Jonas Kaufmann, Un di all'azzurro spazio (Improvviso) , Andrea Chénier

Jonas Kaufmann

Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier
Un di all' azzuro spazio (Improvviso)

Piano: Stellario Fagone
Athens, 20 October 2011

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Music

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• Jonas Kaufmann
• Un di all'azzurro spazio
• Improvviso
• Andrea Chénier
• Umberto Giordano

[SHICOFF1]

Heard tenor Giordani last Saturday night in house (Chicago) in Aida with Sondra Radvanovsky as Aida and he sounded Very big in his upper middle voice in the house. It also was a radio Brdcst being the first performance (on WFMT) and a friend taped it. I heard the tape yesterday and his voice sounded much bigger in house then on the Brdcst. So you never know. I was in a good Orchestra seat, close up. Sondra stole the show with some fine singing and held her own besides singing beautifully.

[Macbett02]

@SHICOFF1 And what has this to do with this video? Sorry guys but if you want to have a general conversation you can do it with private messages!

[Zva26]

Macbeth: SHICOFF1 might have made an error and punched on the wrong video. I've encountered this several times when the comments have nothing to do with the subject. I think I once made the same error myself.

[SHICOFF1]

looking back 2 mos. ago here, I do see some interesting  discussion on this site about Kaufmann, constructive both pro and con, nice when personal insults are left out as they where here. Thank you!

[SHICOFF1]

I WORKED IN THE LATE 60'S AT A CLASSICAL RADIO STATION IN LA CAL. AND MET SO MANY OPERA SINGERS. GREAT TIME IN OPERA. TREIGEL, SILLS, UPPMANN, CORELLI, TEBALDI, TUCKER, AND PEERCE STILL SANG ETC. SILLS WAS FUNNY AND WITTY AND STELLA ROMAN A FRIEND OF MINE WAS RETIRED BUT WONDERFUL AND THREW GREAT PARTIES WITH MANY SINGERS COMING TO HER APT. ON SUNSET BLVD. SHE WAS ROMANIAN AND A GREAT FUN PERSON RIP. TUCKER INVITED ME OFTEN TO THE OPERA AND DINNER AND PEERCE SANG BLUEBIRD FOR ME IN MY CAR !

[SHICOFF1]

GIORDANI LAST WEEK IN HOUSE SOUNDED BIG IN THE MIDDLE UPPER RANGES BUT NOT PRETTY. NOW A DAYS WE CAN NEVER BE SURE ABOUT AMPLIFICATION IN BIG OPERAS HOUSE'S. WHEN VOICES LIKE CALLEJA AND FLOREZ SOUND LARGE, YOU HAVE TO WONDER . ANYHOW SONDRA RADVANOVSKY STOLE THE SHOW LAST SAT. NIGHT CHGO HEARD IT IN HOUSE, BUT LAST ACT I HAD TO BE SOMEWHERE SO WAS IN MY CAR AND HEARD THE REST ON RADIO IN THE CAR AS IT WAS BRDCAST (AIDA) GIORDANI SOUNDED WAY BIGGER IN THE HOUSE ON TOP NOTES THEN ON THE BRDCST

[SHICOFF1]

YES YOU CAN NEVER JUDGE VOLUME PROPERLY UNLESS YOU ARE IN HOUSE, ON RADIO IT'S INTO THE MIC. KAUFFMANN IS NOT A HUGE VOICE BUT DARK AND HAS A FINE TOP OFTEN. I HEARD HIM . PAV. AND AND JUSSI NEVER HAD BIG SPINTO VOICES BUT PAV WITH AGE DID GET LARGER YES BUT AT FIRST IT WAS FAR FROM POWERFUL WHEN I HEARD HIM BACK IN THE MID 70's AND JUSSI IN THE HOUSE AS THE DUKE in 1958 WAS NOT A POWERFUL VOICE BUT IT DID CARRY LIKE BERGONZI ALSO BUT BOTH SOUNDED BIGGER ON RECORDINGS, IN STUDIO ESPECIALLY.

[SHICOFF1]

@ARRONCOOKER TOO MANY FOR ME TO LIST HERE BUT MORELL, KIRSTEN, DOMINGO, RYSANEK, FLEMING, DI GIUSEPPE,JOSE C. HADLEY,VARRET,BUMBRY,TUCKER,AR­ROYO,SILLS,SUTHERLAND, PRICE IN OPERA AND RECITAL. MOLESE, MALOMOOD, MERRILL, GOBBI,CHRISTOFF,RAMEY,ALVAREZ. SO MANY MORE I CAN'T THINK OF NOW. KAUFMANN- LAST HEARD IN MANON IN CHICAGO AND I HAD HEARD HIM IN SPINTO ROLES BEFORE, THAT SUITED HIM BETTER BY FAR. HE WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT OTELLO SOMEDAY BUT I DIDN'T CARE FOR HIM IN MANON OR TOSCA OR ALAGNA .

[SHICOFF1]

@ARRONCOOKER YES I HEARD MOST ALL OF THEM FROM 1957 ON EVERY YEAR AT LYRIC IN CHICAGO AND IN LOS ANGELES ALL IN HOUSE, THE 60'S AND 70'S I SPENT TIME DIVIDED WITH CHICAGO AND SOMETIME IN NEW YORK. HEARD JUSSI IN 1958 AS THE DUKE WITH MOFFO. BERGONZI 1961 AND SINCE IN RECITAL. HEARD KRAUS, PD, RT, FC, FT, MDM, DI STEF TEBALDI, SCOTTO,FRENI, CALLAS KAUFMANN ,SHICOFF,GRUBEROVA AND GIORDANI IN AIDA WITH SONDRA LAST SAT , CHICAGO IN HOUSE, MANY MORE, VICKERS, GIACOMINI, EVEN SCHIPA, 1962 RECITAL