Robert Merrill- Hamlet Drinking Song

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This week we celebrate the 90th birthday of all time great baritone Robert Merrill. In this rare clip from 1957, we see and hear Merrill at his best in the Drinking Song from Hamlet. The tone is so rich and beautiful as to defy description, and this incredible voice, which perhaps was taken for granted by a few due to his almost 800 performances at the Met alone, set standards that have never been matched in dozens of different operas.

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• hamlet
• thomas
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• baritone
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• drinkingsong

[jackylen57]

Jolie voix mais sa diction en français laisse à désirer!

Merci

Jackylen

[Bigman240]

Not a linguist but what a great voice!!!!0:36 LOL

[Casey5693]

@jackylen57 Il parlait en francais! On ne se voit pas!

[legatofancier]

Simply one of the greatest baritone voices in the history of recorded sound! That's really saying something! What richness and focus!

[MrSkylark1]

@stevevandien

No more because the impressarios and vocal teachers have no concept of the

Art of Singing.

[lpvcrcd]

@lpvcrcd  sorry for the typos

[lpvcrcd]

I am assuming this is from the Voice of Firestone as these type of sets and background singers were their specialty Anotyher amazing vocal b y the great barioptne The richness and cleanly focused and placed tone from top to bottom Thanks for the clip . As I have said before- there must have been something in the water when these golden age singers were in training

[legato29]

@Apollogranforte Hahahaha!!! These comments are great!

[legato29]

@Bigman240 Hahahaha!!! He did a good job of covering it though-- I wouldn't have noticed it if I weren't learning this.

[Pudzwery]

@Apollogranforte It's french.

[Apollogranforte]

I don't know....His Italian was pretty well perfect!

[Apollogranforte]

One of the greatest baritones EVER.