I would like to say that my dialogue with Gaytenor has been very positive.He does take people to task when he thinks their incorrect(myself included)&I respect him for that.We do not always agree,but the information that he has shared with me has been accurate&informative.I find his statements are based on research& fact.Ofcourse,like the rest of us,he has his opinions& is entitled to them.Perhaps Gaytenor wouldn't be as insulting if some of us wouldn't initiate harsh attacks along with mis info
Tucker NEVER had a problem with his voice in the early 50's, and NEVER studied with anyone named Stanley. His one and only teacher was Paul Althouse who died in 1954.
Does anyone know what rock this troll ThePavafan crawled out from under. He is just traveling around to insult myself and others. I have pity on such an idiotic fool that he spouts one lie after another.
@gaytenor Stop telling lies. You are an idiotic, crazy person who just wants to insult other people because they are right and you are wrong. Please go and kill yourself moron.
His acting really in his day was good compared to some others. Bjorling didn't do much moving and singing at all, moving around very little. I saw him in house. Tucker in Lucia sang Edgardo's tomb scene at the end after he stabs himself laying on his back. Gigli did little acting. Sure vickers and Shicoff etc. where fine actors but they came After Tucker. Martinelli in his day was a fine actor. Yes as was said here Tucker's voice made up for the acting or lack of it as with Jussi and Gigli
The ONLY time I've ever heard Tucker blow a high note -- the very last one, which is obviously tight and strained. But what the heck, even great singers aren't perfect:). One thing that I've noticed, having seen a lot of Tucker on video. During his career, he was often criticized as a poor actor. I don't get that from his videos. Granted he's no Vickers, but his work onstage was always at least OK. And even if it was, his voice was more than ample compensation:) --
I've read so much about Richard Tucker but this is the first vidoe I've seen of him. In fact I don't think I've heard his voice until now. It has a rich lyrical quality. Well suited to this role.
This is fantastic singing, no matter what "Gaytenor" and the other haters are writing. Thanks to the thyroid manipulation maneuver that he learned studying with maestro Douglas Stanley.
@Baritanist: I finally found someone who sounds like a Stanley singer Ignacio Gomez! This so-called tenor would be a perfect example of the Stanley method since he has a voice(?) remarkable for its unsteadiness, pitch problems, and a tonal quality that defies description. While I'm sure you'll want to get Signor Gomez's endorsement I suggest that any diary products be removed from the immediate area.
ahem... if you can't sing the note with the soprano then just sing the harmony that Puccini wrote. If Jussi didn't mind doing it then neither should Tucker.
@Greatheil If Tucker thought he couldn't hit the note properly, he would have gone for the harmony. For the most part,RT did have confidence in his excellent technique & was very consistant with his high notes. Many tenors in history have missed or messed up occassionally with their high notes, such as Pavarotti,Gigli Zenatello Martinelli Volpi ETC.Tucker was a fine tenor and one forced or missed note does not cast a blemish on his career.Enjoy
When they speak of the great tenors, Tucker is too often left out of the conversation. He had power, beauty, emotion. And Moffo is a spectacular Mimi. A great, soaring O Soave Fanciulla, one of the best ever.
His Italian reviews where great so his Italian was just fine for a non Italian and compared to other Americans his Italian was usually better. Bruno Bartoletti the Italian cond. told me his Italian was excellent and better than some Italian's. Bruno cond. for him in Chicago several times. Many singers like Bjorling where put down for poor Italian but the singing comes first and this is great singing and fine Italian. He also corrected the slightly flat last high B quickly.
He is a little flat on the last note but WHO CARES. It is glorious singing. This is the great sound of the Stanley technique. Stanley has been Tucker's teacher and fixed his voice when it went downhill for Tucker in the early 1950s. Stanley's technique was GREAT- a free, wide open sound without constriction is the result. Bravo, in spite of the flatness.
@Baritanist What a world class liar you are with your phony pitch for students in your howling academy.
TUCKER NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT FRAUD STANLEY'S METHOD OF VOCAL DESTRUCTION. THE MOANING ON YOUR SITE SOUNDS LIKE A LAMB AFTER ITS THROAT HAS BEEN CUT.
You see kind reader Baritanist is a total fraud just listen to his god awful howling on his site. I have heard more musical sounds from a cat in hear. Bravo Tucker and his only teacher Paul Althouse.
@gaytenor I see you want to get personal. You are a pathetic ex-tenor with no voice and no career. Why don't you shut up? You have nothing to say except lies. I have tapes of Tucker and Stanley, you moron. Stanley was a great teacher and so were his students. Have you ever heard of Tom LoMonaco? Moron!
@Baritanist Yes I heard of Tom LoMonaco but not many have heard his singing(?) you lying asshole charlatan. The gentleman never became a world renown anything and yet all of you followers of the great voice destroyer Stanley seem to throw his name about. YOU REPEATEDLY MENTION TAPES OF TUCKER AND STANLEY POST THEM YOU LYING ASSHOLE CHARLATAN FRAUD. If you have such tapes the Tucker family might like to hear them too.
@gaytenor ROFL you are an idiot. You seem to believe that things you don't know don't exist. The tapes with maestro Stanley and Tucker are a treasure. I will not post them so that you can go there and flame everybody. Get a life, a voice and a brain.
@Baritanist : Hey asshole do you ever get tired of lying you worthless fraud. The negative comments posted on your site should prove to you that you cannot sing for shit. What potential singing student is going to fall for your garbage? I do not visit your site to comment merely to laugh because your funny you tone deaf putz. I love especially the comment by GermanOperaSinger that states in a very lucid manner what that noise sounds like.
@gaytenor GermanOperaSinger? Good one, dude. Go to GT where he admits that he is clueless when it comes to singing. You could also learn something about Stanley there but I guess you are a hopeless piece of shit.
@Baritanist I have heard the singing of GOS and it is one hell of a lot more melodious than the rabid dog howling heard on your site. Bringing German into the discussion doesn't get away from the fact that Stanley was a total fraud and charlatan who probably trained his students using quack, quack, quack instead of the typical vowels. Also if you have a tape of me play pn, play on dude You know dude is a gay expression are you coming out of the closet?
@Baritanist You confuse yourself. Richard Tucker was taught by Paul Althouse, a retired tenor, who taught the Italian head voice gathered voice that Antonio Frisella also specializes in. This technique supported Gina Cigna, Lauri-Volpi, Gigli, Björling and many others.
Now listen. Nr. 1 I used that about Peerce and not Tucker, so STOP LYING. Nr. 2 I like klezmer, and if you think mentioning klezmer is bad, then I suggest that you are the anti-Semite here. You behave like a Nazi BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OPINION OTHER THAN YOUR OWN AND YOU INSULT EVERYBODY WHO DOES NOT SHARE YOUR VIEWS USING NATIONALIST STEROTYPES. Get lost, you are like an annoying mosquito.
@Melomondo So I was lying read your comment, about a month ago, on the Il mio tesoro by Bjorling and tell me you didn't include both in your comment. Your remark was seen by a Jewish friend who was offended so don't for one minute try to label me as an anti-semite. There are a lot of comments about Peerce and Tucker that I do not agree with that were not, like yours, insulting as hell because of your personal agenda. Unlike you I do not lie. I also have one screen name only.
@gaytenor Apparently, you love to pick fights. You can lie as much as you want and if some Jewish friends of yours (a lie, no doubt) get offended, I could not care less. You should get a life and stop your nazi propaganda. Go fight with Baritanist, you two are an amazing match. Usually, people who accuse others of having many screen names are the ones who have many screen names. In your case, I would not be surprised.
@Melomondo I have one screen name and I do not use you tube or any other medium to promote a political believe. Sir read your comments they go so far beyond the normal level of even unreasonable discourse as to be self-explainatory. I really do not want to read your hate filled remarks about two great and totally innocent men you pompous asshole. They did not cause the death of your bother and to use their sites to vent your spleen is tasteless. Go to the hate sites please.
Oh yes GAY TENOR AND WHAT ABOUT NILSSON? SHE COULD BLAST AWAY EVEN CORELLI IN TURANDOT! SHE WAS SOMETHING ELSE. TUCKER SANG CALAF LIVE WITH HER IN 61 AT THE MET AND WAS HEARD ON THE HIGH C EVEN WITH HER GIGANTIC VOICE! I HEARD HER IN TOSCA IN HOUSE --BIG STEEL SOUND! GREAT SHE WAS. SHE ALSO SANG BALLO WITH RT IN 63 AND AIDA WITH HIM IN 65. RECORDED IT WITH FC.
