Una furtiva lagrima L'elisir D'amore. Who is the tenor?

Great performance with great Italian tradition of singing.

Today's requirements of singing are based on so called "come scritto reading" and no scooping allowed.

Scooping, or extreme legato, was the way Italian singers like Gigli, Caruso, Schipa were expressing they emotional singing.

Today's opera is not in hands of singers but in full power of so called coaches and conductors who realy know little about great singing of the golden era of Belcanto.

It's them we blame for the dicline of the great art, correct and unemotional production of the voice

Category:

Music

Tags:

• donizetti
• opera
• tenor
• aria

[joecburke]

I really, really like this clip. It is a superb example of the Italian emotional expression by a wonderful tenor. Loved it!

[rockgor]

Looks like Cesare Valletti to me. He studied

w/ Tito Schipa.

Made lots of recordings in the 50s and 60s

for RCA and Cetra.

I heard him once in the 60s. Had a

beautiful, golden tenor but recordings

did not capture his true sound.

Tnx 4 the post.

[dallasbono]

definately Valletti

[lemeshev]

cesare valletti?