Best moments of: ANDREA CHÉNIER (Callas, Caruso, Corelli etc.)

[@dennisj.3439]

Bastianini's opening act aria is awe inspiring and beautifully sung!

[@carolpaynter8181]

Wonderful, one of my favorite operas, I especially like Franco Corelli's interpretation. He just fits this role so well.

[@BestOperaMoments]

Other recordings with great interpretations of title role are Del Monaco in 1949, 1954 and 1955, and Domingo in 1967 and 1970.

[@trudischleifer7245]

Corelli = Chenier

[@jeaninemahieu5164]

Merveilleuse Renata Tebaldi et splendide Mario Del Monaco

[@elwachinmanda]

R.I.P Gianni Maffeo, he passed away on january 2nd 2022, what a magnificent huge voice he had

[@BestOperaMoments]

It's such a pity that he did not receive the recognition he deserves during his lifetime - he stayed away from stardom deliberately, so as not to be embroiled in the vanities

[@corneliuswhite5139]

I love this smorgasbord of great singing!

[@marisamassimino6418]

I migliori, Callas, Tebaldi, Maffeo, Giacomini, Corelli,Bastianini, e naturalmente Del Monaco che È Chenier.

[@BestOperaMoments]

Senza dubbio!

[@davidsimmons654]

Love your channel!!!!

[@BestOperaMoments]

Thank you :)

[@davideferrari5702]

Tebaldi aveva la voce di Maddalena....

[@eberlinpascal2837]

La mamma morta: Callas ,Callas ,Callas !!!

[@arrassip]

No

[@RBP1963]

It lacks Montserrat Caballé & Josep Carreras in this resumee!

[@BestOperaMoments]

I am just not convinced enough by these two in their respective roles.

[@RBP1963]

@@BestOperaMoments both were performing such roles in MET, Barcelona and other theatres ! I was there and it is clear for many people!

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

Where’s Lina? Where’s my Lina?

[@BestOperaMoments]

Callas wins in this aria hands down... it was a true pity that I had to exclude her

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

@@BestOperaMoments Besides Callas, I also like Lina Bruna Rasa’s Maddalena. And why you didn’t use Callas and Del Monaco’s final duet? I think it’s superior to the one you used in this video.

[@BestOperaMoments]

@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 Well it's transposed down, and I always avoid choosing transposed recordings. It just doesn't do the composer justice no matter how good the singing is. Again, this is just my opinion.

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

@@BestOperaMoments But fortunately you included Gianni Maffeo’s Nemico della patria. He is so underrated.

[@BestOperaMoments]

@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 I had not heard of him before I listened to your Nemico della patria F# compilation. I did not look at the screen while listening and I jotted down the ones that I thought were best; I was surprised to find out that the one I had rated number 1 was a baritone that I hadn't even heard of before! Then I discovered more recordings of Maffeo and he is surely one of the most underrated singers ever. In this aria he sounds like a bass!

[@natanaelgorrin9473]

Bergonzi hizo un gran Andrea, es un tenor que hizo muchas cosas excelente, lo prefiero a Giancomini. Callas siempre es la mejor en todo aquello que cantó.

[@BestOperaMoments]

Me gusta mucho el Bergonzi tambien.

[@arrassip]

TEbaldi better than Callas in Chenier. Callas only sung one time.

[@natanaelgorrin9473]

@@arrassip suficiente para dejar su huella imborrable en el rol.

[@Orfeus80]

We get the common theme now..Callas in everything. Her voice in this (and verismo in general) showed more holes than a block of Swiss cheese. She has no place in Chenier, great as Medea and Lady Macbeth though. Scacciati, Bruna Rasa, Caniglia, Fineschi, Tebaldi.. all of them can provide the kind of vocalism required in this music. You get it when it comes to Bastianini, Del Monaco, Corelli etc but the adoration of Callas clouds your judgement.

[@shaundudley4576]

maybe its because a hole in her voice has more substance of meaning and musicality than all the combined density of all others combined.

[@Orfeus80]

@Shaun Dudley some of us don't buy that marketing slogan of the Callas club. Especially now that there's a plethora of interpretations available online from the dawn of the 20th century.

[@shaundudley4576]

@@Orfeus80 I and many others have no problem celebrating the many splendours of other wonderful performances of this music indeed it adds to our awe at her greatness. It seems the people afflicted with a clouding of judgement are those who need to denigrate her to find any worth in anyone else.

[@Orfeus80]

@Shaun Dudley you sure don't, as long as the celebration ends with Callas being branded better than all the others combined...

[@shaundudley4576]

@@Orfeus80 The Colossus straddles the landscape with commanding presence, the content and horizons of which is forever transformed and infinitely expanded. This is inevitable and a historical fact. The seeming shadow cast by this Himalayan reality is no shadow at all but simply the effect on those who lack the capacity to adjust their sight to the visionary light spread by its brilliance that allows so much more to come into view. The Revelations are indeed transformative and lifegiving. We don't brand her, she brands us