Placido Domingo sings "Di tu se fedele" from Verdi's Ballo

Claudio Abbado conductor. Covent Garden. February 8, 1975

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[Fehlzeiten]

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful....Luciano Pavarotti could never sing like this. His singing never had such musicality and his sound was the same in every opera he did.

[ashetosvlakas]

Wow, every tenor is scared shitless of those low notes but not Placido, he is the only one who follows the score and hits them.

[judelko]

oh, how he would like to have had a voice as great as pavarotti's.

[AfrankelTenor]

@ashetosvlakas No he's not, Björling never had a problem singing through them.

[saintsaens21]

@ashetosvlakas To be true, they are barely audible, and that for someone who now sings baritone roles...

[ibsen5]

@Fehlzeiten Sorry Luciano who? Is a singer?

[Mooorhe]

This pales in comparison to the Bergonzi version from 1967.

[marokt]

Thank you for the information, I'll listen them! I've discovered, that Marcello Alvarez also sang this low Cs live in the 2009 Berlin-performance. I think live it's quite difficoult, because it "lowers" the voice, the tenor easily lost the good position. For the same reason some Renatos don't sing the low A in Alzati. In studio it's much easier.

[Agorante]

@marokt

Who else sang the "big jump"? Bjoerling for one. See his version here on YouTube where he is in a boat singing in Swedish. Also Carreras sings those written low Cs on his CD recording but not live or on his video. Bergonzi who started as a baritone, never seems to have sung them.

[Agorante]

@jamesjmertins

I too heard Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti, Aragall, and Bergonzi live. Bergonzi was the finest Verdi stylist that ever sang tenor but all the others had more vibrant and ringing voices. I heard Bergonzi sing Riccardo in Vienna - a 2200 seat hall. He was fine. In the big 3500 to 4000 seat American opera houses he sounded faded and pale.

[LordMgls]

Well said.