Tebaldi and del Monaco in Andrea Chenier (vaimusic.com)

http://vaimusic.com/VIDEO/DVD_4419_Chenier.htm
Renata Tebaldi & Mario del Monaco sing "Vicino a te s'acqueta" (Act IV duet) (Giordano)
From: VAI DVD 4419 Andrea Chenier
From the archives of Japanese Television (NHK) comes this magnificent document of tenor Mario Del Monaco and soprano Renata Tebaldi in a live 1961 performance of Giordano's verismo classic. The supporting cast includes baritone Aldo Protti, and the performance is conducted by Franco Capuana.
Optional subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Black & White, mono, 132 minutes.
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[michaud1]

Born to sing that opera - both great. There is something about italian singers, they give a lot of passion to the music.

[wlswardf]

Tebaldi is radiant here as always. del Monaco is not at his best to my ear. He left examples of both more passionate and more musically exact performances (audio only).

[sugarbist]

@gaytenor Wow!That's fascinating. I guess the mystique for me is over with.I appreciate you responding and I thank you once again.

[gaytenor]

@sugarbist In a hand written letter to me Tucker said that "Otello is for tenors who blast their voice" That remark says it all concerning his singing Otello on stage. He even refused to record the opera for Decca/London according to Terry McEwen who was the company's US representative. McEwen told Tucker that he could select the singers he wanted to sing the opera with! This statement being made on the Texaco Opera Quiz not all that long after Tucker's death.

[SHICOFF1]

CONT from below. Tucker sang Otello in the short version's they did of opera's on national radio in Chicago in the Mid 1940's. The WGN radio station did Brdcst opera weekly in English only on a national basis and I have some of the programs, Tucker in fact sang on the Chicago Theater Of The Air as early as 1944 the year before his Met. debut in Gioconda. He sang Boris, Aida,Carmen,Boheme,Tosca and many more including several operettas Naughty Marietta etc. Many more Americans sang on that show.

[SHICOFF1]

@sugarbist I was in Tucker's dressing room after he sang a recital in Los Angeles in 1968. (Jan 28th) at the Music Center and I remember an older woman fan came in telling him how much she liked the program he sang but then she said to him "When are you going to sing Otello? His short answer was " Thank you but No I won't because it would hurt my voice" That's why I believe he never would but he sure had the volume for it from all I heard from him in house. Actually he did sing Otello CONT

[SHICOFF1]

@sugarbist Yes-- exactly right and that also was my impression of Corelli when I heard him in house, not really a dramatic tenor the way some of his fans insist. As far as Domingo imagine this, I heard him as Otello in Chicago in the 80's really just wasn't Otello, also too small for it. Again a case of recordings and in house being a different story. Luckily I Saw MDM sing it in 1959 when my parents took me to La Scala and that was really an Otello. I was only 19 but remember it well!

[sugarbist]

@SHICOFF1 Sorry it took me so long to respond,as for some reason,I'm not receiving some e mails.I thought Corelli sounded darker on records and a little more lyric live.Corelli's voice Live is not as noisy as it is on records.As far as Domingo is concerned,I really don't get the attraction. I think he is a fair tenor at best when comparing him to most of the great&good tenors in history.I think PD is a lyric spinto. I saw him in I Pagliacci circa 1995& he was hardly audible.Very dissapointing

[sugarbist]

@SHICOFF1 i'm surprized that you are saying that Tucker would never sing Otello. As a spinto tenor his voice would qualify for the role& his vocals were certainly good enough.I think it would have been pretty interesting to hear RTdo the role.I unfortuneately never heard Tucker live.Idid see Corelli live in Trovatore in early 1960s, I thought his performance was terrific,but I also thought the High C in the Pira was a little opaque.The D-flat in the Terzetto was very impressive & more out front.

[Baritanist]

@gaytenor Shut up MOMZER!

[Baritanist]

@gaytenor Hello again, JERK. LOL you are a complete wacko. Stop stalking me, dickweed. We have all heard YOUR singing. Ignacio Gomez can do a better job. I have reported you and your libel, and hopefully you will soon be EXPUNGED from Youtube. You are just a little stupid SKUNK who keeps LYING about the great Stanley. Listening to your tape I understand why. Cause you are JEALOUS. LOL, pathetic clown. Learn how to sing one clean vowel, then we can talk about Stanley. It's never going to happen.

[SHICOFF1]

@gaytenor Wow I'm surprised Tebaldi would say anything and I would like to see that but who knows if she really did. Like you say he sang it with all others in Key. Tucker really liked her and visa versa but later it was as you say.