Vedo che non riesce a smettere di convincermi! Non ha da convincermi! Titta Ruffo è la mia più grande passione quindi sfonda una porta aperta. Il problema è che ne io ne lei abbiamo potuto ascoltare , sfortunatamente, queste voci e mi rifiuto di fare paragoni. Ogni artista di valore è un gioiello unico e come tale voglio considerarlo. Cappuccilli resta per la mia generazione un esempio per fraseggio, colore e personalità e per quello avrà sempre la mia devozione. Senza polemiche, sinceramente.
No infatti lei non può parlare con me! ! Detesto la democrazia e il diritto che dà di mietere scempiaggini. La polemica finisce qui! Onore alla scuola dei baritoni italiani a cui il grandissimo Maestro Cappuccilli ha dato lustro.
@chiccricca vedo che lei e giovane e sa tutto,ha un gran cuore,e generoso,e davvero fortunato!
E poi se per lei Cappuccilli fa parte della grande scuola italiana io sono d'accordo con lei,perché non?
Per me lei ha ragione perché rispetto il suo gusto,rispetto anche il mio...
Lei ha ragione dobbiamo creare un mondo dei sordomuti,razzisti...ah,uno suo "amico" voleva sparare con cannoni sulla gente perché odiava la libertà della espressione proprio come lei...
@chiccricca 2 che cosa facciamo allora con i dischi di: Ruffo,Ancona,Danise,Granforte,Stracciari,Taddei,Bastianini più di 30 nomi dei baritoni tutti migliori/per me/ da Cappuccilli?Che cosa c'è in comune tra loro e Cappuccilli?Niente.
Gli bruciamo allora?
Di quale "scuola italiana a cui il grandissimo Maestro Cappuccilli ha dato lustro" lei parla?
Ezio e un personaggio nobile,Ezio e Roma,Ezio e un guerriero forte,non ha bisogna di gridare /perché ha la voce/ per farsi sentire.
Baritenore Cappuccilli? Tacete e inchinatevi umilmente di fronte ad una voce straordinaria di autentico baritono verdiano per colore e fraseggio. Ai puristi dico che il virtuosismo vocale e' la cosa a cui Verdi ha sempre lasciato piena libertà!
Dove esiste questo si bemole nello spartito di Maestro Verdi?
Penso che esistono delle cose molto più importanti / avere una voce drammatica,eseguire lo stile e cercare una interpretazione nobile/ a che serve di cantare il ruolo più drammatico nel repertorio Verdiano con una voce non adatta a questo repertorio?
Cantando questo si bemole vuol dire che anche un bravo bari-tenore come Cappuccilli si permetteva di non rispettare la volontà di Verdi!
That's an amazing Bb. But even more shocking and thrilling is his Bb at the end of his Di Provenza scene.
As for Milnes, when his passagio became so unwieldy, I wondered if it was caused by his ventures into B-flats, and even a B-natural at the end of Rigoletto.
It's impossible to sing a Bb on the "maledizione" at the end of Rigoletto. It's simply not in the chord. Most baritones interpolate Ab and A-natural. Milnes inserted a C-flat between the Ab and A-natural. I was there and the critic even noted it in his review.
I can't imagine what a Bb would sound like at the end of Rigoletto. Normally, the baritones who can, interpolate an A-natural. You say you have a recording...can you upload it?
It's actually a B natural. He sings on 'la maledizione', Ab-B-A-Ab-Db. I've got a live recording where he sings the B natural also, it's amazing, he holds it even longer than in the studio one.
Just incidentally, what do you think of Cappuccilli? I don't remember ever hearing you mention him. :)
I think he is slightly underrated now. He was a solid, consistent singer with a reliable and impressive top. My only problem is his voice isn't very expressive (and to my ears not particularly beautiful) but I like him better than most (if not all) baritones singing today.
He isn't a favorite of mine; I also do not find his voice particularly attractive but he was (apparently) a fine technician since he lasted so long. That he was still sounding as well as he did in the early 1990s is truly amazing...baritones almost never last past their 50s (and what if he didn't have that car accident, who knows how much longer he would have sung). And of course his top extension was also unheard of (that he actually had a usable Bb which he sang in performance regularly).
Cappuccilli was wonderful, I heard him several times in Vienna, Salzburg, Verona. When he sang Ezio people woudn't stop appauding, when he sang Rigoletto we wept afte Cortigiani. I can't think of any baritone who had so much success in those times. He even stole Domingo the show sometimes.
