Cessa di più resistere - Ramón Vargas

Last aria of the Count, from 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia', Rossini.

Ramón Vargas, tenor
Will Humburg conducts

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• resistere
• ramon
• vargas
• il
• barbiere
• siviglia
• gioachino
• rossini
• tenor
• coloratura

[danbar73]

The GRAMOPHONE Classical Music Guide 2009: You declared that this Naxos recording of the Barber"rises to the top of the pile"(recorded versions) and "puts to shame every other version". Sounds good but it only unmasked your hypocrisy and bias toward Ramon Vargas, whose outstanding performance was a major factor in the success of that recording. Yet you never even mentioned his name,let alone say one nice word about him. 1500 pages of "most authoritative guide"ignored all of his excellent works.

[leoperarm]

well..he's great LOL and of coures he was a major factor in the succes of the recording.

[DessayBestSinger]

la de estudio no está en youtube verdad? me gustaría escucharla!

[leoperarm]

OK!!! la subo y te paso el album^^

[danbar73]

RV, the media hyped tenor of the present ? NO way! He is highly gifted, a superb technician,a complete singer and a true artist to need hyping from the media after trying to bury him these last twenty years in its undivided and overzealous promotion and protection of Pavarotti. RV's bel canto artistry was in full bloom from '91 to '96 when his voice was at its most lyrical, expansive and sublime. The recording companies & the media abandoned their moral duty to preserve it for posterity. SHAME!

[danbar73]

Why this media bias against RV ? He is such a modest,gentle and generous soul, he could not possibly hurt anyone. I believe that this has do with the media's unrelenting and fanatical promotion of Luciano Pavarotti,unprecedented in all of opera. I can understand the media's fascination with LP being Italian,w/ a gorgeous voice AND a very friendly demeanor. LP was smart businesswise; charmed the media with his Nemorino-like ways right into the palm of his hand. And the media over-hyped him..

[Torquemada0]

@danbar73 On the long run I believe that the testimony in YT will be more important than whatever has been written in the manipulated media. People will not pay attention to written words but to facts in the recorded performances. Everybody can convince himself of the quality whithout having to rely on something written. Of course there is a difference between live performances and recordings but the videos in YT will remain while the live experiences will get lost with the time.

[danbar73]

@Torquemada0 for the beauty of his voice and musicianship.1990 to '97,RV's lyric tenor was remarkable for its great range,evenness and beauty of tone & spectacular,secure high notes. This should be enough to threaten the media-created image of LP as King of the High C's, Belcanto King,etc. These titles were way overhyped as Kraus & Gedda were still strong,and LP barely scratched Rossini. Recording RV then would have tarnished that image, affected LP's psyche and his record sale.

[danbar73]

@Torquemada0 I don't know how PD is able to control all the broadcast and print media in London & New York, but he has the talent, resourcefulness and determination to to get their attention.He once threatened to quit a Don Carlos production because the dogs were getting more attention. I was not trying to compare the performances of LP w/ RV's in the '90's,but simply expressing my opinion on the media's reaction to the rise of the career of RV who was widely acclaimed for the

[Torquemada0]

@danbar73 2) Of course you are free not to share my opinion but you don't know how the media is controlled and works. While LP image has been based more on live experiences of his vocal skills, PD's image has been based on the media reports which he has been controlling since the early 80s (he is a genious in that). Most insiders know that. This is quite obvious and clear when you read the magazines and newspapers.

[Torquemada0]

@danbar73 1) LP image has never been threatened by anybody that is why he couldn't care less, his voice live had nothing similar with RV’s voice at all, they are totally different. Furthermore in the 90s their repertoire was quite apart. I can not imagine RV singing Radames or Chenier or Canio or Cavaradossi at that time and LP was not singing Nemorinos or Edgardos etc, anymore.

[danbar73]

@danbar73 merits,credentials,extraordina­ry talent & musicianship -not because of LP or PD. The media recognized that RV (not PD) was the real threat to LP's image (hyped up by the media), his fragile ego and sale of his recordings.Unlike PD, RV has similar voice type and repertoire as LP. The media decided early on to make RV a sacrificial lamb.His lyric tenor was supreme bet '90 -'97 but not preserved even in ONE studio recording of a lyric role shared with LP,who is not to blame.

[danbar73]

@Torquemada0 My comments were about the media's excessive and overzealous promotion and protection of Pavarotti (LP) to the unfair disadvantage and detriment of up-and-coming singers, Vargas(RV) in particular. I do not share your opinion that Domingo(PD) runs the media and has any say in who gets ignored or embraced by the media, although he's getting more media attention as he's getting older. RV was noticed by the media even before turning 30 - on his own merits,credentials,tal-

[Torquemada0]

@danbar73 I agree with your comments but... why do you focuse on LP while PD is the one who really runs the media? LP didn't have to bother about the media, he was above it because he was the key element for them to make their job. PD is the one who decides who will be prised and who will be ignored or bashed. You can see how another tenor is beeing pushed regardless his vocal problems. If Vargas is now noticed in the media, it is just because PD got old and oversaw it.

[David45NV1]

@DessayBestSinger por lo demas esta interpretacion de Ramon Vargas es un ejemplo de cultura Rossiniana interpretada por un verdadero tenor.

[David45NV1]

@DessayBestSinger Florez en vivo no se escucha. Su "voz" es menos que miniatura.