Giuseppe Giacomini & Maria Chiara - "Gia nella note densa..." from "Otello" - (Verdi)

Orchestra dei Teatri di Padova e Treviso -
Maestro Enrico De Mori - Modena 1994

[@carlosmonzo4102]

What an amazing tenor voice !! Nobody talks about him, when all those "brilliant critics" write that lists about "the best tenors"....

[@robertshell7394]

Agree, totally underrated

[@davidford8306]

Giacomini has always been number One, with me. I heard him live, in "Turandot" in San Francisco, and was amazed. This is what real singing is.

[@guillermojimenezlizano2965]

[@photo161]

It has been rumored that Domingo lobbied the Met to keep Giacomini out...makes sense...

[@jamesmiller6244]

Wonderful singing

[@cimbassovr]

Fantastici artisti x mia fortuna ammirati molte volte dal vivo❤❤

[@FredoBatista-fn3vv]

A sublime operatic duet with two marvelous operatic Stars 🌟🌟💙💙

[@Operanobility]

If only we could hear such singing today....

[@florianomasi3486]

due artisti spesso sottovalutati

[@expatmartin]

and pianissimo on the final note. Bravo Giuseppe Giacomini. What a great singer you are. Maria Chiara anche! Grazie

[@tenorjosh]

I think this might be one of the most glorious tenor voices I’ve ever heard. Just wow!

[@gioacchinodinolfo777]

Stupendo due eccelsi cantanti in un grande duetto.

[@brunaazzurra]

magnifico l'Otello di Giacomini e grandissima la Desdemona di Maria Chiara

[@VERONAcd]

La Chiara e veramente divina e Giacomoni - gigantissimo

[@giglioart]

My soul weeps to hear such a glorious sound like Giacomini's! We are so blessed to have this video.

[@fredojoaquim4764]

Sung from the soul. Duet betwen Otello and Desdemona.Lovely Maria Chiara (soprano) and great Giacomini, tenor.

[@martinmariani8974]

La voce drammatica di Giacomini è penetrante e suadente, un "Otello" notevole. Madame Chiara ha voce con note sicure e agili, dizione limpida, acuti compatti. Due grandi cantanti!

[@FredoBatista-fn3vv]

🌟💙🌟💙

[@kgarmaker123]

Both are exceptional.. and Chiara.... wow.. She looks and sounds great and she was 55 at the time. Giacomini.. huge voice, dark, and fabulous... Chiara, great sound, NO mannerisms.

[@traindriva]

He was 54 she 55 so they probably never sounded better.

[@guillermogoytia9993]

Yes,called the Tebaldi del Canto

[@tenore8]

Someday, the powers that be will realize that today's singing is bad and there will be a renaissance of really great singing. Until then, I will satisfy my musical taste with the historic recordings such as this one. Thank you baritono1975.

[@masonmcgowan2825]

I am an aspiring tenor, and I hope to lend a hand in that change. I agree wholeheartedly with you. It’s only a matter of time 🤞

[@michaelvaccaro3129]

I heard Giacomini at the Met in 1982, I heard him in Otello in Germany in 1990 and in Pagliacci and He sang in my Opera Company in 2009. The point you made caused me to start my own Opera Company in 2003. We are still going.

[@petrhorak5276]

@@masonmcgowan2825 same here. Good luck!

[@christopherdoran3608]

Teaching great singing is a dying art. Not easy to find the right teachers but persistence always trumps talent. Not every successful singer is talented like Giacomini.

[@alexandrkolesnikov9062]

Опера должна вернуться!

[@fredojoaquim4764]

Lovely, lovely. Very wonderful duet. Magically sung. Marvelous, marvelous.

[@voicetalks418]

This is the best recorded concert of Giacomini in existence. THIS day. What I would've paid to have been there.

[@voicetalks418]

amazing. I actually find his voice to be quite beautiful (when he's "on"). But the fact that you've heard him live doesn't really entitle me to an opinion about the true quality of his voice as I've only heard recordings. I heard anecdotally from long time opera fans in nyc that when he was "on" there was no better tenor (in the 80s at the Met).

[@voicetalks418]

well- "beauty" is a pretty subjective word I guess. Can't argue with any of the names you mentioned at all. Some people like red wine, others like whiskey. From this person the quote was "he was inconsistent, but when he was "on," no other tenor at the Met could touch him." So take those to mean whatever you like, my interpretation is above. Would kill to have heard any of the aformentioned names live (heard Domingo many times, and pav twice-though amplified at the end of his life). You're a lucky person.

[@voicetalks418]

I'm a big fan of Beczala today. He sounds much different in house than recordings. Similar story to Kaufmann- he sounds much more even in house than recordings where they place the microphone down his throat. Shicoff is great, I have some close friends who study with him currently. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

[@sugarbist]

GIACOMINI an excellent singer. Some nice comments on this page

[@vincec8218]

I've heard Beczała live three times, twice in Un ballo in maschera at San Diego Opera in March 2014 and once in recital at the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego in September 2016. His voice live has a golden quality that does not come across in recordings.

