Giacomo Lauri-Volpi's Vocal Range

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"In studio settings he could sing a ringing E flat above the top C."
Source: Ponselle, Rosa; Drake, James A. (1982). Ponselle: A Singer’s Life. p. 93.
Stefan Zucker: What was the highest note you heard him sing in person?
Franco Corelli: E-flat. He had almost three octaves at his disposal.
Source: www.belcantoso...
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Music sources:
• Turandot "Nessun dorma... ("Nessun dorma" in Turandot)
• Video ("Recondita armonia" in Tosca)
• 100 Greatest Singers: ... ("A te o cara" in I puritani)
• Video ("Di quella pira" in Il trovatore)
• Video ("Act I trio" in Il trovatore)
• Lauri Volpi canta Gli ... ("Dillo ancor" in Gli Ugonotti)

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@tenorandrewowens Жыл бұрын

don’t forget the recollections of Ilka Popova, who toured with him in Monte Carlo, and said he ended the stretta of ‘Trovatore’ with a high-E instead of C.

@orlando098 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful tenor. Corelli said he had more squillo than any other singer

@cobaltblau8373 5 жыл бұрын

+orlando098 I agree. His voice was like an instrument.

@orlando098 5 жыл бұрын

@@cobaltblau8373 Yes, I just love this singer, he could do anthing from sweet and delicate to 'atomic' as one poster put it. But I have the impression that maybe like so many singers he eventually got into the habit of pushing even his amazing resources too much and singing too loud to often, so he lost some of the beauty and delicacy of the voice. But on the other hand I guess it's hard to say as aging will do that anyway to some extent :-/ But anway, Lauri-Volpi in the 30s was maybe the best tenor ever, I think.

@songohan3931 4 ай бұрын

@@orlando098not really. He sang nessun dorma perfectly when he was 80

@songohan3931 4 ай бұрын

Also i don’t think he was the loudest. Loudest lyric tenor-sure. But i doubt he was louder than say del monaco. Now obviously i never listened to them live but it just can’t be

@ZENOBlAmusic 3 ай бұрын

@@songohan3931 Both Corelli and Lauro Volpi had louder high notes than Del Monaco. Del Monaco had a big middle register.

@trrill 4 жыл бұрын

He does sing a low Bb in the Forza duet (kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJXFdqZre7B4qa8). It's weak, yes, but that's an exceptional note in the tenor repertoire, and the role was written for a dramatic tenor besides.

@somerandomguy84 Жыл бұрын

Indeed and I think people confuse LV's abilities with his choices sometimes. He was intentionally conservative about the lower register, it's not that he didn't have it.

@pedrosergio2002 Жыл бұрын

What are the vocal categories of all human voices?

@orlando098 6 жыл бұрын

I read an account by a soprano who used to know him well when he was young - she said his calling card was his impressive top E. He used to be particularly proud of it.

@cobaltblau8373 5 жыл бұрын

+orlando098 So it seems very likely that he was able to sing a ringing high E, though I don't know of any recording of it.

@operaforever8545 Жыл бұрын

It was a mezzo-soprano, Ilka Popova, and she said about E-flat. He sang easily E-flat in the end of "Di quella pira" (!!!) many times in 1930s.

@operaforever8545 Жыл бұрын

@@cobaltblau8373 It was a mezzo-soprano, Ilka Popova, and she said about E-flat. He sang easily E-flat in the end of "Di quella pira" (!!!) many times in 1930s. He declaimed in his "Voci parallele" that his range is F2-F5, what a humble man 😂 P.S. I think he could have high E, his high notes were absolutely effortless

@НиколайМалахов-я7щ Жыл бұрын

Если бы у меня была верхняя ми, я бы тоже гордился

@ZENOBlAmusic 3 ай бұрын

@@operaforever8545 Yes, he could have had an E5, but I doubt very much that he had a F2 his, even D3 note sounds like a struggle.

@orlando098 6 жыл бұрын

Here's the article. She refers numerous times to the famous Es. www.operavivra.com/articles/meetings-onstage-lauri-volpi/

@ariasemusicaslegendadas7657 Жыл бұрын

He can sing Bb2

@absdyna 4 жыл бұрын

The D natural is actually a fake. It's a C# from Ugonotti that became a D natural because of transfer and speed.

@cobaltblau8373 4 жыл бұрын

You are surely right. The high note is a Db in the score. "Les Huguenots includes bel canto in the true meaning of the term-that is, 'beautiful song', with its long extended phrases and pianissimo phrases-and also a cadenza where the tenor goes up to a high D-flat, half a tone higher than high C." - Nicolai Gedda (1999), My Life and Art, p. 86.

@absdyna 4 жыл бұрын

@@cobaltblau8373 It's a testament to Lauri-Volpi's voice and technique that it sounds almost legit even when the pitch isn't correct

@ZENOBlAmusic 2 ай бұрын

@@absdyna Not really, speeding up or slowing down vocals was a standard technique that was used to shift pitch. For example The Beatles often used this technique. Of course Lauri Volpi is still amazing, but when a note is modified in this way it does not say anything about the voice.

@absdyna 2 ай бұрын

@@ZENOBlAmusic yes it does. Pop singing is not opera singing. There is a lot riding on timbre in opera singing. LV doesn't sound the same a Db5 is turned into a D5.