Mario Lanza, the consummate tenor, sang high notes with no slide nor the hunting/pecking that others do. With perfect-pitch, he hit all notes pristinely, and with heart.
@vernaxxx8940
Жыл бұрын
While I enjoy the funny business in the film, it's great to focus on how wonderful his singing is, and how beautiful his appearance! Thanks for the post!
@davidhenrywall8619
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant voice one of the best voices ever
@richardsantostefano718
Жыл бұрын
wow!!
@ВалентинаПаршина-ф5д
2 жыл бұрын
Красота во всём!!!! Марио - лучший на Века!!!! 💯🕯️🙏👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
@timothybrown5802
22 күн бұрын
I saw this movie when I was 8 years old and my life hasn't been the same
@peterchristopher3527
Ай бұрын
One of the most perfect recordings of this aria . Strong reciative , incredible lagatos penetrating high notes ,no shouting like most tenors do ,what more can you want ? Peter Christopher
@rosannarisi622
3 жыл бұрын
Debbo ammettere che vedendo il film IL GRANDE CARUSO resta indimenticabile L esecuzione di VESTI LA GIUBBA ma rivedendo il film non possiamo che apprezzare ciascuna interpretazione di ogni aria presente nel film!Mario eri,sei e sarai sempre INIMITABILE! RIP 🙏
@rnhealer6044
2 жыл бұрын
What a magnificent voice that man had. So hauntingly beautiful this aria is when Mario Lanza sang it. I love his voice. Thank you for this video from The Great Caruso.
@maureenholtham9326
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Wonderful
@31.01
3 жыл бұрын
The Great Mario In Great Quality.
@hrbooksmusic7878
3 жыл бұрын
Delightful singing and aria... Personally, I prefer this rendition of „Celeste Aida“ (although there seem to be two little cuts in the recording) over the one in „That Midnight Kiss“ (fewer all too obvious portamenti which I‘m not exactly a fan of...) The quality and timbre of Lanza‘s voice are enthralling as always... ⭐️🌹⭐️ Thank you for sharing this enjoyable scene! 🙏🍀
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
I also take this recording over that one, bit there is another recording I like better still from only a couple of years later, that one is from one of his radio show Brdcsts. those Coke shows had some excellent singing and the recordings and takes they used featured some of his best recorded singing from his early days, however the Italian song album "Mario" later and his last film " for the first time" for me is his best studio recordings for the artistry and restraint combined with beauty of voice he uses, I think had he lived and card for his health and cut down on his drinking he would have gone opera, so did Pinza and others later. I like many other tenors as well in certain roles, some better then others, I'm not a huge Corelli fan at all, but as Calaf he is great, the best -- in Forza complete for me it's Tucker, in Boheme complete long ago Bjoerling and Gigli, but Lanza got great coaching in Rome, in spite of Rosati not going there for him as a coach. Listen to his last film, I have it complete on VHS video tape.
@hrbooksmusic7878
3 жыл бұрын
@@shicoff1398 As always, thank you for your recommendation! I own the Mario! song album, but didn‘t listen to it in a long time - probably because it‘s so much easier to just grab a CD - plus, my record player has terrible speakers... I hardly use it any more (my old one was very good, but it’s long gone!) The last film is also in my possession - on VHS video tape, same as yours! I bought it on DVD as well just recently. Quite recently. It‘s an Italian copy with both Italian and English soundtrack. Your comment makes me want to finally watch the movie again! And I‘m sure I‘ll find your favorite (as far as Lanza is concerned) recording of „Celeste Aida“ as well... Best regards! 🍀🍀🍀
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
@@hrbooksmusic7878 Yes, it's so tragic, as his singing in all the recorded arias and the song are all his best technically in a film when it comes to opera, he died the next year sadly, but as an opera fan I listen to many young singers, but sadly none these days are as great as what we had back then, for me anyhow.
@hrbooksmusic7878
3 жыл бұрын
@@shicoff1398 I absolutely agree with you! I‘d always prefer the great singers of yore over the „stars“ we have in our day. Do you mind giving me your opinion on Jonas Kaufmann, for example?
