Leoncavallo PAGLIACCI "Recitar!...Vesti la giubba"

Leoncavallo PAGLIACCI "Recitar!...Vesti la giubba"
Tenore Richard Tucker
Direttore John Nelson
NEW YORK 16 Novembre 1974

[@Luifernal6]

Old is Gold!!! fiato, legato, portamento, rubato, drama, color, squillo... Perfection!

[@markbarbour5]

When I was a nine year old non-singing super at the Metropolitan Opera House portraying an altar boy in the paired Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci 1970 Zeffirelli/Bernstein/Cleva productions, I always watched Richard Tucker sing 'Vesti la giubba' from the wings. My mother and seven year old sister were supers in both Cav and Pag but I only had a part in Cavalleria. That left me free to roam around backstage during Pag and I was riveted watching Tucker pour out his soul. Even though I didn't understand a word of Italian hearing him sing of such sadness and misery left me in a trance. On the day of the matinee February 7, 1970 Texaco Met national radio broadcast there was much backstage celebrating afterwards of two great performances. I sheepishly appeared at the door of Tucker's dressing room which was filled with champagne-sipping well wishers. The great tenor, still soaking in his sweat and dripping makeup-drenched Canio costume, recognized me as the little boy who always watched him from offstage. He heartily called me over, scooped me up and hugged me as I squirmed in his swampy lap. All I could think was "Eeeewww, disgusting! Let me down!"

[@guidogreco341]

Che interpretazione,che immedesimazione nel personaggio...senza naturalmente tralasciare una voce ed uno squillo di prima grandezza....

[@mariofilippeschi4855]

Just a few months before he will die. Such a legend his voice still sounds good.

[@shicoff1398]

Yes, this was just 6 weeks before he died of a massive heart attack, by this time he had a heart condition for quite a long time, here he was 61 years old, and sadly here in his last performance run as Canio. He first sang opera at the Met. in 1945, his debut was in Gioconda as Enzo, and he sang there over 700 times, and hundreds of times in many other houses here and in Europe, South America and Asia. According to the great tenor Lauri Volpi, who Tucker visited at LV's home in 1969 in Italy, when Tucker, at that time was going to sing in Milan at La Scala, Lauri Volpi invited Tucker to his home and told Tucker after Tucker sang an aria for Lauri Volpi, that "You Tucker have a Caruso type voice" and he then gave him some pointers for Tucker's up coming singing in the role, in Lusia Miller at La Scala. In Tucker's home was a picture of only one other tenor beside himself, that was of Lauri Volpi, and the picture was signed ---to my friend Richard Tucker-- and given to him by the great tenor Lauri Volpi. Are you Mario Filippeschi's daughter? Mario F. was the great tenor after LV and was Filippeschi's teacher and mentor, as I remember .

[@shicoff1398]

Sorry about those lines in my above comment, that was not intentional.

[@shicoff1398]

Yes, only a month and two weeks before he suddenly died, this from the complete performance of this opera with tenor Tucker, and the only complete opera "video" of a Met. performance ever filmed with Richard Tucker, this Pagliacci is not on you tube complete, for supposed "legal reasons" but was a few years ago on you tube, just for a couple of days, it was listed complete, then pulled off, but now just this clip of thee aria "Vesti" posted here--- just the aria sung by the 61 year old Tucker here. RIP.

[@mariofilippeschi4855]

@@shicoff1398 WOW thanks for the information. Highly appreciate it

[@shicoff1398]

@@mariofilippeschi4855 Your most welcome, sad they had to remove the complete opera from you tube, the late Ed R. had posted it, but had to remove it, at most a few days later, he died a few years ago. This post comes from Italy and is fine, thank goodness for the Italians!

[@SuperPoleon]

Потрясающе!!!!!!!!! Так больше никогда не поют и никогда не смогут, С такой отдачей с таким сердцем...Потрясающе - это очень мало для такого певца. Царство Небесное. Никогда тебя не забудем...

[@giampierone010]

Stupenda performance d'altri tempi purtroppo....grazie

[@operalover3966]

Wow! Really great performance

[@luissuyojimenez95]

Volviendo a escuchar esta hermosa aria y es inevitable que las lagrimas broten. Que gran interpretación.

