Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

Lawrence Tibbett - Toreador

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
28,869
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Mar 21, 2006

Listen to the magnificent dark hued timbre and ringing top. Notice his trademark intonations on exclamations such as in the phrase "Ah! que se passe-t-il?"

Category:

Music

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 6 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • Without doubt the greatest baritone singer to walk on any stage. Listen to his dark sound, the perfect placement, the amazing dependability of his voice that the audience loved to share! That dark sound never needed tinkering with by engineers! It was amazing! I don't think Warren, standing side by side with him, would hold up to comparison. Thanks for posting this.

  • He certainly had a lot of Swash to his

    Buckle. Spectacular. Bravo for the

    post.

see all

All Comments (37)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • @bodiloto wow. at last someone you like hehe

  • Thank you so much for posting this. Just going through some of my grandfather's papers (he was an impresario back in the 40's and 50's). I found a program from a recital Lawrence Tibbett gave in Salt Lake City, 1945. Here was the lineup: The Land of Dreams by Handel, Tobacco by Hume, I Am A Roamer Bold, Mendelssohn, Four Serious Songs of Brahms, Schumann's Arabeske, Brahms Rhapsody in B minor, Di Provenza il Mar from La Traviata, then an intermssion. He sang 6 more songs after that.

  • My mom studied at Julliard in nyc, and did some spearcarrying at the Met. She loved to tell us how nervous Mr. T. was sometimes. He chewed gum to get calm, and one whole section of the main curtain hid his discarded wads of gum!

  • SUBLIME!!!

  • One word for this performance- amazing! I totally see where Thomas Hampson is coming from when he talks about how charismatic Tibbett is, his acting is riveting here, so vivid and exciting. And he has a superb voice, one of the true golden voices of the twentieth century in my opinion just by powerful it is in the lower and higher register. He performs the Toreador song wonderfully, very good french as well. Do check out Metropolitan, it's very good and Tibbett is the best thing about it.

  • And quite a dashing actor, too!

  • ONE OF THE WORST I HAVE HEARD!

  • @paulostroff99

    Thank you for this. LT was IMO the best I heard in this aria,

    John

  • Wonderfully performed.TY for posting.

  • In his attempt to describe Lawrence Tibbetts voice, the host doesn't understand

    the Art of Chiaroscuro

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more