[@luisrenejuarezestevez175]

Una pareja perfecta..Giacomini con.el dramatismo de Otello y una sublime Chiara con su bella voz...

[@miwdiva]

So incredibly sad to hear the news of the passing of Maestro Giacomini!! An immense talent and great loss!!

[@iamsingin]

Oh good lord, that is good singing... Just mind boggling. Especially from Giacomini.

[@raulcesari4115]

Grandissimi. Giacomini è una vera "cannonata".

[@Huaimek861]

Two great voices and magnificent singers !!!

[@patriciapaape9238]

Beautiful.Thank you for posting♫♪ ॐ¸¸.•*¨*•♫

[@angeloforte2105]

Arte fatta col cuore! Due Dei!

[@lucianogualtieri6721]

Ma è bravissimo! Ed io credevo che solo Del Monaco fosse un grande Otello. Bellissima voce.

[@williamreynolds6332]

This really is about as good as it gets.

[@miwdiva]

Class act. Gives me goosebumps to listen to this...

[@user-dw3th2ws3s]

❤❤Прекрасный дует ..Великие мастера бельканто ..Брависсимо ооо❤

[@antoniogiocoli6768]

Grandiosi entrambi !!! Grazie, baritono1975 !!

[@fredojoaquim4764]

Maria Chiara, La Splendida.

[@user-id9dz4jl9n]

Какие золотые голоса!!!!!

[@Alessandro-tk2ll]

Meraviglioso

[@jefbonar6136]

viva italia.

[@robertsentieys6234]

GIACOMINI inégalable 💓 !!!!!

[@davidsolomon8203]

He has a remarkable voice and endless breath! I don’t care what he is called-baritone or bass-I don’t care! I’ll just take his singing, whatever the vocal classification!

[@gabriellafiabane8144]

grandi tutti e due Averne ora di questi cantanti

[@pinotermini1868]

Giacomini,VERO Tenore drammatico

[@trudainetenor]

On peut pleurer d'émotion.

[@MaestroRigale]

Giacomini's entrance right after 4:00 gives me goosebumps.

[@brunaazzurra]

stupenda esecuzione del duetto "Gia nella notte densa..."Otello" - (Verdi) Giuseppe Giacomini & Maria Chiara -from "Otello" - (Verdi)

[@pavarottithebest]

Grazie di cuore per quest'altro stupendo video. Saluti

[@elenakanakis]

Molto Emozionante vedere in questo video il mio Insegnate di Partitura d'Opera il M° "Entico De Mori" con due Grandi Calibri del Canto lirico italiano. Grande Musicista e Ottimo pianista d'accompagnamento con una Qualità Musicale di raffinata concretezza. Se oggi giorno diriggo le Opere del Melodramma italiano e Grazie a Lui e alla sua grade disponibiltà, umanità e musicalità! Giuseppe Sforza "M° Concertatore"

[@VERONAcd]

Stupenda esecuzione wow !!! Grazie mille per questo video !

[@javierserrano4324]

Sad day. R.I.P maestro

[@alexandrkolesnikov9062]

Прекрасное пение!

[@Desideria7]

Bravissimi tutti! Il direttore d'orchestra e' eccezzionale!

[@TimothyJonSarris]

This is how the duet should be sung! He is gone and she remains the last of the greats.

[@giannagloriamanetti8795]

Grandi con modestia ma altissima luce

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Wow !

[@germanquintero10121946]

MARAVILLOSA

[@MrOlogramma]

Giacomini é immenso

[@opricnik]

Oltre l’immensità. E nettamente superiore a tanti tenori drammatici.

[@luisrenejuarezestevez175]

Una bellísima versión con estos 2 extraordinarios cantantes que están en la élite del género

[@joseberenguer1916]

Voces del cielo

[@MrOlogramma]

Che Otello sarebbe stato Giacomini ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@opricnik]

Ma veramente non l’ha mai cantato?

[@lucaturchet]

Grande maestro Enrico de Mori!!

[@peteradaniel]

Brava Maria Chiara!!!! This is her at the end of a thirty year career, having sung everything from Odabella to Aida to Violetta to Mimi!! And 5 years off turning 60, that's if she's been telling the truth about her age(?) I don't know many female singers that sing this well when they're past 45 never mind past 50.

[@rodolfobonelli5246]

I fully agree

[@adrianogentili100]

Che meraviglia

[@carlosmonzo4102]

Me están dando ganas de "comparar"..... Pero no, no voy a caer en la tentación. El que tenga oídos, que escuche. ¡Sombreros fuera!

[@iubanne]

Maria Chiara, Giacomini... OLIMPO

[@paolograndinetti7609]

Straordinario.

[@stefanufer608]

The perfect Otello voice

[@gianniminetti4544]

Giacomini....bis, bis!!!!

