Nesta última vinda ao Brasil 🇧🇷, também esteve em Juiz de Fora. Se apresentou no cine Teatro Central .

What year is this recording?

Olivero was not accompanied by the Concertgebouw Orchestra at this farewell concert in Amsterdam, but by the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Шедевр!

Very versatile for Italian opera singers. He did German works well too. That legato!

What an orchestra!

Verdi died just 14 years before this recording! Amazing.

Nearly 60 yrs old and still spellbinding 👍👍

Kurt Weil (Musik und Seele), Bertolt Brecht (Worte und Verstand), Lotte Lennya (Herz und Gesang und Bewusstsein)

Beniamino Gigli estava impecável ao lado da Diva Maria Callas em 1954, mantinha muito de seus atributos vocais de decadas passadas. Não esqueçamos que aqui Gigli estava doente com miocardite, diabetes.

1:26:00 Tre parole

Het is prachtig, wat een stem. Ik luisterde dit al thuis bij mijn ouders, zo mooi!😢❤❤❤

Still the best version ever, especially Lotta Lenya. Many have tried to emulate Lotta Lenya, but none has ever surpassed her.

Impeccable enunciation.....his Questa O Quella is timeless.

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Prima

Phantastisch

recordando una maravillosa voz

...che aveve a me tu dato....

....che aveve <tu> a me dato..

Adoro quest' incisione che mi ha fatto conoscere quest' operetta! Grande Di Stefano che può dare il meglio di sé con l' uso del suo mai usurato fraseggio e della mezza voce. Ottimi gli altri cantanti ❤

I'm listening my way through Gigli recordings and this is well below his best. Not surprising i guess. Some of it has a "shouted" quality, and some a "gruff" sound. A far cry from the days when every note was pure and beautiful.

But I saw him in New York in the '60s...

Glorious recording!!!❤

Marvellous both in quality and recording quality. Thank you so much for sharing this with others.

Awesome achievement

Wonderful.

Three penny : 4 sous ?

Many thanks for the presented historical and musical-artistic artifact... An exclusive author's work as a conductor❤💥

Well... Retirement was the right decision. The audience is generous but the applause must be related to to what had been, not to what there is, because there is little left of his former vocal glory. In fact he was already as good as retired, when you give only a few concerts here and there you actually don't have much of a career still going on. He had had a 38-39 years career singing entire roles and this is not at all bad as far as longevity goes. In our misguided times fans seem to think the longer a career the greater the artist, but there is nothing admirable or distinguished about a long career per se. It's admirable only if one can keep the quality going on. This does not mean one should quit at the smallest sign of trouble, but the moment the problems become obvious, it's time to kiss the stage goodbye. It also depends a little on the singer's stock-in-trade - if it has been voice rather than musicianship, rhythmic definition or expressiveness, they have to quit when they unravel vocally. If it has been musicianship, taste, etc, they might keep on a little longer because as a rule the musicianship and dramatic force are enough to compensate for the loss of vocal beauty, though not for long, and only if tessitura and ability to do dynamics have not been severely compromised. Just my opinion.

A remarkable enterprise for its time, as is the 'Walküre' set which embodies about three-quarters of the first act. As the soloists who are named above do not appear on this record, I presume it is likewise part of a set. The Blüthner Orchestra operated until 1925 and developed into the later Berlin Symphony Orchestra. It worked with distinguished conductors such as Max von Schillings and seems to have specialised in giving career opportunities to very young players; its first leader was the 21-year-old Louis Persinger, and the future conductors Eugene Ormandy and Hermann Scherchen played in the orchestra while still in their teens.

Wunderschöne interpretation

Thank you 😊

Is this performance of this 🎉🎉piece as good as the BOBBY DARRIN 45 ? 😮😮

I love Viennese operettas, especially those from Lehar.

Ogni grande cantante ha dato tutto quello che poteva nella sua epoca. Graze a mio padre, che ne era un appassionato, ho imparato a conoscere l'opera e i suoi grandi interpreti apprezzando gigli per la sua linea di canto dolce e melodica, però, il panorama lirico offre una scelta enorme di grandi tenori e la mia preferenza personale va a Mario Del Monaco, un innovatore nel canto, voce possente e drammatica che ha dato lustro anche lui all'arte della lirica.

É e sempre será a voz mais linda de tenor que pisou a face desse planeta. Não é a toa que era admirado por Franco Corelli, Jussy Bjorling, Mário Lanza, Luciano Pavarotti, Ferucio Tagliavini , Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giacomo Lauri Volpi, entre tantos outros gigantes da opera, sem mencionar Giulieta Simionato, Magda Olivero e inumeras Divas de ouro da Lirica do passado. Este concerto revela um Beniamino Gigli cansado, acometido de problemas de saúde, mas é inegável que entre dez maestros renomados e competentes pelo menos oito ou nove são unânimes em atribuir a Beniamino Gigli principalmente na fase do Metropolitan de N.Y superlativos de beleza e primor vocal e interpretação. Sua voz era tão sobrenatural que ele fazia o que praticamente queria com ela sem nunca forçar a voz. Na minha humildade opinião, se ele tivesse continuado a cantar no seu repertório inicial, sem ampliar para o Dramático. E não tivesse acometido pelas enfermidades , nesse concerto ouviriamos um Beniamino Gigli o qual a crítica maliciosa engoliria a própria lingua, e o grande público de verdade, aquele de pessoas de coração aberto e amante da Boa musica, um deleite puro.....

Old school singing. What a gem!

47:35

Na 48 jaar nog prachtig om te horen met soliste Thea Vermeulen Peek.. Tilburgse dirigent Jan van Wees.

Ah, lembrei-me do nome da adaptação do Chico Buarque, a famosa "Ópera do Malandro". Ufa!

Essa ária é da "Ópera dos 3 Vinténs" que o Chico Buarque fez uma versão brasileira. Tem alguém para confirmar essa informação? Minha memória já não está muito bem. De qualquer forma, o teatrólogo Bertold Brecht é um dos grandes, no mundo. Kurt Weil, também, é um compositor lírico de primeiríssima linha.

Absolutely wonderful performance of La Traviata from the Royal Opera House, Stockholm, in Swedish. Terrible events were about to start taking place across the Baltic, but the audience is able to forget their tension and be transported by music.

Gigli is remembered by all who heard him sing. Even at the very end of his career the technique was still there. Pavarotti and Caruso were fans. See recollections of Pavarotti hearing Gigli in the early 50's. With the possible exception of Titi Schipa has there ever been a voice of such colour and beauty. The critics point to certain dramatic idiosyncrasies but that is the POINT, Gigli was unique. He was and remains a giant of the vocal art.

New for me, at home iin the sixties we had a 33LP with Sandor Konya whom I adored. Still do.

Alfredo Kraus was in a class of his own, but this Des Grieux is the best of them all !!

What a treat !! May be my grandmother (1899, huge operafan, she took me with her in the fifties & sixties) was there. Thanks !!

Good to the Last.

Simply astounding! Gigli was and remains the pinnacle of operatic singing. A true artist. Only Di Stefano comes close.

L'UNICA CHE È RIUSCITA A FARE DEL CANTO UNA VERA PREGHIERA!!!!