6/7 Rolando Villazón - What Makes a Great Tenor? BBC

6/7 Rolando Villazón - What Makes a Great Tenor?
BBC Four
2.06.2010
The great tenor Rolando Villazon takes us inside the world of the sexiest and most risky of all operatic voices. It's a journey which includes some of the great names of the past, such as Caruso and Lanza, and some of the brightest stars performing today, like Domingo, Alagna and Florez. We hear how they tackle their most famous roles and what the risks and rewards are.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ROLANDO
• VILLAZON
• TENOR
• BBC

[magicmonkichi]

"parts of the video have caruso so some countries can't see" ? why?! lol

[teresa59]

@magicmonkichi, your name is "copyright"

[Dtrollmancan]

So we can see LADY GAGA, J-Z, JUSTIN BIEBER... but no Caruso? FUCK YOU YOUTUBE.

sincerely the WORLD 

[vautour23]

le test le confirme. Villazon et les ténor d'aujourd'hui chante avec une toute autre technique que Caruso, Bonsi, Tamagno... le vibrato est beaucoup plus large chez Villazon et l'enregistrement sur le cylindre le confirme. Lorsqu'on écoute attentivement, il y a une toute autre direction à la voix. Chez Bonsi, par exemple, le direction vocale est vers l'avant ou plutôt l'horizon. Chez Villazon, c'est vers l'arrière ou plutôt vers les profondeurs. 

[davidj1210]

If you can master classical skill and technique, you can literally sing ANYTHING!!! Training a voice for classical singing is like training an athlete. Most people don't realize just how phyically demanding proper singing is. The whole body is your instrument.

[maferreira1984]

Sounds like Villazón doesn't have a suitable voice for such devices.

That enlightens us 'bout two MAJOR things: first, we have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE of how people like Caruso or Tamagno really sounded like, which is sad; second, singers like Villazón himself get A LOT of their singing quality only from the recording (or, for some, from mics in opera houses).

I know that's nothing new, but it hadn't hit me so hard as it did when I listened to the work of this old recording device.

[galileohvoz]

Villazon looks like caruso... :Q

[hobo1975]

wow Tamagno,nice to hear someone talk about him.one of the highest paid singers ever.

[ElvinoDivino]

@GermanOperaSinger Now we know why the singers of the past always sang better! :)

[31operafan]

It's amazing how primative the recorded sound was in Caruso's time, yet Caruso made recordings that were of exceptional quality. His voice was PERFECT for the phonograph! That's why I love his recordings. He set the standard for all tenors for generations after him, starting with Gigli, and now with Villazon and Florez. :)