Big voices comparison

A collection of four tenors to disprove two common misbeliefs about voice:
1 Slim bodies produce light voices / big voices need big bodies
2 Light speaking voice means light singing voice
The samples are:
1 Franco Corelli
2 Mario del Monaco
3 Giuseppe Giacomini
4 Franco Bonisolli

[@piccaluga35]

Bonisolli, never afraid to tell the truth

[@jacksparrow5281]

I love Bonisolli-he cracks me up. He is a jokester but no one today could touch him or any of the others.

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[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

Bonisolli is a lyric, Corelli is a spinto, Giacomini and Del Monaco are dramatic tenors. All these four are wonderful.

[@oliverdelica2289]

Hell yeah. If only they ever collaborated in a concert together, they could one up each other on who's the most dramatic 💯💯😌😌😌😌

[@waynewilliams4706]

Mario del Monaco was a tenor who sang everything Loudly and little else. Most of the time, he Bawled away regardless with very little shape to the Arias. It was if someone was prodding him from behind saying SING UP MARIO nobody can here you. I remember his early recital on LP under Alberto Erede, one of the arias was Nessun Dorma belted out for all its worth. At the same time, Charles Craig had an LP out and he also sang the same aria Nessun Dorma which had a shape and Feeling to it which completely eluded MDM. Its not all about who can Yell the Loudest. Musicianship plays a Large part in Singing.

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

@@waynewilliams4706 Charles Craig is incredible. I like his Pollione.

[@waynewilliams4706]

@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 Thank you for replying. Charles Craig was also a remarkable Otello, Radames and Chenier. A very underrated English tenor, but widely admired in Europe and further a field. Liste to the Final Duet from Andrea Chenier on youtube.

[@joseenriquerojomartin5654]

No creo que bonisolli sea un lírico...alomejor en sus primeros años...luego destacó sobremanera en Manrico... Calaf...y Chenier que no son roles para un lírico.

[@Jaaakob]

Likewise, a light voice can also be a very loud one. Light does not mean small. All variations exist.

[@oliverdelica2289]

Ohh yes definitely. Too bad leggeros have also meant tiny voice 😔

[@falkfink]

Klaus Florian Vogt is a good example of this. His voice sounds weak and almost childish in tone, but he carries over orchestras better than almost anyone.

[@LuisHernando-t7y]

@@falkfink Some people have even compared Vogt's voice to Penno's in terms of sheer size, being described as "booming" and "unbearably loud"

[@jacksparrow5281]

yes the guys are all great no doubt and I love them all. There is a quality in Corelli’s voice that I have not heard in any other. Corelli’s voice seems to draw you in and caress your very soul. His voice reaches into you and captures your attention and will not let go. Unico.

[@bharp4390]

Couldn't agree more. The tonality of his voice is unmatched. A perfect blend of sweetness and warmth.

[@maximtuboltsev6046]

I love them all, but for me Del Monaco is the best!

[@Agorante]

I never heard Del Monaco live. He of course pretty much saved San Francisco Opera or at least the career of Kurt Herbert Adler but he was gone by the time I moved there - never to return. I heard the other three. The War Memorial Opera House is a big theater and needs a big tenor. Other big voiced tenors I heard there were Jon Vickers, James King, Jimmy McCracken, and Vladimir Atlantov.

[@CarlosGomes-wi2ti]

Is it true that Atlantov had a bigger voice than Vickers and King?

[@spieltenor2775]

I heard Vickers and Bonisolli live and had a chance to be onstage with McCracken. Of course, any dramatic tenor will have pipes......but I think Vickers had the biggest voice I ever heard, and Bonisolli was the most impressive. McCracken was a very unique voice.....extremely broad tone.

[@andymanland]

@@spieltenor2775 Great great info. What was so impressive about Bonisolli?

[@spieltenor2775]

@@andymanland He was in a different league....effortless top extension, absolute conviction on every tone, and his overacting was at first comical but then, as you adjusted to the intensity of it, thrilling. He sang every tone like it was his last, and gave of himself with complete generosity. I will never forget hearing him sing.....it changed my life.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

All of course were great.

