Se devo fare una classifica tra i miei preferiti dico: Vinay, Del Monaco, Volpi,Fusati, Giacomini...Melchior in questa registrazione non mi piace...ma sappiamo tutti che è un fuoriclasse...di quelli che non lo hanno mai cantato direi Corelli il più adatto, per voce e volume...buon anno
EL MEJOR OTELLO DE LA HISTORIA : MARIO DEL MONACO, QUÉ LEGATO FINAL !!!! VINAY UN MAGNÍFICO OTELLO, LAURI VOLPI, EXTRAORDINARIO . LOS 3 PEORES, CURA , GALOUZINE, ANDREJ---
Me 'troncho' de la risa viendo estas 'votaciones' que en el fondo no son mas que 'pajillas mentales'. Pero me troncho mas todavia con el maquillaje de los Otellos...hay quw tener ganas de cantar esta opera para dejarse maquillar asi¡....hahaha¡¡
@Turandotopera I'm sorry but are you absolutely serious? Domingo's voice is as big as a house and definitely dark enough for the role of Otello. He's not even close to being a lyric tenor. If he's a lyric tenor, Pav was a leggiero. Honestly....
I'd bet that, knowing that they don't belong in this "cage", Gigli, Pav and Cura would've asked not to be included, but not Domingo because he thinks differently. - MDM's 19 seconds on the same breath reminded me of Hvorostovsky's ending of "Ja vas lyublyu" at the Mariinsky for the 300th SP's anniversary. You're aware that there was a breathing point there somewhere, but they didn't take it and you just can't believe they're going for it..
He was 70 years old during this recording. 70 years old, singing Otello, live. That's 20-40 years younger than the rest of the Otellos in this clip. I'm not saying that I prefer him over the others, just that even singing anything professionally at that age, especially Otello, is just insane. Mad cred.
@Honken Thanks for the info. Melchior in his prime and even past it was a marvelous singer. But the sheer oomph of this passage pretty much requires someone in his physical prime unlike say singing German Lieder. By the way, Domingo just turned 70 and is still singing at big houses like the Met.
I am missing Giovanni Zenatello and Govanni Martinelli. Lauri-Volpi was great... and new for me. And this is certainly not the repertoire of the great Lauritz Melchior. At the same time he had in this recording a rather bad director, because a good director has to follow the singer with his orchertra... and not the other way round.
1) Mario Del Monaco 2) Giacomo Lauri Volpi, 3) G. Giacomini, 4) Jon Vickers, 6) Ramon Vinay, 7) Franco Corelli. All of them are great vocal artists. Gigli sings beautiful but his voice is not big and heroic. Jose Cura does not posses the vocal resources to be in that group.
The real King, Mario Del Monaco. To find similar voices go back to the start of the 20th. century, Tamagno, Paoli, Gilion, Pertile, Martinelli.
Vinay's Otello was the real deal. He defined the role. You need a dramatic tenor to sing this. It's not about singing the notes, but about interpretation. Giacomini is one of my favourites. Gigli sang it higher than the others, but Gigli doesn't sound like Otello to me. Neither does Pavarotti. Andrej sounds good. But then again, it is so weird to compare the older recordings with the newer ones.
34fgsdtu48w7qtaqt, splendida selezione. Qui possiamo vedere quello che è scesa al precedente Domingo, anche V. Galouzine e Cura. Per me il più grande l'inizio di Corelli. La ringrazio molto per questa selezione.
Pavarotti tiene a mejor voz que un tenor lírico podría tener, pero no es para otello. Lo mismo con Domingo y el resto de los tenores fueron buenos en ciertos roles pero ha habido pocos otellos en la historía de la opera
i have 4 number 1 favorite Tenors, i can't make up my mind which i like better. i like songs better by 1 than the other back & forth. They are Lanza, Pavarotti, MDM & Antonio Paoli(The King of Tenors) who's voice was so powerful all his recording were from 20 feet away from the gramophone with his back toward it. At 20 feet if he faced the gramophone it broke it wow what power!!! MDM had awesome poewer also!!!
Domingo. Sorry. It's not just the size of the voice. Phrasing, acting, the whole package comes into focus here. After Domingo, Corelli, then Del Monaco. Vinay gets honorable mention.
anyone here who likes melchior? not me, he makes my toes curl.
i'm not a corelli fan, but this is the best corelli performance i've ever heard; same goes for cura.
domingo is not my favo otello, but not bad.
lantsov is a real surprise, one of the very best! i really want to hear more of him now! i've always been a galouzine fan, but lantsov beats him here by a mile!
i love del monaco, but this is not the best i know him. :(
note: where is the authentic black otello? i know black sopranos, mezzos, altos maybe, i know basses and baritones, but who are the major black tenors?
I liked Del Monaco a lot (I have the recording on vinyl), but I thought that Lauri-Volpe was my fave in this bunch, with many other good ones. Domingo is such an actor that I love his total performance, but that isn't what we are considering now. I often take this down to my range and sing it, so I may bias this some (gee, you do it like I do but a lot better).