@shiicoff1 Yes, I can enjoy Tucker. The Tosca from 1956 with Tebaldi was good and a CBS LP with Verdi arias. I returned to this video because I got notified that your buddy Gaytenor had insulted me once again. He now pretends to be a Jewish victim of Hitler, but if he really is a Jew he still behaves like a Nazi. I love those guys.
He goes to Tucker to defend him and it would be easy to sit here and say on a Corelli and Jussi site , Oh he cracked on a note and jussi did in a studio recording of Butterfly on high C in the duet ending but why do that he was a great tenor, or Corelli who sang Flat live in Forza and stayed way Flat threw the entire note! Not just the attack like here but I would never do that on their sites or otherwise, both great voices.
I agree with Gay Tenor and he has it right about Tucker-- it seems he was a threat to other Spinto's and lesser tenors rarely take the angry remarks but Gay tenor in no Nazi. He is quite liberal. And being gay as I assume, he is sensitive to bigotry. I do not know him at all but He does not go to singers sites to flame a particular singer and I would like to see Melomondo go to a Tucker site like forza or chenier and praise him
I do not appreciate the use and suggestion of nazi phrases by Melomondo as a way of forwarding his hatred of Richard Tucker. He has used remarks that my Jewish friends consider antisemitic and, if he's an adult, he should find another outlet for his hate. Gays suffered like the Jewish people during the nazi period and we should be past that crap by now. I have never once found a positive comment about any singer on you-tube a true troll.
@gaytenor Be quiet now, stupidest man alive. We all know your strategies as your harassing can be found on every single video of Tucker. You cannot stop educating others about the "true" greatness of this tenor and you keep lying like Dr. Goebbels. Whoever criticizes your darling is being called a Nazi and an anti-Semite. Well known tactics... but YOU ARE NO VICTIM, so quit your pathetic ramblings.
@Melomondo You moron I have an IQ of 150 and was offered a full ticket fellowship in the graduate school of a well known American university in quantitative methods and finance. The whole world was victimized by Herr Hitler and you can scream all you want but some of your remarks have been antisemitic. Want a victim try Josef Schmidt. When you constantly insult people over defending a great singer against your sleazy remarks with really pointed remarks you run to calling us nazi's. You need help
@gaytenor An IQ of 150, good for you, next time make sure it starts showing in your postings, because your postings look more like an IQ of 15. I strongly doubt that you are a victim of Herr Hitler, but you can go on lying. The truth is that you can't take any criticism against Tucker. Schmidt has nothing to do neither Tucker nor you, so leave him. What a cheap shot. Where have I been anti-semitic? Tell me, but please, do not lie this time.
An IQ of 150 makes you an educated moron, that's it.
@Melomondo Try using the klezmer reference in conjunction with both Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker. Two very, very great tenors who just happened to be of the Jewish faith.Jewish people do not care for that reference. Also attacking people for sticking up for their favorite singers and calling us nazi's. The only gay performer that was known to Herr Hitler and lived was Max Lorenz and his wife who was Jewish was spared to since Seigfried had to have his beard.
@ThePavafan Are you a sire as well as an asshole, if so, your magic wand needs tuning since I'm not a liar you sack of shit! You must be ancient to have heard Callas and Del Monaco together. Your opinions are bullshit and your so far over the line here as to be really insulting. Go to the archives of the magazine 'New York' and read the reviews of your over fed hero who did have a huge belly. Your actually dumber than the typical Lanza loonie PISS OFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@gaytenor And you are even dumber than my dog. Everybody knows that you are a liar, a frod. You lie about everything and you are the biggest asshole ever. Not mine but your opinions are a piece of crap because you know nothing. And you are crazy too. Go to a doctor you pathological liar. Don't write stupid comments which insult other people and stop humiliating yourself. Not everybody has to know that you are crazy.
I like his ending here and he brought it up to pitch quickly if it was under as you can hear, Terrific High B !-- so Melomondo is wrong he needs to listen to the entire note not just the attack. He trolls Tucker on every video he can, just hating Tucker from Sweden-- get a life , I am not into calling names but really you are disgusting getting on a site of a great man all over and staying away from his best examples on you tube. Jussi was no rival for tucker with his lyric voice-- Different.
@Melomondo The world class expert strikes again! Whopee!! I have gotten to the point where I expect your damn foolishness at every Tucker site. Just a trolling pain in the ass. By the way I'm not infamous or any of the other names you have had the gall to use against several fellow posters. Flat a little at attack but quickly brings it up to pitch. You have something against a large voice?Listen to some of the great Swedish tenors but stay away from Ralf and Svanholm since they could be heard.
@gaytenor Wow. You are fighting with everybody on every video. Get a boyfriend and some relief, idiot. You are infamous, many people on youtube are already laughing about you. If you can't hear the bad pitch, your ears are rotten. But you will continue to shout "Heil Tucker" no matter how bad he screws up. You are worse than a fanatic muslim.
Your comment about Swedish tenors (sigh) prove your disastrous state of mind. You are such a pathetic clown.
@Melomondo I have happily shared my life with my partner for a very long time and I love the infamous bit. Who am I infamous with just in passing. Tucker does correct his pitch asshole. The only people I'm fighting with are those morons who troll Tucker sites never posting any comments in support of an artist but all too willing to post comments that prove your ignorance concerning singers. Tucker was the greatest tenor in the world during his lifetime and the highest paid for what its worth.
What a beautiful duet... Tucker and Moffo.....I was only 12 years old when I saw them singing together. ...Thank you for sharing this Gorgeous Duet ..
i love annas sound and even tho i am all about technique first i can't help but think of her as one of my favorite sopranos ever. tucker does as usual sound pretty horrible here.
i agree that papoocanada is an imbecile but let's not encompass all Canadians in his realm of stupidity, i agree that there's nothing to do in Canada and we are fighting a losing fight but some Canadians (me) aren't complete quacks. While this can't be viewed as tucker's best performance it's still better then some of the versions of O Soave Fanciulla that i've heard. i'm commented on this before on a seperate song but tucker is the epitome of the spinto tenor and a top 3 tenor alltime
@asalvoni1 I think Canada is a wonderful place actually and I certainly do not blame the people of Canada for the moron below. I had an aunt from Canada and I could have gotten married to my boyfriend in your country. His comments are ignorant and both churlish and disgusting. Your country is heaven for landscape photography.
You in Canada are fighting a loosing battle and have nothing better to do then flame him whats the matter? Get a life you idiot. You would not know a rasp from a whisper you idiot.
What's the matter Mary been sitting on your ears. Did you lose your boyfriend or did the closet door stay open? Its been a long, long time since I have read such a disgusting trivial bunch of crap. Mimi was so enchanted by the richness, power, and beauty of Tucker's voice. You either have an agenda or your a tone deaf idiot. Go iron your skirt dear. Youi can try to insult me but I admit what I am.
over 700 times at the met alone and flat only once in all those shows that i heard-- at least 50 of them and you get to a TV show where he was off for a moment. funny how they pick on it because he was too good for Domingo and Corelli who sang at times like he composed the music. Any singer can be flamed. I suppose you all write for the new york times or the los angeles times so who cares what you all think of tucker anyhow. Gay tenor has ears he is not seated on them, others are. Enjoy Tucker
the B was fine once he brought it up quickly, much more important shows he gave in the house. this was not his best but better then domingo or corelli. try enjoying the good stuff instead of stirring up a pot of crap, flame corelli and domingo and gigli also why don't you. Poli was a mediocre Baritone by the way. many better.
HE WENT DOWN AND THEN HIT THE B off and corrected it quickly and it was a good B and he could have ended it down altogether but he did not and also try and find another live one where he sings at all flat-- you cannot because you are just trying to flame him with your constructive crap. Try lispy Corelli, flat more often, try Forza -- Solenne in Naples at the end-- way flatter then this and then look for another Tucker singing flat, you will not find it but you have the time , get a life.
Find the last Domingo broadcast of Boheme where he disrespected the score with the worse singing of the aria I've ever heard. The transposition that is used by some as excuse was okayed by PUCCINI for Caruso who cracked when he sang the aria for Puccini. Domingo is the modern reincarnation of Fernando DeLucia carrying his special versions of scores around with a semitone to tone downward transposition of everything. Is this respect for the composer. Get a life.
tucker did not Always transpose as you say, NO LIVE in Ballo or as Calaf or in Lescaut or in Aida where in one 1966 Aida MET BRDCST. he hit a high C live interpolated, GREAT ONE Domingo is another thing he sang few high C's live if at all after NYC opera days in the 60's. Tucker sang fine high C's in all of the above and Studio 61 Boheme The ones above where live High C's and good ones at that. Ballo LIVE with Nilsson and Cruiz Romo, LESCAUT DUET WITH TEBALDI AND CALAF WITH NILSSON AND ROSS.