[@seaquest8]

The little clips are such a nice touch! Oh Franco... - possibly the least boring singer of all time 😂 both his voice and personality never fail to draw hordes of friends and enemies. Personally, I think he was arguably the freshest voice to hit the opera stage in my lifetime. So fun to compare all the great interpretations though!

[@liedersanger1]

WHICH Franco!

[@sugarbist]

Freshest? how so?

[@andymanland]

Bonisolli 😁😁😁

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

Corelli or Bonisolli?

[@ivanfrancescoiodice]

Questi erano Tenori.

[@giovannipaisiello289]

Già...... adesso abbiamo quei coglioni del "Volo"

[@ceceliaclarke8427]

great video...thank you. The final tenor is delightful, singing and speaking.

[@user-cg6cb9tu2y]

Great Bonisolli

[@rationalsceptic7634]

The don't make Foghorns like that anymore 😃🙏❤️😁

[@andron16]

Incredible video!!! Thank you so much! Mario is hilarious!!!! : )))) All these great beings are amazing!!!! I love them all! My favourite is Franco Boni! : ) BRAVO IMMORTAL TITANS!!!!

[@martello79]

great video! And what a surprise that Del Monaco even screamed in his speaking voice ;)

[@sugarbist]

An idiotic remark.

[@matOpera]

That’s how it’s done; the only way to sing opera :D

[@numetutelare]

Tutti bravi, con qualche distinguo... ovviamente si tratta di gusti...piccola chiosa MDM gigioneggia come al solito ma era parte del suo carattere

[@numetutelare]

@@alessandromoccia471 Accetto le sue puntualizzazioni... quello che intendevo, per quanto degno di ammirazione era quella insopprimibile voglia di protagonismo che mostrava negli atteggiamenti e nella gestualità che appesantiva il personaggio... certo in parte la aveva anche Bonisolli, mentre era ad esempio completamente mancante in Corelli. E direi anche in Giacomini...Diciamo che veemenza e qualche stentoreità potrebbe essere evitata senza compromettere una linea vocale di grande portata. I miei non erano appunti ma rilievi discreti che forse potrebbero rendere ancora migliore la sua vocalità che è generosa ed ampia... usi l'anima, la spontaneità ma non segua nessun esempio, ogni voce ha una personalità propria ed a mio avviso il suo timbro naturale è perfino migliore di quello del suo ammiratissimo mentore... ripeto è un mio giudizio personale, ma ci rifletta, raramente ho dovuto ricredermi. Auguri di cuore.

[@TrainFan-tk4yq]

Ah yes, the four squillo kings.

[@eltontowersey7953]

bonisolli has squillo? you hear it?... I love the guy. expressive and awesome range. Amazing tenor. But he is an example of great voice with no squillo, for me.

[@diegoreviati5166]

Yeah, but there are others. When it comes to pure, laser beam squillo, almost annoying so muche intense It is, I'd say Lauri-Volpi wins the Trophy. Gino Penno, Galliano Masini, Fisichella, Cecchele... there's a lot

[@ic.73]

@@eltontowersey7953 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX3Cool4j8xgmq8 Laser like squilo at the end

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

@@ic.73 There is no squillo at the end in your example. Look at Franco Corelli singing Che Gelida Manina, and all of the squillo he has: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5C1knhnaNuZadEsi=qRHdyxs7xQqLsZWI Bonisolli was great singer there are little bit of squillo in the early parts, but not a lot. Corelli even has squillo on his lower notes. Anyways this is actually quite a fun comparison, you can clearly hear from this aria and these two examples that Bonisolli had a lyrical voice (a very big lyric voice), and Corelli fundamentally had a heavy dramatic voice, he just had spinto like high notes.

[@seadrifter8975]

Correli delmonaco giacommi bonosoli titanic voices also like lanza"s improvvisio here in YT too! an Aria you don't here sung much outside of the opera stage?

