Alfredo Kraus & Richard Stilwell en Pescadores de Perlas (1979)

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Gala celebrada en la Ópera de Chicago en el año 1979 en la que Alfredo Kraus tuvo dos intervenciones, la primera de ellas este dúo perteneciente a la ópera de Bizet "Los pescadores de perlas".

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  • Creo que esta canción transmite mejor un poco más lenta.

  • no va muy rápido la orquesta?

  • @ctp4 OK, how about comparing Kraus to Pavarotti and (at his best) Carrerras? Or Gedda? I submit that each was a lyric tenor with a richer voice than Kraus's. A "dry" voice lacks resonance. It might have had such resonance and later lost it; it might never have had it. To my ears, Kraus's voice dried a bit over the years, although never completely.

    I repeat, Kraus was still a great artist.

  • @stevevandien You're comparing a lyric tenor to spinto tenors. So yes, his sound wasn't rich or full as a spinto sound but doesn't make it worse, which you didn't exactly say - I am inferring. But with age, voices usually thicken, or so I thought. So I'm not familiar with drying.

  • Superb Kraus, brilliant voice !!!!!

  • I met Richard Stilwell in NY at intermission; he was singing "Jesus" in St Matthews Passion. He was so kind and considerate and we spoke for 15 minutes or so.

    What a beautiful man and outstanding voice.

  • @ctp4 Read more of the critical conversations, going back to the 1960s High Fidelity (available in most university libraries) to understand the critical vocabulary regarding classical singers. "Dried" means less than ideally resonant. "Never rich" means EXACTLY that. Kraus never had a rich voice. His was lean and slender, rather than rich and round. Compare Kraus to Caruso, Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Corelli, Domingo.

  • @stevevandien What the heck are you talking about "dried considerably" and that it was "never rich"? What does it mean when a voice dries? I think he was amazing, here and in earlier performances - one of my favorite tenors.

  • Richard Stilwell is such a classy singer!!!

  • By this time, Kraus' voice had dried considerably, and it never was a rich instrument. Even so, he was a great artist, and he has impressive dominion over the dynamics and tessitura. Stilwell is at his best -- a passionate interpreter with a warm, plush lyric baritone --

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