[@stevenj9970]

Oh my GOD....None better, one of the greatest things I’ve ever heard.

[@shicoff1398]

RIP--- Richard Tucker 1913-1975.

[@ronluchsinger3036]

I heard him many times when I was a student in Detroit, but only once as Canio, with CT Opera at the Bushnell, in the same time period. As always, Tucker delivered 110 %. It was an especially memorable occasion, because I was standing at the rear of the auditorium, along with Sherill Milnes, whose then-wife was singing Nedda. Years later I got to chat with Milnes, who recalled several details of the performance, at an Opera America convention By the way, Domingo sang Rinuccio in the preceding Gianni Schicchi. All in all, a great evening of opera, never to be forgotten.

[@shahramyazdani7575]

He made me crying now.......we are soooooooooooo far from his planet today......Dio mio....old school R.I.P

[@TimothyJonSarris]

Fenomenale!! I've read about those who witnessed these last performances of Tucker as Canio and what an impact it made on them... now, thanks to this recording, I can understand a little bit of what they were talking about. Thank you for sharing this 🙏

[@shicoff1398]

I was him at the Met. sing this opera in June 1973, it was very much like this one in Nov. 1974 and moving, in fact I was back stage in his dressing room afterwards as always and he seemed in good spirits and just fine, so sad he died on Jan. 8th 1975 and did not get to sing the scheduled La Juive at the Met. he had sang it in other places, but not at the Met. which he had wanted , and he would have sung the role, it was being scheduled with Soprano Arroyo and Beverly Sills, he was told about that by the Met. management just before he died, told that he would be singing it there. Richard Tucker August 28, 1913-- January 8, 1975. RIP.

[@jasonrobinson6561]

Spectacular.

[@vladimirsolodovnikov945]

Какая отдача , какое слово , какая экспрессия ...! Великий певец ...Великое время было ...!!! Мы давно обнищали, мы стали нищим без этих имён...! Такер один из гигантов !

[@mariomarjan]

Fantastic!

[@stevevandien310]

Don't know why anyone considered Tucker a poor actor. He is sizzling here. And that 60-year-old voice, although he pushes it pretty hard, is still clear and vibrant.

[@shicoff1398]

Yes, here he was 61 years old, died just 6 weeks later. (August 28, 1913- Jan 8, 1975) I saw him do this when I attended the Met. the year before, in June 1973 and it was much the same and the critic Kolodin gave him a fine review but was concerned for Tucker's health, writing about him singing like that in his 60's and not being well. -----RIP

[@shicoff1398]

Steve, it's an old story here, some folks sometimes push down a singer in order to push a another up, Tucker's acting was excellent in this role, as I saw him do it myself at the Met. in the opera house in June, 1973. Long before in the 1940's-1950's back then, they didn't stress acting as much, and so tenors Like Bjorling, GDS, Bergonzi and Tucker where never known for great acting skills, but later where improved --- Bjorling in his Met. Performances of Tosca late in the 1950's and Tucker especially seeen as Canio where excellent.

[@zidspanky]

Excelente Interpretación del maestro tucker

[@CantorClassics]

Superb! Except for a few extra breaths, you wouldn't know that he was over 60 at the time.

[@shicoff1398]

if you enjoy Cantorial singing then see the "Hineni" singing during one of the holiday's in live performance by Tucker, late in his life, so it's in decent sound, posted on you tube, it was never commercially recorded by him and his live holiday Cantorial work is very rare in good sound quality .

[@CantorClassics]

@@shicoff1398 I do enjoy cantorial singing. My own KZbin channel features many cantorial selections. The Hineni that you reference is, IMHO, arguably the greatest ever recorded, live or in studio.

[@shicoff1398]

@@CantorClassics Yes I agree with you 100% and I heard him in Schul almost every year-- from 1962 in Chicago when I was back in town , this one you mentioned was made late in his life but he was still rock solid vocally in his late 50's, since Chicago is my home town I was there for many high Holiday's he sang there, of course the one we like posted being live was it seemed more emotional then his studio Cantorial recordings, and in opera he mostly was even greater live also. I saw him in opera and concert over 20 times from 1961 up to his last holiday service in 1974 only 3 months before he died at age 61--- RIP Richard Tucker -- 1913-1975

[@shicoff1398]

@@CantorClassics Agree100%!!!