[@Etnalleb]

Primo Tenore Bonisolli. Secondo MDM Tre Corelli

[@ic.73]

Bonisoli sang with his natural voice, no artificial darkening with Melochi technique etc

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

@@ic.73 Bonisolli's voice was much smaller then Del Monaco and Corelli's voices.

[@davidsimmons654]

Love these Giants!

[@TonyPartington]

A interesting study. Indeed, it would be even more interesting if Bonisoli were not lip-synching. I have noticed that many of the televised performances, (i.e. "Voice of Firestone, etc) of tenors are lip-synched. This is understandable, I suppose, if there was not a competent orchestra available. The tenors I have seen in supposed LIVE performance on television just to name a few : di Stefano, Corelli, del Monaco, etc). Very interesting though. Thank you for posting.

[@langleytw]

Bonisolli is not lip-synching. It is an audio delay in the footage.

[@manicmamc291]

Such incredible voices. It’s a damned shame that modern singers have failed to live up to their power.

[@spieltenor2775]

Ah yes..., but consider our divine and flute like falsetto!

[@spieltenor2775]

Yes, but consider our divine and flute-like falsetto! (Thank that Franco!)

[@Bobrogers99]

Earlier singers had to fill the hall with their voices. Modern singers depend on body mics and amplification to do it.

[@paulkelley180]

Franco is heads and shoulders above Del Monaco and Bonisolli. Giacomini is excellent as well.

[@heroesakordes]

Incomparables todos. Muy buena selección, Stefano, GOOOOLLL

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

Franco Corelli was the best Andrea Chenier, having the fire and passion, but also the sensitivity and nuance of a poet. Corelli had a voluptuous voice, full of beauty and power. It is rare to find a big and beautiful voice at the same time. I also really like Giacomini's very baritone like sound, he is very underrated. Mario Del Monaco is Mario Del Monaco, he is not just full out all the time, he does have some nuance, that being said, I do think he does not use enough subtlety with Andrea Chenier, as I said he was able to do it, so it was just a choice he did not employ in this specific aria. Corelli sings Un di all 'azzurro, with the absolutely perfect emotions, he is wistful, dismayed and urgent. Bonisolli sees himself as the Tom Jones of opera, Tom Jones also had a pretty big voice. He is entertaining, just not always in a particularly musical manner, it is in a very campy manner.

[@Bobrogers99]

Although I've listened to opera for many years, it was only last year that I encountered Giacomini on KZbin, and I was impressed. I agree that he was very underrated.

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

@@Bobrogers99 Yes, it is a shame. He was heavily overshadowed by Pavarotti, Domingo and Carras. He was much better in dramatic repertoire then Domingo, but he had a quiet guy next door personality. Perhaps he was also slightly overshadowed by Corelli and Del Monaco who had just left the scene when he appeared. They were good looking tenors, with big personalities. and anyone who sings this repertoire are still compared to them. But I think it is more of a problem that many people simply love lyric tenors, they do not understand dramatic voices, that why you need to stand out. And lyric tenors are constantly singing heavy roles, which are not meant for them. I have also not followed opera that closely for a long time, it wasn't until I discovered Corelli more recently. But I really enjoy Giacomini as well.

[@gianlucadaglio]

Giacomini è assolutamente un gentiluomo.

[@paulkelley180]

Corelli amazing!

[@marcandregingras992]

Sono abastante daccordo con lei !

[@miguelortiz471]

4 gigantes de la ópera diferentes y parecidos a la vez , spinto y Dramáticos, en ciertas áreas mis favoritos

[@stevenmathers6661]

I saw Bonisolli twice onstage - both times as Calaf. I loved him. Great singing? Yes. Subtle? No.

[@athosbuenoteixeira7098]

Gigantes

[@prdn8]

Bonisolli being modest :D

[@radames5855]

4 fenomeni.....

