Giuseppe Giacomini and Eva Marton in Andrea Chenier

[tklogan111809]

love Giacomini but his last note was under pitch, thankfully Marton drowned him and so did the orchestra so it isn't that blatant.

[godivapaw]

Such a powerful pair of dramatic-spinto voices! Fabulous!

[jibbyjane]

I LOVE EVA!!!!! She is my favourite soprano- amazing power and beauty.

[ClayAndAli]

Wonderful voices with such powerful high ranges. I love it.

[TheZdp1]

grande Giacomini, Marton strepitosa, grande direzione di Guadagno

[TheZdp1]

Bellissimo

[voce29]

Outstanding!!

[bacassa]

Exellent !!! what year was this recorded please?

[MmeFigaro]

Dio mio che grandi! Giacomini ha una voce incredibile. Timbro baritonale, voce omogenea, piena, rotonda, bella... intelligente e con bella presenza. Lei unica in questo repertorio. Grandi..

[sullany]

Absolutely magnificent! Marton is great here. When she cut loose, she could raise the rafters off of any hall! No vocal problems here (yet).

[JeeRant]

Whoa. Marton is REALLY thin here.

[prestydog]

Marton - La Prima Donna Assoluta Del Mondo Nel Universo!!!!

[matt7178]

non posso dire altro che: FANTASTICO. un'interpretazione magistrale, veramente fantastica. Stupendo Giacomini!!!! e bravissima la Marton!!! BRAVI BRAVI BRAVI!!!!!!

[charmeueueur]

Bravo Giacomini! Brava Marton!

[31122051]

... DRAMMATICO.

[robertdonkers]

Totally agree, beautiful dramatic voice and totally committed. Never understood why he did not enjoy the recognised greatness of some of the other tenors. His baritonal qualities and his free tenor top really made him one of the best tenors in the dramatic field. His voice is always unforced and beautiful.

[gaemp]

I prefer Giacomini here in Chénier than in Otello... Eva Marton is "wobbing" too much... diction is horrible.

[danisouth]

I'm lost for words, her diction is absolutely fine. She's also not "wobbling" here... do you know the score of Andrea Chenier and how the notes should be sang??? She's magnificent here, I wish I was there when this was sang.

[gaemp]

@danisouth I'm Italian, sorry... I think you could believe me.

[Caskader]

Boosegumps

[undalux]

@Caskader it's goosebumps ;)

[Caskader]

@undalux No shit sherlock ;)

[ThePHILIPOTTO]

Two great voices!!!

[brolobear]

I first heard this duet in college in a live concert with Domingo and Scotto in Houston and was completely blown away...I cried like a baby. I bought their full recording of the opera the next day. Thank God Marton and Giacomini sang the last part of the duet in the original key without transposition down! For me, the duet never catches fire unless it's in the original key!

[tena2]

Excellent stuff, Bravo Giuseppe and Eva.

[theulkar]

Eva Marton è molto sensuale.

[fabrizzzio48]

Wow! That conductor was on fire! Watch him at the final bars...he's possesed!

Very much unlikely Levine, the sonnambulist, conducting, half asleep.

[odabellissima]

incredibili tutti due! sembra tutto cosi facile,invece loro due sono due mostrini! MITICI,BRAVISSIMI!!!!!

[rexeterna]

BRAVO GIACOMINI

[31122051]

Assieme a F. Corelli e F. Bonisolli, il miglior tenore ( drammatico ) dello scorso secolo. Video a dir poco meraviglioso ! * * * * *

[rinarix1]

insomma del monaco non lo vuol mai mettere....ehehehhe

[31122051]

rinarix : ADORO anche M. Del Monaco se proprio lo vuoi sapere.

[31122051]

@rinarix1 : con tutta l'ammirazione che posso avere per il GRANDE MARIO DEL MONACO, ti dico, in tutta sincerità, che per conto ci sono stati almeno otto tenori drammatici che viaggiavano sul suo stesso livello ( se non meglio ) ; i loro nomi sono : AURELIANO PERTILE, GIACOMO LAURI VOLPI, GALLIANO MASINI, FRANCO CORELLI, NIKOLA NIKOLOV, DANIELE BARIONI, FRANCO BONISOLLI, GIUSEPPE GIACOMINI. Per conto mio Del Monaco è stato un grandissimo tenore dramamtico, ma non il più grande in assoluto. Ciao.

[sugarbist]

@31122051 Pertile Volpi Masini Corelli Barioni Bonisoli ,erano tenori molti bravi, ma NON erano tenori veramente DRAMATICI, erano tenori Spinti con la capacita a cantare certe opere Dramatici.Le veri tenori Dramatici erano Tamagno, Paoli,Escalai,Del Monaco,Zenatello,Vickers eSlezak.Boun Divertimento

[rinarix1]

ahahahh si lo sapevo e' che bisogna ridere, a volte, altrimenti tutto e' serio...che ne dice di mario ortica le piace?