@Krawi6 Thanks for that. Yes he was no doubt the premiere baritone of his generation. I'm not surprised he stole the show from Domingo, I've heard the same thing from others. ;)
How can one possibly say that Milnes was actually a dramatic tenor!!!What a crap!!just listen to his 4 Serious Songs by Brahms. He was a dramatic baritone in range and color!!
Milnes was a lyric baritone who forced himself to sound dramatic in his 40s. Cappuccilli was actually on the lyrical end too, but he patiently waited for his voice to darken with age. He refused to sing Scarpia until the very end of his career.
Actually the best baritone top notes since Warren have been provided by Cornell MacNeil. As I remember Cappuccilli had a great top G (?) as Miller when I heard him in Paris but not as great as MacNeil's A Natural in Nabucco. A baritone friend of mine called that the greatest note ever sung in San Francisco. Of course MacNeil was in decline even then and soon became hard to endure, while Cappuccilli always sang well for a long, long time.
Let's all get real... this is the absolute BEST!! TRUE Baritonal top of the EXTENDED range, unsurpassed. I heard only Merrill and Warren extend to this with such sound, but only in the dressing room. Warren actually had a solid high C.
Milnes has all my respect, but I firmly believe he was a dramatic Tenor all his career, singing Baritone. Domingo NOW in his sunset years, is venturing into Baritone as his sound has naturally darkened.
You know people go on and on about Milnes's recording of this cabaletta. Cappucillie is a real Baritone , not a tenor trying to sound like a baritone Listen to the B flat .
The Bb might not be perfect, granted. But Cappuccilli was a much greater baritone than Milnes, who was all useless mannerisms. Perhaps Cappuccilli did sing his best high note that night, but throughout his career he was unsurpassed.
Not to mention that Milnes sounds hideous singing that high and was truly a tenor. This is a baritone b-flat. Milnes sang over-covered tenor high notes.
Bravissimo Cappuccilli!!! Excuse me!!! My english, so so! I understand that 'Krawi6' have the recording of the Vienna State Opera with Cappuccilli, Ghiaurov, Zampieri and Chiara! No? Plis, give us in the YouTube, plis plis!!
Yes, I heard him live in Vienna with Ghiaurov and Mara Zampieri and Maria Chiara. I agree with ettore, we thought the applauding would never end. In many performances often Cappuccilli repeated the stretta, which is quite unusual in the Vienna State Opera.
I'll try to do it, give me some time. It was a great performance in Vienna in 1981. Cappuccilli had to repeat this aria, the audience was applauding frantically and wouldn't stop until he gave an encore.
Magnífico cantante !! Bravi !!!
1calr 4 weeks ago
He was a dramatic tenor and not a baritone. Just like Milnes. PATHETIC.
Warren was a real baritone.
Baritanist 3 months ago
BRAVO CAPPUCILLI!!
RVP57 7 months ago
Great artist! Great voice! Unbelieveble high notes!
Heldenbariton1 7 months ago
One minute and thirty-six seconds of pure bliss! Thank you for this post.
Amazing!
ceb2633 9 months ago
@ceb2633 per Paull Potts ci sono 80 000 000 commenti per uno video...
bodiloto 8 months ago
Vedo che non riesce a smettere di convincermi! Non ha da convincermi! Titta Ruffo è la mia più grande passione quindi sfonda una porta aperta. Il problema è che ne io ne lei abbiamo potuto ascoltare , sfortunatamente, queste voci e mi rifiuto di fare paragoni. Ogni artista di valore è un gioiello unico e come tale voglio considerarlo. Cappuccilli resta per la mia generazione un esempio per fraseggio, colore e personalità e per quello avrà sempre la mia devozione. Senza polemiche, sinceramente.
TheDinmartin 9 months ago
@TheDinmartin Cappuccilli "esempio per fraseggio,colore e personalità"... si é vero,lei ha ragione.
Infatti di che cosa parliamo?... negli anni 50 alla Scala cantavano più di 15 soprani...
Renato Capecchi aveva una voce molto più importante di quella di Cappuccilli e cantava come " basso buffo"...
Negli ultimi 40 anni abbiamo "creato" il nuovo "gusto",il risultato?
Oggigiorno non é rimasto nessuno,cioè dove sono le voci di Masini?Del Monaco?Corelli?Bastianini?Taddei?...
