Splendid artist in his prime but by 1962 time he was often singing slightly out of the side of his mouth. This was also noticeable in a Scarpia performance from Stuttgart the year before. Was London trying to compensate for some indisposition? This visual element was not quite the case yet when singing in his more extreme upper range which is still pretty impressive here although not on as high a level as a few years prior. The problem with London‘s vocal chords remains a controversial opinion but, IMO, the gradual deterioration of his instrument was slightly apparent at this time & became more severe in a couple years from this performance. Close listening to London‘s voice from around 1959 even, in live recordings, reveals the origins of his technical problems. In a live Scarpia from the MET in 1959 even, it took some time for his voice to achieve its superb timbre. Scarpia‘s initial entrance is a case in point. It made little impact but improved as the performance continued. I write all of this regrettably since London‘s singular & unique sonority in his best years always gave me great pleasure. There has never been an instrument at all like London‘s & as with some of the comments made below I agree that he had all the virtues vocally & dramatically that few artists during his prime could equal.
Una bella interpretación de este buen tenor ligero lirico y lo que falta es el agudo final.
@joaocampelo3725Ай бұрын
The high note is not written
@GeekZone2102 ай бұрын
Nemico della Patria?! È vecchia fiaba che beatamente ancor la beve il popolo. Nato a Costantinopoli? Straniero! Studiò a Saint Cyr? Soldato! Traditore! Di Dumouriez un complice! E poeta? Sovvertitor di cuori e di costumi! Un dì m'era di gioia passar fra gli odi e le vendette, puro, innocente e forte. Gigante mi credea... Son sempre un servo! Ho mutato padrone. Un servo obbediente di violenta passione! Ah, peggio! Uccido e tremo, e mentre uccido io piango! Io della Redentrice figlio, per primo ho udito il grido suo pel mondo ed ho al suo il mio grido unito... Or smarrita ho la fede nel sognato destino? Com'era irradiato di gloria il mio cammino! La coscienza nei cuor ridestar delle genti, raccogliere le lagrime dei vinti e sofferenti, fare del mondo un Pantheon, gli uomini in dii mutare e in un sol bacio, e in un sol bacio e abbraccio tutte le genti amar! e in un sol bacio e abbraccio tutte le genti amar! Or io rinnego il santo grido! Io d'odio ho colmo il core, e chi così m'ha reso, fiera ironia è l'amor! Sono un voluttuoso! Ecco il novo padrone: il Senso! Bugia tutto! Sol vero la passione!
@hermajesty522 ай бұрын
Stunning!! Aragall exquisite
@certified_modernschoolhater2 ай бұрын
Great legato! Wow.
@certified_modernschoolhater3 ай бұрын
Does anybody have the complete recording of this performance?
@mino75203 ай бұрын
Immortale Bastianini !
@user-dc7ze8cv9p3 ай бұрын
Aragall parece un joven Pavarotti.
@JavierBorja-bs1dd2 ай бұрын
Aragall tiene una voz más bonita y mas grande que Pavarotti. Yo he visto su D. Carlo 4 veces y es de lo mejor que he escuchado en mi vida. La frase "Io vengo a demandar grazia a la mia Regina" fue para la Historia. La voz, ahí y en toda la ópera, llenaba el Liceo con una belleza inigualable. Y soy un Krausista total, pero la voz de Aragall ha sido la más bella de la Historia, con la evidencia disponible, obviamente.
@carloslopez14133 ай бұрын
❤❤Magistral y Unica...Victoria.❤❤
@janzwolinski20773 ай бұрын
0:17 k
@christianroider1183 ай бұрын
With Tauber, lost in paradise😢❤
@richardlevin99073 ай бұрын
gorgeous; no one like him today.
@helmuthuber7663 ай бұрын
George London! Amfortas=God!❤
@max.s7773 ай бұрын
Amazing sound a true performer of the image of the germanic gods Wotan 😊
@liliananikiteanu79003 ай бұрын
Ein wahrer Wotan!❤❤❤
@aliena29794 ай бұрын
Maravilloso, ¿qué otra cosa puedo decir? Svanholm era fabuloso, uno de los mejores, y sin embargo no estaba siempre del mismo "humor" y sus interpretaciones en vivo son mejores, más naturales y sentidas. En concreto, de Walther von Stolzing sólo parece existir completa una versión en sueco y de los años 60, momento demasiado tardío. ¡Esta versión es gloriosa! Y, además y viendo el reparto, con unos Sachs, Beckmesser y Eva de campeonato. „Keiner wie du so hold zu werben weiß"
@jordipanadesribera68904 ай бұрын
Vielen Dank.
@mvlameiras4 ай бұрын
Um dos timbres mais bonitos que eu escutei na minha vida!
@tenore84 ай бұрын
Awe-inspiring.
@Claugremusique5 ай бұрын
A God!!!
@luigirampone99335 ай бұрын
Non si può dire che una cosa....Franco Corelli sei stato unico e noi tutti ti rimpiangono.Grande artista,voce sublime,uomo unico nell'opera eccelso... sentirti cantare è come sentire un insieme di strumenti musicali
@boristemkin5 ай бұрын
Great! IMHO, he was not true bass-baritone, he was bass with great top register (and that is not true definition of bass-baritone, true bass-baritone is between bass and baritone). His timbre is bit darker than Ghiaurov's. I have note pleasure to listen them live, so my oppinion is based on recordings.
@pabloperdomo51745 ай бұрын
Two giants of the opera world. De los Angeles, the best Lyric soprano of her time. Merrill the most beautiful baritone instrument ever.
@puccini45306 ай бұрын
Be grateful. The human voice really doesn't rise to greater wonder than this.
@adamfrandsen6 ай бұрын
Absolutely incredible - who cares if he breathes a few extra times in this. Worldclass!
@radames58556 ай бұрын
Stupendo Sigmund!!!
@sandram87506 ай бұрын
Sempre insuperabile unico❤
@user-gw6dp1wi5x6 ай бұрын
Es gibt z.Zt .keinen besseren Sachs!!!
@petergiljum6 ай бұрын
❤❤
@mk52446 ай бұрын
…Jahrhundert-Sänger sind nicht mit heutigen Protagonisten vergleichbar. Nicht einmal bei bereits hörbaren Problemen der Klangentwicklung. GL war ja nicht nur die unglaubliche Stimme, sondern auch die umfassende Persönlichkeit, auf und abseits der Bühne. Man sitzt und lauscht…Mi piace moltissimo
@andreasbettau59517 ай бұрын
Il mio Aragall........
@ladivinafanatic7 ай бұрын
Hello, where can I find the entire recording?
@marco-marchi7 ай бұрын
Che voce, Aragall! Che tenore!
@paullongden55047 ай бұрын
My favourite baritone very underrated not sure why he must be in the top 3 of all time.
@user-nv3ox8yd4l8 ай бұрын
Bravissimo! technique perfetto
@1932moffo8 ай бұрын
Wonderful ... two much underrated singers as far as I am concerned !
@sugarbist8 ай бұрын
A terrific tenor. Beautiful phrasing, quality and diction.