Roberto Alagna "Che gelida manina" (La Boheme) - 1995

Roberto Alagna is just wonderful as Rodolfo in this production of Puccini's "La Bohême", opposite Leontina Vaduva as Mimi.
Conductor : James Conlon / Stage director : Jonathan Miller
Recorded in December 1995 - Paris, Opera Bastille

Category:

Music

Tags:

• roberto
• alagna
• leontina
• vaduva
• puccini
• boheme
• bohême
• opera
• tenor
• soprano

[stevecraid]

What a performance! I'm touched! it moves me very much, especially the end... what an end my gosh!!! :o

Thanks for sharing this masterpiece!

[discovolante21]

Bravo Alagna, superb singing and one of the sweetest high C's ever...

[tombaker1222]

@Loganberrymusic You're quite correct, it's a biological impossibility to sing anything above the passagio (around E-F-F# - all tenors are different) without head voice. Anyone claiming to sing entirely from the chest or saying that it is possible is wrong.

[Loganberrymusic]

@viv3147 I think you mean head voice, which is not the same thing as falsetto. Chest voice and falsetto do not mix - that would be like trying to whisper and yell simultaneously. Also, I don't think it's possible for a man to sing a full voiced high C without using some head voice.

[viv3147]

@iltrovatoremanrico but it was a falsetto/chest c, not just chest

[LadyJeeks]

Cet air sublimissime de Puccini n'a d'égal que le talent, immense, d'Alagna! Le meilleur interprète de Che gelida manina, a mon humble avis...

[Loganberrymusic]

His singing here is really exquisite. One of my favorite renditions of this aria. I believe I became a fan of Alagna after hearing this.

[bigpoppa897]

He is horribly uncharismatic

[GERMANYFrankie]

Gefaellt mir viel besser als Kaufmann!

[Dymension]

Too straight. There are portamenti missing....he sings it like Mozart. His singing does sound very free though.

[iltrovatoremanrico]

And, by the way, best high C I've ever heard. Of course a high C, or any high note for that matter, is hardly the most important thing to comment on, but I just wanted to share this, it's really the most magnificent high C I've ever heard.

[MsRuthes]

NOT A FAN OF THIS RENDITION.