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Sherrill Milnes sings the Prologue from Pagliacci

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Uploaded by on Jul 6, 2007

Baritone Sherrill Milnes sings the Prologue (Si può?) from Pagliacci by Leoncavallo.

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  • @Operaddict Why is this "painful"? You are insufferable.

  • I do have to agree that this is not Milnes at his best. There are too many moments of flatness(though I repeat he is not the first singer to sing flat and never will be) and his G left a lot to be desired. However, I don't agree that this performance was painful, his entrance was brilliant, his A flat was above-acceptable and I have never known Milnes to stand-there-and-sing in any of his performances and it is not the case here. But the 1978 performance at the Met is far better.

  • This is not the best example by which to judge Milnes. But IMHO nobody came close to Warren with this.

  • 4:27 "MAH-OH-OO-do"

    Captain Hook!

  • @AUDIOPHlLE You are right. Milnes did not last long. I heard his Scarpia in the early 1990s. He was awful already then. Di Stefano never sounded that bad, actually.

  • went on a little to long. A shame.

  • @optiph1 You're completely wrong. Di Stefano is another example of the exact same thing that happened to Milnes. With a horrible technique the best lyric tenor voice around was ruined in less than 15 years. Singers with solid techniques can sing well into their 60s and 70s no problem though this kind of integrity is rare and obviously Milnes never had it. Perhaps if he had he wouldn't of sounded like a hack here.

  • @AUDIOPHlLE I'm not saying his technique is the best ever, I'm saying you have to have good technique to even be as good as he was at his prime. People with poor technique DO NOT sound as good as he did.

  • @optiph1 How am I wrong? If he had a good technique his voice would of lasted a hell of a lot longer than it did. The fact that he's as awful as he is here proves it.

  • "Milnes just had poor technique."

    Wow. I don't even know what to say to you...except that you're wrong.

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