You said you never heard him sing "anything from Boheme in key " in 1961 he did the complete Boheme, you just did not bother to listen to it, next you will say it's studio, so what you said you never heard a thing in Key from Boheme, wrong. The Che gelida is in Key and well sung.
Poli-- Listen to 1961 Tucker in the complete Boheme on RCA original recording re-issued on CD's also. Moffo/Tucker/ Merrill/ Costa. His Che Gelida is in key with then high C. So he did sing it in key in 1961.
Thanks XP, for forwarding. Yes, it is terrible. I actually have never heard anything from La Bohème sung in key by Richard Tucker. He ALWAYS transposed. Yes, it's funny. Some people bash Domingo for transposing, but when Tucker does it, they are most pleased.
@AfroPoli: Most tenors sing the aria down and there is a big difference between a great high B--Tucker--and a laughingstock--Domingo. Rodolfo was a central role in Tucker's repertoire last done on a broadcast in 1973. Why do you waste tour time flaming a great singer. Your crap is tiresome go listen to Gigli who recorded at a slower speed to fake a high c''. Reference: Opera on Records Il Trovatore.
Crap is when people like you call objective critique "flaming". You said about Gigli that his voice was too small for spinto roles, that he was screaming and that he faked high Cs. But critisizing Tucker, oh no... how could I. And most singers transposing does not excuse it. Many singers did not transpose. This high B is terrible. If you can't hear and accept it, there is something wrong with your ears.
Unlike Tucker, Domingo had respect for Puccini's music and his colleagues. Appearently Tucker was not much of an artist. He transpones down for going for the high option and still gets flat. Very discrespectul!
He had issues with breath support for more than a year after his heart attack, you can really hear it in his performances from the early 60s. By the mid 60s he was back in shape and singing better than ever. He didn't attack the B at the end very well and its flat at first but he does sing in pitch at the very end, not a big deal, the rest of the duet was great. There's actually no change in key at 1:28, just a break in the audio track, makes it sound like key has changed but not really.
in 1957 tucker sang Boheme with Kirsten at the met as was lyrically wonderful in it and it was brdcst. and he was a fine tenor for the role. It is on you tube at least the aria Che Gelida and is excellent, also the 1952 production was sung very well.
Ella es de las más grandes, sin duda. ¿Pero por qué esa obstinación de estropear sus grabaciones con la repugnante voz de Tucker? Para colmo de males, su aspecto tosco y senil es totalmente ajeno al personaje. Sólo Dios sabe por qué ese Tucker se hizo tan célebre.
All of my years of going to the old and new Met, Tucker NEVER disappointed. I always came away impressed and moved by his singing. I'm so grateful that we have many recordings of his beautiful voice.
flat at the end.... I love love love Tuckers voice but perhaps it is not right for Boheme... I think it lacked finesse as well..... sorry tucker lovers.... I like him too.
His early Boheme and any MANON LESCAUT PUT HIM AHEAD OF AHEAD MOST OTHERS. HE WAS A GREAT PUCCINI SINGER AND IS 48 HERE NOT 32. His voice was a big Spinto, ever heard Corelli do it? NOBODY SANG LESCAUT BETTER NOT EVEN JUSSI BJORLING AND HE HAD A VERY BIG VOICE-in the house. WHY POST COMMENTS IF YOU DON'T like him? I just don't bother much with singers I dislike . He has many fans and he will be immortal no matter what anyone says.
I heard him in recital three times.. and he was awesome, and I was prepared not to like him, as many of his recordings were souped up with reverb and echo.. and it was hard to get a handle on his real voice.. well live his real voice was quite large and very lovely.. he was quite musical too and possessed a lovely ppp..(not heard much on his recordings).
He can't help it if his voice is large. Idiot. You're obviously no singer as you have no idea that undersinging is just as dangerous, if not more, than oversinging.
Puccini's music doesn't deserve to be massacred this way.He should have stucked to verisimo because the total lack of shading and refinement of his singing is a huge poblem in Puccini repertoire.
I sort of don't know what to say. I'm torn between being further amazed at just how often Moffo shines in recording, and being heartily amused at Tucker's final high note!
I heard her before and after and did not notice any change, her prime was short lived, after early 60'S her recording of trav with tucker/merriull in 60 was very fine then in 66 a movie of it with franco B--not as good.
Try listening to tucker do it in the 1947 Boheme recording on Columbia CD with Sayo when he was 33 years old and a more lyric tenor it is superb singing. He was a great tenor then in this role along with pav. and jussi.
I heard him often and in Verismo roles he was the best, Pavoratti could never sing well what Tucker did, the big power house roles like Chiener and Aida, plus Boccenegra, Don Carlo, Turandot and Forza when Pav. did these but had poor reviews since he was not a Spinto but really a lyric much like Bjorling who was smart and never sang Calaf or Forza on stage live with his smaller voice, Tucker was the king and in 1962 Time said the best tenor in the world, Newsweek when he died said the same
I was fortunate to hear Tucker sing this role at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in 1963. It was very good but my favorite still is Pavorotti and Mirella Freni, heavenly.
I find almost all of these comments objectionable and a good reason to disallow comments on videos. To argue like this over singing shows that most of you do not have art in your souls. This kind of "fan bickering" shows my many people in the arts cannot stand the "fan" mentality. Now probably one of you "fans" will attack me. Trying buying a punching bag for your frustrations.
What makes you think he jumped up on a box, he was five foot seven and never wore shoes to make him taller, they simply slant the stage for a shorter person and he stands back, who cares about height he wiped her out and lasted longer vocally. Bergonzi was shorter and so was Tagliavini, Gigli was five four, Schmidt was four eleven, who cares? She sounded lousy later on and never was in the Tebaldi class at all, not even close or for that matter Callas, just a pretty voice, little insight.
Yup, it's true. A beautiful performance with a bad high note. You hit the nail on the head. One or two bad things don't make it a bad performance. Like him jumping up on a box a couple of times to be taller than Anna doesn't make it a bad performance. NOW, FINALLY you've got it. Thank goodness.
And did you write "Screw You? How quaint. How intelligent. How profound. What a great response. Your inner beauty shined through on that one. Keep up the good work.
Oh, shame on yu, dear pearlmuth. You've gone and taken a lovely performance by a great tenor, and turned it into a semetic/anti-semetic litigation. Ruby would have been seriously ashamed of you.
I have no idea how you managed to do it, though it happened right before my very eyes, but somehow you did. All by yourself, surely no help from any of the comments I've read or posted. It's kind of a one-person rant. Interesting to see, but it makes me say "oh, what are you doing, you silly person?"
THANKS MADISON, WELL THEY ARE NOT JEWS I AM SURE BUT YOU ARE CORRECT -THEY ARE ASS HOLES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS RT WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND A WONDERFUL MAN, ( I am not related to Jan Peerce as some think but knew him from working in Radio) HAVE A NICE DAY, THANKS MADISON ELECTRONIC
Good Grief!!! I'm soooooooooooo glad I checked in here to see what the happenings were, and WOW, look at Mr. Madison Electronic!!! Where did THAT come from?? Talk about "out of left field".
Anyhow, PEARMUTH, I think that it's hysterical when you say that with people like me your life will be shorter. Holy Moly, that's putting a little MUCH into a Youtube comment, doncha think? Sorry for the 3 week delay. I've been busy.
Why do not you all shut the fuck up about the great Reuben Ticker Who sang for charity many more times than he sang for money. Idiot bastards! If you are Jews you are disgracing your faith and you others are just pure assholes.
goddess or devil, whatever I am sure you will check back in a couple of days, so you have no life maybe. The last High B was fine for a 48 year old man with a great voice. He lasted a lot longer then Moffo vocally and had a bigger name, was a bigger star and lived a respected life, plus the Italians in Italy loved him when he sang in that country. Check the reviews.
What kind of Goddess, I told you before only his relatives and close friends called him Ruby, you have no respect, with people like you maybe my life (as you put it) will be shorter, happy now, your no friend Of Richard and surely not related.