@34fgsfgsdtu48w7qtaqt Ma dove salta fuori questo Otello di Del Monaco? Su you tube se lo cerchi ci sono altre sue bellissime esecuzioni, ma non questa con quel formidabile e diabolico virtuosismo. Io pure ho comprato un disco della Decca del suo Otello assieme alla Tebaldi del 1954 con l'Orchestra della Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma diretto da Alberto Erede, ma non è proprio come questo! Sai dare anche i "connotati" a quel capolavoro di del Monaco?
@sp3nk1 Ciao, invece c'è su you tube anche un altro video cn lo stesso Esultate di Del Monaco. Connotati sull'opera non so dartene, purtroppo, appena so qualcosa, la annoterò qui. Per ora ci basti sapere che è un LIVE!!! =)
Melchior is out of tempo and his Italian is pretty funny... it's a pity, a great wagnerian singer! Vickers seems not to understand the text, Giacomini is in a hurry. Pavarotti out of role... del Monaco the only one, the ULTIMATE Otello!
Some who should not be on this list ---Pav (too light), Corelli and Cura (strongly disagree). From the one presented here---my favorites--Vinay,Del Monaco, Giocomini,Lauri -Volpi, Domingo (our modern Otello), Galouzine (saw him in Pag and Otello), and Andrej (quite good actually)--WOuld have liked to see Pertile, he had a huge voice
A pity that, due to tech limitations, we couldn't get the greatest Otellos of their day...Francesco Tamagno and Leo Slezak. Those two would probably battle it out for top honors. The top here, of course, is Del Monaco. And Giocomini does beautifully as well.
A pity that, due to tech limitations, we couldn't get the greatest Otellos of their day...Francesco Tamagno and Leo Slezak. Those two would probably battle it out for top honors. The top here, of course, is Del Monaco. And Giocomini does beautifully as well.
In fact Domingo's voice is amazing,thrilling,powerfull but the main reason make him the worse Otello than Mario del Monaco is the breathtaking control ! He couldn't hold any note above the high B for over 3s ! That make him an idiot when he sings Otello ! And MDM is the KING ! Anh Maestro Corelli is the Prince for sure
Mario Del Monaco is a superhero, not even taking a breath for the final phrase!!! He wins by a mile! Lauri-Volpi, Vinay, Vickers, Corelli, and Giacomini are distant second placers; Galouzine and Cura do not belong here.
I migliori ? G. Lauri Volpi, M. Del Monaco, F. Corelli, J. Vickers. Splendidi anche G. Giacomini e P. Domingo. Fuori ruolo L. Pavarotti, ma ascoltare la sua bellissima voce è sempre un piacere.
It would have been nice to have McCracken and Atlantov's versions in the mix -- also Heppner's, if he has sung Otello since recovering from his vocal crisis a few years ago. Based on his recordings of the role in German, Melchior was a GREAT Otello. But he recorded this "Esultate" at 70 years old, FAR past his prime -
Melchior: wonderful timbre Fusati: decent Gigli: WAY too light Lauri: nope Vinay: manly baritone sound =P Del Monaco: WHOAA! Corelli: amazing as always the only one here with good high notes. Vickers: fabulous sung like a true Wagnerian Giocomini: omg he sounds like a bass. wonderful Pavarotti: what the hell is he doing singing this? Domingo: pretty good Galouzine: too woofy Cura: decent Andrej: can't believe I've never heard of him, he's amazing
@glaucodichio Hey just because they die Otello doesn't. There's a new generation that could be as good or better. Highly unlikey to be better, but there is still hope for Otello
1 Melchior: thumb down, even out of tempo 2 Fusati: not bad 3 Gigli: completely out of role 4 Volpi: not exactly an Otello but pretty good 5 Vinay: good voice if a little pushed 6 Del Monaco: ...GODLY... 7 Corelli: always great 8 Vickers: liked this one a lot 9 Giacomini: one of the best in Verdi IMO 10 Pavarotti: as out of role as Gigli 11 Domingo: fairly good 12 Galouzine: bad recording 13 Cura: ...no comment... 14 Andrej: don't know this singer but decent My opinion ofc...
let's see, #1,2,3,4 is MDM his technics and passion, if Vickers could make this stile in his Orange Pollione I would put him second, Domingo is surpassing himself, Gigli and Pavarotti give example about singing itself< Corelli here is not as I love him, Giacomini we must reconsider him, Vinay is not for nothing very good I love Cura and I do not know the others how contancy is theirs?
Melchior certainly has the volume but runs into some rough waters pitch-wise. Gigli is out of his element but manages to be quite vibrant. Lauri Volpi is a strong voice. Vinay the MOST AMAZING SOULFUL Shakespeare would have approved as well as Verdi. Not the best version of Del Monaco available. Corelli would have been terrific in this role. Vickers excellent. Giacomini appropriately violent. Bravo Domingo. Cura sings with more discipline than usual. Lantsov is unknown to me WOW
Melchior is really interesting and does well...I like Fusati a lot...Gigli handles it well, but I don't think he was best suited for the part...Vinay is the greatest Otello, but this clip is not his best performance of the opening statement...Del Monaco here is stupendous!...Pavarotti has a greater ease in this passage in most because he was a higher tenor, and it is really the highest passage in the whole role.