Non esistono più...
bodiloto 8 months ago
No infatti lei non può parlare con me! ! Detesto la democrazia e il diritto che dà di mietere scempiaggini. La polemica finisce qui! Onore alla scuola dei baritoni italiani a cui il grandissimo Maestro Cappuccilli ha dato lustro.
chiccricca 9 months ago
@chiccricca vedo che lei e giovane e sa tutto,ha un gran cuore,e generoso,e davvero fortunato!
E poi se per lei Cappuccilli fa parte della grande scuola italiana io sono d'accordo con lei,perché non?
Per me lei ha ragione perché rispetto il suo gusto,rispetto anche il mio...
Lei ha ragione dobbiamo creare un mondo dei sordomuti,razzisti...ah,uno suo "amico" voleva sparare con cannoni sulla gente perché odiava la libertà della espressione proprio come lei...
Ma c'è un piccolo problema...
bodiloto 9 months ago
@chiccricca 2 che cosa facciamo allora con i dischi di: Ruffo,Ancona,Danise,Granforte,Stracciari,Taddei,Bastianini più di 30 nomi dei baritoni tutti migliori/per me/ da Cappuccilli?Che cosa c'è in comune tra loro e Cappuccilli?Niente.
Gli bruciamo allora?
Di quale "scuola italiana a cui il grandissimo Maestro Cappuccilli ha dato lustro" lei parla?
Ezio e un personaggio nobile,Ezio e Roma,Ezio e un guerriero forte,non ha bisogna di gridare /perché ha la voce/ per farsi sentire.
Con rispetto
bodiloto 9 months ago
Baritenore Cappuccilli? Tacete e inchinatevi umilmente di fronte ad una voce straordinaria di autentico baritono verdiano per colore e fraseggio. Ai puristi dico che il virtuosismo vocale e' la cosa a cui Verdi ha sempre lasciato piena libertà!
TheDinmartin 10 months ago
@TheDinmartin suppongo che il suo commento e per me?
Io mi ricordo le voci dei Baritoni che ho sentito dal vivo negli anni 50-60...
E per dirla tutta Vinay e Nicolov / e non soltanto loro.../erano tenori e dal vivo avevano voci più scure di Cappuccilli .
Poi le "sente" la lirica italiana al modo suo,io attraverso la esperienza mia...
Ognuno di noi due ha il diritto di parlare...
Tacere?!?!?
Inchinarmi?Io?Davanti Cappuccilli???hahahahahahahahahahah
bodiloto 9 months ago
A che serve di cantare un si bemole?
Dove esiste questo si bemole nello spartito di Maestro Verdi?
Penso che esistono delle cose molto più importanti / avere una voce drammatica,eseguire lo stile e cercare una interpretazione nobile/ a che serve di cantare il ruolo più drammatico nel repertorio Verdiano con una voce non adatta a questo repertorio?
Cantando questo si bemole vuol dire che anche un bravo bari-tenore come Cappuccilli si permetteva di non rispettare la volontà di Verdi!
E tutto.
bodiloto 10 months ago
para el caso, Di quiela pira no tiene ningun do agudo.
voltape 1 year ago
ruolo drammatico,interpretato dalla una voce leggera.
a che serve di cantare un si bemole nel finale quando questo si bemole non esiste nello spartito di Maestro Verdi...
e il resto?
pubblico ignorante.
ranigema 1 year ago
Oh My God!!!!! Not fair....
lubidog 1 year ago
Sounds more like an A to me.
kimancuo 1 year ago
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Alla faccia del baritono!
davidemax1981 2 years ago
Incredibile! Grandissimo cappuccilli!!!
bpgbariton 2 years ago 2
PERFECT b-flat
jmtduarte 2 years ago 2
grandissimo cappuccilli, che tecnica e poi quel si bemolle finale così pieno è davvero difficile per un baritono
peppelyrics 2 years ago 2
I baritoni italiani che vanno da T. Ruffo a G. Zancanaro, tra cui certamente il divino P. Cappuccilli, rimangono e rimarranno i migliori di sempre.
31122051 2 years ago 7
That's an amazing Bb. But even more shocking and thrilling is his Bb at the end of his Di Provenza scene.