WOW, PEARLMUTH you're still writing to me!! I came in here to let a friend here Ruby's last note and was really surprised to see a message start Listen Another Goddess. Good Grief, don't you have a life????
A comment was made here last month that he transposed down the last note to B, very common in this duet. Listen to the you tube of Bjoerling and Tebaldi from 1956, same duet and Jussi was a few years younger (45) then this 1962 version when Tucker was 48. Bjoerling also put it down to a B since many do here, especially when older.
Listen Another Goddess-- if they insult this great man then the hell with them, let them not bother with his site but if they open up a stupid mouth I am here to tell them to go to hell and intend just that. Nobody tells me what to do, not even you.
Yes it was and I am glad you have guts to tell it like it was. Some stupid jerk just posted a comment about his Pag. from 1970 and said the voice was small! The guy was 11 when RT sang pag! He never heard it. I heard him do it in 73' Met. (with Corelli in Cav) and his voice was bigger that day then Corelli and I was in the same seat for both!
Samurai, sad you never heard him but you where 7 years old when he died, he was the greatest true Spinto I ever heard. End of story, forget looks, not important. Pav. was not great looking either and was great anyhow.
Tucker sang High C's even two years before he died at age 59, checkout the pod cast of the ballo duet in 1973 with Cruiz Romo. at the end you will hear a high C, ALSO CHECK OUT THE SAME DUET FROM A BRDCST IN 63' WITH NILSSON and he does it again with power to match hers, Both LIVE. He chose to sing a B here like so many others (Bjoerling in same duet, 1956 with Tebaldi, also a B and JB was younger then RT then,45 years old versus 48 for Tucker
Listen you both are idiots, learn how to spell, his wife was Peerce's sister, Perelmuth stupid. Jerodo loves to post crap about tucker on every tucker post. They loved him down in that opera house and he did not come cheap. You guys who hate him are old and senile.
MAYBE YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH his SINGING, perhaps his backround
HA HA HA HA...this is so typical. If you don't care for somebody, they start screaming RACIST. I don't think poor Jerodo knows anything about his "background". You, however, are obviously some relation. Especially with a moniker like Pearmuth, which, according to Wik... was his wife's maiden name.
However in Jussi's 56 Boheme recording he did sing the C as it was Studio and it was wonderful but in a 1949 Standard hour Radio show in "Che Gelida" he hit a high C for 9 sec. that IMO puts Pav. and Kraus behind him, what a lyric spinto he was!
The B would have been down for even Bjoerling in his mid 40's and Tucker here was 48. Jussi was a terrific High C tenor but after early 1950's he sang it as a B also. Producers show case with Tebaldi is a high B in 1956, he was 45, younger then Tucker who sang a high C during a met Aida brdcst in 66, interpolated, he was 52! Cheers
Moffo had a beautiful voice that did not last in prime shape after the mid 60's perhaps her heavier roles but her trav. recording in 60 is terrific. She recorded Juive hilites in 74 with Tucker and the top was thin by then. She always sounded much the same no matter and had to Compete with singers who had more in the character.
shes beautiful<3
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Moffo is absolutely adorable
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I would like to say that my dialogue with Gaytenor has been very positive.He does take people to task when he thinks their incorrect(myself included)&I respect him for that.We do not always agree,but the information that he has shared with me has been accurate&informative.I find his statements are based on research& fact.Ofcourse,like the rest of us,he has his opinions& is entitled to them.Perhaps Gaytenor wouldn't be as insulting if some of us wouldn't initiate harsh attacks along with mis info
sugarbist 2 months ago
Richard Tucker and Ana Moffo..A force of nature! Magnificent! ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE.Absolutely pleasant, a delight to my ears.
Tenorbravo 3 months ago
Tucker NEVER had a problem with his voice in the early 50's, and NEVER studied with anyone named Stanley. His one and only teacher was Paul Althouse who died in 1954.
premiereopera1 4 months ago
He is flat on the last note becacause Puccini wrote an E and he is singing a high C
Stupido
wop9999 5 months ago
Does anyone know what rock this troll ThePavafan crawled out from under. He is just traveling around to insult myself and others. I have pity on such an idiotic fool that he spouts one lie after another.
gaytenor 6 months ago
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@gaytenor Stop telling lies. You are an idiotic, crazy person who just wants to insult other people because they are right and you are wrong. Please go and kill yourself moron.
ThePavafan 6 months ago
@the pavfan Nobody ever drowned out Nilsson that I ever heard, lets here the point where that happens?
SHICOFF1 6 months ago
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SHICOFF1 6 months ago
His acting really in his day was good compared to some others. Bjorling didn't do much moving and singing at all, moving around very little. I saw him in house. Tucker in Lucia sang Edgardo's tomb scene at the end after he stabs himself laying on his back. Gigli did little acting. Sure vickers and Shicoff etc. where fine actors but they came After Tucker. Martinelli in his day was a fine actor. Yes as was said here Tucker's voice made up for the acting or lack of it as with Jussi and Gigli
SHICOFF1 7 months ago
OK so he's just a touch flat. No reason for all the hate with such a beautiful duet.
stokleyb 8 months ago
The ONLY time I've ever heard Tucker blow a high note -- the very last one, which is obviously tight and strained. But what the heck, even great singers aren't perfect:). One thing that I've noticed, having seen a lot of Tucker on video. During his career, he was often criticized as a poor actor. I don't get that from his videos. Granted he's no Vickers, but his work onstage was always at least OK. And even if it was, his voice was more than ample compensation:) --
stevevandien 8 months ago
I've read so much about Richard Tucker but this is the first vidoe I've seen of him. In fact I don't think I've heard his voice until now. It has a rich lyrical quality. Well suited to this role.
JomeAt10 8 months ago
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!
MariaCallasLegend 8 months ago
This is fantastic singing, no matter what "Gaytenor" and the other haters are writing. Thanks to the thyroid manipulation maneuver that he learned studying with maestro Douglas Stanley.
Baritanist 9 months ago
@Baritanist: I finally found someone who sounds like a Stanley singer Ignacio Gomez! This so-called tenor would be a perfect example of the Stanley method since he has a voice(?) remarkable for its unsteadiness, pitch problems, and a tonal quality that defies description. While I'm sure you'll want to get Signor Gomez's endorsement I suggest that any diary products be removed from the immediate area.
gaytenor 9 months ago
nasty creeps go away
flyboytim 9 months ago
ahem... if you can't sing the note with the soprano then just sing the harmony that Puccini wrote. If Jussi didn't mind doing it then neither should Tucker.
Greatheil 11 months ago
@Greatheil If Tucker thought he couldn't hit the note properly, he would have gone for the harmony. For the most part,RT did have confidence in his excellent technique & was very consistant with his high notes. Many tenors in history have missed or messed up occassionally with their high notes, such as Pavarotti,Gigli Zenatello Martinelli Volpi ETC.Tucker was a fine tenor and one forced or missed note does not cast a blemish on his career.Enjoy
sugarbist 2 months ago
When they speak of the great tenors, Tucker is too often left out of the conversation. He had power, beauty, emotion. And Moffo is a spectacular Mimi. A great, soaring O Soave Fanciulla, one of the best ever.
jd1906sf 1 year ago
He got the note fine, once he sustained it. ( I was answering another comment.) Yes Baritanist makes a good point when he says Glorious singing.
SHICOFF1 1 year ago
A little flat? you mean he got the B flat wrong? Anyway, everything else was great! Bravo Tucker and Moffo!
hullguy123 1 year ago 2
His Italian reviews where great so his Italian was just fine for a non Italian and compared to other Americans his Italian was usually better. Bruno Bartoletti the Italian cond. told me his Italian was excellent and better than some Italian's. Bruno cond. for him in Chicago several times. Many singers like Bjorling where put down for poor Italian but the singing comes first and this is great singing and fine Italian. He also corrected the slightly flat last high B quickly.
SHICOFF1 1 year ago
Tuckers italian pronunciation is so bad..Moffo is fantastic.
belcantist 1 year ago
I think the colour of his voice is not everybodys cup of tea and as Rodolfo hmmm, but as Chenier or Cavaradossi he is really great IMO.
VOCEDIPETTO 1 year ago
He is a little flat on the last note but WHO CARES. It is glorious singing. This is the great sound of the Stanley technique. Stanley has been Tucker's teacher and fixed his voice when it went downhill for Tucker in the early 1950s. Stanley's technique was GREAT- a free, wide open sound without constriction is the result. Bravo, in spite of the flatness.
