Jerome Hines last performance 2001

[@Stolzing82]

I was there. Hines was amazing. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. As an NEC student, I was able to get in early and be seated close to the stage. I also got to meet Mr. Hines after the concert in the green room and chat with him for a while as he signed programs and talked to everybody. He was great.

[@joestokley2409]

I am in tears to view this incredible voice. I spoke with him one time before an appearance in South Carolina. One of the great experiences of my life!

[@Richiesutherland]

Very moving and thrilling. His voice still such density, and a cavernous low E! Amazing. A great man and a great singer to the end.

[@willahayes4416]

🎉❤

[@brandonjla5190]

As someone who has sung onstage with Mr. Hart, I can tell you that "light-voiced" has nothing to do with this man's massive, wall-shaking sound. This should put into better perspective just how much power Hines had to his voice even at that age. Great men and great voices, both of them.

[@rickmellon3722]

Thank you, Brandon. Craig is a dear friend of ours and we appreciate you speaking up for him and his beautiful voice. Craig held his teacher in such high regard, and I am sure this is one of the highlights of his professional career. To be on stage with such greatness. It upsets me that other listeners feel the need to belittle one singer in order to praise another. Here are two wonderful musicians sharing the stage with one another. One just happens to be one of the greatest voices of our age, or any age for that matter.

[@brandonlangeland5153]

@@rickmellon3722 I don't know anyone who has met Craig that COULDN'T say he is a great friend!

[@jimbuxton2187]

Lol ....basses keep their opulent voices to the end. Age doesn't make them weaker. Their vocal cords are like thick iron!

[@brandonjla5190]

@@jimbuxton2187 Only with targeted work. Hines wrote about this himself in The Four Voices of Man.

[@jimmychoo1857]

I am an opera bass singer from Russia. I had a Great teacher. I consider Mr. Hines as my second teacher. Every Day Ising Old man river with the record of Mr. Hines. He is absolutly great!

[@clambondingla]

I visited him in January 2000, at his home in New Jersey. He gave me a class, and then he suggested me to correct something. He said: "I don't want to teach things I cannot do. So, he did a vocalization from low "C" to high "G", with a powerful, young sound! His wife, Lucia Evangelista, was very ill, in their bedroom, asisted with a nurse. He invited me to salude her and, then, we watch together a video of them both, singing "La Ci Darem La Mano" and she, singing "Sempre Libera".

[@craigrivers9910]

What an honor he with out was the greatest baritone of the 20th century

[@edwardclarke2860]

I was fortunate enough to witness this performance and I can still remember my initial disbelief at the solidity and power of his voice. Any doubts on the part of the audience quickly disappeared. Clearly, advanced age posed no obstacle to this tirelessly young artist.

[@dariajmill5978]

@@edwardclarke2860 LP

[@jimbuxton2187]

@@craigrivers9910 BASS not Baritone. Lol

[@craigrivers9910]

@@jimbuxton2187 saw him in college more than amazing he could do it all bass and baritone his range was amazing

[@talvela100]

che voce!!!! a 80 anni...magnifico

[@alexmeister4943]

Profondo Bass are better in old age, because the bass are mature voice and Jerome Hines is perfect and better bass in all time in the world :-)

[@jackbigbug]

@@alexmeister4943 la voce è quella non è che cambia tanto con l'età. Poi a 80anni quando verosimilmente manca la forza per il giusto sostegno ai fiati ... (cosa che infatti si nota in questa esibizione e non potrebbe essere diversamente) non vedo cosa possa migliorare nella voce

[@leoedwards6289]

God bless him! He sang Mefistoles in my first opera ever, and I was hooked. The year was 1950. What a career!

[@rafaelpelaezf]

Bravo! He was a great opera singer, and a man of God as well. I heard him singing Don Carlo in San Juan Puerto Rico, I will never forget that amazing performance!

[@tenorschofield]

Jerome Hines forever in our hearts!!! 🙏😇

[@thomas.sagers]

Verdi had this precise voice in mind when writing for such an imposing presence. Bravo!

[@MarthalieThurstonSachemPiper]

A beautiful person and vocalist into eternity

[@Sparafucile11]

My introduction to Jerry was walking into my first rehearsal with the Seattle opera at the age of 25 and hearing his booming voice proclaim " Ah, another normal sized guy (I'm 6'6")". I was instantly a fan and disciple and I cherish the experience of trying (in vain) to equal the standard he set as Padre Guardiano, the role in which we were double cast, during that production

[@allenjones3130]

It was fitting that Hines ended his singing career by performing one of his finest roles, Verdi's Grand Inquisitor. The sheer power of Hines's voice shone through once more.

