Beniamino Gigli - Nessun Dorma!

Artist: Beniamino Gigli
Title: "Nessun Dorma!" (from "Turandot" by Puccini)

Label: RCA Victor Red Seal
Cat No: 10-3761-A
Release Year: 1949
Country: Canada
Format: 10" Shellac Record

Ratings allowed as of June 10, 2011.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Beniamino
• Gigli
• Nessun
• Dorma
• Turandot
• Puccini
• Opera
• Aria
• Tenor
• 78
• RPM
• Record
• Dual
• Turntable
• yt:quality=high

[wiseroldfart]

One of the best versions of this aria I've heard. It's in my top 5. No, Potts isn't even in my top ten.

I also like the chorus ending.

[VinylToVideo]

@wiseroldfart Pol Pot shouldn't be in anyone's top 100 list.

[wiseroldfart]

@VinylToVideo: I hear you! I just got blasted by a Potts fan for saying he's decent for an amateur, but not in the same league as the great tenors. The truth hurts. Not everyone has a great ear for music. I like the guy and wish him well, but he'll never achieve greatness. I'd never pay to see him or buy a Potts recording - not in a world in which so many great tenors have been recorded.

[VinylToVideo]

@wiseroldfart I don't even bother commenting on the awful singers' videos anymore; their ignorant fans are always bound to make a reply and it's just a back and forth comment war that never ends.

[dekercarol]

The last minute of the recording is the chorus finishing the aria. We do not here this in the other recordings and I do not remember hearing the chorus in the 2009 HD performance. Is this change in the treatment of this aria?

[VinylToVideo]

@dekercarol It might just be another thing to boost modern tenors' ego, even if the tenors years ago were better equipped.

[MPM1943]

Gigli had a very good high C, even if he never built his career on the top notes, as Lauri-Volpi did. If you want to hear some of his high Cs on record you can go to the "Salve, dimora, casta e pura" from FAUST (1931), "Che gelida manina" from LA BOHÈME (1931 & 1938), "O soave fanciulla" id. opera (1937 & 1938), and the finale of the love duets from MADAMA BUTTERFLY (1939) and UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (1943).

[70Mack]

This chap was my dear old dads faverite.Thanks for putting this up.

[BrandonShayMusic]

man i want to be able to sing like that. F***what the popular music scene thinks. they don't know anything about anything before their time. My cohorts are a bunch of ignorant twats. It's so frustrating !

[wiseroldfart]

This recording gives us an idea of how good Gigli was and why he was and still is so highly regarded.

[tomfroekjaer]

An inspiration for all later tenors. Great singing.

[hortius]

@dekercarol The chorus heard at the end of this clip was taken from the end of the opera. Quite a presumptuous move to cut and paste it there...