Richard Tucker - Recondita armonia - Live 1969

Richard Tucker sings Recondita armonia from act I of Puccini's Tosca live at the Met in 1969.

Gleaming singing here. His best rendition after the Chicago one of 1964 to my ears.

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducted, unfortunately.

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• richard
• tucker
• tenor
• american
• ruben
• tosca
• recondita
• armonia
• mario
• cavaradossi
• puccini
• 1969
• metropolitan
• opera

[stevevandien]

Man. Just listen to this rich, vibrant voice filling the Met:). Nobody like Tucker today --

[OettingerCroat]

"Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducted, unfortunately."

HAHA!!! you're harsh man! disparaging your OWN video! :-P agreed though, he was one of the most overrated conductors ever.

tucker is in ship-shape here, wow. really a tenor at the top of his game.

the recording is playing a tiny smidge slow, though. but nothing to worry about! :-)

thx for the upload.

[leadoffeohippus]

Lol, I guess I'm not alone on this. I got the famous 1966 corelli-nilsson turandot on itunes conducted by FMP, and some of his conducting is just weird. I mean it's fine overall, but there's some very unusual, choppy, over-staccato stuff that he does. Also some sections where the trombones are a bit too loud, like a high school marching band. :-P

[aaronsande]

Actually, 56 isn't old at all for a tenor...some never sounded better than they did around their fifties...

Excellent work by Tucker here, and thanks for posting it Moorhe!

[stevevandien]

Terrific. Simply great Puccinian singing.

[ShawDAMAN]

wonderful and again remarkable that a singer could be still be singing renditions that can merit the term "best" or "second best" of an aria at 56 yrs old! thanks much