Placido Domingo - Tosca - Recondita Armonia

This is from a 1992 production in which Tosca was performed in the exact places of the libretto, in something close to real time. The orchestra was a few miles away.

1992, Conductor: Zubin Mehta.

For a free english translation, please see the following:

http://operainenglish.blogspot.com/2011/08/recondita-armonia-tosca.html

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[flautist]

I disagree about the bass part. The flat voice is the character of the role. I think he did great.

And of course Domingo is awesome. The role suits him better than it does for Pavarotti.

[NEL5s]

i love placido!

[Imamummy2]

I remember this scene well - just before he sings this he had to walk down a long sloped platform and he fell and skated down on his backside. Then he stood up as if nothing happened and sang this.

[LucaYune]

THE BBC MAGAZINE PICK NO.1 GREATEST TENOR OF ALL TIME

[sugarbist]

@witness124 I think that you are partially accurate. Pavarotti is more suited for the lyric roles.However, Domingo is a lyric spinto tenor at best& to say that he owns the dramatic repertoire is a real stretch of the imagination,even for a devoted fan.Dramatic is Delmonaco, Merli, Zenatello Tamagno Vickers Paoli Piccaluga Martinelli.Spinto, is Corelli Tucker, Lauri Volpi,Fillipeschi, Pertile,Fleta.All these tenors in the spinto category were more suited for Dramatic roles than Domingo.

[sugarbist]

He starts out tight and is pushing all the way.Changing the position of the vowels&squeezing, which is preventing him to round out his phrases. He is also short of breath. But he ends with a good B-flat which is helped by audio enhancement.This role is just too large for him.Does the KING have clothes or doesn't he?

[guillejau]

@Daniel6996ful sei tu...

[ABK2687]

@bijdehandjes123 Het is een van mijn lievelings opera, en deze versie, met deze zangers vind ik onsettend mooi..

[carbukoski]

@MartueLoru eh già beccato!!!! ti ho scritto ma non hai risposto ...no problem.bye

[MartueLoru]

@carbukoski ahahahah beccato!

[witness124]

@flautist Agreed. I can never make uo my mind which one I like more, but I'll say this - I think that Pavarotti was dinitely more suited to the lyric roles, but Domingo totally owns the dramatic tenor repertoire.

[carmelo3782]

@carbukoski DOPO PAVAROTTI SI