Non so se l'ha mai vista, c'e' una carinissima Cavalleria rusticana su youtube prodotta dalla rai con appunto Mario Ortica, Era un mio compaesano di Treviso. mi piacerebbe sapere che ne pensa di lui. saluti

[EdmundStAustell]

One of the great tenors of the 20th century, and woefully underappreciated, in America because he was a serious, well educated, intellectual musician; a retiring person who did not tolerate or participate in silliness or play the celebrity game on TV talk shows, etc.. We have had rather too much of that over the course of the last 25 years or so, imho. He was a giant.

[lulapop69]

Grazie Maestro Giacomini!! Uno de los mejores Chenier, con esa voz de Tenor Dramatico fenomenal, Bravo!!!!

[a57se]

Interesting, 6 pages of comments and only Martello hears Giacomini flat on the B......doesn't sound off to me,

[Dymension]

Actually, he is a tad flat. That's a B natural for a true drammatic tenor...

[martello79]

Great singing and interpretation. A pity Mr Giacomini did not completely reach his last high notes but this is of minor importance ....

[Glenmed]

I can't remember a more impressive and moving platform performance of this wonderful duet.

[robertdonkers]

One of my favourite tenors, a real dramatic tenor, beautiful, rich through the whole scale. Eva fab too

[bobopera]

I heard an interview with Marilyn Horne on Clyde Martin's opera program on KCSC in Oklahoma City several years ago. Ms Horne expressed her opinion that Giacomini had one of the most beautiful tenor voices in her experience. I heard Giacomini in a Forza in St. Petersburg Russia in 2001 and he could sing the tenor role and excite the audience.

[Dymension]

Marton looks and sounds fabulous!

[nickditoro]

This is not an aria but a duet. An aria is a solo.

[Abigayl1950]

MARTON is GREAT !!!!!!!

[callastoujours]

Both are! Bravi!!!

[spbsalon]

Bravissimi!!!

[domidomicat]

繊細な詩人の声にしては立派過ぎますね。

私はジャコミーにさんは好きですけどこの役は向いてないと思いま­すね。

[erin129]

i have probably commented before, but this makes me cry every time. i would gladly give six months of my life to have been there to see this live. you have no idea how much i adore pre-wobble marton, and giacomini is not of this earth.

[tenore23]

Fucking fabulous! What is the source of this video? What was been celebrated?

[Dymension]

Richard Tucker Gala, I believe 1988

[FacePaster]

would love to hear voices like this in person. maybe someday.

[Dymension]

My friends were there and they said they raised the roof of Carnegie Hall!

[barrister79]

Thanks for posting this one. I have been searching this for many years.

[spectrum3]

The Greatest DIVA !!!!!

[liricraker]

Este video debe ser de obligatoria referencia para aprender como se debe cantar Opera, y sobre todo con que voces hay que contar para no desvirtuar la música, con una espectacular y magnífica dirección de orquesta.

[berlinman46]

I was fortunate to see Eva Marton as Elextra at Covent Garden about 1990 and she was stunning right to the last bars!!

[berlinman46]

Just Fabulous!!!

[GoldenAgeSunshine]

Well, positively surprised: splendid! Reminiscent of the Golden Age days! Big, powerful voices, with great style in this verismo repertoire - and beautiful, classy Marton in her heydays. Thumbs up! Who can sing this taxing finale like they did today? Thanks for posting!

[stefakamelpash]

I just love Giacomini. This was one of his best roles. People talk about his voice a lot, but what often gets overlooked is what a spectacular musician he was. He is musically and stylistically perfect here. And his pronunciation is so good. You can always understand every word he sings.

[63Attila]

A wonderful performance. Both singers are wonderful.

[mcknighty11]

I have nothing against Eva Marton...but I preffer Caballe in Andrea Chenier

[tena2]

I do prefer caballe too

[mcknighty11]

Although I will say Marton is the best Turandot...period!

[raycanto76]

second to Nilssen..lol

[raythespian]

We don't have voices like those today. I just avoid operas like Aida and Chenier. Never saw Giacomini, but saw Marton as Tosca and remember being disappointed in her aborted B-flat in "Vissi d'arte". That's all I remember about that performance.

[classic1306]

unbelievably amazing!!!!!!

[stefakamelpash]

I agree. Giacomini is certainly not dull. He is very musical and intelligent. That may translate as "dull" to some who have certain tenor stereotypes in mind. A conservatory graduate (with honors), he took himself seriously, first and foremost as a musician. This is admirable but not always prudent in "tenor-world"!

