Jussi Bjorling "Recondita armonia" Tosca Live 1959

Met, 1959

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Music

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• Opera
• Puccini
• Tosca
• Cavaradossi
• Jussi
• Bjorling

[vpo2g2]

It's hard to listen to ANY tenor after Jussi. All the rest are, mere, singers.

[tempo986]

Great Jussi, as soon as I heard you, after hearing grat tenors before you, tears arrived due to your "velvet voice" that made me feel surrounded by such angelic music!!!!.

Before your passing away, my father was so proud to have had the pleasure of singing Alfio at the Met with you.

Now you are both up there! God bless you!

Vera Bardelli Perinati

[tennesseelvr]

@MrFrenchaccent and He shared His angelic Jussi with us ! thank God!!!

[ToryBoy55]

Just imagine the three tennors: Domingo, Pavarotti, Bjorling

[MrFrenchaccent]

God exists !

[SHICOFF1]

Too answer a comment made earlier. No JB was smart-- he did not ever sing the role of Calaf on stage and he knew what he could sing well and what opera's where for his voice and that's why he lasted and at 49 was still singing very well. He had great low notes for a basic lyric spinto voice besides the top being very fine.

[vpo2g2]

If you want great acting, see Shakespeare. If you want great singing, listen to Bjorling.

[sugarbist]

@hobo1975 Dear Hobo, It's not that I know better than Bjorling.It is more like a consensus that he was a Lyric Spinto. If you listen to the spinto tenors like Corelli,Tucker,Fillipesschi,Ca­mpagnano,Barioni,Bonisoli,Mart­inucci& Martinelli, you will see that their voices have a darker timber than Bjorlings.Even though JB DID NOT have a spinto voice, it does not diminish his greatness as a superb artist.JB did sing some spinto repertoire as Di Stefano did, But they both were not spinto tenors.Enjoy

[hobo1975]

@sugarbist well you know better than Bjorling,what would he know.he was a lyrical spinto!

[sugarbist]

@suffes I am in agreement with you.JB IS CERTAINLY Nessun Dorma My intent is to share information as appose to diminishing the greatness of certain singers like Bjorling etc . I'm not always successful.Even though MDM Corelli Volpi are my favorites, I do prefer JB DiStefano Gigli in La Boheme. I Prefer different tenors in different roles even though I have My favorites, which are MDM Corelli DiStefano Volpi & Lanza more so in the so called American songs and shear beauty of voice. Enjoy

[suffes]

@sugarbist........... " i DON'T think he can compete with the likes of Corelli Volpi Tucker&Del Monaco in the more heroic parts of these operas" Here we can agree, he is not spinto enough for this. But this was not my point! My point was this; when you mentioning some operas wich "is not for Björling" it can be understood from not so experienced listeners - we are on YouTube - that he can´t sing one single note in these operas.

Example: he is not Callaf but he is certainly Nessun Dorma!