Spectacular Michael Spyres' 3 Octaves of Rossinian Bravura (Heroic Baritenor Coloratura, Pirro)

[@deadwalke9588]

G2 to F5.... Wow. Have we found our tenor Assoluto?

[@zekaleon]

I've been trying to find moment he sings F5, but without success. The highest I've heard is D#5. Can you provide the time in the video? Anyway, he's awesome. Beutiful tone, incredible range and coloraturas.

[@deadwalke9588]

@Barone Vitellio Scarpia I know now. What a difference a year makes LOL!

[@modestavicentefuertes2286]

@Barone Vitellio ScarpiaMaybe.I think that will be something interesting to see one of your videos about countertenors.

[@modestavicentefuertes2286]

@Barone Vitellio Scarpia you can use Andreas Scholl, Fagioli, David Daniel and others "countertenors" not only Spyres.

[@modestavicentefuertes2286]

@Barone Vitellio Scarpia or this who use an microphone inhis interpretation kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ3KaIWfmt1gapI And Helmunt Fischer is an entertainment company.

[@elsaasta5164]

Un magnifico interprete rossiniano... la perfezione del fraseggio e le varie tonalità sono stellari.. grande... grande Talento!!! Grazie Lohengrin 0. Elsa Asta.

[@philipc67]

A very great baritenor indeed. He is singing Siegmund in Bayreuth this summer!

[@jacquelinedumont5155]

Encore un cadeau de KZbin enfin pour moi qui aime les belles voix.Un ténor comme je les aime ,avec par moments des accents tirant vers le registre du baryton .....let bien je vais vous avouer j’aime Merci pour cette découverte er ce partage.

[@lanonyme]

Ecoutez-le dans un extrait d'un Opéra de Mazzoni où il chante sur plus de 3 octaves, avec un contre G (Sol) stupéfiant. Et de Georges Bizet "Je crois entendre" des Pécheurs de perles = A pleurer d'émotion . . . . .

[@magicmonkichi]

I've always like Spyres. A great Rossini tenor with a great lower extension. He has great coloratura, string of beads from one end to the next. I think everytime he speaks he's singing lol. A true natural voice.

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

Voce splendidissima.Ogni successo a questo artista.

[@fabriziodiberardino3448]

Molto bravo, passaggi perfetti e potenza massima, esprimo sempre lo stesso parere su Rossini,che centro, che non è facile cantare Rossini. Uomo o donna che sia,👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🐶🍷 Grazie lohengrin

[@simonchausse11]

Just a dream of vocal paradise! Yes his range is uncanny...makes me think of those late recordings of Rosa Ponselle with her quite low register.

[@viorelbadiceanu5982]

These kinds of voices are very, very rare (I'm talking about the AUTHENTIC ones, born and not made); the same about Falcon voices. Thanks for sharing!

[@manolis.799]

Wonderful Rossini singing from a modern tenor.... maybe there is hope after all

[@LohengrinO]

just wonderful? he literally goes up and down in the 3 octaves with heroic weight, agility, trills, genuine baritonal chest voice and sustained tenor forte notes above C5... this is unbelievable... a male Podles but with genuine forte top notes (and he goes easily up to F5)

[@manolis.799]

more than wonderful but I had only listened to 1/4th of it when I made that comment no this is real singing. Its amazing. His voice has real quality and weight, not a mosquito. His fioritura is florid and in style, not machine gun. the CHEST voice blew me away completely, I thought it was a different singer! I look forward to following his work and career. I had heard of him before but never really given him a try. Rossini is smiling.

[@LohengrinO]

...he is a Tenor Assoluto no doubt... it seems that due to Callas, we focused only the Soprano Assoluta roles.. perhaps the 21st century is the century of the Tenor Assoluto

[@manolis.799]

absolutely! of course I'll probably never get to see him as I live in America and opera houses here don't like real singing .

[@manolis.799]

also I don't know if you've seen them but I have two new uploads. One Rossini and one Handel if you would like to check it out.

[@garfieldmoore9632]

In line, I think, with what Manuel Garcia would have intended .... Even Scale, Even Registration, Real Flexibility and a Fine Trill ..... BRAVO

[@loumagill115]

The Golden Age has returned.

[@Homoclassicus]

For me there's no doubt that vocally and technically he has one of the greatest tenor voices of the last decades. Very few performers managed to sing this very difficult parts with such apparent effortlessness and high level of musicality.

