Di Stefano/Callas/Gobbi: Rigoletto Quartet

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[adremoid]

i do not believe there is any better.

all is perfect. Grande Pippo

[egrosz]

One of the greatest quartet of Verdi's operas! Beautiful!!!!!!!

[danfuller1000]

Does anyone have a pulse? This is one of the slowest renditions of this piece of music I have heard! If you are going to perform this so safely, you should be more spot on! Sorry Callas lovers, she is screaming again.

[aristopus]

Dz, I believe you are arguing from the argument of “ignorantum ad absurdum”.

It’s like criticizing a foreign language because you don’t’ understand it. Consider this: La Callas is important in American history, not even to speak of DiSteffano and Tito Gibbi. She was born here but once sang in Athens before the Nazis and they were greatly assumed and entertained.

Rich Goscicki author of Mirror Reversal.

Pick up a copy, strongly into opera and humanism.

[dziady1]

@aristopus The comment did not reflect on the opera as such - it reflected on the

dreadful yowling that passed as singing . I too have heard many singers in this, and

for me this take is atrocious.

[aristopus]

As I listen again to this masterpiece, I still feel disturbed by the ignorance of some of the comments. It reminds me of a Monet or Renoir being thrown into a pig sty and getting pissed on.

[aristopus]

Some of the comments here are very sad. It's as if people have been turned off to art. When that happens humanity is lost.

I'm 68 years old. One of the most eventful events in my entire life is around 1966 at Carnegie Hall when La Callas and Di Stefano flew into town. I waited half a day for two tickets, as the line cuecued past the Little Carnegie Theater.

For these legends to be spoken of so discourteously is a tragedy. The derogatory bloggers here have to study more.

[aristopus]

@dziady1 You just don't understand. Rigoletto established Verdi as a musical genius. It was considered his magnum opus until Otello many years later. Note the depiction of the storm that goes on outside the doors of the inn and quartet. It's not only the singing but the images evoked by the music.

See is you can compose music describing a storm. Plus he intertwined four singers, each with their own story, perfectly combined so as to blend into one voice.

[caldarella73]

everybody talks about the poor vocal technique of Pippo...but he is the only one that makes me cry every time I hear his voice!!!

[dziady1]

such yowling !!!!!!! from Stefano then the rest yowl more in not to be outdone by a bawling tenor , everything that gives opera a bad name- sounds as if they are stepping on tacks and reacting in pain - a real horror show ........

[harmonieautog]

Callas has marbles in her mouth.......Di Stefano gives a lesson in diction....

[danawinsor]

@Apollogranforte I couldn't agree more. I can just imagine Senora Lazzarini saying, "What am I, chopped liver?"