Ivan Kozlovsky -- Crazy Highnotes

Russian tenor Ivan Kozlovsky sings "Ecco ridente" from Il Barbiere di Seviglia by Gioacchino Rossini on Russian radio in 1943.

He does some crazy cadenzas with nearly unnatural high-notes.

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[Revener666]

Wonder why people have to bash a singer when he do something different for fun.

If you listen to the version of this aria from the full length recording of the opera he did, he sings it more normally.

Besides wouldn't it be boring if everyone sang everything the same way and perfect :P

[JCLAWS]

your fach is determined a lot by where your voice sits comfortably and your timbre. Juan Diego Florez is really a very light lyric tenor, who ever was saying he is anything but is smoking something.

[LubaGawur]

He is not Russian, but rather Ukrainian.

[singwrite]

While all of his florid passages are not accurate in this recording, he is a unique singer, easily identifiable. And do we always want machine-like accuracy? His Eugene Onegin arias are to die for, where he phrases perfectly, using consonants and vowels to pull all the emotion he can from the words. The Russians overworked him, which might have been detrimental to his voice later on. The overall effect in nearly everything he sings is an emotional one.

But, if this is a vocal calling card?

[Fairpavel]

@thintieguy1 His "act" was very tasteful. It was pure fun in a very technical piece. If Rossini had had him, we could have expected interesting things.

[makemeeasy]

хохлы сдурели совсем. причем тут ukrainian или какая бы то ни было национальная принадлежность? Козловский родился в Малороссии, когда никих украин и в помине не было. Ополоумели там совсем на почве национальной идентификации.

[MsOKZS]

to primobaritono

the only problem with your video is that Ivan Kozlovsky was Ukrainian not Russian. It is big difference.

[thintieguy1]

A bit too much of a circus act than a musical performance - granted he had a great technique to connect to his voce finta and had the ability to growl out his low G in one phrase, but so what if the overall affect is unattractive? If the basic color of a singer's voice makes you swoon, like a Domingo, for example, what care I if the range is not so jaw-droppingly huge?

[RedWhiteGreenBandit]

that climb down and up at the end is mind blowing, never heard such a thing before 

[IPTuner]

he's not russian tenor. he's ukrainian tenor. he just worked in russia.

[5nick3r5]

@grig035 Apologies, that was a typo. Meant to say "Lyric and Leggiero".