Such a shame Corelli never performed or recorded the whole role. He would have been fantastic. Lauri-Volpi surprizes with wonderful line and clarion tone, but of course MDM was _the_ Otello. Whatever happened to the chorus in the last 2? Simply dreadful...
Thanks for uploading - great selection! My favorites: Vinay, Del Monaco, Giacomini. You left out one of the most famous Otellos of his day and one of the greatest: Antonio Paoli (1871-1946). Check his Esultate here in Youtube.
1. del monaco for phrasing 2. Vinay for horsepower 3. Giacomini for timbre 4. Andrej for sheer beauty 5. Melchior for weight
Gigli and Pavarotti are not super-heavyweights, Lauri-Volpi isn't either but sings the hell out of it, Domingo and Cura don't satisfy vocally, Corelli would be my no. 6, and Vickers was a great Otello, just not a fan of this recording. Don't know Fusati, he's not bad. Galouzine's vibrato is too wide for my taste, but a powerhouse.
There are great tenors/ artists on this cage match. Few are just popular and overrated by gullible fans. Please, hear the great Italian tenor Nunzio Todisco, his interpretation of Esultate and Dio mi Potevi. Greatness is an objective quality that is measurable by the posession of a solid technique whose end result is a voice that commands the full expression of the art of singing. Patronage and publicity are money makers but will never buy artistic value neither will inspire others to emulate.
Of course there are a lot of good ones here-but Esultate does not an Otello make. Strangely MDM does not even have the best one and Corelli, who never sang the role actually can sing the notes as written without the fudging many use including MDM. I agree Martinelli, McCraken should be here instead of the novelties.
MDM the "best" Otello?-the best melodramatic one-but Vickers, Vinay, sometimes even Domingo raised it to tragedy-which is what this should be about. Not who sings the loudest.
Io trovo l'interpretazione di Nicola Fusati (tutta l'opera: per il carattere, molti dettagli sapientemente curati, la fedeltà alla partitura, l'Otello che sa creare) la migliore. Naturalmente senza togliere nulla agli altri (in particolare a Del Monaco), che sono (quasi tutti) dei veri e propri colossi della lirica.
Nicola Fusati grabó el primer Otelo completo para HMV; Yago fue Granforte y Desdémona, María Carbone.
Herman (n) Klein, el decano de todos los críticos anglosajones y que había presenciado el Otelo de Tamagno, dijo que Fusati " había seguido vocalmente al pie de la letra la interpretación de aquél".
Grabó muy poco más , alguna canciones (Lolita y Rimpianto), un Di quella pira (se puede escuchar en el disco con 40 piras publicado por Bongiovanni.
MDM was Otello, then Vinay, . Corelli never sang the role not even once but would have been awesome. It was a grave injustice not to include Giovanni Martinelli who was a great Otello, and James McCracken who had the biggest Tenor voice of all. To put Gigli and Pav in here and not them is ridiculous. So the Top 3 here are MDM, Vinay, Corelli. Honorable mention Vickers /Lauri-Volpi/Giacomini
not the most impressive one, but as to technique regards, gigli´s is perfect
dimakauffman 2 weeks ago
DEL MONACO!!!
1993MGB 1 month ago
Se devo fare una classifica tra i miei preferiti dico: Vinay, Del Monaco, Volpi,Fusati, Giacomini...Melchior in questa registrazione non mi piace...ma sappiamo tutti che è un fuoriclasse...di quelli che non lo hanno mai cantato direi Corelli il più adatto, per voce e volume...buon anno
giampierone010 1 month ago
EL MEJOR OTELLO DE LA HISTORIA : MARIO DEL MONACO, QUÉ LEGATO FINAL !!!! VINAY UN MAGNÍFICO OTELLO, LAURI VOLPI, EXTRAORDINARIO . LOS 3 PEORES, CURA , GALOUZINE, ANDREJ---
Maripudelmonaco 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
hello everyone;
over done tenors the only real tenor was gigli but great voices of the past also I guess their all singing out and front. ralph david medici.
rkondas8 2 months ago
Me 'troncho' de la risa viendo estas 'votaciones' que en el fondo no son mas que 'pajillas mentales'. Pero me troncho mas todavia con el maquillaje de los Otellos...hay quw tener ganas de cantar esta opera para dejarse maquillar asi¡....hahaha¡¡
millonety123 3 months ago
The Gigli extract is glorious. What a stunning voice. And pleasantly surprised by Galouzine.
krrainey77 3 months ago
Excellent video
beautiful voices
Juanita
8Romantica 4 months ago
Very good demo-compilation
Many Thanks!!!Dear *34fgsfgsdtu48w7qtaqt* for sharing with the World!!!
laoniricArte1 4 months ago
1 Ramon Vinay
2 Antonio Paoli
3 O'Sullivan
4 Escalais
5 Merli
6 Piccaluga
eccetera
bodiloto 7 months ago
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federic017 5 months ago
@bodiloto La sua lista è quasi perfetta...mancano alcuni nomi prima di Vinay...saluti
federic017 5 months ago
@federic017 mancano e come! giusto,hai ragione ! saluti anche a Te!
bodiloto 5 months ago
@bodiloto Bene a presto...
federic017 5 months ago
Vinay and del monaco.
carlosaleman63 7 months ago in playlist DEL MONACO
in questo brano di Otello la superiorità di Del Monaco è evidente. Molto bravi anche Corelli, Vickers e Giacomini
francescop1023 10 months ago
Del Monaco, Vickers, Vinay....
federricoilgrande 10 months ago
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Turandotopera 10 months ago
@Turandotopera I'm sorry but are you absolutely serious? Domingo's voice is as big as a house and definitely dark enough for the role of Otello. He's not even close to being a lyric tenor. If he's a lyric tenor, Pav was a leggiero. Honestly....
