Neil Shicoff - Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Kleinzach aria

Neil Shicoff sings, "Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach" from Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann.

Salzburg, 2003.

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• gabba01
• tenor
• aria
• opera
• Offenbach
• Contes
• Hoffmann
• Shicoff

[soganzallein]

Thank you for sharing this! A wonderful performance, artistically and dramatically! Niel is always great!

[pearlmuth3]

You need to see and hear his early version from 82' in Italy with Malfitano, if you prefer a faster more traditional tempo, his voice was more lyric then and it was in wonderful sound. Really amazing singing, Hard to get it now, also he did a terrific Romeo in Paris the same year, yes also on VHS and had by many. Hard to get now but worth it. The Met Hoffman he did on PBS in 88 is a favorite of mine for acting and singing but hard to find.

[QueenBoadicea]

@pearlmuth3 I may have seen that. Once I heard him sing and saw him act at the Met, I made a point of catching him in anything and everything. He had this passionate intensity that made him mesmerizing; you simply couldn't take your eyes off him when he was on stage. Thank you for uploading this.

[mrantiquedealer]

I'll take Gedda anyday in this role! This is just a pushed out of focus voice...

[vilabreze]

Nei Shicoff is a very dramatic Hoffmann here, gripping performance, and a fantastic voice.

[pearlmuth3]

It was never put out on DVD lucky I video taped it that night.

[Dudewoah2]

The 1988 Hoffmann from the Met was never put on a commercial tape, although there was a general idea that it had been and then withdrawn. I had all the Opera News Magazines from that time and after, and never saw an ad for that Hoffmann. I've waited for it to be put on DVD, but so far Mr. Gelb, despite his promise to give us the DVDs of the operas he had allowed to be seen in theaters has not yet come through with them.

[pearlmuth3]

HE IS 54 YEARS OLD HERE, CHECK OUT HIS EARLIER LIVE ONES IN THE ROLE BEFORE YOU COMPARE TO ANYONE. HE ALSO MADE A GREAT RECORDING OF IT WITH THE CUTS REMOVED IN THE 80's.

[pearlmuth3]

OK the Bass in the 1982 Hoffman with Shicoff is Bruscantini, Malfitano,Zilio and it is at Teantro Comunale, Firenze Italy, Brigitte Fassbaender is Guilletta, Arleen Auger, olympia, Antonia is Malfitano and Almeida cond.

[pearlmuth3]

yes it is 1982 Italy and I don't think it is available nor is his great one with James Morris, bass from the met on PBS in 1988 both where terrific and he was fantastic in the 1982 with Malfitano but the Italian staging was not as good as the metropolitan one in 88 with Morris and Tryaonos and Gwendlyn  bradley, I will post tomorrow the 82 cast but will be hard to get, I do have it in poor video but fine sound and I love it, Check Premiere opera list he may have it he was fantastic with her

[Rahela83]

I didn't know there is a verion with Malfitano! Must be great. Do you think I can find it somewhere?

I was wondering... who sings the villain in this recording?

[pearlmuth3]

CHECK OUT premiere opera for many live ones.