Mario Del Monaco very young, Pagliacci "A venti tre"

This is a very young Mario del Monaco singing Pagliacci live for the Opera Cameos TV show sponsored by Progresso Soup. I do not know the year.

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[sttar1982]

unico... degno della scuola italiana<3....

[MrFernando1934]

@Krazede "I Pagliacci" (plural) means "The clowns", and that's the name of the opera. Canio, of course, is the pagliaccio (singular), the clown that Colombina, in the Play,(Nedda) is trying to convince that everything is OK, and that there is no lover around. And, as you well said it, Canio, who is the same as the referred pagliaccio, is the one tha announces that the show will commence at 11:00 pm, that night. "A ventitre ore, a ventitre ore"

[Krazede]

@Krazede I actually misspoke, it is Canio, not Pagliacci that announces the time the performance begins.

[Krazede]

@voltape In actuality, Pagliacci announces that the show will begin at "ventitre ore." This was the way farmers referred to dusk or 1 hour before the sunsets. In olden times a day was from sunset to sunset. Therefore, the

"23 ore" refers to the 23rd hour, which would be one hour prior to the new day, and the new day begins at sunset not midnight. I hope this explanation makes sense!

[FacePaster]

@voltape I know this is an old comment but I just saw it. I have heard it explained that it comes from an old-fashioned agrarian well of counting time before clocks were so standardized. In this system, the counting begins from sunset, so 23 ore would be one hour before sunset.

[FacePaster]

@AfroPoli Yeah, I always get baffled when people argue things like that. I guess a random youtube commenter can't possibly know that I actually know the scores to operas. You can tell me it's a C all you want or you could actually open the score of pagliacci and see for yourself that it's a B. oh well.

[AfroPoli]

@FacePaster You are right. The speed is clearly wrong. It's easy to hear.

[viv3147]

@FacePaster its a c

[policarpiosix]

Nunca habia oido este tenor, que cosa mas grande, que voz. Ya no hay así. Làstima

[AndreaChenier1977]

mamma mia come lo tiene il do di petto ...incredibile a dir poco