Adoniram29 5 months ago
1. Mario del Monaco
2. Franco Corelli
3. Ramon Vinay
I'd bet that, knowing that they don't belong in this "cage", Gigli, Pav and Cura would've asked not to be included, but not Domingo because he thinks differently. - MDM's 19 seconds on the same breath reminded me of Hvorostovsky's ending of "Ja vas lyublyu" at the Mariinsky for the 300th SP's anniversary. You're aware that there was a breathing point there somewhere, but they didn't take it and you just can't believe they're going for it..
Reinaldo146 11 months ago
Del Monaco! He is the one!
gert0174 11 months ago
1. Franco Corelli
2. Giuseppe Giacomini
3. Ramon Vinay
Honken 1 year ago
Would like source of Pavarotti recording as to the very best of my knowledge Luciano only ever did Otello in concert.
parabat7 1 year ago
nell'Esultate Del Monaco assolutamente, poi Corelli, Lauri Volpi, Vickers, Giacomini,
francescop1023 1 year ago
Del Monaco, Corelli, Vickers, Gigli. Melchior should have stuck with Wagner.
telephilia 1 year ago
@telephilia
He was 70 years old during this recording. 70 years old, singing Otello, live. That's 20-40 years younger than the rest of the Otellos in this clip. I'm not saying that I prefer him over the others, just that even singing anything professionally at that age, especially Otello, is just insane. Mad cred.
Honken 1 year ago
@Honken
... and by younger I meant older, obviously. ^^
Honken 1 year ago
@Honken Thanks for the info. Melchior in his prime and even past it was a marvelous singer. But the sheer oomph of this passage pretty much requires someone in his physical prime unlike say singing German Lieder. By the way, Domingo just turned 70 and is still singing at big houses like the Met.
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federic017 1 year ago
Vickers is Otello. No one comes close to this heldentenor.
Pywacket2 1 year ago
1 mario del monaco, 2 franco corelli, 3 john vickers,
palermpp 1 year ago
Del Monaco y Vinay los mejores Otellos del siglo pasado!!! Así como considero a Gigli, Lauri-Volpi y Pavarotti no aptos para el personaje.
roddavids 1 year ago
What about Vladimir Atlantov?
lindzsop 1 year ago
I am missing Giovanni Zenatello and Govanni Martinelli. Lauri-Volpi was great... and new for me. And this is certainly not the repertoire of the great Lauritz Melchior. At the same time he had in this recording a rather bad director, because a good director has to follow the singer with his orchertra... and not the other way round.
Hans NL
qklq42 1 year ago
What is the source of the Corelli recording? Grazie.
TassiloDavid 1 year ago
jon vickers,placido domingo, mario del monaco,nicola fusati,etc ,merci pour ce duel(sans arme) j'ai oublié Mario Lanza au premier rang
ininacsot 1 year ago
Giacomo Lauri Volpi bravissimo.
Jon Vickers, Ramon Vinay si confermano a ottimi livelli
Del Monaco incredibile per estensione. ma tende ad aprire il suono e a me ciò non piace, scusatemi.
giacomini buono.
rbt04 1 year ago
1) Mario Del Monaco 2) Giacomo Lauri Volpi, 3) G. Giacomini, 4) Jon Vickers, 6) Ramon Vinay, 7) Franco Corelli. All of them are great vocal artists. Gigli sings beautiful but his voice is not big and heroic. Jose Cura does not posses the vocal resources to be in that group.
The real King, Mario Del Monaco. To find similar voices go back to the start of the 20th. century, Tamagno, Paoli, Gilion, Pertile, Martinelli.
WMP777 1 year ago
1.Ramón Vinay
2.Giuseppe Giacomini
3.Mario Del Monaco
4.Jon Vickers
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alexanderurbinaz 1 year ago
Mario del Monaco is the best!!!!
andrzjcz08 1 year ago
1.- Vinay, 2.- del monaco; 3.- Vickers; 4.- Melchior; 5.-Giacomini, 6.- Domingo
mariojunco 1 year ago
Domingo should be holding the coats of all the other tenors.
tenorismo 1 year ago
They are all fantastic, but Del Monaco I had to hear like 6 times to believe what I was hearing was true!
javrnunez 1 year ago
mdm FOR EVER
andyroma72 1 year ago
Vinay's Otello was the real deal. He defined the role. You need a dramatic tenor to sing this. It's not about singing the notes, but about interpretation. Giacomini is one of my favourites. Gigli sang it higher than the others, but Gigli doesn't sound like Otello to me. Neither does Pavarotti. Andrej sounds good. But then again, it is so weird to compare the older recordings with the newer ones.