[@fenymoretales]

Wow!!!!!

[@silviomichelini8710]

Fantastico

[@ozitenor]

One of the greatest things I have ever seen.

[@75bg90]

Thank you! He is amazing!

[@brunolazzaretti7684]

Fantastico Tucker.L'8 gennaio dell'anno successivo veniva a mancare per un infarto(a quasi 62 anni). Indimenticabile.

[@graziellalandolfo4507]

Bruno Lazzaretti veramente grande

[@eugeniogentili1048]

Fenomenale 👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6fYp4OOmcSbmcU

[@fabriziogarzi9396]

Bruno, oggi invece l'infarto c'è lo fanno prendere a noi andando in teatro ad ascoltare quel che passa il convento... che ha oramai esaurito tutte le scorte. Neppure il mestolo e' rimasto.

[@bodiloto]

così all'inizio degli anni 70 i Tenori /quelli veri!/ che appartenevano al passato glorioso dicevano il loro ultimo ADDIO al loro pubblico e al palcoscenico . immenso Tucker . addio bel passato per sempre addio .

[@eugeniogentili1048]

Grandissimo Richard Tucker uno dei miei preferiti.

[@bodiloto]

@@eugeniogentili1048 Tucker - uno dei miei tenori preferiti. Fenomeno.

[@34100TV]

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!

[@jeffschecter4543]

It is those last 15 minutes of Tucker on stage (as Zeffirelli himself directed) that I have never ever forgotten. FOR ME, FAR MORE SO THAN EVEN VESTI LA GIUBBA. Tucker leaping into the air as he SCreamsssssss LA COMEDIA ET FINITA!!!

[@CoeliLux]

LA COMmEDIA è FINITA

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

Magnificent everything... much stronger than most of the singers at their peak years! Real operatic at Met, how glorious!!!

[@shicoff1398]

Agree 100%

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

@@shicoff1398 Most heartbroken aria for male singers, so demanding. He gave it ALL. I love Mario and Richard Tucker on this aria, but this version Tucker's high emotion get my top prize for sure!

[@shicoff1398]

@@user-py1jg6bb2r Well said, and I agree on those two as Canio and what you said here 100%

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

@@shicoff1398 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWqngI16er-nfMk Please see the comment by, Samuel Karlberg Samuel Karlberg 9 years ago "Compare this to Domingos singing in 1941+ 61=2002. Tuckers voice was always more open throated and more squillante then the overrated spaniard."

[@shicoff1398]

Agreed.

[@GermanOperaSinger]

To have video footage of an actual production is priceless. Thanks so much for posting this clip. One of the all time greats! There's just no singer who can make this kind of sound anymore. A lost artform.

[@marfushka48]

+GermanOperaSinger Totally agree with you///

[@marfushka48]

Many thanks, dear Steve! So wonderful performance!!... I never head no one rendition like this.... so perfect and so touching!!!

[@jeffschecter4543]

We are clearly connected via" RT T

[@justinbrasfield6417]

Check out Francesco Anile.

[@jeffschecter4543]

3 other moments from this performance I just cannot forget: Canio's "Un tal gioca, credetimi" ...the look on his face.....his "Corragio" before entering as Pagliaccio and the way he cried "La comedia et finita" his feet literally leaving the ground. Will forever live in my memory

[@shicoff1398]

You and me both!

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

Wow, my god, bless your memory... Thank you!!!

[@solanyecaignet1308]

Muy pocos pueden en la actualidad cantar con estas intensidades y este compromiso escenico. Grande Tucker!

[@fabianpersic]

QUÉ DOCUMENTO!!! INVALORABLE!!! Gracias por compartirlo!

[@Operafiend22]

Thrilling!

[@rossmcl1776]

Just wonderful. The reaction when he emerges for his curtain call.

[@shicoff1398]

When you heard that voice when you where in the opera house, it was like a Jet Plane landed in your living room, some voices seemed larger in house then on recordings and some not as large as their recordings, he had a powerful Spinto voice and sang with great passion when called for . RIP.

[@italomondo0510]

BRAVO!!!

