100 Greatest Singers: GIUSEPPE DE LUCA

THIS PROJECT IS RESERVED ONLY FOR THE GREATEST! What do you think about choosing de Luca? Please comment!

Giuseppe de Luca, Baritone (1876-1950)

Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata
Di provenza il mar
(Recorded 1929)

My personal opinion: Battistini once signed him an autograph "with great admiration for my friend Giuseppe de Luca" - A great singer don´t need many words. Just listen de Luca and you know why! All I can say about his recording is: Marvelous! De Luca saved the old belcanto school into the 20th century.

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[MALIBRAN119]

Assez de mensonge Guearti n'a jamais chanté avec personne on dans pale dans aucune biographie dont celle de De Lucca qui est une des plus détaillée. Amis de la toile une devise a retenir Guearti= escroquerie. De Lucca c'est un très grand baryton qui venait encore du belcanto par rapport a des Ruffo, Gallefi déjà plus vériste. les remarques sur le positionnement de la voix dénote une méconnaissance totale de la voix. Il faut dire que Guearti n'a chanté que dans sa salle de bain

[meltzerboy]

What a great artist De Luca was, worthy of any list of great singers! Perhaps his voice was not as stentorian as Ruffo's or Stracciari's,

but his bel canto style, phrasing, technique, and vocal color are impeccable.

[MrSkylark1]

The ART of SINGING. De Luca's artistry, beautiful tone quality and Chiaroscuro are all symbolic of the Golden Era which cannot be heard on any operatic stage .

[jucameron]

Toscanini said of De Luca, "He is absolutely the best baritone I ever heard." Certainly at his best his voice possessed exceptional beauty of tone in the middle register and he was a master of lyric, smooth-toned legato singing.

[DismalFellow]

splendid. doesn't take it too fast like the modern recordings.

[numetutelare]

@meltzerboy Che legato, che mezzevoci, una voce non potentissima che riesce a "correre" così, ha un supporto tecnico strepitoso... Chapeau a De Luca

[numetutelare]

Che legato, che mezzevoci, una voce non potentissima che riesce a "correre" così, ha un supporto tecnico strepitoso... Chapeau a De Luca

[AGOSTINO1943]

Quale voce è così sublime ed intensa nella sua espressione ed estenzione da meritare l'appellativo di "DIVINA"! Solo quella di Giuseppe De Luca.

[tenorvoicefan]

Bel Canto pur - zum dahinschmelzen. Ich kann es einfach nicht oft genug hören. Was müssen das für Riesen gewesen sein, mit einer Technik und einem Training wie es heute nicht mehr üblich ist.

Was ich einesteils ungeheur bedauere, andererseits weiß ich daß in unserer schnellebigen Zeit eine solche Ausbildung kaum noch machbar ist.

Jedenfalls bewundere ich viele der großen Bel Canto Sänger maßlos.

[blktenor]

I feel like I'm floating on smooth seas listening to him.

[keenaussie]

What an intelligent comment from cantormatis....thank you for your sensitivity and decency. This site is a treasure trove for lovers of the vocal art, sadly marred by the many fatuous and ignorant comments, even vitriol, so often heaped on worthy artists and decent human beings.