[@LohengrinO]

very few tenors even attempted ever to sing these tenor assoluto roles... and from the great ones I think only Gedda has sung some of these roles (these roles are the male equivalents Armida, Gemma, Elisabetta etc)

[@Ariadne-cg4cq]

@@LohengrinO According to some of his interviews (which are actually worth watching on YT) he started off as a baritone, with a voice which extended for only 1 1/2 octaves because his natural speaking voice is quite low but after some training as a singer he felt that he was a tenor(!!!) so he started to convert to become a tenor. He trained first in the USA for a couple of years and then decided to go to Europe on a one way ticket and got into a Conservatoire in Vienna and then joined a choir but at the same time spent years of obsessive and persistent training by himself for many hours a day to improve his technique and extend his voice. He reckons it took him 10 years to get where he wanted but the results speak for themselves. In the process he learned to speak German (to get into the Conservatoire in Vienna) and after that he has managed to learn reasonably good French (with impeccable French accent) and reasonable Italian. So the guy, if nothing else, has persistence, application and dedication into becoming the best he can. I think he is spectacular and miles better than anyone else on the scene right now.! hope you are keeping well . I've had some difficult times in recent years but on the mend now.

[@nelsonjoseperez-sosa8809]

Absolutely phenomenal!!

[@delibeslakme6451]

Es increíble este cantante lirico, es único en extension!!!

[@juanmorales569]

Lohengrin O, thank you this guy is great, just a joy to listen to.

[@LohengrinO]

incredible joy!!!

[@ramonmontedeoca2879]

SENCILLAMENTE !ESPECTACULAR, MARAVILLOSO!

[@henri-francoisserrescousin412]

ET quelle élégance, quel style !

[@LohengrinO]

Oh-la-la!

[@nicolehourcade]

I was in tce at the performance with A Zedda for the last time,dimitri Korchak et Enea Scala and M spyres amazing as Pyrrho

[@arzainc1]

Il sera à Montréal cet été au Festival de Lanaudière dans un cadre idyllique. We will be lucky to have him in Montréal this summer.

[@andrewbloom7694]

G2ish-Eb5, Ive note watched this on a spectrogram before

[@vale86301]

Che voce magnifica e toccante: cantare Rossini richiede forza ed acrobazie vocali e questo baritono ne è degnissimo !! Meraviglioso!

[@podkowalesna]

First of all, his singing is always fearless

[@richardhuntingmusic]

Beautiful baryton martin timbre, I like how his A4 sounds so light and easy like a real Tenor and vibrates at similar if not the same frequency

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

He goes up to C5. Any tenor can hit A4.

[@richardhuntingmusic]

@@anthonyehrenzweig1635 yeah, but anything higher than A5 at that point wound sound much better by a tenor because it's much easier for them to reach them and it's gonna sound more comfortable, brighter & lighter. Baritones can sing as high as Tenors with training but it doesn't mean it would sound as good

[@delibeslakme6451]

Verdadero y raro baritenor.

[@lesvallsveterinari9743]

Bravo!!!!

[@marcobono3784]

meraviglioso !

[@delibeslakme6451]

es un gran baritenor

[@tropicalstrings]

Excelent tenor bariton. I wish the orchestra was louder. Because i miss the harmony with winds and strings.

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Gorgeous !

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

My previous comment I was confusing him with another Tenor who gets criticised far more than Spyres - it’s been a while since my reviewing days! Yes he is amazing when I have seen him (as Rodrigo, the bad guy in Donna de Lago, totally outsinging Florez).

[@LohengrinO]

is Spyres the male Podles?

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Lohengrin O hmm an interesting comparison. Because 3 octaves, and excellent coloratura? The big difference is that he is definitely mainly a coloratura Tenor with a low extension, I.e a high voice with low extension, rather than a coloratura contralto with upper extension, i.e. a low voice with upper extension. The male Podles would be someone who is a bass baritone with coloratura who can sing into the Tenor range. I’ve met people like this (I’m working on a Don Carlo at the moment and the King Filippo once sang the Tenor Count role in Barber of Seville!). Both are rare to be sure!

[@LohengrinO]

I personally have never heard another tenor singing in such virtuosic level up to now...

[@EuSuntVoievodVlad]

@@LohengrinO I think Spyres is above all interested in delivering stylistically accurate rendition of his roles (he states as much in some interviews), more than Podles (who is an artist I deeply admire). Both Podles and Spyres seem to be very aware about the effect made by their virtuosism, but Spyres seems to always try and use it in a stylistically conscious way. I feel it must be stated that nowadays the public seems to like unchained virtuosism less than a few decades ago (Podles' era), and period informed performances are more in fashion (... only superficially?).

