Neil Shicoff / Margaret Price - Io vengo a domandar (duet)

Thanks to pearlmuth3 who sent the recording and requested the upload.

1989 performance (or am I wrong?). Cast is announced. This was Shicoff prime, in great voice. One of the best I've heard.

Price is fantastic here too, though this role is not an ideal for her voice.

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[silvr94]

Would you mind writing "I THINK (!!!) that her voice doesn't suit the role" in the info box??? That's your opinion, not a fact. Price sang this role countless times. I doubt Levine would have her sing it at the MET if he thought the role weren't ideal for her voice - he's an expert after all.

[GermanOperaSinger]

@silvr94 It is my opinion, she was spectacular in Mozart, where she outshone all others of her time. I simply prefer her in the aforementioned repertoire to her in Verdi. Doesn't mean she's bad - there are countless sopranos who sang this role much worse.

[pearlmuth3]

Interesting he originally studied to be a Cantor like his very famous tenor father who was a well known Cantor in NY but after sometime at hebrew union college he went for opera instead, sounds like the movie the Jazz singer. Glad he went opera. His father had a fine voice and so did his grandfather, both Cantors so like with Bjorling it was inherited.

[GermanOperaSinger]

INteresting, never knew he was Jewish, and his father a cantor.

[Dudewoah2]

This is just a hair raising scena. It gives me goosebumps to hear it however many times. Thank you for putting it on. I have it, but I wish it was on DVD rather than a cassette tape. After Hoffmann, I always thought this was his finest role, including La Juive, which has its moments but isn't a compelling an opera throughout. Oh, Lord, for a video of any of his Carlos that wasn't taken from the peanut gallery by a palsied pirate!

[pearlmuth3]

I taped the entire performance on radio and he was great from the start to the end.

[paulostroff99]

@GermanOperaSinger -There are and were loads of both male and female famous Jewish opera singers.Wikipedia it if interest is there.Tucker,Schmidt,Merrill,P­eerce,Tauber,Shicoff, to name just a few of the more famous male members.

[SHICOFF1]

I heard JB sing it live back in 1950 on Sirius Radio recently, opening the 1950 met. season and he did a Fine job, the sometimes fast Vibrato on top was not evident and his singing was really flawless. Neil is wonderful here- really great but his 1986 San Francisco performances that opened the season sung in original French was very fine also.

[SHICOFF1]

Of course I mean he sang Lenski in Eugen Onegin not Onegin .

[SHICOFF1]

They make stuff up about Peerce and Tucker as well as Neil and most of them never even heard him in house Peerce especially seemed to record in the 50's with RCA using poor sound with his voice (not nasal) which I heard in 1958 and about a dozen more times in the 60's and 70's liv. Tucker's voice was much larger live sounding then on records and Pav , Bergonzi and Jussi where less powerful live of course being more in the lyric mold than Tucker who had Corelli and De Monaco power on top notes.

[gaytenor]

@SHICOFF1 Why is it that when American tenors are flamed the word nasal comes up so often? From hearing Peerce in concert I know he wasn't nasal and Shicoff sure as hell doesn't sound nasal, but the gott of the north can wobble from over pushing high notes for the volume he didn't have and all are silent!!  I frankly rather hear Shicoff in Don Carlo than the gott of the north simply because his voice was BIGGER!

[okaukuejo]

I think Shicoff is great here, very passionate as always, lovely recording. Amazing how much emotion he puts into his singing. Thanks to GOS and pearlmuth3 for this upload.

[SHICOFF1]

ANY singer can be flamed of course but when you heard Neil in house he had it all, power, beauty and Squillo in spades. He could trill in Ah Si Ben Mio and sing Ballo or Luisa Miller later in his career but Hoffmann and Onegin will always be a signature role for him. His Don Jose was among the best ever. He also could act like no other tenor in his time.