[@user-cg6cb9tu2y]

Ive never heard such a moving interpretation

[@shicoff1398]

He gave it all he had and his wife and the New York Times Music critic Mr. Kolodin where very concerned for his health singing like this, as he had a long history of a serious heart condition, which proved fatal, just weeks after this performance. RIP.

[@fernandogagliardo6618]

Superlativo! Drammaticità pura!

[@unclejoe468]

Bella interpretazione!

[@Gustavocasanovatenor]

Bravo que tenor

[@stephpwall]

Well the audience tells you all you need to know. The theatrical connection is electrifying. Richard Tucker was gifted with a level of physical talent and vocal coordination that was unsurpassed. He gave that gift generously to his audiences in a manner that they would be discussing as they left the building and for weeks to come. For all of the academia that surrounds the classical vocal art I remember hearing a famous singer divulge a poorly kept secret "Listen kid, everyone wants to hear something thrilling."

[@wbondar]

The best! He touched my heart on this, bravo Richard, you are truly missed!

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

Mario and Richard Tucker on this role... but this is 60 year young singer here. Shockingly still the best!!!

[@LGranthamsHeir]

Better than any of the more recent performances by Pavarotti, Domingo, Kaufmann, etc (with all due respect to them) :)

[@shicoff1398]

@@user-py1jg6bb2r He was 61 years old here, he died just 6 weeks later. RIP.

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

@@LGranthamsHeir 💯% True!!!

[@user-py1jg6bb2r]

@@shicoff1398 62 years young...still the best🈵🈵🈵

[@sugarbist]

Just GREAT, Tucker does not hold back at all with this extremely demanding aria. Tucker still in his vocal prime just a few weeks before he passed.Amazing!

[@sugarbist]

+SHICOFF1 Truly a tremendous performance

[@shicoff1398]

His wife and Music critic for the New York Times Mr. Kolodin where very concerned for his health during the run of several performances as he was 61 years old and had a serious heart condition for many years, so yes he died just weeks after this performance of a fatal heart attack. RIP. @@sugarbist

[@basilisvasileiou434]

Δεν εχω λογια.Ηερμηνευτικη τελειοτητα με την τραγικη διασταση του σχεδον αποκοσμη τον κανουν αξεπεραστο.Πολλα μπραβο.❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@alexeyizmirliev64]

Mr. Voce!

[@Romeolirico]

ВЕЛИКИЙ ПЕВЕЦ!!!!!!

[@radames5855]

Altro grandissimo interprete indimenticabile!!!

[@tony171ful]

Tucker era muito bom.

[@giampierone010]

Il verismo si canta COSI'!!!

[@bodiloto]

giampierone010 parole sante ! e poi non dimenticare che questo era l'ultimo addio al palcoscenico di Tucker ! oggi Kaufmann e compagnia nel verismo non arrivano di emettere un suono decente ! ...

[@SibAleksandr48]

Bravo!!!!!!!!

[@kid926]

una voce superiore

[@aerasmus2129]

Tucker is a great performer and a brilliant singer. He is the best in this role.

[@shicoff1398]

@@aerasmus2129 RIP Richard Tucker --1913-1975.

[@RubyRosaRudy]

If you have other excerpts from this historic performance, especially the "No! Pagliaccio non son" and the remainder of the final scene, it would be wonderful to have it on KZbin.

[@jmccracken1963]

+Jim Drake Actually, this clip and another clip which had the last scene of the opera (beginning with either Canio's entrance or from "No! Pagliaccio non son" - I've forgotten which) WERE on KZbin almost 3 years ago - but only for one or two days. I remember watching the two clips one weekday morning, then I went to work - and, by either that evening or the evening of the next day, both had been taken down. (I don't remember which channel had them - may have been Edmund St.Austell.) If I recall correctly, this particular performance of "Cav" and "Pag" was filmed by whichever company the Met contracted with, as an experiment with an eye toward possible television re-broadcast. I don't know why this performance was never shown on TV - whether because of dissatisfaction with the filming itself, or dissatisfaction with the musical quality of the performance (the cast for "Cav" was Elinor Ross, Harry Theyard, Morley Meredith, Mildred Miller, and Batyah Godfrey), or the cost of the telecast (remember that the Met was in dire financial straits in 1974 and 1975), or because of Richard Tucker's death, or some combination of the above - but it was not, and has never been made available for purchase or rental in any video format. And it would be another 2 and a third years after this particular performance before "Live from the Met" telecasts were inaugurated with Puccini's LA BOHEME, in March of 1977.

