Great Tenors of the Past Sing MASCAGNI: Bernardo de Muro; Carmelo Alabiso; Giuseppe Tacanni.

Bernardo De Muro: "E passerá la viva creatura" from Isabeau (1912).

Carmelo Alabiso: "Tu ch'odi lo mio grido" (1926) from Isabeau.

Giuseppe Taccani: "Ombra esecrata" from Guglielmo Ratcliff (1921).

What do you think? Great, aren't they?
Why aren't they more famous?
Why these operas from Mascagni are not represented more?
Who knows a good version of "Isabeau"?

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• MASCAGNI:
• Bernardo
• de
• Muro;
• Carmelo
• Alabiso;
• Giuseppe
• Tacanni.

[operbathosa]

Thank you again maxlorenz24 for posting. Who was performing on track 1 on the original posting? Thank you.

[maxlorenz24]

They were Ernesto Badini and Fernando de Lucia, performing "Obbligato, obbligato" from "L'Elisir D'Amore"; a look to the 19th century style.

[MsBoccanegra]

Yes, I totally agree. You are absolutly right.

[Ricocarrino1]

Your voice is good, unfortunately only for one thing: My playlist vocal disasters

[sugarbist]

@qklq42 I hear it. It's wonderful along with the rest of the aria.Thank You

[qklq42]

@sugarbist

His pronunciacion of the letter A. Listen to his ...gloria Á te....at 0.39. A wonderful note !

[sugarbist]

@qklq42 De Muro definitely had a stentorian quality.Yes, he was very small in stature,but there was definitely nothing small about his voice.De Muro did tell my father that  he would feel ridiculous singing Otello because of his minute stature.He also did a beautiful Chenier,Trovatore,Cavalleria,A­ida&Carmen.I'm sorry, I don't know what aaa is?

[qklq42]

@sugarbist

He had an amazing large voice, but heself was a very little, small man. So small, that once a famous soprano,Maria Farneti, refused to sing with him together in an opera. He had a beautiful voice for the role of Othello, but he never sang the role on stage.

I also like him for his very bright voice: listen to his aaa. So clear as the first day of the springtime. He died in 1955.

[federricoilgrande]

Quell'aquila di Mascagni voleva protestare De Muro....salvo poi fare macchina indietro dopo i trionfi del piccolo grandissimo tenore sardo :)

[65attila]

Bravi to Mascagni for the music and the tenors for truly exciting performances.

[sugarbist]

the only other singers ive heard do these arias from isabeau are gigli and del monaco and i think they are all wonderful. de muros voice was suppose to be larger than del monacos in the theatre . if thats accurate , he must have been pretty amazing

[michaelvaccaro1]

@MrCafiero

Dear MrCafiero,

You are so right.

There is absolutely no comparison with the singers of today and the singers of the past.

The last great performance that I heard was in 1982. "Il Trovatore" with Price and Giacomini.

I also enjoyed very much the "Nessun Dorma" of LoMonaco. Bravo!

[qklq42]

Well, he centainly was the one and only Folco. The greatest interpreter in this beautiful Isabeau of the great Mascagni. Thats my opinion.

Hans NL