[@LohengrinO]

do they even understand when they listen to someone like Spyres what they are listening to? I had the same question about the Firenze audience in Callas' Armida... if they even remotely understood what she was doing they would be screaming... I doubt modern audiences realize what Spyres does in this scene

[@vocalsvideos458]

6:21

[@giancarlopiligp]

Voce virile.

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

Very good depth for a tenor - how rarely do you hear any notes below F4.

[@andrewbloom7694]

F4 is a highish note even for a tenor, thats about 1.5 octaves above the lowest note the voice sings (~C3)

[@rashadrasimoglu6027]

King

[@iplx57]

When and where,please? Outstanding!!!

[@LohengrinO]

I have re-listened this like 100 times last week... it is astonishing

[@danielm8840]

Theatre de Champs Elysees, Paris, November 2016. It's also posted elsewhere on KZbin where you can actually see him singing. Conducted by Zedda a few months before his death.

[@iplx57]

@@danielm8840 Thanks for your reply..I'll search that video,thanks

[@nicolehourcade]

La seconda parta de l aria e una scala.

[@zekaleon]

I keep coming back to this. Stupendous. @Lohengrin O Can you please tell me what opera is this? And maybe what aria (I don't speak Italian) ?

[@LohengrinO]

read the comments below...

[@zekaleon]

@@LohengrinO Grazie mille

[@liliacristinapohl4905]

Balena in man del figlio , aria de Pirro ( Ermione ) : Rossini ..🌹🌹..

[@philipc67]

@@LohengrinO I adore ERMIONE; saw the work in Glyndebourne back in 1996 and again at the San Carlo's bicentennial production in November 2019 (atrocious staging and John Irvin as Pirro was sheer disaster) but I think Orestes has more dramatically interesting, if not as florid, music to sing, especially in the extended final scene. Michael Spyres is phenomenal here, arguably the greatest tenor (or baritenor) in the world today. Discussion please dear Lohengrin?

[@lalagonegaga]

Easily the best tenor we have now.

[@modestavicentefuertes2286]

Bror Magnus Todeness ;b

[@jorgemolina6518]

Ese Dúo de Ermione es imposible

[@JackieLanceTenor]

He reminds me so much of Bruce Ford.

[@LohengrinO]

but better...

[@JackieLanceTenor]

@@LohengrinOI think he has become my current favorite tenor.

[@LohengrinO]

​@@JackieLanceTenor HE IS PHENOMENAL... and I think the line that began with Chris Merrit and Bruce Ford for the Tenor Assoluto parts is actually climacting with Spyres… Nature keeps producing better and better Heroic Baritenors Coloratura

[@JackieLanceTenor]

@@LohengrinO it's a voice type I wish I could be. My voice teacher in college showed him to me about five years ago and I've been obsessed with him ever since. My teacher knew him when he was an undergrad and apparently he started out as a Baritone and couldn't even hit a Bb at the time, so there is hope for all of us that aren't quite there yet. Haha

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

I think you mean 2 octaves.

[@mugrad25]

why do you say he's a baritenor? he sounds like a light lyric tenor to me. somewhere between Pavarotti and Juan Diego Flores

[@robertharris7502]

He does sing a whole bunch of low b flats and a naturals, no easy feat for a tenor of any type, much less a light lyric, but yeah, he sounds like a tenor singing them nonetheless. It's also important that he sings them with either little or no orchestra beneath him. I doubt he'd be heard otherwise.

[@nicolehourcade]

The low register is of baryton more but he has to raise to the top with coloratura.

[@edraith]

He has a low A bigger than that of most baritones (live, not only in recordings) and he is singing roles that were originally written for a baritenor, hence he is a baritenor. But he is a very nice tenore lirico-leggero too...

[@blackredcat69]

@@robertharris7502 I can assure you he can be heard very well with orchestra. His voice is quie big and goes over the orchestra easily. I saw him several times in the theatre and he was amazing.

[@Eriknorcal]

There's a KZbin video of him singing the Figaro-Almaviva duet from Il BARBIERE with Lawrence Brownlee. He sings the baritone part.

[@leemartinez3851]

I love his voice and he actually has improved in the last years. My only negative comment is that their coloraturas sound like too legato for Rossini. He actually has a much better voice than others for sure.

