Fritz Wunderlich - Di rigori armato il seno

Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier

Di rigori armato il seno

Italian Singer- Fritz Wunderlich
Baron Ochs- Kurt Böhme

Orchestra of the Teatro Colon di Buenos Aires
conducted by
HEINZ WALLBERG

Buenos Aires
8 October 1961

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[KissaMyEyes]

This is exactly the perfect performance of this aria, in my opinion. Wunderlich's technique blends the raw abandon of a heroic tenor with the flying mobility of his essentially lyric instrument. Bravo!

[1Ooppera]

He sounds very heroic here, great!Where did this term Mozart tenor came from? It proofs me that when singer is good enough, he adjust ones voice to serve partically music whatever he or she is singing.Wunderlich is a great example of it!In that sense it is myth to call someone as Mozart-tenor. Gösta Winberg is second example, he also sag everything

[guidobonatti]

@GermanOperaSinger This is true, but the more close structure is the "aria da salotto italiana" of F.P.tosti, Denza, etc and not the veristic opera. "Unfortunalety," this aria is better appeciated and known than most part of the opera ( a part the final concertato) , in my opinion not the masterpiece of the great Richard.

[hazelssister]

Fritz died a sad  early death. He was only about 35.

[ilkertenor]

sound great but i think the pitch is lower than original. maybe its because of the recording but its half tone lower

[66cecilia]

peccato che sia durato poco....

[sylkla1]

ER KONNTE ES....

[GermanOperaSinger]

@Cantormatis This is a great point. I always thought Strauss included this little 'song' as a response to those who claimed he his music was dissonant and unappealing. It's a mockery of his Italian contemporaries, whom he viewed as sellouts who wrote 'pretty music' to appeal to the masses. Here he proves he was more than capable of composing 'aurally agreeable' melodies, but that he chose not to for artistic reasons.

[demenciano]

@1Ooppera  Sorry but you can´t compare Gosta Winberg with F. Wunderlich. The important thing is not singing everything, as you say, but singing well.

[kgarmaker123]

Fabulous singing, his voice is so masculine, yet so able to sing the lyric repertoire. he always gave me goosebumps.

[RoyKa2010]

@1Ooppera Interesting, since FW himself seems to have had the same opinion about singing different repertoire, the style was more crucial to him than the quality of the voice, etc.

[dreamgirl12345678]

Agreed. There was no one in our time like Wunderlich. Thank goodness he made as many recordings in his short life as he did; what a loss to opera, singing and music in general. He was a great friend of Hermann Prey's as well, and appeared on Prey's variety show often. There is a recording of the two of them singing "Pore Jud is Dead," from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma which proves that both of them had well deserved reputations for true musical greatness. Ah, Fritz ! ! !