[@jmccracken1963]

+SHICOFF1 I'm not going to argue with you about it, but I do remember two posts that day. One was this aria - and the other was the final scene, because I remember being mesmerized by the heat and passion of that scene, and I also remember asking myself, "Who is the Nedda? That's not Stratas, and that's not Moffo, either." So I looked it up on my computer-downloaded copy of the Met Annals, and found that Nedda was, indeed, played by Atsuko Azuma in that performance. She was very good, too!

[@jmccracken1963]

+SHICOFF1 I don't remember where I read about the circumstances under which both operas were filmed that evening, but it was a reliable source. I do know that the 1/18/75 broadcast performances of "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci" from that season are available - separately - through House of Opera. So is the 12/3/74 performance of "I Pagliacci" from the same season - which was Richard Tucker's 8th and last performance as Canio that season, as well as his final Met performance. He is absolutely searing, as are Norman Mittelmann (Tonio) and Lenus Carlson (Silvio). As for Anna Moffo (Nedda)? Well, she made it through the performance, and her vocal acting was actually quite good. I think that Harry Theyard also probably subbed for Tucker at the 1/10/75 performance of "Cavalleria Rusticana," too. Including those two January performances, he sang Turiddu in 8 of the regular season's 14 performances of "the twins" that season. (Franco Tagliavini sang the role 3 times, William Lewis sang it twice (one of them on New Year's Day), and Franco Corelli sang it once (2 days before Christmas).) James McCracken sang Canio in the last 6 regular-season performances of "I Pagliacci," including the broadcast, and in the 6 performances of "the twins" on the U.S. tour. I rather suspect, looking at the tenors who did sing in those operas, that Richard Tucker was probably originally scheduled to sing Turiddu on the U.S. tour before Japan (Barry Morell sang 4 of the performances, William Lewis the other 2) and Canio in the 2 "Pag" performances at Wolf Trap after the Japan tour (Robert Nagy sang Canio in both of those performances).

[@shicoff1398]

@@jmccracken1963 The entire opera was posted, by Ed R. for a day or two at most, as you noted--- and taken down due to legal reasons, but I not only saw it that day luckily, (as I watched for all of his posts) but I saw it also as a guest in a private showing at a studio long before that, around 1976, it was allowed then for the Tucker family. Only Tenor Di Stefano was there, besides myself and Mrs. Sara Tucker and Tucker's son. GDS was seated right next to me, he was so moved by the end of it that I saw tears in his eyes, he asked Mrs. Tucker about how Richard was at the time etc. After seeing the entire performance we drove Di Stefano back to his hotel, he was obviously moved, friendly and we enjoyed his company, I had seen him singing with Tebaldi in 1959 in Tosca at La Scala on a vacation trip and since that time also, so having him there to briefly talk with was very special for me.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

It would truly be wonderful. So many great ones and so few now to take their place.

[@radames5855]

Da pelle d'oca!!!!!!!!

[@salvoferraro6976]

Da brividi!

[@tenorschofield]

MARVELOUS!!!BRAVISSIMO!!!

[@bodiloto]

John Schofield si, e' vero ! live performance : 1 Richard Tucker = 50 Salvatore Fisichella . cordialità il vecchio

[@eugeniogentili1048]

Hai detto bene, Tucker fenomeno vocale, un passato glorioso che mai più ritornerà.

[@boundary2580]

The best Canio in history.

[@ovidiuionescu3105]

OMG!

[@saradambrosca4815]

🙏🙏🙏💜

[@jeffschecter4543]

November 16th 1974? I might have been at this very performance. I dontknow..Im sure I ws was at the next one or the previous one but....I was there, and it really has never stopped living in me, I talk about it way too much...I was ther, thats for sure And thios was the opera that changed my entire opinion of the artform. Again my heart is full of grtitude that this now is here.. Oh...One of the things I really remember vividly was righbt up inthe first scene when Caniois told by a townsman jokingly "Hey, Looks like Tonio is hot for your wife" and Tucker began the "Un tal gioca, credetemi" I still see his face, that fierce jaw jutting forward as he nodded in an ironic grin "Believe me thats not a joke!!!"

