Belcanto - The Tenors of the 78 Era -- Episode 9 Gigli

Music Documentary Series / 13 x 30 min / 1996
The great tenors of the early to mid-twentieth century are introduced and analyzed in a 13-part television series. Each episode has both a biographical and a musical focus. Every tenor's particular art and style is demonstrated in remarkable archive footage which was digitally scanned and its speed and pitch corrected; much of this footage is from private collections or long-lost films and is shown here for the first time.
Directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre
Produced by PARS MEDIA
Co-Produced by BR, NDR, ORB, SDR, SFB, SR, SWF, and WDR
Supported by FFF and MAP-TV
Prizes at the Columbus International Film Festival and at Classique en images
WWW.PARSMEDIA.COM

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Film & Animation

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• Bel
• canto
• singers
• Beniamino
• Gigli
• PARS
• MEDIA
• Schmidt-Garre
• tenor
• Kesting
• classical
• music
• documentary

[paulostroff99]

Gigli-A more than worthy successor to Caruso.

[SENAFOREVER]

Celletti's comment is really stupid.

[operataste]

@martpast1 Also: both Gigli and Pavarotti became too much fat. This disrupts the perfect breath, the perfect moviment of the belly. If someone thinks that all singer is fat and it should be good for the singer, is completely wrong. To be fat is a problem in several aspects (health, muscle tone, etc.). Does the person gets diabetic, have gastric reflux (which is hugely damaging to the voice). Singers: maintain the correct weight!

[operataste]

@martpast1 To sing is not to use only the throat, but all the body. Probably they use to lift the shoulders to relax the diaphragm/belly. It is very important that, after every phrase (at the time the singer goes to breath) to relax TOTALLY the diaphragm, only this way the singer can support more time, singing. Otherwise the belly goes getting tense, hard.

But for Gigli, and the others, it is automatic. After years learning, they internalize the moviment, in an automatic way. I guess so.

[martpast1]

@operataste why does he lift his shoulders when breathing? do u remember that teachers and books say to breath with the lower part of diaphragma and not upper lungs? same Pavarotti breaths

[martpast1]

@paulostroff99 why he (and Pavarotti) lifts his shoulders when taking a breath ?

[Cantormatis]

Stefan Zucker is absolutely correct- Gigli could sob without disturbing the line.

[cleanears]

Magnificent!!!!!!

[Webarton]

Beautiful sound. Amazing voice.

But just to clarify, this sob that they are discussing, this is simply muscle. You are closing the sound with muscle, it is actually not good to do, but many singers get away with it.

[Aetion]

A lyric voice to dream with. Thank you for this so interesting video.