Rossini: La Calunnia - Mark Reizen (in Italian and in Russian)

An opportunity to hear the great Ukrainian bass in a comic role sung first in Italian and then in Russian. His Italian may not be perfect, he tends to put in doubles where there are none (pianno pianno!) and his super clear diction is actually a sort of handicap here and there, it's still a fine performance from a great artist and one of the most handsome bass voices ever.

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Music

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• Mark
• Reizen
• la
• calunnia
• Rossini
• Italian
• Ukrainian
• Russian
• bass
• basso

[arzace]

Бедный Марк Осипович!У "ханакончака" он украинско-еврейский бас,а тут просто украинский бас....Думаю его очень удивил бы такой провинциальный статус,интересно,а А.В.Нежданова и Е.К.Катульская тоже украинские певицы?

[belshep]

@arzace Это те же господа, что зачисляют Бродского в еврейские поэты (Бродский просто ржал над таким определением) , а Рихтера (тем более!) в украинские пианисты. Глухие к языку, музыке и национальным традициям убогие русофобы.

[operafan0anegnd]

Great performance by a great singer. Bravo. Thanks for posting.

Talk about his nationality and nationalism in general is completely irrelevant.

Enjoy the music! Forget politics, race and nationalism!

[vlp92]

@CzarDodon I'd love to see this idea to come to realization. But in real life, nations do not coexist in harmony and everywhere you can see people running a strong nationalistic agenda: in Russia, USA, Europe, China...Everywhere. I think it's often a way to protect some interests of a group. Of course, there are different levels of nationalism and I think that being proud of your culture is fine, but anything further like arrogance toward other nationalities and countries is just stupid.

[CzarDodon]

@vlp92 So once statehood has been achieved and is recognised by the 'international community', nationalisms have little need to continue to be, unless their aim is to oppress the rights of 'other' minorities and that's perhaps where the trouble begins

[vlp92]

@CzarDodon Yes, i think that would be the right statement. Because "nationalism" is the belief that a nation has a right to statehood.

[CzarDodon]

@vlp92 Too broad, should I have said extreme nationalists? Unfortunately nationalisms very often set themselves up in opposition to some 'other', (evil, inferior, a natural enemy), despising cultural, ethnic or racial differences and very often claim 'god-given' or 'inherent' rights or supremacies. Such attitudes have been responsible for persistent problems in history and are a huge obstacle to necessary dialogue and civilized solutions. Worst of all when 2 nationalisms are at loggerheads

[vlp92]

@CzarDodon

Nothing is wrong with Nationalism. And only a small fraction of nationalists belongs to extremists.

[MisterPapageno]

The expressione is typically Slavonic, that is harsh and neat . But what a wonderful voice timbre and weight! :)

[growsonwalls]

It's so strange to hear this kind of voice singing Rossini. But what a grand voice!