[CONTESTAR]

I see nothing dull in Giacomini's artistry and voice, other than his looks!!

I think he is a phenomenal singer and -hélas- a victim of our visual-electronic times... Nothing else.

[oleganna]

He has a phenomenal voice. Bravi!

[girardje]

magnifique duo par Giacomini and Marton bravo

[simonchante]

Giacomini is one of the most underrated tenors of the last 40 years.  He was very humble himself and didn't care much for the glammour of the biz. No other tenor sing with such line and with sych a warm baritonal sound. This is just incredible.

[kmillard]

Gicomini was so undervalued, underappreciated, and under-recorded in his prime i was ridiculous. What were we thinking?? Oh to have a balls to the wall tenor like him BACK again!!

[marokt]

Giacomini is not undervalued. Good voice, perfect technic, but he is dull. I think the judge of the public is pretty right.

[tdeane34]

Giacomini boring? I don't think so. There was definately a three tenor mafia led by Pavarotti. Giacomini has the best voice since Corelli but was inconsistent and kept down by the tenor mafia.

[BeauTenor]

Tenor mafia? LOL...that's funny, considering that Pavarotti and Giacomini really didn't compete head to head for roles, especially early on when Pavarotti was singing purely lyric stuff. Giacomini was not my favorite voice, but sometimes he sounded phenomenal, and he had the size to tackle things Pavarotti should never have touched (Otello).

[inter215]

Giacomini is the last in the noble line of true dramatic tenors that included the likes of Martinelli, Lauri Volpi, Del Monico and Corelli. Its sad that so many people today no longer appreciate or understand this glorious and unique type of voice.

[raycanto76]

@inter215 SO TRUE....We are so flooded with lyrics and leggerios...everybody thinks this is a "weighty sound" but these roles REQUIRE such PING and Weight.." to combat such massive orchestration.

[erialm]

Bravo Giacomini; brava Marton. That is all I have to say.

[Lavro504K]

Realmente conmovedor, voces para el recuerdo y cantantes que se emocionan con los autores... VOCES PARA EL RECUERDO REALMENTE!

[raydebouvre]

Thank you for this video which shows that opera will never disappear : it's simply too beautiful and there will always be people like us who love those big emotions of the real bel canto. I could tell much more but maybe later. Un grand merci !

[Caskader]

This must the one performance in which Marton isn't flat on her final high note!

[Dymension]

Before around 1988, Marton was rarely flat. She started to get in trouble as she pushed the voice out of wack...

[albertthrelkeld]

I enjoyed this performance. Marton sounds and looks great in this performance. Giacomini is a little pinched on the top, but he has a a solid and warm middle voice. I suspect that the addition of the heaviest roles (Brunnhilde, Elektra, Salome) took some toll on Marton's voice in later years; but she could still deliver some absolutely electric performances. I rather liked her Elektra and Brunnhilde at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in the early 90s.

[Dymension]

Absolutely. By the time 97 roled around, she never got anywhere near the top notes. I saw her return to the Met in 97 and 98 as Tosca and Turandot and it was rather sad. Interestingly enough, she managed to hit some notes on pitch like the high Cs in the 2nd act of Tosca...

[albertthrelkeld]

Is she still singing?

[Dymension]

Yes. She recently did Klytemnestra at the Liceo. Additionally, there are two Youtube clips around of her in 2004 singing In questa reggia, and 2007 singing some operetta. Do a search and you'll find it.

[JBL228]

I believe Marton said that she intended to retire from the opera stage after that Klytemnestra in Barcelona.

[berlin194]

A difficult duet done to perfection.

Bravo

[BeauTenor]

Wow....just imagine THAT tidal wave coming in. You'd leave half deaf. Like I said the last time this vid was posted; this is "anything you can sing, I can sing LOUDER", and it's absolutely thrilling. Current singers need to WAKE UP. No one does this kind of singing any more. Can you imagine FLEMING or NETREBKO or GHEORGHIU ever doing something so over the top? No...

[FoggyRoad81]

As usual you are totally 100% correct. The thrill and excitement you get from voices like this is why opera was more popular at this time. Not the hotness, not the staging, not the silly contemporary diretion. Powerhouse voices that tingled your spine and raised the hair on your arms. Awesome.

[simonchante]

I absolutely agree...heavy or not so great an actor/ actress just give me great singing...big or small voice.

[godivapaw]

A magnificent blend of two heavy duty, diesel-powered voices!

[matiasquiroz80]

GRANDIOSO

[conileecn]

The perfect partner...