[@solerfranco]

Tucker is terrific for a wonderful shot,why is there this recording not completely????? Thank you very much!!!!!

[@shicoff1398]

It was filmed live and complete, with an OK by the Met, to be used in the future, but then Tucker died 6 weeks later and so the Met. will not release it, sadly it is the only complete Met. live filmed Tucker opera performance. The 1949 complete live Toscanini Aida concert performance with Tucker of course was not the Met. That Aida is on you tube complete from 1949, with a 35 year old Tucker, here of course he is 61 years old. RIP.

[@shicoff1398]

It was recorded complete and I saw it all, the complete Video with the Tucker family at a private showing, that was allowed, but the Met. will not let it out, it's a legal thing, just that simple and sad.

[@donaldbowers5205]

I saw this performance.Shattering performance.

[@donaldbowers5205]

@SHICOFF1 Yes.....still my favorite Tenor...Corelli not a second choice, but also top tenor for me. I saw your screen name...Shicoff. It just so happens my brother was singing Hoffman in Oslo 3 years ago and coached the role with Neil Scicoff.

[@donaldbowers5205]

@SHICOFF1 He sang Hoffman and you can find him here on youtube. He is tenor Evan Bowers. Neil was there singing Don Jose I believe and just offered his services to my brother to listen to his interpretation.He said that my brother should sing Hoffman everywhere. Last year Evan did the sitzrobe of "Giovanna D'Arco" at La Scala with Netrebko. Ballos in Berlin and Paris. Korngolds'Violanta at the Teatro Colon is also on KZbin complete.

[@donaldbowers5205]

@SHICOFF1 And I also loved Bergonzi in his earlier years. A true full lyric.But the top was gone by the mid-70s. MDM is still my go-to Otello. His "Dio mi potevi" is still unsuprassed for its intensity and excitement. I heard Pavarotti early on at the MET and as we know,the voice was smaller in the house,but still beautiful. I heard Carreras back in the 1970s at the City Opera and it was THE most beautiful sound I evere heard. But then he started pushing and lost that velvet sound. I am biased about my brother but there isnt a single tenor out there that does anything for me today. Many are pushed up lyrics or just not Italian in sound or approach (J.K.). I miss even the not necessarily super- star voices of Bonisolli,Aragall, Merighi,Cechelle,Labo,and Prevedi.They sang the right roles for their voices.

[@donaldbowers5205]

@SHICOFF1 I adore Zeani.The most touching vibrant soprano.To me similiarly heartbreaking in the quality of the voice to Muzio. My brother sang Giovanna D'Arco in Parma under Bartoletti. Saw Gedda few times. Miscast in "Vespri" back in 74. He began to sing very "open" in the 1970s,but in the 1960s was really quite great,if not Italian. Saw Schicoffs Hoffman in the house and thought it the best around.Domingo was a fine artist (not now....just an awful sound) but never had the top notes for Calaf or Manrico.Otello was a good role for him along with Cavaradossi and Don Alvaro. Did not like Vickers in anything really.Just such an odd sound. Saw Barry Morell a few times. Excellent voice but a dull artist. Di Stefano had once been a superb vocalist but by the late 1950s the voice was very "fixed" but his commitment to the roles he sang carried him through. I have a recording of "Io Conosco un Giardino" by Maristella sung by a young Villazon and a very late Di Stefano. Villazon had all the notes but from the very first phrase Di Stefano with a wreck of a voice touched your heart. Thats what greatness is all about.Oh...by the way I'm also a tenor and have sung professionally. Retired now.

[@donaldbowers5205]

@SHICOFF1 Europe prefered him. The MET is run by agents now who make sure their artists sing there. Thats why we get miserable singers like Atonenko and a tired Alagna.

[@fabriziomariagarzi5534]

Del Monaco, Corelli, Domingo...Tucker se li mette tutti sotto i piedi.

[@eugeniogentili1048]

Penso sia stato il piu' grande tenore verdiano di sempre.

[@fabriziogarzi9396]

@@eugeniogentili1048, beh, le propabilita' sono altissime.

