Rigoletto Contest - Cornell MacNeil - 1977

A year ago when I was doing the soprano and tenor contests, I was asked to do some contests to show off the lower voices. I never got to it, until now. My first idea was to create a contest for the baritone aria in I Puritani. However, I finally deceived on Rigoletto, and the aria, Povero rigoletto ....cortigiani, vil razza dannata. I have always thought this was a heart wrenching piece, that shows a spectrum of the baritone color. We have 20 baritones here, to score use a 1-5 for both singing and characterization.

Peter Glossop - 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmlqV2JzaQ

Renato Bruson - 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0vMuHa4vA

Lucio Gallo - 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcn8ShyOdWA

Ingvar Wixell - 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99J_nApx10A

Louis Quilico - 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeoOPn2rt4

John Rawnsley - 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mnx8vAylc

Carlos Álvarez - 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l07ctEjXLEo

Garbis Boyagian - 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnXqLGttwU

Roberto Frontali - 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRByxhdkVZc

Roberto Servile - 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOHqGDyPUk

Chen Ye Yuan - 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHRKLlyH2Q

Justino Diaz - 1997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZwLF1GdkE

Cornell MacNeil - 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9wUUUM1PfY

Rolando Panerai - 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OSSNZsgLw

Leo Nucci - 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CPX0Mm8rro

Paolo Gavanelli -1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI1XXP_KgBw

Mario Sereni -1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJiNJh8SCQ

Leo Nucci -1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0BnmbM6niE

Piero Cappuccilli - 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEjUbPwhQ0

Aldo Protti - 1961
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19b2Ll4B_Bs

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[MrCafiero]

@ChrisStockslager Oh boy, I would write a book on that questions. There are many reasons. Look up the article from the NY times titled "The End of the Great Big American Voice". It is a huge problem in opera and the vocal world in general. Teachers do not know how to get students to this level. They actually now tell them not to sing like this anymore.

[ChrisStockslager]

@MrCafiero Why?



[MrCafiero]

@ChrisStockslager Because it is true. Big voices are not hired any longer. Nor are they nurtured they way they used to be. That is why we don't hear big voices anymore. And the teachers do not know how to teach this kind of singing any longer either.

[ChrisStockslager]

@MrCafiero Why do you say that?

[clown84700]

R.I.P . Magnifico MacNeil !!!!

[beland1234]

Le plus grand baryton que j'ai ecouter, reposer en paix M. Macneil.

Beland1234

[1947Rollo]

In questo video MacNeil non è più tanto giovane,il meglio lo ha gia alle spalle,certi suoni aperti e qualche affaticamento vocale lo certificano .Ciò nonostante siamo in presenza di un grande cantante di vecchia scuola,con una vocalità piena e scura da autentico baritono che oltre saper cantare sa cosa significa interpretare.Grande Cornell

[Heldenbariton1]

Best Bariton of al time. No Bariton was better than Mac.

[operaview]

Rest in peace, Mr. MacNeill



[Welverance]

scusate l'intromissione volevo sapere perchè non avete considerato Tito Gobbi

ha un'interpretazione da grande patos!