Jon Vickers en "Carmen"

Versión de la "Flor" que hace Vickers en 1969 durante una grabación en Paris.

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[suihkutenori]

By far the greatest interpretation I've heard!

I don't know any other tenor who takes the final B-flat so beautifully in pianissimo. Probably most are unable to sing that note softly!

[VerdiOpera]

Never have I heard a better recording of La Fleur. No one has sung the high Bb truly piano like he has done here!!!!

[hedgechair]

Looking at recent comments, The B flat is mezza voce indeed, and must need fantastic strength to sing. This is like using all the force of your hand to squeeze the last drips from an orange. A staggering piece of singing, and yet some say Vickers could not cope with high notes piano. They surely cannot hear!

[halavey]

Jussi Bjorling never sang the opera live but in a rare recital in 1939 I have he not only did the aria like this but he did do the diminuendo from full voice to a whisper and it was live but he never did it again later for whatever reason. I don't know if it is in the music in the flower song or not. MOST sing it full forte on top, Di Stefano early could do it like this but most do not. This is a famous recording and very good.

[tomwestbrook]

It might be because this is the first copy of Carmen I ever bought, but Vickers is still the best Don José I've heard to date.

[vickersman]

yes me too, and I had the chance to sing with him as a chorus member in Tristan-one of the best musical experiences of my life.His singing here is sublime.He efforted so hard to master his work, and here it proves the worth of that effort.

[crabbe88]

Brilliant. Subtle, beautiful but with a smoldering volcano of desparate passion underpinning the whole aria-fantastic. Non better in my view.

BTW, finale is NOT falsetto, but mezzo voce. Vickers could carry to the back stalls with that sound, which an actual falsetto cannot do :)

[jhvorotin]

Very impressed! Very subtle, very light at times! remarquable! The B flat is sung in falsetto and that's the way it should be!!!

[1Ooppera]

Like someone said: He is not a singer he is a monument!!Buy listening Vickers and the way he uses his voice very intelligent way, i have found my voice. He is great example how huge voice can also be flexible instrument if you know how to use it, he has tought me that.(ofcourse its still not easy) He allways uses voice first into kharakter he is playing, not the voice itself. To me he is number one in Big boys. i love them all but he is the Boss, Big daddy!!!

[raphabenbenjamin]

this is beyond comprehension. What else is there to say? You either "get it," or you don't.

[DimeCrisBag]

you bet your ass its not!

plenty of forte hight notes from him out there....

this was a perfect dramatic tenor...one of a kind, i think.