As for Milnes, when his passagio became so unwieldy, I wondered if it was caused by his ventures into B-flats, and even a B-natural at the end of Rigoletto.
raythespian 2 years ago
That is a B flat at the end of Rigoletto, i have never heard a Milnes go above that.
a28594 2 years ago
It's impossible to sing a Bb on the "maledizione" at the end of Rigoletto. It's simply not in the chord. Most baritones interpolate Ab and A-natural. Milnes inserted a C-flat between the Ab and A-natural. I was there and the critic even noted it in his review.
raythespian 2 years ago
I have a recording where he sings a Bb at the end of Rigoletto. I'm not sure what you mean. It sounds a little out of place but it works.
ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
I can't imagine what a Bb would sound like at the end of Rigoletto. Normally, the baritones who can, interpolate an A-natural. You say you have a recording...can you upload it?
raythespian 2 years ago
Sure, let me find and double check it first ;-)
ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
It's actually a B natural. He sings on 'la maledizione', Ab-B-A-Ab-Db. I've got a live recording where he sings the B natural also, it's amazing, he holds it even longer than in the studio one.
GermanOperaSinger 2 years ago
Yes, another gentleman already corrected me *puts on dunce hat* =P
I think I have the same recording, a live one where Milnes interpolates an impressive B, yes.
ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
I´d like to hear the live B4 by milnes, the studio version is good but very short.
jowox 2 years ago
i you like I'll email it to you if you have an email adress you wouldn't mind messaging to me. :)
ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
Please be a good guy!!! send it to me too!! I would love to listen to it.
Rigelcentauri58 1 year ago
Sure, PM me an email address.
ShawDAMAN 1 year ago
Just incidentally, what do you think of Cappuccilli? I don't remember ever hearing you mention him. :)
I think he is slightly underrated now. He was a solid, consistent singer with a reliable and impressive top. My only problem is his voice isn't very expressive (and to my ears not particularly beautiful) but I like him better than most (if not all) baritones singing today.
ShawDAMAN 2 years ago
He isn't a favorite of mine; I also do not find his voice particularly attractive but he was (apparently) a fine technician since he lasted so long. That he was still sounding as well as he did in the early 1990s is truly amazing...baritones almost never last past their 50s (and what if he didn't have that car accident, who knows how much longer he would have sung). And of course his top extension was also unheard of (that he actually had a usable Bb which he sang in performance regularly).
GermanOperaSinger 2 years ago 2
@ShawDAMAN
Cappuccilli was wonderful, I heard him several times in Vienna, Salzburg, Verona. When he sang Ezio people woudn't stop appauding, when he sang Rigoletto we wept afte Cortigiani. I can't think of any baritone who had so much success in those times. He even stole Domingo the show sometimes.
Krawi6 1 year ago
@Krawi6 Thanks for that. Yes he was no doubt the premiere baritone of his generation. I'm not surprised he stole the show from Domingo, I've heard the same thing from others. ;)
ShawDAMAN 1 year ago
@ShawDAMAN he sstole the show to placido domingo
mediterraneo1000 1 year ago
@mediterraneo1000
well obviously. Attila is not an opera you go to for the tenor =)
raigekimaru 1 year ago
How can one possibly say that Milnes was actually a dramatic tenor!!!What a crap!!just listen to his 4 Serious Songs by Brahms. He was a dramatic baritone in range and color!!
hansdrp 2 years ago
Milnes was a lyric baritone who forced himself to sound dramatic in his 40s. Cappuccilli was actually on the lyrical end too, but he patiently waited for his voice to darken with age. He refused to sing Scarpia until the very end of his career.
leadoffeohippus 2 years ago 3
"EZIO" = POPOV !!!! GRAZIE !
bodiloto 2 years ago
Actually the best baritone top notes since Warren have been provided by Cornell MacNeil. As I remember Cappuccilli had a great top G (?) as Miller when I heard him in Paris but not as great as MacNeil's A Natural in Nabucco. A baritone friend of mine called that the greatest note ever sung in San Francisco. Of course MacNeil was in decline even then and soon became hard to endure, while Cappuccilli always sang well for a long, long time.
Agorante 2 years ago
Beautifuly done!! That Si bemol in his voice sounds better
than many tenors could do.
Rigelcentauri58 2 years ago 2
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Whenever I look at that image of Capp from 1:16, I wonder how such a humble looking man can sound like such a badass...bravo.
leadoffeohippus 2 years ago
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leadoffeohippus 2 years ago
Let's all get real... this is the absolute BEST!! TRUE Baritonal top of the EXTENDED range, unsurpassed. I heard only Merrill and Warren extend to this with such sound, but only in the dressing room. Warren actually had a solid high C.
