Gigli sings "Di Quella Pira" from 1936 film Ave Maria

Gigli, off-camera, sings the last part of "Di Quella Pira", while his manager Amadeo, played by German actor Paul Henckels, reads his fan mail and checks out the female admirers in the audience.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Opera
• Gigli
• Trovatore
• Di_Quella_Pira
• Ave
• _Maria
• Verdi
• German
• film

[angelovocci]

trust me, Gigli had his high C's... Had a phenomenal bel canto technique. he definitely had High C's. Mio Deo!

[pippomelodrammatico]

Gigli always sang "Il Trovatore" in key, with high C in "Di quella pira" and also high C# at the and of the first act.

Listen to live recordings!

[RolandfionaRuby123]

beautiful music

[fabriou]

@Baritanist speaking of "deaf" collectors.I ve met so many "teachers" in my life and you cannot imagine how many of them don't understand anything of music.I can accept if a beautiful and famous singer at the end of his career goes downt to teaching.but if somebody doesn't "make it"and protect themselves to teaching,it means that he is not an artist at all. In fact,as i told you,99 percent of teachers had better teach people in history or geography than singing.possibly this is your case

[fabriou]

@Baritanist I 'm not a fan of Gigli myself...not only for manrico...but to say that Mccracken was a good manrico means that you judges singers only from their capability of REACHING notes with a big voice.there are other ingredients:phrasing,goog RECITAR-CANTANDO, perfect italian diction. mccracken was crap.

Corelli was good(I don t like Corelli on the whole but for some roles he was suited), a wonderful manrico was Di Stefano (possibly as a teacher you won't like him but it doesn't matter).

[Baritanist]

@fabriou Collecting for 20 years does not mean to understand the art of singing either. Sorry, I know many deaf collectors. Collectors are armchair experts and know nothing about THE REAL THING.

For Manrico you need a BIG DRAMATIC VOICE. Gigli did not have that, he was PURE LYRIC.

[fabriou]

@Baritanist I ve been collecting and listening to every voice of the last 2 centuries for 20 years...to take McCracken as a good example of singing is such crap that I cannot believe it....

He is one of the worst singers in terms of phrasing, I ve ever listened to....

by the way....being a teacher is not a proof of understanding The ARTE DEL CANTO...

Sorry

[paulostroff99]

Superb! TY WeicheWotan for posting.

[Baritanist]

He was no dramatic tenor and should never have touched a role like Manrico. If you want a real Manrico, listen to Tucker or McCracken. I am a singing teacher and I teach the technique of Richard Tucker. Visit my channel and contact me for more info.

[fabriou]

@TrovadorI'm not a fan of Gigli...I prefer very much more pertile, martinelli ...but I never trust Celletti. Celletti wanted to become a tenor...he didn't make it and he accontented himself to become a critic...he hated the idol-singers...because they had made it...and privileged small-voices ....everybody knows it...to quote the stupid Celletti is a stupid thing to do

[guglielmo64]

100% True, Good Ear!

[235binelli]

favoloso