As funny as it sounds, as an opera singer I know how hard is to present difficult arias in front of an audience. Opera is the MOST difficult genre and most of the times it's a mind game...if you're afraid of something, it won't work for sure... Maybe those singers went out of breath, had bad singing day or for whatever reason they couldn't get through it without messing up, they are humans. In live music everything can happen and no one is imunned of mistakes

Florence Foster Jenkins would be jealous

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I remember back when this made the rounds on "opera disasters" mixtapes at conservatory in the '90s! 😂

Wonderful projection!!

What??????

Excellent!!!!

I was there! We didn't know it was Vickers. Unless you happened to be look Iooking at his.favlcr at that moment. I thought it was a crazy audiencr.member, but it.was written up in the Dallas paper the.next day.

It’s the fact that there’s metal in the sound from him scolding an audience member

Every live recording from an opera I’ve heard are riddled with coughing. Why is that? At live recordings in other genres, there seems to be far less.

The "divine' Olive M.

Is there any way we can find out who the singers are (besides Nicolai Gedda)?

The problem with "I Puritani" is that the tenor part was written for the "tenorino" Rubini. There is no reason for tenors to attempt a high "F" which is way out of the tenors' range. The tenorino range is closer to alto or counter tenor.

pavarotti 3.05 i think

what a lovely voice, RIP Honor

Is this by any chance the grandfather clock aida person?

First performance i ever saw at the Met of Carmen in 1998, the baritone cracked

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Yoko Ono

彼は見事に回復し、結局のところ、一行や二行を忘れなかった人はいないでしょう...特に今回のような長いオペラでは...彼はさまざまな言語で歌い（ほとんどが母国語のハンガリー語ではありませんでした）、完璧に歌いました！

My toxic trait is that, if I crack, I stop. The show will not go on lol

Tremendamente efficace....brava

It's so obvious Tebaldi masterfully conveyed with this very theatrical feat the exact moment when Marguerite loses her mind completely right after her brother dies cursing her. It's meant to sound like crying that turns into laughter that then becomes a desperate and uncontrolled laughter, a laughter without joy, but with a somber, even scary feel, as if she just can't control the hysterical laughter as a sudden dissociation from the harshest reality. Tebaldi did make her sound like she is clearly broken, her senses having been definitely shattered, and acting bizarrely and hysterically, as expected to explain how she is caged in a mental hospital in the next act and was able to kill her own baby. Say what you wish about Tebaldi's acting skills on the stage, but VOCALLY she had an extremely rich gamut of vocal expression through colors, phrasing, portamenti etc.

There is a possible solution for this-ban audience to enter the concert or opera performance if they are sick or smoking addicts.

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At the end of Tosca she would get upon a box and when it was time to jump a stagehand would grab her by the waist and carry her off!

There's an urban legend that Sutherland and Horne went to one of her performances. Horne almost had to be carried out out when prostrate from laughing, and Sutherland's comment was 'I never in all my career got such applause!' lol

Well, for me this is the best version ever!

Bravo!!! They sing in such a way that one can touch the colorful cords of Carlo. Didn't know this version. Thanks. Are their recofdings of Gesualdo madrigals available online?

It is a clean even voice that soars effortlessly the higher it goes

Der beste Tenor der Welt

So glad this was posted! I was hunting for it. So many opera singers have shared it prior to computers. He is trying so hard and expressive. with no technique! It is so perfectly awful it is a gem!

Inquietante... Peraltro, da italiano non so dire in quale lingua stia masticando. Belcanto significa cantare sulla parola

Bliss, sheer bliss...

Hard to believer she sang at Covent Garden under Beecham, mostly in Mozart operas!

She needs to listen to Ffj

Jesus Christ. Just . . . wow.

It's amazing how some people start hacking away as soon as a concert starts. They should feck off out of the theatre.

0:25 1:34 2:05

Until you hear Sue's "Sempre Libera" from the same session, you ain't heard NOTHIN'!

Does somebody know who is singing in second piece, just after Gedda? I can't stop laughing 😂. And however, the voice is beautiful!

Pity it's just the first part.

It's the "Oh my god" at the end that does me in.

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I saw Vickers at Covent Garden in Tristan and he was imperious...but having heard this, I'm glad I didn't cough!

The catalogue says 2/26/78. Germont was Dominic Cossa; cond. Pallo. I talked w/ the guy who had the original recording. He said they never found out the woman's name. The note reads: "She was obviously afflicted in some way."

It's remarkable that these recordings weren't destroyed.

I recognised two times Nicolai Gedda, one time Luciano Pavarotti and one time Ferruccio Furlanetto. The tapes of the other singers are too bad.

Atleast he can sing Piano!

Is the Che Gelida Manina Pavarotti? It sounded like him.