RodTenor 1 year ago
34fgsdtu48w7qtaqt, splendida selezione. Qui possiamo vedere quello che è scesa al precedente Domingo, anche V. Galouzine e Cura. Per me il più grande l'inizio di Corelli. La ringrazio molto per questa selezione.
pieritlyon 1 year ago
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Yep MDM holds for 19 seconds!!!!!!!
bacassa 1 year ago
Mi lista sería
1.Vickers
2.Giacomini
3.Vinay
4. Del monaco
y ahi termina.
Pavarotti tiene a mejor voz que un tenor lírico podría tener, pero no es para otello. Lo mismo con Domingo y el resto de los tenores fueron buenos en ciertos roles pero ha habido pocos otellos en la historía de la opera
ezev8logos 1 year ago
@ezev8logos TU LISTA ESTA EQUIVOCADA
MARIO DEL MONACO ES OTELLO
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Yep MDM holds for 19 seconds!!!!!!!
bacassa 1 year ago
1) Vinay
2) Giacomini
3) Del Monaco
4) Vickers
5) Corelli
6) Melchor
everyone else, severely out of fach =)
raigekimaru 1 year ago
Did Pavarotti ever sing Otello in public?
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i have 4 number 1 favorite Tenors, i can't make up my mind which i like better. i like songs better by 1 than the other back & forth. They are Lanza, Pavarotti, MDM & Antonio Paoli(The King of Tenors) who's voice was so powerful all his recording were from 20 feet away from the gramophone with his back toward it. At 20 feet if he faced the gramophone it broke it wow what power!!! MDM had awesome poewer also!!!
bacassa 1 year ago
Giacomini,Del monaco e vickers...Del monaco prodezza...vivente...
liEder89 1 year ago
First man thrown out of the cage Domingo in his girley tights and girly voice.
tenorismo 1 year ago
Domingo. Sorry. It's not just the size of the voice. Phrasing, acting, the whole package comes into focus here. After Domingo, Corelli, then Del Monaco. Vinay gets honorable mention.
psalmtone2008 1 year ago
anyone here who likes melchior? not me, he makes my toes curl.
i'm not a corelli fan, but this is the best corelli performance i've ever heard; same goes for cura.
domingo is not my favo otello, but not bad.
lantsov is a real surprise, one of the very best! i really want to hear more of him now! i've always been a galouzine fan, but lantsov beats him here by a mile!
i love del monaco, but this is not the best i know him. :(
aidavdbrake 1 year ago
here's my list:
Vinay - Del Monaco - Lantsov - Fusati - Giacomini - Vickers - Galouzine - Corelli - Domingo - Lauri-Volpi - Cura
note: where is the authentic black otello? i know black sopranos, mezzos, altos maybe, i know basses and baritones, but who are the major black tenors?
aidavdbrake 1 year ago 2
I liked Del Monaco a lot (I have the recording on vinyl), but I thought that Lauri-Volpe was my fave in this bunch, with many other good ones. Domingo is such an actor that I love his total performance, but that isn't what we are considering now. I often take this down to my range and sing it, so I may bias this some (gee, you do it like I do but a lot better).
waustad 1 year ago
Thats not Gigli
tenorismo 1 year ago
@tenorismo definitely sounds like gigli, to me. if it's not him, i don't like either of them. ;)
aidavdbrake 1 year ago
@34fgsfgsdtu48w7qtaqt Ma dove salta fuori questo Otello di Del Monaco? Su you tube se lo cerchi ci sono altre sue bellissime esecuzioni, ma non questa con quel formidabile e diabolico virtuosismo. Io pure ho comprato un disco della Decca del suo Otello assieme alla Tebaldi del 1954 con l'Orchestra della Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma diretto da Alberto Erede, ma non è proprio come questo! Sai dare anche i "connotati" a quel capolavoro di del Monaco?
sp3nk1 1 year ago
@sp3nk1 Ciao, invece c'è su you tube anche un altro video cn lo stesso Esultate di Del Monaco. Connotati sull'opera non so dartene, purtroppo, appena so qualcosa, la annoterò qui. Per ora ci basti sapere che è un LIVE!!! =)
FederigoKisslown 1 year ago
pavarotti is the best!!!!!
TheGoldenWizard 1 year ago
@TheGoldenWizard Se ti riferisci a questo repertorio, in realtà Pavarotti è inadatto
FederigoKisslown 1 year ago
@TheGoldenWizard pavarotti and gigli as otello are vocal travesty to me. sorry.
aidavdbrake 1 year ago
Del Monaco was, and remains, Otello.
VivaRenata 1 year ago
Melchior is out of tempo and his Italian is pretty funny... it's a pity, a great wagnerian singer! Vickers seems not to understand the text, Giacomini is in a hurry. Pavarotti out of role... del Monaco the only one, the ULTIMATE Otello!
gaemp 1 year ago
Mario Del Monaco Forever
filippobass1 1 year ago
Magnificent. Mammoth. Miraculous. MARIO!!!!!!!!
