Sesto Bruscantini "Il Catalogo" Don Giovanni

(C) RAI 1960

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Opera
• Mozart
• Don
• Giovanni
• Leporello
• Sesto
• Bruscantini

[qwosters]

un gigante, che stile, madonna, che grande!

[fairlytaleofnewyork]

Probably the best Leporello I have ever seen.

Diction, Expression and acting, just incredible!

[frtrpp]

il più grande basso-baritono brillante in tutti i repertori dal 700 al 900, nonché eccellente baritono tout court. Un fraseggiatore senza pari, che andrebbe ascoltato da ogni cantante d'opera sotto qualunque cielo e di qualunque registro per capire cosa sia davvero il recitar cantando.

[fbbomber]

il più grande di tutti i Leporello, canto tecnica, fraseggio inimitabili

[TheSnorkelbuddy]

I love his facial expressions! He's just owning it up. :3

[yusukeundisolde]

bravo!!

thank you very much!

[thesir27]

Is this a movie version? interesting...

[CzarDodon]

@wattever333 "Gentlemanly reading" is another way of saying good-mannered interpretation, it's pretentious only if your vocabulary is poor. Bruscantini's reading needs to be seen in context: this is 1960, don't expect extra layers of interpretation. If straight forward is bland for you that's your problem. These historical Rai films are severely limited technically, limitations visible in all Rai opera films of this period, understand context before criticizing.

[wattever333]

@CzarDodon take a course in relevance. everything you said is either untrue or irrelevant. and you haven't demonstrated any point you tried to make, you just declared things with pretentious words such as "gentlemanly reading". UUUUU!

And a good actress's reaction to her partner's bad acting is not proof that his acting is good. It's just proof that she can react to what is supposed to come through in the guy's performance.

But then again it might be the director who told him to be bland.

[CzarDodon]

@wattever333 UUU who doesn't like being contradicted? even resorts to name calling! I was just illustrating how Bruscantini's Leporello's relation to Donna Ellvira is that he feels sorry for her and even embarrassed, but in the end she should face reality. Nothing irrelevant in this as it is an interpretation that is BASED on the TEXT and MUSIC, it's a very gentlemanly reading and it dates from 1960, Elvira's statuesque stunned pose also confirms this. Take a course in anger management.

[wattever333]

I've seen many performances of this aria, and I've studied it and analyzed it, and mentioning the flutes detail does not summarize the whole aria, and your translation of the words in the middle of the aria is irrelevant to the discussion (shall I translate them in 20 languages to make myself look connaisseur?), I didn't say I didn't like the text.

saying "how great Mozart was" in a response to a criticism of a PERFORMANCE is pure demagogy and an empty, irrelevant (non-) argument.

[wattever333]

@CzarDodon I didn't say Mozart got it wrong. I said this singer (I did not say the character) has no clear direction, he's running on vagueness and indecision (I did not say ambiguity). I didn't talk about how it is in the score, I was talking about what we see in this video. Yes, he retreats, but with a big smile, the same bland smile he has throughout. And I'm not talking just about the last sentence but the whole aria.