Milnes has all my respect, but I firmly believe he was a dramatic Tenor all his career, singing Baritone. Domingo NOW in his sunset years, is venturing into Baritone as his sound has naturally darkened.
Steve Texon.
stevetexon 2 years ago
wotansschwert 3 years ago
yep ;))
Coloraturissimo 3 years ago
so, is this 1975 @ La Scala With Patane, Ghiaurov. Luchetti, Malaspina?
gtelloz 3 years ago
You know people go on and on about Milnes's recording of this cabaletta. Cappucillie is a real Baritone , not a tenor trying to sound like a baritone Listen to the B flat .
tenorismo 3 years ago 5
Couldn't agree more.
Webarton 3 years ago
well... :))
Coloraturissimo 3 years ago
yeah, except for the fact that Milnes sang the note in tune and this barely makes it up to the Bb until the last millisecond
wh1048 3 years ago
The Bb might not be perfect, granted. But Cappuccilli was a much greater baritone than Milnes, who was all useless mannerisms. Perhaps Cappuccilli did sing his best high note that night, but throughout his career he was unsurpassed.
nisticom 2 years ago 3
Not to mention that Milnes sounds hideous singing that high and was truly a tenor. This is a baritone b-flat. Milnes sang over-covered tenor high notes.
Iareto 2 years ago
Wow! So the leading baritone in the world for a number of years....was a tenor, and didn't even know it! :^P
BTW, Cappuccilli does a fine job here.
chessmann 3 years ago 6
Ooops, this was meant as a reply to tenorismo's comment, below.
chessmann 3 years ago
ehm .... cappuccilli was definitly not a tenor. the character of his voice is a true baritone sound ...
stybboon 3 years ago
I was referring to Milnes.
chessmann 2 years ago
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I was referring to Milnes, not Cappy.
chessmann 2 years ago
@chessmann
no, he was a baritone.
If is like you say, every tenor that can sing a low A is a baritone?
Is not so simple.
You know the difference from a cello to a violin?
Is the same thing.
fuffurugugliu 1 year ago
Bravo maestro !!!
xavierfersanta 3 years ago
ETERNO PIERO!!!
1975 Attila con Ghiaurov....! 2 giganti alla Scala!
CHE VOCI!
HellasItalia4 3 years ago 2
Incredibile !!!!!! impossibile rimpiazzarlo oggi.......Grandissimo Piero!!!!!!
gian85bis 3 years ago 3
Bravo Piero!!!!
arturovilla02 3 years ago
Bravissimo Cappuccilli!!! Excuse me!!! My english, so so! I understand that 'Krawi6' have the recording of the Vienna State Opera with Cappuccilli, Ghiaurov, Zampieri and Chiara! No? Plis, give us in the YouTube, plis plis!!
Giorgiobaritono 3 years ago
Yes, I have this record. I'll see what I can do to put this on You Tube. The technique is my problem
Krawi6 3 years ago
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You very much, Krawi6!!! I'll wait, ansious!!! Ciao!
Giorgiobaritono 3 years ago
yes, I have heard him live in Attila. I was 11 and I will never forget. I was fearing the theatre would collaps...
ettore001 3 years ago 6
great! :D
Coloraturissimo 3 years ago
it's scala 1975 - with Orlandi-Malaspina, Luchetti, and Ghiaurov, under Patane'. You heard him live? :))
Coloraturissimo 3 years ago
Yes, I heard him live in Vienna with Ghiaurov and Mara Zampieri and Maria Chiara. I agree with ettore, we thought the applauding would never end. In many performances often Cappuccilli repeated the stretta, which is quite unusual in the Vienna State Opera.
Krawi6 3 years ago
hi krawi6 can you put the performance en you tube?please we wait for that thank you i am a fanatic of PIERO CAPPUCCILLI.
luisenes 3 years ago
I'll try to do it, give me some time. It was a great performance in Vienna in 1981. Cappuccilli had to repeat this aria, the audience was applauding frantically and wouldn't stop until he gave an encore.
Krawi6 3 years ago
me too i am fanatic of Piero and i was at this performance in Milano
ginodina 3 years ago
Which performance was this taken from? Vienna or la Scala or somewhere else?
I heard Cappuccilli several times singing this stretta and ending with b flat. It is unforgettable
Krawi6 3 years ago