Don Giovanni Cage Match: Fin ch'han dal vino Sing-off

Nine great Don Giovannis sing the famous Champagne aria. Only one will emerge victorious...

In chronological order:
1. Ezio Pinza, cond. Bruno Walter 1942 (live)
2. Tito Gobbi, cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler, 1950 (live)
3. Cesare Siepi, cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler, 1954
4. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, cond. Ferenc Fricsay, 1959
5. Nicolai Ghiaurov, cond. Carlo Maria Giulini, 1970 (live)
6. Samuel Ramey, cond. Herbert von Karajan, 1987 (live)
7. Thomas Hampson, cond. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, 1989
8. Håkan Hagegård, cond. Arnold Östman, 1990
9. Bo Skovhus, cond. Michael Halasz, 2000

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mozart
• Opera
• don
• giovanni
• champagne
• aria
• finch'han
• finch
• pinza
• siepi
• gobbi
• thomas
• hampson
• bo
• skovhus
• ghiaurov
• dieskau

[bodiloto]

@LordHettrick The winner : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ?  hahahahahahahahahaha

[bodiloto]

@mongemark caro amico,io credevo che sei un uomo serio...

Raimondi per me e un dilettante che ha cercato tutta la sua vita la sua vera voce,cioè ha cantato repertorio per basso profondo,basso,baritono...

"denota incompetenza"?

Ho sentito dal vivo Don Giovanni con:Giaurov,Siepi,Ghiuselev e ancora più di 30 bassi-baritoni...

Ma come mai un uomo di buon gusto come te può pretendere che un urlatore come Raimondi chi ha una voce bruttissima è il migliore Don Giovanni?

denota incompetenza...?hahahaha

[frueiparis]

If you call the Karajan version slow, try to listen to the 2nd Fürtwangler again (Siepi).

I think that FUN is an important factor to this aria, as both the lyrics and the music suggest. So while it's a real delight to listen to Siepi, there's not the F of it in his rendition. the ones who both sing it well and sound like they enjoy it are DFD and Pinza, so I choose them. Ghiaurov is very interesting too. And Hampton is dreadful. Oh God.

[arere20]

I don't like Dons suffocating in too quick tempo.

Siepi rules!

[1993MGB]

Pinza: great, third place

Gobbi: his voice sounds evil (I love Gobbi)

Siepi: deep, second place

Dieskau: breathes every 2 secs

Ghiaurov: winner, despite he's Timur

Ramey: Karajan's tempo is slow

Hampson: too lyric to be Giovanni, fine though

Hagegard: better than Hampson

Skovhus: nice to meet him, i liked his singing

[MrCurryFan]

@mongemark sto ancora ridendo per il "farai belar"...!

[MrCurryFan]

Siepi.

ghiaurov e ramey non sono malaccio, comunque. Peccato che pinza sia troppo veloce!

[Ale92Bass]

Siepi, Dieskau e Ghiaurov!

[PEAinSwe]

1. Ruggero Raimondi (even if he isn't on this list)

2. Håkan Hagegård

3. Thomas Hampson

I'm a bit influenced by the fact that I saw (and heard) Hagegård doing a stunning portrait of Don G at Drottningholm Court Theatre a little more than 20 years ago. He took this part from elegance to total dispair.

And maybe Siepi for his SUPERB voice,. although not in this part...

[davidphilipkelly]

1. Ezio Pinza

2. Cesare Siepi

3. Hakan Hagegard

Tito Gobbi's is not the voice I would imagine in the part, but he brings his usual intelligence. None of the others strike me as particularly successful. Isn't Siepi's voice incredible?

[TheBlitz1]

Nicolai Ghiaurov wins by faaar

[anzolettilino]

@Makenor13 beh... qui non so cosa hanno fatto alla registrazione, ma qui la voce è troppo scura...