John McCormack Sings "Dei miei bollenti spiriti," From La Traviata 1910

John McCormack had an opera career of sorts, but it was very short. He did sing Traviata at the Met once, in 1910, the same year this record was made. He sang more often at the Manhattan Opera and Covent Garden, but essentially he sang very little opera. By 1913 he had moved on to a much more lucrative recording and concert career, through which he would become very famous and very wealthy. He ability to sing in immaculately produced and easily understood English won him a huge audience of music lovers who really enjoying hearing his sentimental Victorian songs, and especially his many Irish songs. He became in effect the greatest of Irish bards. There are countless good Italian opera tenors, but there was only one McCormack

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[EdmundStAustell]

@CanadaPisces Very well said! Thank you very much.

[CanadaPisces]

A musical gem! Thank you Edmund for posting this wonderful example of the beauty of McCormack's singing! He makes it look so easy that we sometimes forget all the vocal training he had to bring out that outstanding tenor voice that we came to admire!