Baritanist 1 year ago 10
@Baritanist What a world class liar you are with your phony pitch for students in your howling academy.
TUCKER NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT FRAUD STANLEY'S METHOD OF VOCAL DESTRUCTION. THE MOANING ON YOUR SITE SOUNDS LIKE A LAMB AFTER ITS THROAT HAS BEEN CUT.
You see kind reader Baritanist is a total fraud just listen to his god awful howling on his site. I have heard more musical sounds from a cat in hear. Bravo Tucker and his only teacher Paul Althouse.
gaytenor 9 months ago
@gaytenor I see you want to get personal. You are a pathetic ex-tenor with no voice and no career. Why don't you shut up? You have nothing to say except lies. I have tapes of Tucker and Stanley, you moron. Stanley was a great teacher and so were his students. Have you ever heard of Tom LoMonaco? Moron!
Baritanist 9 months ago
@Baritanist Yes I heard of Tom LoMonaco but not many have heard his singing(?) you lying asshole charlatan. The gentleman never became a world renown anything and yet all of you followers of the great voice destroyer Stanley seem to throw his name about. YOU REPEATEDLY MENTION TAPES OF TUCKER AND STANLEY POST THEM YOU LYING ASSHOLE CHARLATAN FRAUD. If you have such tapes the Tucker family might like to hear them too.
gaytenor 9 months ago
@gaytenor ROFL you are an idiot. You seem to believe that things you don't know don't exist. The tapes with maestro Stanley and Tucker are a treasure. I will not post them so that you can go there and flame everybody. Get a life, a voice and a brain.
Baritanist 9 months ago
@Baritanist : Hey asshole do you ever get tired of lying you worthless fraud. The negative comments posted on your site should prove to you that you cannot sing for shit. What potential singing student is going to fall for your garbage? I do not visit your site to comment merely to laugh because your funny you tone deaf putz. I love especially the comment by GermanOperaSinger that states in a very lucid manner what that noise sounds like.
gaytenor 9 months ago
@gaytenor GermanOperaSinger? Good one, dude. Go to GT where he admits that he is clueless when it comes to singing. You could also learn something about Stanley there but I guess you are a hopeless piece of shit.
Baritanist 9 months ago
@Baritanist I have heard the singing of GOS and it is one hell of a lot more melodious than the rabid dog howling heard on your site. Bringing German into the discussion doesn't get away from the fact that Stanley was a total fraud and charlatan who probably trained his students using quack, quack, quack instead of the typical vowels. Also if you have a tape of me play pn, play on dude You know dude is a gay expression are you coming out of the closet?
gaytenor 9 months ago
@Baritanist You confuse yourself. Richard Tucker was taught by Paul Althouse, a retired tenor, who taught the Italian head voice gathered voice that Antonio Frisella also specializes in. This technique supported Gina Cigna, Lauri-Volpi, Gigli, Björling and many others.
0Gioacchino 7 months ago
Now listen. Nr. 1 I used that about Peerce and not Tucker, so STOP LYING. Nr. 2 I like klezmer, and if you think mentioning klezmer is bad, then I suggest that you are the anti-Semite here. You behave like a Nazi BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OPINION OTHER THAN YOUR OWN AND YOU INSULT EVERYBODY WHO DOES NOT SHARE YOUR VIEWS USING NATIONALIST STEROTYPES. Get lost, you are like an annoying mosquito.
Melomondo 1 year ago
@Melomondo So I was lying read your comment, about a month ago, on the Il mio tesoro by Bjorling and tell me you didn't include both in your comment. Your remark was seen by a Jewish friend who was offended so don't for one minute try to label me as an anti-semite. There are a lot of comments about Peerce and Tucker that I do not agree with that were not, like yours, insulting as hell because of your personal agenda. Unlike you I do not lie. I also have one screen name only.
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor Apparently, you love to pick fights. You can lie as much as you want and if some Jewish friends of yours (a lie, no doubt) get offended, I could not care less. You should get a life and stop your nazi propaganda. Go fight with Baritanist, you two are an amazing match. Usually, people who accuse others of having many screen names are the ones who have many screen names. In your case, I would not be surprised.
Melomondo 1 year ago
@Melomondo I have one screen name and I do not use you tube or any other medium to promote a political believe. Sir read your comments they go so far beyond the normal level of even unreasonable discourse as to be self-explainatory. I really do not want to read your hate filled remarks about two great and totally innocent men you pompous asshole. They did not cause the death of your bother and to use their sites to vent your spleen is tasteless. Go to the hate sites please.
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor You are great at one thing: masturbating with words. Yawn.
Melomondo 1 year ago 7
No he is not Jewish but has many Jewish friends.. Oh Yes a good Tosca with Tebaldi.
shiicoff1 1 year ago
Oh yes GAY TENOR AND WHAT ABOUT NILSSON? SHE COULD BLAST AWAY EVEN CORELLI IN TURANDOT! SHE WAS SOMETHING ELSE. TUCKER SANG CALAF LIVE WITH HER IN 61 AT THE MET AND WAS HEARD ON THE HIGH C EVEN WITH HER GIGANTIC VOICE! I HEARD HER IN TOSCA IN HOUSE --BIG STEEL SOUND! GREAT SHE WAS. SHE ALSO SANG BALLO WITH RT IN 63 AND AIDA WITH HIM IN 65. RECORDED IT WITH FC.
shiicoff1 1 year ago
@shiicoff1 Corelli wasn't blasted away. In fact in almost every performance he drowned Nillson.
ThePavafan 6 months ago
@MELOMONDO DO YOU LIKE ANYTHING TUCKER SANG AT ALL? IF NOT WHY LISTEN? TODAY WE HAVE IN YOUNG TENORS NOT ONE HALF AS GOOD.
shiicoff1 1 year ago
@shiicoff1 Yes, I can enjoy Tucker. The Tosca from 1956 with Tebaldi was good and a CBS LP with Verdi arias. I returned to this video because I got notified that your buddy Gaytenor had insulted me once again. He now pretends to be a Jewish victim of Hitler, but if he really is a Jew he still behaves like a Nazi. I love those guys.
Melomondo 1 year ago
He goes to Tucker to defend him and it would be easy to sit here and say on a Corelli and Jussi site , Oh he cracked on a note and jussi did in a studio recording of Butterfly on high C in the duet ending but why do that he was a great tenor, or Corelli who sang Flat live in Forza and stayed way Flat threw the entire note! Not just the attack like here but I would never do that on their sites or otherwise, both great voices.
shiicoff1 1 year ago
I agree with Gay Tenor and he has it right about Tucker-- it seems he was a threat to other Spinto's and lesser tenors rarely take the angry remarks but Gay tenor in no Nazi. He is quite liberal. And being gay as I assume, he is sensitive to bigotry. I do not know him at all but He does not go to singers sites to flame a particular singer and I would like to see Melomondo go to a Tucker site like forza or chenier and praise him
shiicoff1 1 year ago
I do not appreciate the use and suggestion of nazi phrases by Melomondo as a way of forwarding his hatred of Richard Tucker. He has used remarks that my Jewish friends consider antisemitic and, if he's an adult, he should find another outlet for his hate. Gays suffered like the Jewish people during the nazi period and we should be past that crap by now. I have never once found a positive comment about any singer on you-tube a true troll.
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor Be quiet now, stupidest man alive. We all know your strategies as your harassing can be found on every single video of Tucker. You cannot stop educating others about the "true" greatness of this tenor and you keep lying like Dr. Goebbels. Whoever criticizes your darling is being called a Nazi and an anti-Semite. Well known tactics... but YOU ARE NO VICTIM, so quit your pathetic ramblings.
Melomondo 1 year ago
@Melomondo You moron I have an IQ of 150 and was offered a full ticket fellowship in the graduate school of a well known American university in quantitative methods and finance. The whole world was victimized by Herr Hitler and you can scream all you want but some of your remarks have been antisemitic. Want a victim try Josef Schmidt. When you constantly insult people over defending a great singer against your sleazy remarks with really pointed remarks you run to calling us nazi's. You need help
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor An IQ of 150, good for you, next time make sure it starts showing in your postings, because your postings look more like an IQ of 15. I strongly doubt that you are a victim of Herr Hitler, but you can go on lying. The truth is that you can't take any criticism against Tucker. Schmidt has nothing to do neither Tucker nor you, so leave him. What a cheap shot. Where have I been anti-semitic? Tell me, but please, do not lie this time.
