Bryn Terfel - Air du Toréador

From "New Year's Gala '97" concert. Bryn Terfel, Anne Sophie von Otter, Veronique Gens, Stella Doufexis, Orfeon Donostiarra.

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Music

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• Bryn
• Terfel
• Toreador
• Bizet
• Carmen

[LaFeeVerte1209]

Wonderful! This was on Radio 3 this morning before I went into my english exam, what a way to start the day.

[kerimun]

Bryn is amazing, but I cannot take my eyes from the baroness

[Marina65610]

То ,что техника и произношение немного хромают это ерунда , зато какое преподнесение образа ! Красив , красочен , уверенный, и знающий себе цену Эскамильо ! Актёрское мастерство Брина Терфеля затмевает все погрехи!!!

[DanyNicola]

@zbrownie25 You said it. 40 years ago Terfel would have been a joke. He is a caricature of the great baritones of the past.

[zbrownie25]

@DanyNicola yes bryn is really bad thats why hes making millions of dollars singing...

[DanyNicola]

@rickshawsonson Bryn Terfel always does that. He drastically opens vowels and shoves them in his nose. It sounds horrible. What's good about Bryn Terfel is that he brought lots of people into liking opera. What's bad is that people think his is a quite normal "singing technique". Listen to the the baritones of some time ago. By God, that "car avec les soldats" in the beginning is above and beyond ugly.

[rickshawsonson]

@DanyNicola I'm pretty sure that's cuz it's a french vowel, but I haven't yet studied this aria.

[DanyNicola]

@spyridon77 His "singing technique" has to be very wrong. 0:27 is nasally and horrible. Nobody has ever applied this "singing technique".

[operafool875]

this is a very poor example of escamillo. Screaming......Escamillo needs to be more balanced, in charge, and dignified

[EriolAB]

is that the berlin philharmonic? The Oboist is Albrecht Mayer, so...

[bwink239]

Terfel is a wonderful singer and spectacular in many roles, but he is not my choice for an Escamillo. His voice is far too heavy and instead of delivering a story telling version, he ends up seeming like the villain, which Escamillo is not. I also think that the orchestra and chorus were fairly emotionless, the balance was shocking, and there was nothing special at all about this performance. The Toreador aria is a dynamic scene, not a work for concert. It should be seen, not just heard.