[@eugeniogentili1048]

@@fabriziogarzi9396 A proposito Bodiloto ha detto che ci vogliono 3 Callas x fare una Ponselle, forse si e' allargato un po' troppo.

[@fabriziogarzi9396]

@@eugeniogentili1048, ci vogliono 1000 Ponselle per fare una Callas. La Callas e' stata oltre che una cantante una somma interprete e ha scardinato i malvezzi del canto di 200 anni. La Ponselle no.

[@eugeniogentili1048]

@@fabriziogarzi9396 Sai come e' fatto Bodiloto, te lo ritrovi dappertutto, guai se lo contraddici, ce l'ha sempre con Zancanaro Domingo e cosa molto disdicevole con Sherril Milnes.

[@zriter59escritor33]

Very late in Tucker's life. He is certainly past his prime -- some tones lose focus, and the vibrato gets pretty dang wide, if not actually a wobble. And one gets the impression that he's pushing -- NOT forcing -- but pushing the once-great and still-impressive voice to the very limit of its volume. Having said that, he remained an exciting artist. I regret that I never heard Tucker live. A friend of mine heard him several times at Chicago Lyric Opera, where he also heard Corelli, Vickers, Domingo, Pavarotti, Bergonzi. And he tells me that at least in this house, Tucker's acuti had an impact unlike those of anyone else. He says Tucker's top tones seemed to surge out over the audience, hit the back wall, and reverberate back to the stage. Would love to have heard that --

[@user-ph7ls7fo9h]

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[@jontew]

Perfection. The simply don't make them this way anymore.

[@seanpkeegan]

Hello! May I ask how you got this video footage? I am working with a vhs copy of this same performance and wondering if you have the whole thing to compare quality. Thank you!

[@aliciasarramida]

fabulous!!!!

[@DonPaolissimo]

Hair-raising; INCREDIBLE!!!!

[@giampierone010]

Stupenda interpretazione,molto sentita...

[@alejandrowolowski7147]

AGRADEZCO QUIENES SUBIERON ESTO A YOU TUBE . ALEJANDRO WOLOWSKI

[@chrispietronigro1450]

HOLY SHIT

[@mateojovic7853]

Brilliant.

[@antoniopedrolisboa]

One month before retirement

[@shicoff1398]

Actually he died just 6 weeks after this performance, from a heart condition he had for several years . He was 61 years old. -------RIP Richard Tucker

[@shirleyrombough8173]

What an incredible voice iomatched only by his ability to be - not just to act - Pagliaccio. I would have loved to see him in the entire opera. I believe he would have the audience in tears. Molto bravo.

[@shicoff1398]

He did, your right, I saw him sing it at the Met. in 1973, it was much like this but for me he sounded even better in house, I had that feeling when I saw MDM in house back in 1959.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

There have been three versions of the Cabaletta from La Juive that I think are unsurpassed: That of Enrico Caruso, whose "c'est moi" was so bitter and full of self loathing, yours, Mr. Shicoff, whose interpretation was starkly tragic, and Richard Tucker's, whose own Jewish background lent his interpretation of this aria a special poignancy, are the best interpretations of it I have heard (on you tube).

[@shicoff1398]

@@shirleyrombough8173 Thank you for kind words, actually Tucker when singing the opera complete and live, always sang the cabaletta from Juive and RCA rec. only his hilites in 1974, his last studio rec. ever but I must tell you Neil and his lovely wife Dawn are friends of mine for many years, Tucker I knew very well and his family, I did discuss Juive with him and the stubborn Bing who told Tucker, no we will not have Juive as it's out dated, Tucker told Bing so many great opera's you schedule are out dated but great and sell tickets, Tucker tried his best, even was willing to pay for some of it himself but Bing said no, luckily our tenor Neil Shicoff was allowed to sing it. I'm a huge Caruso fan he was a king among tenors and i had two relatives etc. born not much after Caruso who saw him sing a couple of times, they told me he was the best tenor in the world and far greater then the old records show us, my best regards for you! (Tuckers voice IMO usually sounded better and even larger in the opera house then on records, I saw him many times over a span of 13 years from 1961 to 1974)

[@Labienus]

No info on how or why this was filmed? In the age before smart phones, and digital images, it was not easy to do without official sanciton

[@shicoff1398]

It was filmed complete for the Met. during the actual performance here, but they will not release the entire opera due to some supposed legal reason , I've seen it complete, as a guest, but though it once appeared briefly, like one day, by the late Ed Rosen, it was fast removed and only the aria has been left, the ending (Non Pag.) was also sensational with Tucker, he was having a great night, only to pass away 6 weeks later.