[@AngelMedinaM]

?Puede existir una voz en el superbo estado en el que escuchamos a Giacomini?

[@averybargasse6130]

Giacomini at 5:29! That's all I can say.

[@irenavisockiene3735]

Puiku!

[@MaestroRigale]

vraiment...

[@joserobertocursod1341]

Giacomini un otellaso tiene el color abaritonado de otello q es para baritono con agudos y no para tenor x su caracter dramstico x eso vinay x eso giacomini vocalmente 3s impresionante.tiene wq ser.voz oscura actor.8mpresionsnte.un.leon.en escena furioso pero dulce tambien.asi.lo escribieron shaquepeskeare y el genio de verdi

[@gianfrancogiuntoli3648]

Giacomini, dopo di te c'è il nulla.

[@opricnik]

Esatto: apre bocca e asfalta tutti!

[@jenniferrocchi9162]

God...what happened to all the dramatic tenors...the masculine sound and timber...how awesome to hear Giacomini and Del Monaco...lot of tenors around and none make these great sounds...Melochi did a great job building these enormous voices... 2015...May...

[@RubyRosaRudy]

+Jennifer Rocchi: Giacomini, whom I heard and interviewed, was not a student of Arturo Melocchi. Del Monaco was, but not Giacomini. This is one of several claims that have been made about Melocchi that have no factual basis. (One of the more absurd is that Melocchi reworked Richard Tucker's voice during a non-existent "crisis" that Tucker never had.) Commendatore Giuseppe Giacomini was a very fine spinto tenor in his prime, but factually was one among many in that era.

[@photo161]

Good to know, thanks. Now I'm off hunting.

[@ericgarbutt8561]

The what happened question is specious. Now there are Jonas Kauptmann, Charles Castronovo....

[@Tkimba2]

Melocchi was a very bad teacher even according to Del Monaco, so...

[@LordMgls]

dois peixes na água

[@user-qm3vz2zv6g]

Как хорошо он прикрывает звук! Восторг!

[@fernandopinheirobb]

GIÀ NELLA NOTTE DENSA Na noite densa, Vênus brilha no céu, vista Pelo casal Otelo e Desdemona, em dueto Que marca encontro de júbilo, ela ativista Do amor, poeticamente em tempo allegreto. Otelo revela: já na noite densa, todo clamor Se extingue, já meu coração está tremendo, Domesticado no abraço, fortalecido no amor. A guerra tinha trovejado, o mundo vendo Horrores e o casal valorizam os sentimentos. Ocasião idêntica com o momento planetário São sinais mostrados pela rosa dos ventos. A pandemia espalhando ao mundo a chance De fazer brilhar a luz, saindo do imaginário Mundo em que foi destruído, sem alcance. (*) (*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - GIÀ NELLA NOTTE DENSA (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.

[@fredycastropinzon7342]

Este tenor tiene una gram voz pero parece baritono

[@graziellalandolfo4507]

Grazie mille Lei ha ragione

[@raynardi2326]

Ma Giacomini ha un tic o mi sbaglio?

[@augustocelsi2050]

ora è il mio momento

[@joserobertocursod1341]

Giacomini vocalmente supera a vinay no asi escenicamente y temperalmente pero suz baritonal.3s perf3cta verdiana paraotello.hran voz tecnica perfecta

[@DLJ2890]

the darkening of the tone also diminishes the resonance and pushes squillo yes, but there is little beauty in this - a voice pushing unnecessarily. sorry. Desdemona is wonderful.

[@joserobertocursod1341]

Q.bidn q cubre el.sonido perfecta.tecnica en cambio plasido Dgo hiso siempre lo contrario abre grita.ahora un desatre vocal.y nevio En

[@giovannievangelista5453]

Aveva già la voce baritonale, che bisogno c'era di ingrossare il suono così tanto? Scegliendo di fare il tenore, essendolo per estensione, ma non per timbro, doveva schiarirlo cantando più aperto, almeno nelle zone bassa e centrale.

[@lucagalliano8460]

A mio avviso, il colore scuro dei "regimi" bassi e medi, è ciò che ha reso unico Giuseppe Giacomini. Poi a livello di tecnica vocale, veramente tanto di cappello. Un tenore molto poco pubblicizzato ma, sempre a mio modesto parere, tra i più grandi

[@graziellalandolfo4507]

@@lucagalliano8460 così così

[@rodolfobonelli5246]

Concordo

[@lucagalliano8460]

@Cecilcern Man Ho semplicemente espresso il mio pensiero, nel totale rispetto di chi non la pensa come me. Fuori dal mondo, a mio modesto avviso, sono le persone che non usano il suddetto rispetto.

[@lucagalliano8460]

Avevo avuto questa impressione... se ho sbagliato, chiedo scusa.

[@mayarinaldi3921]

His voice is very baritonal in this tape...He is darking it...I prefer an Otello with vigor and energy but not like a bariton..The part was written for a heroic tenor,with pointed high notes...I think Atlantov was the best!