An IQ of 150 makes you an educated moron, that's it.
Melomondo 1 year ago
@Melomondo Try using the klezmer reference in conjunction with both Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker. Two very, very great tenors who just happened to be of the Jewish faith.Jewish people do not care for that reference. Also attacking people for sticking up for their favorite singers and calling us nazi's. The only gay performer that was known to Herr Hitler and lived was Max Lorenz and his wife who was Jewish was spared to since Seigfried had to have his beard.
gaytenor 1 year ago
@Melomondo Don't listen to him he has an IQ of 75. Your comment is right on.
ThePavafan 6 months ago
@gaytenor Don't lie. You have hardly an IQ of 100 and you were offered nothing. You are just a lying moron trying to insult everybody.
ThePavafan 6 months ago
@ThePavafan Are you a sire as well as an asshole, if so, your magic wand needs tuning since I'm not a liar you sack of shit! You must be ancient to have heard Callas and Del Monaco together. Your opinions are bullshit and your so far over the line here as to be really insulting. Go to the archives of the magazine 'New York' and read the reviews of your over fed hero who did have a huge belly. Your actually dumber than the typical Lanza loonie PISS OFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gaytenor 6 months ago
@gaytenor And you are even dumber than my dog. Everybody knows that you are a liar, a frod. You lie about everything and you are the biggest asshole ever. Not mine but your opinions are a piece of crap because you know nothing. And you are crazy too. Go to a doctor you pathological liar. Don't write stupid comments which insult other people and stop humiliating yourself. Not everybody has to know that you are crazy.
ThePavafan 6 months ago
@ThePavafan
gaytenor 6 months ago
Go to German opera singer comment here sometime ago, good comment on the great Tucker.
shiicoff1 1 year ago
I like his ending here and he brought it up to pitch quickly if it was under as you can hear, Terrific High B !-- so Melomondo is wrong he needs to listen to the entire note not just the attack. He trolls Tucker on every video he can, just hating Tucker from Sweden-- get a life , I am not into calling names but really you are disgusting getting on a site of a great man all over and staying away from his best examples on you tube. Jussi was no rival for tucker with his lyric voice-- Different.
shiicoff1 1 year ago
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@shiicoff1 Sorry to say so, you and your buddy, the gay tenor, you must be the most stupid people alive.
You have been harassing people on this thread already **three** years ago when you were Pearlmuth3. INSANE!
And go on with your praise of Tucker singing off-pitch. It's hilarious.
Melomondo 1 year ago
What I wouldn't give to have heard this live!!!
courlature10 1 year ago
i knew this was from some NBC special cause so many of the color and black n white video tapes have been preserve from this period
mikemcgee 1 year ago
Two great singers -
Owenbob 1 year ago
I love this!!!
cantanteporsiempre 1 year ago
Tucker shouting as usual. The high note is absolutely terrible. So flat that it is a dissonance.
Melomondo 1 year ago
@Melomondo The world class expert strikes again! Whopee!! I have gotten to the point where I expect your damn foolishness at every Tucker site. Just a trolling pain in the ass. By the way I'm not infamous or any of the other names you have had the gall to use against several fellow posters. Flat a little at attack but quickly brings it up to pitch. You have something against a large voice?Listen to some of the great Swedish tenors but stay away from Ralf and Svanholm since they could be heard.
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor Wow. You are fighting with everybody on every video. Get a boyfriend and some relief, idiot. You are infamous, many people on youtube are already laughing about you. If you can't hear the bad pitch, your ears are rotten. But you will continue to shout "Heil Tucker" no matter how bad he screws up. You are worse than a fanatic muslim.
Your comment about Swedish tenors (sigh) prove your disastrous state of mind. You are such a pathetic clown.
Melomondo 1 year ago
@Melomondo I have happily shared my life with my partner for a very long time and I love the infamous bit. Who am I infamous with just in passing. Tucker does correct his pitch asshole. The only people I'm fighting with are those morons who troll Tucker sites never posting any comments in support of an artist but all too willing to post comments that prove your ignorance concerning singers. Tucker was the greatest tenor in the world during his lifetime and the highest paid for what its worth.
gaytenor 1 year ago
I don't write many comments though I must admit this is beautiful. It brings a new appreciation to the arts.
yam1171 1 year ago
Moffo had such a strong, sweet voice and that's the reason why I have become a fan plus her natural beauty was breath-taking.
grenadian11 1 year ago
What a beautiful duet... Tucker and Moffo.....I was only 12 years old when I saw them singing together. ...Thank you for sharing this Gorgeous Duet ..
Tenorbravo 1 year ago
i love annas sound and even tho i am all about technique first i can't help but think of her as one of my favorite sopranos ever. tucker does as usual sound pretty horrible here.
bigus 1 year ago
The great Tucker and the gorgeous Moffo...what a beautiful duet and sung perfectly.
Operaddict 1 year ago 2
i agree that papoocanada is an imbecile but let's not encompass all Canadians in his realm of stupidity, i agree that there's nothing to do in Canada and we are fighting a losing fight but some Canadians (me) aren't complete quacks. While this can't be viewed as tucker's best performance it's still better then some of the versions of O Soave Fanciulla that i've heard. i'm commented on this before on a seperate song but tucker is the epitome of the spinto tenor and a top 3 tenor alltime
asalvoni1 1 year ago
@asalvoni1 I think Canada is a wonderful place actually and I certainly do not blame the people of Canada for the moron below. I had an aunt from Canada and I could have gotten married to my boyfriend in your country. His comments are ignorant and both churlish and disgusting. Your country is heaven for landscape photography.
gaytenor 1 year ago
He is dumb alright!
halavey 1 year ago
You in Canada are fighting a loosing battle and have nothing better to do then flame him whats the matter? Get a life you idiot. You would not know a rasp from a whisper you idiot.
halavey 1 year ago
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halavey 1 year ago
halavey: She probably forgot to iron her skirt or her boyfriend walked out. If my boyfriend was as dumb as this moron I'd leave REAL QUICK!
gaytenor 1 year ago
poor Mimì, not surprised she died after facing the bewigged toupeted fat Tucker's Rodolfo. Funny
papoocanada 1 year ago
What's the matter Mary been sitting on your ears. Did you lose your boyfriend or did the closet door stay open? Its been a long, long time since I have read such a disgusting trivial bunch of crap. Mimi was so enchanted by the richness, power, and beauty of Tucker's voice. You either have an agenda or your a tone deaf idiot. Go iron your skirt dear. Youi can try to insult me but I admit what I am.
gaytenor 1 year ago
over 700 times at the met alone and flat only once in all those shows that i heard-- at least 50 of them and you get to a TV show where he was off for a moment. funny how they pick on it because he was too good for Domingo and Corelli who sang at times like he composed the music. Any singer can be flamed. I suppose you all write for the new york times or the los angeles times so who cares what you all think of tucker anyhow. Gay tenor has ears he is not seated on them, others are. Enjoy Tucker
halavey 1 year ago
the B was fine once he brought it up quickly, much more important shows he gave in the house. this was not his best but better then domingo or corelli. try enjoying the good stuff instead of stirring up a pot of crap, flame corelli and domingo and gigli also why don't you. Poli was a mediocre Baritone by the way. many better.
halavey 1 year ago 3
HE WENT DOWN AND THEN HIT THE B off and corrected it quickly and it was a good B and he could have ended it down altogether but he did not and also try and find another live one where he sings at all flat-- you cannot because you are just trying to flame him with your constructive crap. Try lispy Corelli, flat more often, try Forza -- Solenne in Naples at the end-- way flatter then this and then look for another Tucker singing flat, you will not find it but you have the time , get a life.
halavey 1 year ago 3
Find the last Domingo broadcast of Boheme where he disrespected the score with the worse singing of the aria I've ever heard. The transposition that is used by some as excuse was okayed by PUCCINI for Caruso who cracked when he sang the aria for Puccini. Domingo is the modern reincarnation of Fernando DeLucia carrying his special versions of scores around with a semitone to tone downward transposition of everything. Is this respect for the composer. Get a life.
gaytenor 1 year ago 2
steveandien The actual date was born Aug. 28, 1913 and died jam 8 1975. He was 61.
halavey 1 year ago 2
tucker did not Always transpose as you say, NO LIVE in Ballo or as Calaf or in Lescaut or in Aida where in one 1966 Aida MET BRDCST. he hit a high C live interpolated, GREAT ONE Domingo is another thing he sang few high C's live if at all after NYC opera days in the 60's. Tucker sang fine high C's in all of the above and Studio 61 Boheme The ones above where live High C's and good ones at that. Ballo LIVE with Nilsson and Cruiz Romo, LESCAUT DUET WITH TEBALDI AND CALAF WITH NILSSON AND ROSS.
halavey 1 year ago 2
You said you never heard him sing "anything from Boheme in key " in 1961 he did the complete Boheme, you just did not bother to listen to it, next you will say it's studio, so what you said you never heard a thing in Key from Boheme, wrong. The Che gelida is in Key and well sung.
halavey 1 year ago
Poli-- Listen to 1961 Tucker in the complete Boheme on RCA original recording re-issued on CD's also. Moffo/Tucker/ Merrill/ Costa. His Che Gelida is in key with then high C. So he did sing it in key in 1961.
halavey 1 year ago
Thanks XP, for forwarding. Yes, it is terrible. I actually have never heard anything from La Bohème sung in key by Richard Tucker. He ALWAYS transposed. Yes, it's funny. Some people bash Domingo for transposing, but when Tucker does it, they are most pleased.