[@Richiesutherland]

Bravo to Jerome Hines! He was Filippo in the first opera performance I ever saw and sang both roles magnificently for decades. What a gift to us to have given this great voice in one last performance as the Inquisitor! God's gift, shared with us. Thank you!

[@clambondingla]

I thank God for giving me the opportunity of living such a wonderful moment with this fantastic singer. Still have recorded our last telephone conversation. I will never forget him.

[@leContrebasson]

Hines had a tank voice!!! I'm studing on his records especial "Il Grand Inquisitor"! He had the best of the best Inquisitor I ever heard!!

[@aramfreelancer4418]

Н.Юрьев LeContrebasson believe me its all about right vocal school!

[@eduzz4655]

I also liked a lot Giulio Neri as Grand Inquisitor too!

[@grouchomarx5609]

Yeah, he was one of three greatest Grand Inquisitors of XX century (along with G. Neri and M. Talvela)

[@Nilo4778]

22 de septiembre de 2001 Jerome Hines apareció en la ópera por última vez. A la edad de 80 años y algo enfermo, interpretó su famoso Gran Inquisidor en Don Carlo para la Ópera de Bel Canto de Boston, sonando increíblemente como él, especialmente considerando que tenía 80 años. Uno de sus alumnos, Craig Hart, tocaba Felippo y no podía sonar como un bajo dadas las circunstancias. Hines hizo que su alumno de voz ligera sonara más como un barítono lírico que como un bajo de Verdi. El triunfo en esto es todo de Jerry. Trabajó duro para poder ponerse en forma para cantar esto. Él "entrenó" con los bajos de sus estudiantes en preparación. Jerome Hines nunca se defraudó y nunca nos defraudó. Más que cualquier otra lección, quizás Hines nos enseñó a los cantantes a nunca dejar de cantar. Era el hombre que no dejaba de cantar. Gracias a Maestroshore por permitirme tener una copia de esta publicación. Ese año debutó en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires como Felipe II en Don Carlos de Verdi regresando en 1954, 1962, 1964, 1966 y 1967 como Borís Godunov. Uno de los más grandes bajos del siglo XX. Inolvidable.

[@BubbleUpVideo]

Seems like basses keep their voices to the end....this is good. I'm 49, and a bass, and just beginning!

[@enocjordanabi4207]

Basses, tenors and baritones with good technique, have u heard tenor Gonsiglio at 80years old??

[@enocjordanabi4207]

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[@anthonela1]

Caraca! OMG! How is it possible to sing like this when his body was so fragile. Wunder?! Wonderful!

[@CynJohansen03]

I have chills, I met Mr. Hines in the early 1990s when he launched Opera Music Theater International to bring operatic performance to high school students in Newark NJ and had the joy/pleasure of performing with him as well as listening to him perform for us on more than one occasion. I also had the pleasure of meeting his wife Lucia, ah when I was young and thought his voice shook the ground. For us he performed Old Man RIver. He also performed Foust it was incredible.

[@hansdrp]

Oh my God, Jerome Hines.....a legend

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

Che musica ,che musica ,che musica !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!grandissimo VERDI !!!!!! MARI

[@abecho394]

Thank you so much your meaningful life... we will remember you forever...

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

Con l'eta' è diventato piu raffinato !!! Meraviglioso ,meraviglioso !!!!! Mari

[@remraf74]

After watching it twice I must add one more thing - remembering that Jerry had prosthetic hip which had somewhat slowed down his scuba-diving from his place in the Bahamas shortly before doing Macbeth (Banquo) in 1989 - looks like it finally slowed him down - what a career - what a singer -

[@CIGARURI]

He knew how to sing!🌹

[@8000Christopher]

Marvelous. May I say, a joyful bass, in that it gives joy to listen and see this man at 80 doing what he loves to do, and to do it so well at that stage in life. A joyful bass.

[@JRobbySh]

Indeed. Until a few minutes ago, I had never heard him at length. Wunderbar!

[@laurenkelly2997]

I love it when it modulates up in C#

[@ddsndyk]

touching, amazing moment, person and record

[@emitch9213]

Wonderful to hear such legend - RIP

[@Sebastian740]

HINES took over this performance!!