Milordvega 1 year ago
E non solo la voce ma la personalita...MArio del Monaco forever!!!! I really have doubts about Gigli on this contest... doesn´t sound like Gigli.
aguacun 1 year ago
Some who should not be on this list ---Pav (too light), Corelli and Cura (strongly disagree). From the one presented here---my favorites--Vinay,Del Monaco, Giocomini,Lauri -Volpi, Domingo (our modern Otello), Galouzine (saw him in Pag and Otello), and Andrej (quite good actually)--WOuld have liked to see Pertile, he had a huge voice
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A pity that, due to tech limitations, we couldn't get the greatest Otellos of their day...Francesco Tamagno and Leo Slezak. Those two would probably battle it out for top honors. The top here, of course, is Del Monaco. And Giocomini does beautifully as well.
Gigli? A goldfish impersonating a whale.
docmalthus 1 year ago
A pity that, due to tech limitations, we couldn't get the greatest Otellos of their day...Francesco Tamagno and Leo Slezak. Those two would probably battle it out for top honors. The top here, of course, is Del Monaco. And Giocomini does beautifully as well.
Gigli? A goldfish impersonating a whale.
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P.S. Fusati is horrible
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corelli's voice is the most muscular and heroic. definite winner.
though del monaco's sustained phrases are very impressive.
i don't see what the big fuss is about domingo.
what is pavarotti doing?!?!? I can't even tell what note he's singing.
I think Cura does it pretty well.
why is Francesco Tamagno not included?
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jguar17944 1 year ago
In fact Domingo's voice is amazing,thrilling,powerfull but the main reason make him the worse Otello than Mario del Monaco is the breathtaking control ! He couldn't hold any note above the high B for over 3s ! That make him an idiot when he sings Otello ! And MDM is the KING ! Anh Maestro Corelli is the Prince for sure
tranxuannghia 1 year ago
Yep MDM holds for 19 seconds!!!!!!!
bacassa 1 year ago 32
Yep MDM holds for 19 seconds !!!!!!!
bacassa 1 year ago
Mario Del Monaco is a superhero, not even taking a breath for the final phrase!!! He wins by a mile! Lauri-Volpi, Vinay, Vickers, Corelli, and Giacomini are distant second placers; Galouzine and Cura do not belong here.
billyguns2 1 year ago
mario del monaco, no contest on this
alexandru2611 1 year ago
Jose Cura is the worst Otello
He hits the high B so weakly
Shit tenor
tranxuannghia 1 year ago
@tranxuannghia
SO TRUE!
omarihardy 1 year ago
Corelli is the best
tranxuannghia 1 year ago
And the Oscar goes to... Mario Del Monaco.
OlegZhuravel 1 year ago
min. 2:55 Il GRANDE Del Monaco! Solo ad ascoltare questo enorme legato, ci lascia senza fiato!!!!
MrBeppeVerdi 1 year ago
1 Mario Del Monaco's holds for 19 seconds > ALL
2 Corelli, Volpi, Gigli, Giacomini,Pavarotti
bacassa 1 year ago 2
1 Fusati,Gigli,Lauri-Volpi,Vinay,Del Monaco,Giacomini !
2 Vickers
3Domingo
Corelli non hà cantato mai Otello !
Galouzine,Cura,Lantsov dilettanti .
bodiloto 2 years ago
still listening cant stop!!!!!!!!
bacassa 2 years ago
i can't stop listening to this THX a lot 4 doing this !!!!!!!!!!!!
bacassa 2 years ago
wow i great job to all!!!!!!!
bacassa 2 years ago
va bn grazie flavikio aspetto i brani grazie
ddddiiiinnnnaaaa 2 years ago
Mario Del Monaco,oltre ad essere grandioso è Inarrivabile !!!
flavikio 2 years ago
I migliori ? G. Lauri Volpi, M. Del Monaco, F. Corelli, J. Vickers. Splendidi anche G. Giacomini e P. Domingo. Fuori ruolo L. Pavarotti, ma ascoltare la sua bellissima voce è sempre un piacere.
31122051 2 years ago
ma che ci fa qui in mezzo Cura... non c'è il briciolo di uno squillo tutti i suoni di testa sono rantoli...
gli altri bravissimi con del Monaco che vince a mani basse... ottimo corelli...
palymusic 2 years ago
All freaking awesome, would have loved to see each and every one of them perform this live!!!
adamfrandsen 2 years ago
scusate sapete mica dirmi dove posso ascoltare l canzone via del giglio 43 del grande del monaco?grazie in anticipo:))))
ddddiiiinnnnaaaa 2 years ago
la sto cercando anche io....
kenwally 2 years ago
@ddddiiiinnnnaaaa:
Se vuoi,posso spedirti in mp3 e senza virus,oltre al brano da te citato,tutto l'intero cd.
Ciao
flavikio 2 years ago
sembra un porco nell'atto di essere squartato
tenorite 2 years ago
DEL MONACO FENOMENALE !!!!!! Nessuno regge al suo confronto ! Comunque bravi tutti.
