Jerome Hines Vecchia Zimarra

Jerome Hines - Vechia Zimarra Boheme

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[antanioz]

thank you for explanation

[steve1fennelly]

A great singer singing pretty poorly. Sorry- but he's all over the place.

[Jozh487]

This recording comes from a point in Hines' career when he was suffering from some vocal troubles, as he himself writes. Hines left the opera scene shortly after when this recording was made, only to return later even more magnificent than when he was in his earlier prime. It is sad people should have to argue over one of the opera's world best, and it is unfair to use this recording to generalize about Hines' entire career and vocal technique.

[CelesteGabriel]

his Sarastro is way better...here he seems to be injured, or ?

[luckymortal]

Ha! I love that goof in the first line. And then to go on and sing the aria so beautifully and expressively without compromising the full nature of his voice... One of the most beautiful, non-exaggerated renditions of this aria I've heard! Thanks for posting it. IMO, Hines had the most beautiful bass voice of the last 100 years: warm, bright and ringy as a bell--qualities that had to be heard live. And he COULD and DID lighten up to sing things like Papageno's arias very musically.

[unounotre]

ma che dice: vecchio T E A T R O ?! AHAHAHAHAHAH. E che dice poi a 054 "passar nelle tue F O D E ?! Mammamia. E a 0.57 un portamentone discendente "coooooome in antri tanquilli". TERRIBILE!!!

[Operafiend22]

@montallio You're right about Cecchele...he started out as a wonderful lyric tenor but within a 4-5 year period, he ruined his natural beautiful voice for a more forced and artificial one.

[aribv]

People who listen to opera don't care about technique as long as it's pleasing to the ear & the soul. Singing's much more than a set of rules on where to place the voice and which muscle to use to produce a sound; It goes way beyond that & NO one can argue that this isn't a sublime voice that transcends technique & music theory & all those inventions of the human intellect in their quest to analyze & measure something as inexplicable as the feelings that this man transmits in each note he sings.

[dimoaar]

@WhiteProfondo if you had any knowledge of proper technique you would realize what a miracle this man's voice was...

sure his interpretation is questionable in this particular aria, but my God there is no bass alive that has a voice as magnificent, warm, thrilling and MASSIVE as jerome hines...

can you not heard the cheers coming from the crowd at the end?..

consider yourself the only one who dislikes jerome hines.

[montallio]

Gianfranco Cecchelle is an italian tenor. I just mentioned him as someone with a 'pumped' sound and stylistic and vocal defects, but who I love nonetheless. Similar perhaps to being a Hines or Mario del Monaco (tenor) fan. Anyway, I am always hoping to hear a good (opera) bass voice in the theatre, but it is a rarity. So good luck to you ;-)