[@gerardmignon700]

Hallucinant !

[@tenorschofield]

Wow!!! what a voice Jerome Hines had, he mades the young bass (is he so?, sounds like a ligth baritone to me ,sorry) sounds very ligth. My uncle in Italy ( a very famous already past away spinto tenor) told me in 2002 , that Hines was not only a very tall and sounding bass, but a great and smart writter; he suggested me to buy his book "Great Singers on great Singing" which I did (still read it after 100 times!!! and still amazed!!!). He sounded until his last performance as the best of the best...BRAVO!!!!(we wil not forget you Jerome Hines!!!)

[@karkunow]

He has even greater book - "Four voices of a man"! It is incredible!

[@bradycall1889]

Was your uncle Franco Corelli perhaps?

[@tenorschofield]

@@bradycall1889 yes he was my far Uncle (cousin to my grand mother whose second last name was Marchetti as zio Dario's mother, Adria...only meet him twice, sadly🙏)

[@BaritonoHLLopez]

A legend on his own right! Best of the best. My admiration to him!

[@patrickbridelance5815]

Exceptionnel !

[@fiumesimonini6169]

Magnífico Hines!!!

[@RETAEHT123]

a voice of presence !

[@aramfreelancer4418]

RETAEHT123 his natural voice is not better that todays best basses , he just had an awesome vocal school!

[@acadela3506]

No, his voice is something else. He’s a giant, has a long neck like a giraffe. He still sounded huge before he fixed his technique. Every physical activity requires natural ability. The fastest runner will always be the one with the longer legs, no matter how much the shorter people train. Hines sounded like a deep bass even before he started at 16-ish. There’s recordings online you can listen to. He was an anomaly.

[@tanyadixon7980]

Just. Owns it. Magnificent !♡♡♡♡♡♡

[@shinuno1897]

Grande Maestro👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@laurenkelly2997]

I love Jerome Hines voice on c# on low voice tone

[@crazysingingasian4654]

Thank a lot for your book Mr 🥲

[@salvoferraro6976]

Mostruoso!

[@bassoprof]

This is a historical recording for Hines is still a giant as always despite his age. It's a pity that King Philip is no match against him.

[@lh7550]

My Respects....

[@segelflyg]

Watched this after reading his book "The Four Voices Of Man" the second time. There he explaine how to keep your voice healthy up in the age.

[@barytonal]

Mats Jacobson

[@DubiousDubs]

And a decade later, I did the same- crazy how that book always leads here

[@aneamarlivana172]

Hines at 80 sings rings around the singer portraying Filippo.

[@ransomcoates546]

Filippo is clearly an undeveloped baritone. Hines always knew where the correct accent on the word 'eresia' is. Most don't.

[@jefolson6989]

Mr Hart is hardly "underdeveloped". It my first hearing of him.Beautiful cantante Bass baritone. Lovely Italian diction. Hines had an especially sepulchral profundo. But I have heard Marti Talvela (6'8") make Ghiaurov sound light . But they battled it out. Nature of the scene but makes it exciting!

[@marksmith3947]

His voice was in great condition. I've heard many singers of 50 or younger who have big wobbles, while he has a natural vibrato

[@65attila]

WOW- Magnificent

[@angalmeida29]

Thank you so much for this

[@eloisehooper1801]

Thank you so much Maestroshore!!

[@remraf74]

I sang with Jerry in his late 60's at the Portland Opera - Macbeth and Faust - we became great friends with our faith in common - and yes, I have known his work since his debut in '45 - my favorite Wotan, Mefistofeles et al - you name it - and this is glorious - at 6'8" he was an astonishing stage presence, and always did his own makeup - what a guy!

[@jefolson6989]

Funny that it was his religiosity that prevented us from being friends. I'm 6'3" and think Jerry was the only normal human (as opposed to a pro basketball player) I had to literally look up to see. I dont have those neck muscles!. His faith was such a huge part of him there was no way to relate without it being parf of any conversation(I thought). At least I feared it would. He wasnt judgemental at all- I was afraid he would be if he knew me better to ....So I let it slip away. It funny now to imagine in those days I was so self absorbed I believed Mr. Hines had thoughts about me, my sins, and my soul, which of course he DID NOT! The self importance of young people!

[@MultiKamil97]

He was 6'6 actually.

[@ikmarchini]

Bravo Tom. Bravo Craig. Jerry, we miss you.