PieroS53 2 years ago 2
complimenti, una registrazione favolosa,
pucciniify 2 years ago
It would have been nice to have McCracken and Atlantov's versions in the mix -- also Heppner's, if he has sung Otello since recovering from his vocal crisis a few years ago. Based on his recordings of the role in German, Melchior was a GREAT Otello. But he recorded this "Esultate" at 70 years old, FAR past his prime -
stevevandien 2 years ago
first of all incredible Otellos!!!!! but vickers will always be the best one. I can't imagine another Otello that him
ezev8logos 2 years ago
Giacomini the best
rogisaaaaaaa 2 years ago 2
raigekimaru 2 years ago
to be fair to gigli, it sounds too fast (as in the playback speed).
crwv 2 years ago
Del monaco fa tremare la terra!!!Grande giacomini...sei un grandissimo cantante e uomo!!!
liEder89 2 years ago
Quando morì Mario Del Monaco i giornali tedeschi titolarono: "Otello è morto".
glaucodichio 2 years ago 7
@glaucodichio Hey just because they die Otello doesn't. There's a new generation that could be as good or better. Highly unlikey to be better, but there is still hope for Otello
alumian 1 year ago
@alumian Yes Otello never die, but still now Del Monaco role is unsurpassed. German press wrote right.
glaucodichio 1 year ago
¡Qué gran Otello habría sido Corelli!
AlberichNibelungo 2 years ago
Que gran Otello habría sido Björling!
Opus125rem 2 years ago
nobody of these could make a Nadir as Gigli and he is showing something I never ever thought about him to sing Esultate and is heart breakingly good
egymagyar1111111 2 years ago
PickBit 2 years ago
let's see, #1,2,3,4 is MDM his technics and passion, if Vickers could make this stile in his Orange Pollione I would put him second, Domingo is surpassing himself, Gigli and Pavarotti give example about singing itself< Corelli here is not as I love him, Giacomini we must reconsider him, Vinay is not for nothing very good I love Cura and I do not know the others how contancy is theirs?
egymagyar1111111 2 years ago
domingo's otello = the wolfman ^_^
brigid88 2 years ago
DEL MONACO HANDS DOWN
tenorismo 2 years ago
Pavarotti è fuori ruolo ma vocalmente è SPLENDIDO. Lucianone ci manchi !
31122051 2 years ago
All good, but Jon Vickers wins hands down for me! The sheer ENORMITY of his sound is just overwhelming!!
Joeleole 2 years ago 2
GL-V, MDM, FC
Liederfreund 2 years ago
MDM without any pause! He's not a human being !
Paris2Memphis 2 years ago 2
how many times you did listen this list, I'm after 5th and continue, hehehehe
egymagyar1111111 2 years ago
MDM
Paris2Memphis 2 years ago
Stunning!!!
All of them are incredible!!!
I dare not say who, in my opinion best is
because all are stupendous.
Rigelcentauri58 2 years ago
Melchior certainly has the volume but runs into some rough waters pitch-wise. Gigli is out of his element but manages to be quite vibrant. Lauri Volpi is a strong voice. Vinay the MOST AMAZING SOULFUL Shakespeare would have approved as well as Verdi. Not the best version of Del Monaco available. Corelli would have been terrific in this role. Vickers excellent. Giacomini appropriately violent. Bravo Domingo. Cura sings with more discipline than usual. Lantsov is unknown to me WOW
stephpwall 2 years ago
Franklly, I think that all the tenors do a spendid job with a differcult intro such as
this one. Try it
samirfouad1 2 years ago
MARIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Milordvega 2 years ago
Melchior is really interesting and does well...I like Fusati a lot...Gigli handles it well, but I don't think he was best suited for the part...Vinay is the greatest Otello, but this clip is not his best performance of the opening statement...Del Monaco here is stupendous!...Pavarotti has a greater ease in this passage in most because he was a higher tenor, and it is really the highest passage in the whole role.
operastud82 2 years ago
Vickers su tutti, Del Monaco è troppo stentoreo. Peccato Corelli l'avrebbe cantato magnificamente. Pava fa ridere...:)
federricoilgrande 2 years ago
grazie per avere postato il video. C'era spazio per Martinelli e Merli altri due grandi del passato?
glaucodichio 2 years ago
1st MDM is incredible here , no contest at all.
2nd Corelli fantastic as usual though a bit too light for the role.
3rd Lauri Volpi for the amazing line and high notes.
Too high for Vinay , Vickers and Melchior
Giacomini is also good but not his best version , Pavarotti is surprisingly interesting for being a lyric tenor thanks to his awesome technic
duxdelceresio 2 years ago 2
J'aime beaucoup le version de Corelli. Je préfère celle de Vickers.
Pas fan du tout de celle de Pavarotti.
J'adore celle de Domingo.
Celle de Melchior m'a déçue
Très bonne surprise de Cura.
isabelle070209 2 years ago
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bodiloto 2 years ago
Great great!!My favourite is Giacomini,who is by the way born 1940 not 1948!!
Huljic 2 years ago
notice melchior's otello outfit at the beginning... is he wearing pants??
