Giovanni Martinelli - Collassa cantando Celeste Aida

[23carillon]

Troppo bravo!!! Mi viene da piangere!!! --sighh--

[librarybob1958]

Fortunately. the American tenor Frederick Jagel (1897 - 1982), a Met standby from 1927 - 50 (although probably best remembered now as the man who discovered Mario Lanza), was listening at home, hastened to the Met, and finished the performance for his good friend and colleague.

It must have been quite the performance otherwise: Zinka Milanov, Bruna Castagna, Carlo Tagliabue (way too brief stay with the Met), Ezio Pinza, Papi conducting. The sort of routine that, regrettably, no longer is.

[warnie1]

Where's the rest of the clip? Martinelli makes it (but just barely) to "...sei lo splendor" and then faints. In the full broadcast recording, you can actually hear voices and a bit of commotion on stage as Martinelli struggles to make it through the aria. You can also hear him hit the stage when he passes out and the audience reacting. An announcer then cuts in and says, "We're sorry, ladies and gentlemen...there will be a brief intermission...the curtain has dropped...Mr. Martinelli is ill".

[Falstaff87]

quante polemiche, mi pare un titolo simpatico

[jamesjmertins1]

the most overrated tenor ever.

[minnie888444]

Thanks for posting.

He was 53, right (born in 1885)?

[AlexanderNievsky]

probabilmente stava spingendo come un pazzo... si può dire che quest'aria uccide.

[parussation]

anche le mie arie uccidono....quando tiro un'aria, è meglio stare lontano!

[ofiammasoave]

anche battute come questa possono uccidere per la puzza...

[parussation]

@ofiammasoave se non hai humor peggio per te!

[ofiammasoave]

diciamo che le battute scatologiche non sono proprio tra le più fini...ma chacun a son goût...

[parussation]

@ofiammasoave

La mia non voleva essere pirandelliana ironia...ma semplice comicità, anche intuibilmente sottintesa a vederla con occhi oggettivi....ma apunto come dici te, de gustibus non dispitandum

[sbarabadan]

@AlexanderNievsky no.. avvelenamento da cibo dice il commento superiore; e che svenne pure nel palco

[gaemp]

diciamo che non c'era proprio... ma collassare penso sia un'altra cosa.....

[Cavaradossi1981]

haha, what's up Giovanni?? well, i personally prefer Charles Hackett and Frederick Jagel

[pasfresh123]

why can't we move the clip forward??? why does it always go back to 0:00?? is that decided by the person who posted the clip?

[GermanOperaSinger]

Yes, he had a horrible case of food poisoning and fainted while he was still singing. Poor him.

[vanzofaust]

Explanation in English-seems Martinelli collapsed before he even got to the end of the aria. check the web. there are references to the incident.

[pasfresh123]

but this is not part of the clip. what is the point??? it could be any of his performances of aida.

[piasecznik]

I guess it is. If he always sung Celeste Aida like this, even when he was healthy, he was indeed the most overrated tenor in history.

[XP11XP]

This is the famous "breakdown" but not the whole clip