[@tya1912]

bonisolli😂

[@draganvidic2039]

His HAIR... 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nikaguliashvili2959]

Yeeeeees!🙏🙏🙏

[@stoyanbonchev479]

Mr Giaccomini all the way !

[@fredycastropinzon7342]

Giacomini y. Delmonaco son los mejores en esta aria

[@SpintoTenor25]

What piece is this?

[@denisotello6474]

Un di all'azurro spazio- Andrea Chenier.

[@wilsonwatt9283]

Bodies and voice are not causally related as this shows. One of the most penetrating and carrying voices I ever heard in over 50 years of opera going was Alfredo Kraus, who was neither tall nor large but had absolutely perfect Spanish school technique and thus could sing almost any role except the full dramatic/Wagnerian tenor roles.

[@rolfkristianknudsen2437]

@@absdyna ? Nasal ...Alfredo Kraus...No way

[@rolfkristianknudsen2437]

@@absdyna Good for you.

[@massimocassano2545]

Tutti mi stupiscono, ma l unico che mi emoziona per abbandono nostalgia malinconia ed anima vibrante e'......... Del resto il suo Chenier è entrato nella leggenda proprio per la capacità di saperne differenziare le sfumature interpretative atto per atto creando una attesa costante nell ascoltatore. Al di là dell avvenenza scenica Poi altri saranno stati anche timbricamente più dotati ma la suggestione che riesce a creare nei suoi anni migliori e ' non comune

[@sabinmarcusan2537]

What’s the aria?? Gotta learn this one

[@boristemkin]

Giacomini sounds almost like baritone here.

[@rationalsceptic7634]

Yes..very much like Kauffman..low Tenors who can hit the top notes

[@fabriziosarcinelli7566]

@@rationalsceptic7634 Kaufmann is throaty. Kaufmann only at 60

[@rationalsceptic7634]

@@fabriziosarcinelli7566 So was Caruso throaty..and Domingo... Kauffman is the best all round Tenor today...he is a greater Musician than Corelli et al He sings Mozart, Bizet,Puccini,Verdi and Wagner .. enough said!

[@fabriziosarcinelli7566]

@@rationalsceptic7634 you are funny. Being dark doesn't mean being trhoaty.Caruso,Del Monaco and Corelli were dark, Kaufmann is throaty. You can sing all you want, but if you sing all bad, you are a bad tenor. Kaufmann has not a dark voice, so he fakes it with is trhoat.

[@fabriziosarcinelli7566]

@@rationalsceptic7634 and Domingo is bad too. He is the nasal king

[@L-iu7cs]

Si Corelli hubiera coincidido con Fleta se hubiera cagado en los pantalones

[@pabloqueipo]

what's the name of this aria....?

[@denisotello6474]

Un di all'azurro spazio- Andrea Chenier.

[@davidflores7482]

Ojalá lo pudieran traducir al español

[@jackbigbug]

E Placi Mingo? 🤭

[@LorandPercsi]

:-) Nice joke!

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

Who is Domingo? I only know Pmifasol Solmingo.

[@anttonyuchiha3]

What's the name of this song?

[@Luifernal6]

un di all'azzurro spazio

[@albundy7280]

"un di all' azzuro spazio" de Andréa Chénier .

[@pavarotti744]

The hobnail boot brigade.

[@waynewilliams4706]

The wisest and most accurate comment on You Tube. The shout the loudest Gang. Crash, Bang, Wallop. Where is the Artistry, phrasing and shaping of the Music beneath? Where is the Musicianship? Pretty well nonexistent.

