Kenneth Tarver - O Fiamma- La Donna del Lago
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@Randidan. Florez would be very uncomfortable singing Fra Diavolo-it is he who is lacking in the lower register. Have you even looked at the score of Fra Diavolo to realise the tessitura and nature of the writing? Florez' voice, while a miracle of nature, is virtually non-existant below an F (the very reason he excels at the sopra-acuti). Much of Fra Diavolo sits on F and below, with sudden jumps into the stratosphere.
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@Randidan 75 is pretty damn old. Personally I'm a lot younger - I'm only 69 this week.
Domingo is almost exactly two years older than I am. I learned this when my girl friend confessed that she was sleeping with him. She was a beauty contest winner in the opera chorus. This was 30+ years ago. She's in the SF Opera chorus movie.
Do you really think practice works? I wonder. I still can't sing the Messiah after decades of practice. I have another theory.
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@Agorante I guess it's just that I've never taken Araiza seriously as a bel canto tenor. Wonderful lyric with a gorgeous voice but not in the first rank of bel canto singers... Yes, even Vargas didn't always have those lowest notes for those roles.
As to singing the passagework well; practice! (& good luck!) I just wish I still had my voice! ...but at 75, I suppose I couldn't expect much... even Domingo is becoming a baritone [ha!]
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@Randidan I take it you don't like Araiza's asperated approach to fioratura. Some people also don't like Bartolli for the same reason. The remark about low notes I presume refers to the Nozzari roles in which Merritt specialized.
I just wish I could sing scale passages half as well as Ariaza. I'm not worried about my low notes.
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@TifosoBonisolli The same for his take on Fra Diavolo... I think Florez would easily win here.
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@Agorante Araiza actually wasn't a very good Rossini tenor, lacking in the fioriture frequently and, like Tarver, also lacking in the lower register. A better rendition of this is on Vargas' early CD on Claves... along with some other Rossini jewels and the best "Angelo casto e bel" I've ever heard -- even his later version of it isn't as good! I guess it's not quite a fair comparison since Tarver is live, Vargas in the studio, but Ramon's ease of production wins the day...
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Excellent voice ,very good technique !! Bravo, Kenneth !!!
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He is a very good singer!!!!!!!!
BeniaminoGigli 2 years ago 10
Everyone seems to be enthused over Brownlee. Brownlee sounds very, very good most of the time but seems to be developing a wobble lately. I first noticed Tarver on the Haitink Falstaff recording that I was comparing with the Von Karajan-Taddei-Araiza performance. To my surprise Tarver sang better than Araiza. He also looked good on stage and moved well. People are saying Brownlee is better than Florez but of course Florez looks much better on stage. Tarver may be the best of the three.
Agorante 6 months ago 8