyo Opera in 1961.

[mornaymariedomini]

ok wtih whity72!!! Perfect interpretation and vocal technic....

[whity72]

What a fluent breathing technique and clear high note, dramatics, interpretation = 5 stars, thanks for the upload!

[GerardoRosvaenge]

Inconmensurable