HMW 2 years ago
Del Monaco, Corelli, Vinay, Lauri-Volpi, and Vickers are my top 5 for this excerpt
FacePaster 2 years ago 2
Melchoir has amazing depth in the low end, but del monaco wipes the floor with the rest in the high end.
raythetse 2 years ago 3
Such a shame Corelli never performed or recorded the whole role. He would have been fantastic. Lauri-Volpi surprizes with wonderful line and clarion tone, but of course MDM was _the_ Otello. Whatever happened to the chorus in the last 2? Simply dreadful...
rbbBeast 2 years ago
VINAY!
LaMaledizione 2 years ago
tra l'altro è diretto da Toscanini
gpsxixi 2 years ago
del monaco is just above and beyond all the others. although, i really do like the ease with which gigli sings it
HMW 2 years ago
Might I point out that del Monaco sings 3:16 - 3:35 on ONE breath. Incredible.
GermanOperaSinger 2 years ago 4
Thanks for uploading - great selection! My favorites: Vinay, Del Monaco, Giacomini. You left out one of the most famous Otellos of his day and one of the greatest: Antonio Paoli (1871-1946). Check his Esultate here in Youtube.
troppofiato 2 years ago
1. del monaco for phrasing 2. Vinay for horsepower 3. Giacomini for timbre 4. Andrej for sheer beauty 5. Melchior for weight
Gigli and Pavarotti are not super-heavyweights, Lauri-Volpi isn't either but sings the hell out of it, Domingo and Cura don't satisfy vocally, Corelli would be my no. 6, and Vickers was a great Otello, just not a fan of this recording. Don't know Fusati, he's not bad. Galouzine's vibrato is too wide for my taste, but a powerhouse.
ddevicente 2 years ago
Dear 34! It*s absolutly amazig! Thanks for posting!!!!!!!
mayflash67 2 years ago
There are great tenors/ artists on this cage match. Few are just popular and overrated by gullible fans. Please, hear the great Italian tenor Nunzio Todisco, his interpretation of Esultate and Dio mi Potevi. Greatness is an objective quality that is measurable by the posession of a solid technique whose end result is a voice that commands the full expression of the art of singing. Patronage and publicity are money makers but will never buy artistic value neither will inspire others to emulate.
WMP777 2 years ago
Is it me or Cura loses the pitch in the end? (O.o)
maferreira1984 2 years ago
1.Vinay
2.Giacomini
3.vickers/domingo
bbahyt 2 years ago
1º) Giacomini .-
2º) Domingo.-
Arbus2 2 years ago
I love this aria, is the best of otello and the duet of Iago and Otello, si pel ciel
fofesni 2 years ago
Corelli, Vickers, Domingo....Such fun!!!
Kievest 2 years ago
Of course there are a lot of good ones here-but Esultate does not an Otello make. Strangely MDM does not even have the best one and Corelli, who never sang the role actually can sing the notes as written without the fudging many use including MDM. I agree Martinelli, McCraken should be here instead of the novelties.
MDM the "best" Otello?-the best melodramatic one-but Vickers, Vinay, sometimes even Domingo raised it to tragedy-which is what this should be about. Not who sings the loudest.
Labienus 2 years ago
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barrabas600 2 years ago
Io trovo l'interpretazione di Nicola Fusati (tutta l'opera: per il carattere, molti dettagli sapientemente curati, la fedeltà alla partitura, l'Otello che sa creare) la migliore. Naturalmente senza togliere nulla agli altri (in particolare a Del Monaco), che sono (quasi tutti) dei veri e propri colossi della lirica.
alessandroschaunard 2 years ago
gigli. holy shit.
HMW 2 years ago 2
Where is Bernardo De Muro??
tagliavini 2 years ago
Del Monaco, Corelli, Vickers (non questa incisione però) e infine Gigli.
DinDonDan94 2 years ago
Nicola Fusati grabó el primer Otelo completo para HMV; Yago fue Granforte y Desdémona, María Carbone.
Herman (n) Klein, el decano de todos los críticos anglosajones y que había presenciado el Otelo de Tamagno, dijo que Fusati " había seguido vocalmente al pie de la letra la interpretación de aquél".
Grabó muy poco más , alguna canciones (Lolita y Rimpianto), un Di quella pira (se puede escuchar en el disco con 40 piras publicado por Bongiovanni.
Erial80
erial80 2 years ago
Del Monaco wins...I wasn't really expecting anyone to beat him. However, Giacomini and Lauri-Volpi were both superb.
leadoffeohippus 2 years ago 2
MDM was Otello, then Vinay, . Corelli never sang the role not even once but would have been awesome. It was a grave injustice not to include Giovanni Martinelli who was a great Otello, and James McCracken who had the biggest Tenor voice of all. To put Gigli and Pav in here and not them is ridiculous. So the Top 3 here are MDM, Vinay, Corelli. Honorable mention Vickers /Lauri-Volpi/Giacomini
Etnalleb 2 years ago
Haven't these guys heard Del Monacos?
Very few people can claim to totally own something...Du Pre owns the elgar cello concerto for instance....
Del Monaco OWNED Otello
crwv 2 years ago
So it's clearly a match for the 2nd place, ok... :-D
- MARIO DEL MONACO (out of contest)
- Ramòn Vinay
- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
- Franco Corelli
- Luciano Pavarotti
etiamperiereruinae 2 years ago 5
nadie negara que del monaco es dios!!!