[@LohengrinO]

the scaled vocalism that characterizes Rossini no way it means the singer must not have perfect legato... on the contrary

[@leemartinez3851]

Sorry Lohengrin O but do not agree. Many Rossini singers establish the difference. Not every coloratura is staccato of course but they are not the same as Mozart's . Do not remember the singer that also mention this in the book Bravo.... I'm not saying neither that they cannot be beautiful. Still his voice is amazing hope it lasts long.

[@LohengrinO]

Bel Canto without Legato is Opera without Soprano

[@manolis.799]

No it must have legato! Rossini wasn’t meant to sound like a machine gun.... or a mosquito for that matter. The myth that Rossini fioritura is any different than the rest of bel canto is just that, a myth!

[@222mozart]

Lohengrin ist der beste.

[@Winnepausakee]

I have been a bewitched fan of opera for 45 years. There are voices much acclaimed which give me the yawns....but since first "bumping" into Bruce Ford on youtube about 3 years ago, I've been bemused how such a voice can NOT be acclaimed above virtually every voice I've heard or heard of.....Is it that the Rossini operas are not as often staged as others? Did Ford not give recitals of lieder or other such...confine himself to only these Assoluto roles? I'm 'all ears" so to speak and would much appreciate an explanation as to how this voice is NOT they example of "Tenor". This is not to diminish the talents of others who I much enjoy to include Wunderlich, Lemeshev, Pavarotti, Melchior, Corelli, but this voice stands out as one meriting much more attention that it seems to me it garnered. Explanation, please?!!!

[@LohengrinO]

this is a Michael Spyres post though... :D

[@Winnepausakee]

@@LohengrinO yes, mid-rant of mine about Bruce Ford, this video came on...no doubt while comments about Ford were being "printed". I also like Spyres, but have "seen" his career develop....Bruce Ford came "out of nowhere".....I have quite a vast collection of records of the "great voices" singing not only operatic roles, but recitals of lieder and Neapolitan classics, and operetta....and never "saw" a recording of Ford. This in current sight, astonishes me.....Had he poor management team? Was he not interested? Was he difficult to direct? All of the above? Just seems odd that a voice of this brilliance and power and flexibility would not be known by ALL opera buffs. I've asked folks I know who are very deep into opera...even two voice coaches.....Nope, never heard of him. ????

[@LohengrinO]

@@Winnepausakee The phenomenon of being Underrated... I have posted Bruce Ford in my channel but he is not the no1 Underrated artist I post... Oralia Domingeuz is... and others being phenomenally Overrated, that's life

[@Winnepausakee]

@@LohengrinO It may have been your post, if so "thank you", but I "discovered" Oralia Dominquez just that this past year and went all manner of "Wow"

[@LohengrinO]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZW1qZ6LmslsjLc

[@biancacastafiore8760]

who's the soprano?

[@1rosyhugo]

mICHAL Spryres, es un Baritenor, primera vez que leo este termino, pero SI, el es un Baritono y Tenor, por eso lo de Baritenor, como Tenor, No hay quien le iguale en este momento, el es #1 pero tambien tiene registro de Baritono, eso lo hace , para mi, mas grande, para mi, es el mas grande en este momento, Mas que Pavaroty, Florez y Camarena. No hay quien le iguele.¡¡¡¡¡¡

[@shaneglabb9656]

What opera is this from?

[@liliacristinapohl4905]

Ermione : Rossini .( aria de Pirro )..

[@EL-vu9tj]

Why he has that baritone quality in his voice it's because he uses the resonators in the most efficient way . He also learnt to sing in thuvan troath singing , which is a singing style that alows the singer to explore all the resonators

[@xavieralberto1176]

Yes, and he also eats red hot chili peppers every Sunday

[@graziellachirigu2492]

Ki

[@carolyneteixeira2542]

Não tem nada de baritenor. E sim tenor absoluto. Assim como soprano absoluto,canta qualquer repertório...

[@edraith]

He sings lower passages of the baritenor roles way more easily than ANY big tenor has done in during the latest 100 years, so he probably has some quality regarding vocal range that puts him in a category were he can both be a lirico-leggero (wich he is) and a stron baritenor. His low range is more solid and resounding, live, than most nowadays baritones...

[@canaleteatrale6662]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6bEe6GHeNOGaJI

[@SilverSingingMethod]

what a shame this voice was distorted and limited by terrible teachers.

[@EliominDZ]

habla la envidia

[@liliacristinapohl4905]

En una decada ( 10 años ) seguiremos escuchando esta gloriosa y fantastica voz , intacta y con todo su esplendor ..Gracias a su extraordinaria Tecnica . Y si el paso del tiempo me lo permite , yo lo escuchare ...🌹🌹..