Canale di XPRT10R

Isn'it is "ONE more kiss" and not "JUST one kiss"??

IL EST BEAU MAIS IL EST NUL!

Che bella Contessa!

Well the final top note shouuld be a B natural but she sings an Ab. Plus it is a Tenor's aria. I wonder: why is she singing it? why not something else more suitable to her as a girl, a child and to her vocally?! Also it is "Guardi le stelle che TREMANO d'amore..." NOT "TROMBANO" which in italian ...

@reduxmisc He IS a Baritone who poses as tenor. Just being able to sing in that register and having (or "hitting" as some heatens would say) the high notes does not a tenor make. Just like being able to reach low notes wouldnt make a tenor into a baritone or a bass, even though some tenors often...

@ferrykalos Yes it was. Scala 1970 Gavazzeni conductiong. Arrigo was Gianni Raimondi

It's down a semi-tone!

JAH VEAH VEVRE??? great french!

She was supposed to record it for EMI as well. Unfortunately because of Angela Gheorghiu she didnt. As well as all the other contracts she had lined up that she was usurped of in favour of the other romanian soprano

FANTASTIC SINGING

Say what you will, but as so few tenors actually sing this sort of repertoire nowadays, comparisons are unavoidable. Of course eveyone is different and thank god for that. But It doesnt mean one can make an assesment based on actual merits. For my money, though less experienced and a little lacki...

@gilgameshdue I agree. Anyway I never said she couldn't speak italian. On the contrary she did and very well. My comment was more an observation on how her italian was better in '52 (from interviews) when she was still married to Meneghini and was in Italy much more. I guess later it got a little...

Damn it is a bitch of an aria! And the GRATIAS AGIMUS TIBI as well!

Only did the piece ONCE and it nearly killed me!

This whole perfomance was so exciting and a WONDER of vocal and dramatic splendour from everyone in the cast. Bergonzi in glorious form, Zanasi a passionate and vocally magnificent Renato of rare interpretation. And Leyla, as sezgin86 points out is absolutely in her vocal prime. Both her arias ar...

Great singing. Especially of this aria! So damn hard

@sezgin86 ehmmm no. Leyla sang Leonora (Trovatore) for the 1st time in 1957. It is a LIVE recording. Meaning it was done in a studfo but for live broadcast, the recording of which was later used for one of the early RAI TV (televison) experiments of opera videos. A filmed version of the opera sin...

@RaWrZzZz I am with you on that one! I loved that costume and they looked great in it. But Claire complained it made her look like Minnie Mouse and Becky thought it tootight for the VERY quick change in the staircase before the Sitzprober scene. Never liked the final costume. Pink and blue. Wors...

The photo is from Leyla Gencer's Biography "Storia vera di una Primadonna" taken in Bilbao after a performance of Ernani.

@yonyue I have an audio tape of their performance(s) together! :))))

Love it. And I love Christophe Rousset terse, clean, sharp conducting!

I remember walking into the rehearsal stage at ROH one early afternoon and "this woman" unknown to me then, was rehearsing this aria with piano and conductor... I was immediately blown away! Her voice had such gleaming spin, total technical control and it was ringing and buzzing with amzing head-...

Great vocie for this role! Right timbre, weight and colour. Unlike the ususal white sound tenorini or short-top Mezzi.-Tenori that normally tackle Clemenza

Finally the right kind of voice for Tito!

hell no: i recognize AND ackowledge REAL talent when I see it. It was witty and spot on and made me laugh outloud! Havent changed my mind about "you-know-who" though. I really do find it hard to listen to. "De Gustibus...non ass-talking est"! :)))

@sezgin86 Yes you are right this is the Venice/Fenice '68 performance. You can tell coz (aside fron the more dramatic sound, as you point out) she doesnt sing the Db at the end. She does in all her other Macbeths available on pirate recordings

@andigrim007 Yes, yr right though I wasnt thinking of imitation of singing techinique ( healthy when done properly) but of imitation of timbre and sound. (Not always a healthy option)

@lamusicahera You are right. In her biography it is actually written how all thru this production Leyla had tracheatis and was below-par especially on opening night which when this radio broadcast took place I think. As a result it took some of the shimmer and spin at the very top of the voice as...

I love it and I always loved her but the tempo is a bit turgid here getting slower and slower when it should gain in urgency and NO trill... Shame! But certainly the right voice for the role and wonderful singing.

@jeanmolin55 Il ruolo di Germont non è da Tenore, ma da Baritono. Capisco che in questo caso sia difficile capire che voce sia questo particolare cantante, comunque...

@tommkappa SAD BUT TRUE... sigh..