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@MacTsar54 Yikes! The Caruso recordings always give me the shivers (in a good way).....I'd probably be reduced to a quivering mass if I heard him live.
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I think the closest to Caruso's aria was Mario Lanza's recorded for the movie For The First Time in 1958, just my opinion.
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Pavarotti is a pygmy compared to Caruso.
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In-fucking-credible.
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Incredible voice - I wish I could have heard him in person. I have a feeling Pavarotti is probably the closest the late 20th century has come to his voice. I don't know if there will ever be another of such caliber!
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@ydracomagusy Well said! What an incredible experience it must have been to watch him sign in person!
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@Ojedazweite2 Good question. Both men are without doubt incredible. For we who grew up listening to gramophones and 78's can still be moved by Caruso. The same can be said when I listen to Pavarotti (the being moved part) in and with all of our modern technology and recording ability.
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My great-uncle, who used to go to the Met with my grandmother before 1914, and by himself later, said to me many times that what you hear on Caruso's disk is a pale shadow of what the voice was like in person. Just a shadow, he used to say.; also that the physical presence of the voice was overwhelming.
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The greatest singer ever. Period. The greatest opera artist/actor there will ever be. His voice just make you get hit with human electricity and emotion. He understand the universal language of feelings and primal sounds.



2:22 2:56 I've never heard any dramatic tenor hit a high note that directly and clearly and with that much damn ping. I can only imagine what it must have been like live.
ydracomagusy 2 years ago 24
ask a tennis player today if he would prefer playing with the wood racquets and strings of 30-100 years ago... same with the singers of today who simply would not want the disadvantages of a horn- no amplification- no 50 splices per aria- no mving in and away from a horn while singing. Yes you can do many things in a studio. Luciano as great as he was, would have been the first to tell you how grateful he was to be able to use modern technology!
lpvcrcd 2 years ago 12