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

@@waynewilliams4706 They all had different levels artistry, Franco Corelli had the most. It sounds like haven’t listened to them very much. Corelli never screamed, he always just had a very big voice. He sang with a lot of different colours, nuances and emotion. He had great legato, diminuendo and mezzo voce. Mario Del Monaco could also sing with some nuance, if he wanted to. Giacomini also tried adding some nuance to his voice, but he had a very dramatic tone of voice, that did not always allow for many different colours. They sang heavy repertoire. People don’t understand dramatic voices and their repertoire. It is often very dramatic and fast, expressing the strongest of emotions. They are portraying strong men, battle commanders, generals, leaders and princes, over bigger orchestras. That is what is required from them. It is dangerous for lyric tenors to force their voices too sing with too much forte, or heavier repertoire. The same is true of big dramatic voices as well, it is dangerous for them to try and lighten their voices or sing much softer. If you don’t like dramatic repertoire or tenor roles that is fine, there are a lot of lyric tenor roles that you can listen to. But you shouldn’t expect or demand dramatic tenors to sing like lyric tenor in their own repertoire. What would even be the point of having dramatic repertoire at that stage? If it was so easy, every would easily do it, there hasn’t been any proper dramatic voices of or decades in opera. So it is really not easy.

[@Etnalleb]

Bonisolli, then all the rest.

[@victoriasuarez5644]

Etnalleb bonisolli Mónaco corelli

[@matOpera]

Etnalleb Scherzi?

[@aigazigadjiev6972]

Original - "Caruso, then all the rest".

[@carlosmonzo4102]

En mi opinión, el único en este video que no tiene el mismo "caudal sonoro", potencia y volumen, es Franco Bonisolli

[@FrancisAsin-Gioro]

Corelli' s life long problem is that he always was singing too heavily.

[@matejknezevic6989]

Steve FOX Your life long problem is that you are deaf.... Corelli is force of the nature.

[@Jacob-ry3lu]

He would not have been able to sustain a career for as long as he did singing the most grueling tenor roles if he "sang too heavily" as you say. His voice was dark, yes, but with core and squillo to balance it. Chiaroscuro. Every great singer has it. Kaufmann is an example of a singer who sings too heavily in a bad way which results in a swallowed and thick sound with little core to balance it. The balance must always be there

[@Agorante]

Yes Mr. Fox, Corelli always sang wrong. That's why everywhere on earth the name of Steve Fox is revered and the name Franco Corelli has been forgotten.

[@ToyPlains]

Corelli is one of my favorite tenors ever (tied with Giacomini, Bergonzi, and Windgassen), but to say that Corelli's choice of rep or technique did not take a toll on his voice is untrue. He spent his entire career singing some of the heaviest Italian rep in the tenor catalog. Singing like that is bound to take a toll on one's voice no matter what, and that is perhaps why he never undertook Otello and ended his career before the critics or audiences wanted him to (while also aware that his intense nerves were the reason, but perhaps that was the root of his nerves--more recent recordings of his have a much darker tone with a wider vibrato than is characteristic of Corelli). He didn't sing incorrectly or disingenuously for his voice, but his choice of rep *did* have an effect. Not that I disagree with what you have said, just thought I'd put that into the mix.

[@johnblasiak607]

Steve FOX you are an IDIOT Seems the general consensus here

[@rationalsceptic7634]

It is a musical and historical fallacy to assume old is better.. The Great Tenors of the Past were not unique..we have amazing Tenors now of immense beauty,so take your bias musical BS about Corelli and De Monaco et al..and wake up to the 21C. Time and Styles move on,why dont you?

[@kayaalniak3423]

Is there a tenor comparable to Corelli or Del Monaco to-day? Kaufmann perhaps, but who else ????

[@BaroneVitellioScarpia1]

@@kayaalniak3423 Kaufmann? Ahahahahahahahaha! 1 Del Monaco = 10000000000000000000 Kaufmann

[@ulrikewermann1268]

@@kayaalniak3423 Kaufmann fakes being a dramatic tenor best, using a mikro - second best was Carreras ;-)) he faked it with big gestures.

[@ЮрийМасленников-ш6в]

@@kayaalniak3423 ы1

[@자유롭게-f4h]

당신은 오페라를 공부한적없죠? 공부를 했다면 이런 말도 안되는 소리를 할수 있는지 의문이네요!

[@SpintoTenor25]

What aria is this?