Bartered Bride with Gedda & Tozzi

Simple wonderful :) - Nicolai Gedda is the best Jenik ever (and Smetana´s Dalibor too!), Giorgio Tozzi is excellent Kecal and also great actor. This inscenation has some divergences against libretto (Marenka doesn´t entrance in this scene). And - of course -its end is stupid :))

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Music

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• bartered
• bride
• gedda
• tozzi
• opera

[Greatfan]

Well, I think that Giorgio Tozzi is a greatly underrated artist !! We know Gedda's quality by heart but I had forgotten Tozzi's. Some artists would have deserved a higher place. His sound is fantastic, and what a great artist !

[mujviktor]

Yes, of course, he IS great actor :)

This scene is superb!!! :)

I´m Czech, but in original it doesn´t sound me so beautifully as in this performance with Gedda&Tozzi :)

[amelagar]

I adore Gedda's voice!

[mujviktor]

me too!! :) ... I will upload some other nice videos with him...

[novasafo]

wow, such wonderful singing

[rexeterna]

this might just be the greatest thing ever

[d00jolta]

Very nice looking recording, thanks for the upload!

Next time you record an old clip, turn down the volume a bit, because this one has a lot of distortion...

[AriaSinger1]

Where can one procure a DVD/CD recording of this production? I am playing Jenik in the fall of 2011, in a full production of this opera. I have always adored Gedda's fluorid technique and I would love to have this as a tool for study.

[waltermontani]

teneri.......

[prazakvbrne]

It´s wonderful to see that this opera works so well being treated as a Wildean high comedy :-) And the translation is excellent and great fun :-)

[ZitraStatnice]

Very well...the end is indeed stupid and Mařenka doesn't enter. :-)

[ZitraStatnice]

This is very good translation actually. Far superior to others. Sticks almost exactly to the czech original...in this scene that is. :-) And both the actors are just great. Thx for posting.

[bcope54069]

Curious to see people call Tozzi underrated. Most opera fans I know consider him to be one of the finest basses of the twentieth century.

[tozzmonster]

That's my father!