[@alejandrowolowski7147]

hace mucho tiempo que no sentia un paglicci como este , YO SIEMPRE ADMIRE Y ADMIR A RICHARD TUCKER PERO ESTA VERSION ES U N I C A ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ NUNCA LO PODRE OLVIDAR , ALEJANDRO WOLOWSKI

[@TimothyJonSarris]

By the way, I never heard any tenor cry out " Infamia" after the aria. I wonder if that was a tradition at the Met, possible started by Caruso...chi sa?

[@shicoff1398]

Perhaps so, but Gigli did that (Infamia) also, I have his recording, sadly Tucker died just 6 weeks after this performance, from a heart condition that he had since 1962, when he suffered a major heart attack at age 48. He was a sensational Spinto tenor. RIP.

[@TimothyJonSarris]

@@shicoff1398 absolutely and a generous soul. A soprano I knew who had worked with the tenor, told me this during a concert tour.She , sadly, has also passed, but their memory lives on.

[@sugarbist]

Terrific. Full of emotion and crazed

[@shicoff1398]

He as with MDM was a singer best heard in the opera house, it was a large spinto that needed space as did MDM, yes I saw both, in the house, today some say they heard this one or that one but in some cases very amazing responses, anyhow I heard Tucker From the early 1960's well and knew him quite well , a nice man who will not be forgotten when most of us will be in time, his records as with all the really great singers will live on!

[@ursmue1937]

Unnatürliche Schluchzer, haben nichts mit Emotionen zu tun.

[@sugarbist]

@@ursmue1937 Dear Ursmue, sobs are also an ingredient of emotions. Just listen to Lanza singing the same aria and you will know what I mean.

[@ursmue1937]

@@sugarbist - Hier geht es aber gerade nicht um den großen Lanza, sondern um den großen Tucker.

[@sugarbist]

@@ursmue1937 The point is, if you criticize Tucker for sobbing, you should criticize Lanza as well for sobbing. But, that's something you could never do.

[@paulmontesanti813]

My God he was in incredible voice at that age. My appreciation for Tucker has really grown over the years. He's become one of my favorite tenors, second only to the likes of Corelli and Caruso.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

Expect to see mob-style shootout, and execution whenever you hear this song in movies like 'The Godfather' or 'The Untouchables.'

[@musicaparabodascontenorram3300]

De acuerdo con AfroPoli

[@ippolitos22]

mythical

[@vladimirsolodovnikov945]

Какая органика ! Сумасшесшествие...!

[@AfroPoli]

Old school is best. Compare this to the goofy Cura. Or Alagna...

[@bodiloto]

AfroPoli Compare this to Domingo,Fisichella,Kaufmann and company ...

[@abcdefgh-db1to]

@@PedroZamagna what are you talking about ? Find one tenor in the last 20 years capable of doing what Tucker did right here at 61 years old, weeks before his heart attack !

[@editdr.pinter599]

so wünderschön hat es noch niemand gesungen

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Awful acting when compared with Enrico Caruso who LIVED the role of Canio. Sorry, not good in comparison.

[@PedroZamagna]

Awful is to look at your comments and your face and not knowing which is uglier. The moral aspect or the "esthetic" one. Keep the soap opera romantism to yourself.

[@grr8048]

Emily Greene You know Caruso was often criticized about his poor acting. Then he said to them to close the eyes and one could hear the beauty of the singing. Are you listening? He was talking to you.

[@downfromkentuckeh]

@@PedroZamagna you should see Emily's singing videos on her channel. And she has the audacity to lie about the greats. I've seen her complain about Birgit Nilsson and Mario del monaco. She is an idiot.

[@PedroZamagna]

@@downfromkentuckeh Im long time familiar with her egotistical comments over on any possible singer that Silver or his direct or indirect students has ever made good remarks.

[@MyZakatak]

You’re such an idiot just leave already