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
@@hrbooksmusic7878 OK --As you know I've heard some pretty great big voiced spinto and dramatic types in the last 63 years of attending opera and I did hear Kaufmann a couple of times many long years ago, early in his singing in the USA, it was in a concert gala and he sang one aria, he was terrific, very musical, polished and correct, no bad habits, fine artist and really good high notes, I thought a young/ great tenor, and then I saw him again many years later it, was far more spinto, and this time it was in opera --and I had a chance to hear more then an aria, the middle voice was not like before, not so good and almost like he was singing through a towel, it was just not right, then I was told years later he got better and was #1 in Europe, he sang a concert here and was improved-- but again the middle not like it was, still who else is around that is better today as a spinto or dramatic? I don't really know, but FC had a better more even spinto/dramatic type voice --- but Kaufmann is the better artist. Corelli lasted till his early 50's well, spinto Tucker even longer-- but not as dramatic in color, but he had it all for me in spinto roles and MDM in dramatic ones like Otello --he was a king!
@SimonTBam
3 жыл бұрын
It always amazes me the difference in the sound of his voice recorded on film to that recorded on acetate disks. There is a distinct change in the sound. It is blindingly obvious that it is the same voice, but it has a different sound.
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
They are both recorded under studio conditions, but recording producers have some input on the singing, from all I've read, ML's last concert available from the London Albert hall concert in 1958, has to be in more accurate and not altered sound, as you hear him singing live, and they have not enhanced the sound since then . An example of enhanced sound is a Jussi Bjoerling 1940 "live Ballo Met. opera brdcst." recording I own, on a pirate taped recording of it complete on LP's for over 40 years, but about 15 years ago a updated copy, complete on CD's was sent to me by another Bjoerling fan (I'm one of the many JB fans for many years, and I saw JB sing in the Chicago opera house in 1958 ) the up-dated Bjoerling CD's of the same opera made his voice sound twice as big as the original copy, released on LP'S, it was not that it was now on CD, but they enhanced the recording from the original one which already as with many singers, made his only medium sized voice sound much larger then it really was. My only point with some modern live records is that thy can make a voice like "Jussi Bjoerling" or anyone sound as dramatic and big as tenor Del Monaco. The old " original" "Mono" 1950's records are probably in most cases, more honest in sound then some re-released material today
@SimonTBam
3 жыл бұрын
@@shicoff1398 I am not for a second stating that they have enhanced the voice, merely that there is a big difference between his voice recorded on film stock and that recorded on disk in a studio. For example in his English language recordings for his early MGM films he sounds a lot more American than his recordings of the same songs on disk. Have a listen, his accent is a lot more pronounced on the film recordings than the disk recordings. However his operatic recordings for MGM are a lot more as 'rit than on his RCA recordings in most cases. Probably as a result of working with real artists and opera coaches etc. employed by MGM. It is fascinating I think.
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
@@SimonTBam Yes, I know what you are saying, of course I read that, As I have said I've talked with many that worked and even sang with Lanza when I worked in classical radio in the 1960's -- and of course the important thing as I've said is a producer and director in any rec. or film, even in complete opera recordings can ask for certain habits and ways of singing a song or aria, and the singer is often too some extent, not a lot but some up to a producer, even in Language use (maybe sadly at times at their mercy) it's not always just up to the singer, for example (in answer for you) I've talked with so many about ML and also discussed him, with some who sang with him, like with Kirsten, Thebom, Amara, London, Grayson, Liz Doubleday, manager Sam Weiler etc. Anyhow You know, if you also want some really wonderful singing technically also with ML, go to his radio show-- from the early 1950's --- some fine songs and arias are sung really very well, and then listen for two different records, of say "Student Prince" early with Callinicos as the cond. and a later one in Stereo sound with a different director Etc. and Cond. "Paul Baron," they had him sing it a bit differently, I prefer the first one, and so in fact the other one is now OP, now and so very rare-- and not my choice over the earlier one. No singer can be heard exactly as he is in most cases, cause some voices also record better then others, and I know that because in over 63 years of opera going, I've heard most all the greats in my time-- and I'm in my 80's, --OK some voices just do record better then others do, so luckily I heard so many and I knew many folks who did hear ML live, besides his family and mother in law, many great opera singers I heard and knew luckily being older and in the loop and once in the work force, -- but again I like him/ML in some records more then others, of course as you do, I don't argue much, not with anyone, cause I don't care, I know what I like, just my own opinion we all have our opinions-- no right or wrong.
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry about the lines above.
@shicoff1398
3 жыл бұрын
@@SimonTBam Yes and that last film he made in 1958 in Italy ( the film title "For the First Time") he made contains a fine recorded "Vesti La Giubba" aria, that not only is more polished then any he sang, but would stand a critical review from any top flight Critic of the day, including Chicago's Claudia Cassidy or New York's Irving Kolodin, both, two of the top professional music and operatic critics of their day. He had as you said many top flight director's and coaches there in Rome.
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