AfroPoli 2 years ago
@AfroPoli: Most tenors sing the aria down and there is a big difference between a great high B--Tucker--and a laughingstock--Domingo. Rodolfo was a central role in Tucker's repertoire last done on a broadcast in 1973. Why do you waste tour time flaming a great singer. Your crap is tiresome go listen to Gigli who recorded at a slower speed to fake a high c''. Reference: Opera on Records Il Trovatore.
gaytenor 1 year ago 3
Crap is when people like you call objective critique "flaming". You said about Gigli that his voice was too small for spinto roles, that he was screaming and that he faked high Cs. But critisizing Tucker, oh no... how could I. And most singers transposing does not excuse it. Many singers did not transpose. This high B is terrible. If you can't hear and accept it, there is something wrong with your ears.
AfroPoli 1 year ago
Unlike Tucker, Domingo had respect for Puccini's music and his colleagues. Appearently Tucker was not much of an artist. He transpones down for going for the high option and still gets flat. Very discrespectul!
XP11XP 1 year ago
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They are the BEST!!!!
Renfeildette 2 years ago
Pq vc desativou a incorporação???????
kopaitulzi 2 years ago
buen video.
anselgoya 2 years ago
Absolutely the ONLY time I've ever heard Tucker blow a high note (at the end of this duet). Otherwise, wonderful:).
stevevandien 2 years ago
AMAZING
Webarton 2 years ago
He had issues with breath support for more than a year after his heart attack, you can really hear it in his performances from the early 60s. By the mid 60s he was back in shape and singing better than ever. He didn't attack the B at the end very well and its flat at first but he does sing in pitch at the very end, not a big deal, the rest of the duet was great. There's actually no change in key at 1:28, just a break in the audio track, makes it sound like key has changed but not really.
GermanOperaSinger 2 years ago
this was 1962 not 1961. this was the year of his terrible heart attack he was 48 years old and almost died from the attack.
halavey 2 years ago
...che bel modo di cantare quello "antico"...
alefox980 2 years ago
in 1957 tucker sang Boheme with Kirsten at the met as was lyrically wonderful in it and it was brdcst. and he was a fine tenor for the role. It is on you tube at least the aria Che Gelida and is excellent, also the 1952 production was sung very well.
halavey 2 years ago
Tucker's last high note is terrible.
LordRandallFan 2 years ago
Ella es de las más grandes, sin duda. ¿Pero por qué esa obstinación de estropear sus grabaciones con la repugnante voz de Tucker? Para colmo de males, su aspecto tosco y senil es totalmente ajeno al personaje. Sólo Dios sabe por qué ese Tucker se hizo tan célebre.
DiomedesDioscuro 2 years ago
holy cow, was going up at the end ever a bad decision for Tucker. the rest is stupendous.
danielegreco1987 2 years ago
sorry olddeunkyu - maybe his age and looks are not ideal; but voice-wise? c'mon, he was tops.
dubitz11 2 years ago
I LOVE THEM BOTH.
Side note - if you listen carefully, at 1:28, you'll see the key changed to a lower key. STILL very good, regardless.
filipinotenor 2 years ago
All of my years of going to the old and new Met, Tucker NEVER disappointed. I always came away impressed and moved by his singing. I'm so grateful that we have many recordings of his beautiful voice.
organdude44 2 years ago
His early met. Boheme shows in the 50's where great at the met and his voice here sounds wonderful anyhow. try german opera singers post.
halavey 2 years ago
flat at the end.... I love love love Tuckers voice but perhaps it is not right for Boheme... I think it lacked finesse as well..... sorry tucker lovers.... I like him too.
olddeudynku 2 years ago
Greatness i hear in Tucker. greatness. Such passion. Moffo is good, too.
tenortobe 3 years ago
He sang Tosca (Puccini) in Vienna and got 14 curtain calls and that was in 1958 4 years before this. could you do that?
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
His early Boheme and any MANON LESCAUT PUT HIM AHEAD OF AHEAD MOST OTHERS. HE WAS A GREAT PUCCINI SINGER AND IS 48 HERE NOT 32. His voice was a big Spinto, ever heard Corelli do it? NOBODY SANG LESCAUT BETTER NOT EVEN JUSSI BJORLING AND HE HAD A VERY BIG VOICE-in the house. WHY POST COMMENTS IF YOU DON'T like him? I just don't bother much with singers I dislike . He has many fans and he will be immortal no matter what anyone says.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago 2
I heard him in recital three times.. and he was awesome, and I was prepared not to like him, as many of his recordings were souped up with reverb and echo.. and it was hard to get a handle on his real voice.. well live his real voice was quite large and very lovely.. he was quite musical too and possessed a lovely ppp..(not heard much on his recordings).
kgarmaker123 2 years ago
Shorter? and Gigli and Tagliavini was shorter then him so what. He would not wear heels she did.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
the lines here from "in te ravviso" to "le dolcezze streme" is perhaps, in my opinion, the best i've ever heard. such power and perfection!
OettingerCroat 3 years ago
Is it a shouting contest?
quis178 3 years ago 7
He can't help it if his voice is large. Idiot. You're obviously no singer as you have no idea that undersinging is just as dangerous, if not more, than oversinging.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago
Puccini's music doesn't deserve to be massacred this way.He should have stucked to verisimo because the total lack of shading and refinement of his singing is a huge poblem in Puccini repertoire.
quis178 3 years ago
@quis178 ahhahaha, funny!
kkm3000 1 year ago
try Bjoerling and Tebaldi
All you bitches need to realise that they all have given their lives, literally, for their art,
love it and enjoy what each of them have to give.
magic happens.
flyboytim 3 years ago 2
GREAT VOICE HE HAD
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
He's shorter than her.... :/
flouraki 3 years ago
You see. Therefore your mom is telling you to eat all of you food, isn't she? :)
Aetion 3 years ago
I sort of don't know what to say. I'm torn between being further amazed at just how often Moffo shines in recording, and being heartily amused at Tucker's final high note!
33blueberries 3 years ago
happy to say the sick demented jerrodo4330 was banned from you tube his kind of scum needed to be removed as i have never heard such slop in my life.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
I heard her before and after and did not notice any change, her prime was short lived, after early 60'S her recording of trav with tucker/merriull in 60 was very fine then in 66 a movie of it with franco B--not as good.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
She didnt have her nose job here yet, I wonder if her nose job changed her timbre...
daphnebeloved 3 years ago
Muy lindo, salvo por el gesto de sufrimiento y terror de la soprano, distante del sentido de este aria.
coreTenore 3 years ago
Try listening to tucker do it in the 1947 Boheme recording on Columbia CD with Sayo when he was 33 years old and a more lyric tenor it is superb singing. He was a great tenor then in this role along with pav. and jussi.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
i watched this opera in london last week. best one ive ever seen
jamspice11 3 years ago
they don't sell is one reason it seems
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Does anyone know why certain videos become unavailable?
gmitch06 3 years ago
I heard him often and in Verismo roles he was the best, Pavoratti could never sing well what Tucker did, the big power house roles like Chiener and Aida, plus Boccenegra, Don Carlo, Turandot and Forza when Pav. did these but had poor reviews since he was not a Spinto but really a lyric much like Bjorling who was smart and never sang Calaf or Forza on stage live with his smaller voice, Tucker was the king and in 1962 Time said the best tenor in the world, Newsweek when he died said the same
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
I was fortunate to hear Tucker sing this role at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in 1963. It was very good but my favorite still is Pavorotti and Mirella Freni, heavenly.
jgreeley04 3 years ago 2
I agree. Especially singing this aria.