[@evandrodantas5169]

Quanto talento. Um nobre baixo pesado.

[@splodsquadubdob]

Thanks for this. Totally agree with your assessment that Craig Hart is a baritone. It’s a far cry from Furlanetto who is amazing in this role. Plishka is v good but I find more gravitas wanting. But I agree so much about Hines’s singing here! Thanks!

[@atosov]

I was in the audience at this performance. Not to take anything away from Hines's performance, but it is nonsense to describe Craig Hart as "light-voiced." His voice does not sit as low as Hines's: that is simply because he is a bass-baritone (and so described himself on the program), not a bass *sans phrase*.

[@allenjones3130]

Thanks for telling us that it was bass/baritone Craig Hart who sang Philip in this duet. Mr. Hart gave a very good account of himself.

[@Rotogravier]

I use these words only on this occasion; Oh My God!

[@emilgilels]

With all due respect, I believe that some of the 'infirmity' that Jerome Hines exhibits here (as described in the poster's description) is an intended part of his performance. We see him use a cane, and begin seated during the Met performance from 20 years earlier (on KZbin), and he even stands up - for dramatic effect - at almost the same point. Likewise the assisted exit from the stage at the end of the scene - also in the earlier staged performance (when he was about 59). Of course these two performances that are separated by more than 2 decades are both similar in showcasing Mr. Hines' remarkable vocal power and immense stage presence!

[@giselamarch1994]

I agree

[@Kennyforever100]

Amazing no more needed to be said.

[@yuujoupop]

I hate opera fans, constantly criticizing anyone who isn’t their favorite. I don’t think he’s a bass by nature though, but he is by no means “undeveloped”. To sing the notes he does with the clarity he does requires much technique. Nature is unfair with whom it gifts it’s voiced to. Regardless, Philipo here sings with bass technique. Needless to say, Heins sounds incredible, even at 80.

[@giselamarch1994]

I agree

[@ciroalb3]

I saw him do this in Baltimore, maybe a few years earlier. he wore hush puppies with the robe - great, a real trouper

[@roideschats8799]

bien-sûr Hines est vieux... son timbre est plutôt intact, mais son corps est fatigué... il est limité pour le soutien de son souffle... mais il a beaucoup de classe et de courage... très émouvant... grande classe ! ... j'ai un disque où il chante König Marke dans les années 1950 !

[@KassandraMezzo]

AMAZING

[@stevendaniel8126]

Knew Jerry. A class act - and human.

[@davphi6103]

magnificent

[@ciroalb3]

I would saw him in this and other roles in Baltimore in those last years, he was wonderful, but I remember him coming on in costume and wearing hush puppies, which he may have here too.

[@igelpatrick2890]

Superbe !!

[@raynardi2326]

Hines impressionante

[@TheKatchour]

BRAVO JEROME HINES❗️😃 ❤️❤️❤️

[@bodiloto]

dal vivo Jerome Hines aveva la voce del basso vero molto più bella e grande della vocetta del baritono - basso Samuel Ramey... Grande Hines !

[@bodiloto]

@Lino Anzoletti e' vero .

[@icebabyellen5495]

OMG.. Sooo tall

[@shutterbug34]

The Greatest basso ever past,present, or future.

[@nickgola]

Maybe he was the only bass who could compete C. Siepi in terms of darkness and consonance of the voice. Here he proves that Grand Inquisitor is in his automatism, acquired through the experiences.

[@LockportDan]

And perhaps Kurt Moll?

[@lsmart]

What a naturally glorious voice he had, and a truly fine singer as well. Also had a great knowledge and understanding of singing. When he appeared on Stefan Zucker's Saturday Night at the Opera broadcasts (and was also the one who brought his good friend Corelli to the show), his voice was gorgeous and booming even when he spoke normally. I pity his younger partner. The old man literally put him to shame here.

[@bobom1]

He does not put him to shame. I find some of these comments, and the description of this video, tasteless. It is perfectly possible to praise one singer without putting down another, especially not a young singer at the start of their career.

[@ognyankanev5211]

It is NOT "Felippo", IT IS Filippo!!!

[@Xaturia]

Olavo de Carvalho que me indicou.

[@alexeyizmirliev64]

Perche farlo?

[@lukebrainard2006]

Well, I know both voices and both men. My opinion stays the same.

[@bodiloto]

1 Jerome Hines = 50 Ramey .

[@nandyetoga263]

Why he need a cane