Grace Moore & George Thill in Louise by Charpentier

[jefgong]

the film was directed by the great ABEL GANCE.

[paulostroff99]

George Thill wa as good as any that ever graced an opera stage.

[SHICOFF1]

YES THE BOOK TWILIGHT OF BEL CANTO IS VERY GOOD.

[LobsngDmchoi]

Beautiful, but the sound seems distorted during the first 45 seconds or so---then it gets much better and the voices bloom wonderfully. Is this distortion in the original format??

[796824]

None of the opera singers today can match the brilliant singing and spontaneity of Thill and Moore

[NoirOrchestre]

oh yes, don't worry they can

[796824]

Suggest reading THE TWILIGHT OF BEL CANTO by Leonardo Ciampa. Singers today are guttural, hooty, with no vestige of chiaroscuro. That is the reason for the reference among the cognoscenti to the "GOLDEN" AGE of SINGING Gigli, Crooks, Schipa, Melchior, Lemeshev, Cortis, JSchmidt,Tetrazzini, Leider, Lehmann, Rethberg, Supervia, Berger, Branzell, Stracciari, Thomas, Gorin, Tibbett, and more. THERE are NONE today who are of that caliber.

[HUGOWERTHER]

Grabaciones de mierda, todas arruinadas, se ve que no andaba bien los microfonos de la época con los armonicos, todo lo de esa época incluso lo de Caruso esta todo asi se esucha raro

[billyguns2]

LOUISE is one of the most unjustly neglected operatic masterpieces; I wonder why this should be so? My other candidates for Most Unjustly Neglected are THAIS, KONIGSKINDER, WILLIAM TELL, RADAMISTO, and L'AMORE DEI TRE RE.

[qklq42]

I agree ! It's always Traviata, Boheme, Aida, etc. etc. I never saw Louise on stage. Koenigskinder kenne ich von Peter Anders, L'amore dei tre re from Grace Moore and Enzio Pinza. I never heard a note from Radamisto.

Like you I love those neglected operas. My favourite ones are Le dialoque de carmelites (Poulenc) and L'assasino nel cathedrale (Pizetti).

Hans NL

[qklq42]

I have the complete movie. At least every month I put this video in my recorder. Grace is glamourish with her voice like a flute and Thill is so beautiful. She is the best soprano that America have given us (Callas was also an american soprano) and there is nothing that we can compare with George Thill in the french tradition. I am fond of french opera, and espescially this Louise. By the way: do you know the NAXOS CD of february 20, 1943 with Moore, the great Pinza and Raoul Jobin?

Hans NL

[paulostroff99]

@qklq42 -Have you no knowledgeof the American Rosa Ponselle who Maria Callas called the best of all of them.She FYI was American born and bred.

[qklq42]

@paulostroff99

I sure know Rosa Ponselle. I enjoy Rosa Ponselle in her live integral Carmen and Traviata. I also have some 3 LP with arias and songs, out of her acoustic time and her electric performances, some together with her sister. I think she has a beautiful voice, she looks like a movie-star, but she sometimes hav'nt got a good taste. So I don"t think she is americans greatest soprano. By the way: Callas did'nt know any singer but herself.

Hans NL

[paulostroff99]

Wonderful duet! TY

[stefakamelpash]

Excellent! I own this video too, and I have played it over and over. Moore is wonderful in it, and Georges Thill, what can you say! The greatest tenor France ever produced! Wonderful duet, bel canto triumphant! Bravi!

[creamofcardstv]

I like your vid clip and I've rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some old cigarette cards of 1930's celebrities, including: Grace Moore ,Shirley Temple, Joan Crawford, Gracie Fields,Kay Francis,Clark Gable,, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers,Norma Shearer.

[mrfabulocity]

I would love to hear more from this film.

Thanks for sharing this.

Grace Moore is amazing.

[fajamaqui]

Very moving see and hear Grace Moore and Thill. Thanks for posting It

[hobo1975]

thanks, can u post more of thill singing from this movie and the bass?

[GreekCallas]

Thanks for this - I love Grace Moore.