Gordrees 3 years ago
I agree as well, Pavarotti and Freni's 'La Boheme' is yet to be equalled.
Mooorhe 3 years ago
Hmm, have you heard the Beecham?
33blueberries 3 years ago
un placer oir a estos dos grandes
gracias
larunru 3 years ago
Moffo's addict for ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Voix originale qui porte la gaieté dans son timbre.
mariasarda 3 years ago
LUKE BRAINARD....
"Now probably one of you "fans" will attack me."
Not unless you say PLEASE.
AnotherGoddess 3 years ago
I find almost all of these comments objectionable and a good reason to disallow comments on videos. To argue like this over singing shows that most of you do not have art in your souls. This kind of "fan bickering" shows my many people in the arts cannot stand the "fan" mentality. Now probably one of you "fans" will attack me. Trying buying a punching bag for your frustrations.
lukebrainard2006 3 years ago 9
STILL A NICE POST, MOST ENJOYABLE.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Yes he stood on a stair, so what his voice was bigger laying on his back anyhow, how well do you sing?
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
What makes you think he jumped up on a box, he was five foot seven and never wore shoes to make him taller, they simply slant the stage for a shorter person and he stands back, who cares about height he wiped her out and lasted longer vocally. Bergonzi was shorter and so was Tagliavini, Gigli was five four, Schmidt was four eleven, who cares? She sounded lousy later on and never was in the Tebaldi class at all, not even close or for that matter Callas, just a pretty voice, little insight.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Yup, it's true. A beautiful performance with a bad high note. You hit the nail on the head. One or two bad things don't make it a bad performance. Like him jumping up on a box a couple of times to be taller than Anna doesn't make it a bad performance. NOW, FINALLY you've got it. Thank goodness.
And did you write "Screw You? How quaint. How intelligent. How profound. What a great response. Your inner beauty shined through on that one. Keep up the good work.
AnotherGoddess 3 years ago
Now it's a beautiful performance, before it was a bad high note, screw you.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Now it's a beautiful performance, before it was a bad high note, screw you.
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Excuse me, I just realized I didn't spell a word right. It's semitic and anti-semitic. Whoops. Wouldn't want to call you something you're not.
AnotherGoddess 3 years ago
Oh, shame on yu, dear pearlmuth. You've gone and taken a lovely performance by a great tenor, and turned it into a semetic/anti-semetic litigation. Ruby would have been seriously ashamed of you.
I have no idea how you managed to do it, though it happened right before my very eyes, but somehow you did. All by yourself, surely no help from any of the comments I've read or posted. It's kind of a one-person rant. Interesting to see, but it makes me say "oh, what are you doing, you silly person?"
AnotherGoddess 3 years ago
THANKS MADISON, WELL THEY ARE NOT JEWS I AM SURE BUT YOU ARE CORRECT -THEY ARE ASS HOLES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS RT WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND A WONDERFUL MAN, ( I am not related to Jan Peerce as some think but knew him from working in Radio) HAVE A NICE DAY, THANKS MADISON ELECTRONIC
pearlmuth3 3 years ago
Good Grief!!! I'm soooooooooooo glad I checked in here to see what the happenings were, and WOW, look at Mr. Madison Electronic!!! Where did THAT come from?? Talk about "out of left field".
Anyhow, PEARMUTH, I think that it's hysterical when you say that with people like me your life will be shorter. Holy Moly, that's putting a little MUCH into a Youtube comment, doncha think? Sorry for the 3 week delay. I've been busy.
AnotherGoddess 3 years ago
Why do not you all shut the fuck up about the great Reuben Ticker Who sang for charity many more times than he sang for money. Idiot bastards! If you are Jews you are disgracing your faith and you others are just pure assholes.
madisonelectronic 3 years ago
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Thank you for the beautiful music.
budwoodjr
budwoodjr 4 years ago 2
goddess or devil, whatever I am sure you will check back in a couple of days, so you have no life maybe. The last High B was fine for a 48 year old man with a great voice. He lasted a lot longer then Moffo vocally and had a bigger name, was a bigger star and lived a respected life, plus the Italians in Italy loved him when he sang in that country. Check the reviews.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
What kind of Goddess, I told you before only his relatives and close friends called him Ruby, you have no respect, with people like you maybe my life (as you put it) will be shorter, happy now, your no friend Of Richard and surely not related.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
WOW, PEARLMUTH you're still writing to me!! I came in here to let a friend here Ruby's last note and was really surprised to see a message start Listen Another Goddess. Good Grief, don't you have a life????
AnotherGoddess 4 years ago
Samurai, You where listed as 39 years old but if you are a lady I understand taking off years otherwise you where 8 when he died.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
A comment was made here last month that he transposed down the last note to B, very common in this duet. Listen to the you tube of Bjoerling and Tebaldi from 1956, same duet and Jussi was a few years younger (45) then this 1962 version when Tucker was 48. Bjoerling also put it down to a B since many do here, especially when older.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Listen Another Goddess-- if they insult this great man then the hell with them, let them not bother with his site but if they open up a stupid mouth I am here to tell them to go to hell and intend just that. Nobody tells me what to do, not even you.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Yes it was and I am glad you have guts to tell it like it was. Some stupid jerk just posted a comment about his Pag. from 1970 and said the voice was small! The guy was 11 when RT sang pag! He never heard it. I heard him do it in 73' Met. (with Corelli in Cav) and his voice was bigger that day then Corelli and I was in the same seat for both!
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
cant do with all this bitching, tuckers top c to my mind was brilliant, for people that dont like it DONT LISTEN
tez601 4 years ago
Samurai, sad you never heard him but you where 7 years old when he died, he was the greatest true Spinto I ever heard. End of story, forget looks, not important. Pav. was not great looking either and was great anyhow.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
I saw Tucker live several times and am a big fan. I have many of his recordings. I am not as young as you might think.
Samurai9 4 years ago 3
Tucker sang High C's even two years before he died at age 59, checkout the pod cast of the ballo duet in 1973 with Cruiz Romo. at the end you will hear a high C, ALSO CHECK OUT THE SAME DUET FROM A BRDCST IN 63' WITH NILSSON and he does it again with power to match hers, Both LIVE. He chose to sing a B here like so many others (Bjoerling in same duet, 1956 with Tebaldi, also a B and JB was younger then RT then,45 years old versus 48 for Tucker
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Samurai he was five foot seven but his voice was six feet tall. Gigli was five four, Bergonzi five six and Tagliavini was five three.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Listen you both are idiots, learn how to spell, his wife was Peerce's sister, Perelmuth stupid. Jerodo loves to post crap about tucker on every tucker post. They loved him down in that opera house and he did not come cheap. You guys who hate him are old and senile.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Tucker's last note is the worst I have ever heard from him.
Samurai9 4 years ago 4
One of the greatest of all 'Italian Opera' singers. I prefer his voice than most of the contemporary tenors. Thanks for posting.
stephenTGV 4 years ago
Anyhow, you come off as very unfriendly and a bit of a "know it all", so cool it and relax. If people are coming in here it's not to get insulted.
AnotherGoddess 4 years ago
MAYBE YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH his SINGING, perhaps his backround
HA HA HA HA...this is so typical. If you don't care for somebody, they start screaming RACIST. I don't think poor Jerodo knows anything about his "background". You, however, are obviously some relation. Especially with a moniker like Pearmuth, which, according to Wik... was his wife's maiden name.
AnotherGoddess 4 years ago
However in Jussi's 56 Boheme recording he did sing the C as it was Studio and it was wonderful but in a 1949 Standard hour Radio show in "Che Gelida" he hit a high C for 9 sec. that IMO puts Pav. and Kraus behind him, what a lyric spinto he was!
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
The B would have been down for even Bjoerling in his mid 40's and Tucker here was 48. Jussi was a terrific High C tenor but after early 1950's he sang it as a B also. Producers show case with Tebaldi is a high B in 1956, he was 45, younger then Tucker who sang a high C during a met Aida brdcst in 66, interpolated, he was 52! Cheers
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Moffo had a beautiful voice that did not last in prime shape after the mid 60's perhaps her heavier roles but her trav. recording in 60 is terrific. She recorded Juive hilites in 74 with Tucker and the top was thin by then. She always sounded much the same no matter and had to Compete with singers who had more in the character.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago