MICHAEL SPYRES Salut, demeure chaste et pure (Gounod's Faust)

[@trilobit4]

If Nicolai Gedda and Alfredo Kraus listen to this on the eternity, they smile for sure. Beautiful rendition. Michael is indeed excellent.

[@frb1808]

Beautifully sung. He kept his vocal line unbroken even upon reaching the high C. Well done!

[@perolsen4271]

A voice of the highest quality.

[@manuelbarragon2738]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. What a voice.

[@meleisenberg9240]

Another sublime interpretation by the world's finest tenor.

[@mikec5487]

One of the best high C's in many years. Perfectly sung-dead center.

[@HammondDER]

This is pure headvoice with no poissibility to go into the full voice. The full-voiced High C's are at Fisichella's or Kraus' renditions.

[@operadog2000]

@@HammondDER Nope! If you want to hear head voice/falsetto on the Faust high C, then listen to Georges Thill. Fisichella's top C was more head than full chest. Kraus is in a league of his own when it comes to the high notes though the rest of his singing of this aria in many of his live recording was dry and ugly.

[@HammondDER]

@@operadog2000 This is simply not true. The vocal closure type is headvoice based. This is not so called covered register as FC's or Pavarotti's.

[@operadog2000]

@@HammondDER Corelli's rendition was awful especially with the flat high C. LP sang an exquisite high C, but it was a studio recording.

[@downfromkentuckeh]

@@HammondDER to sing head voice is to cover. The cords are elongated necessary for high pitches. If you want a muscular struggle and danger to the cords, go ahead sing full chest voice up there🙄

[@jacquelinedumont5155]

Encore une merveilleuse découverte Michael Spyres .C’est un très grand plaisir de l’écouter je ne m’en lasse pas.Merci pour ce partage

[@mrm.5787]

First Jussi Björling and now this. Jussi went from pianissimo to forte on the high C and this was forte to pianissimo. Both expertly executed.

[@Kotek58]

I like the comparison. Intelligent singing.

[@jacquelinedumont5155]

Je remercie M.Spyres de me replonger dans mes bonheurs d’enfance grâce à sa voix si remarquable .Merci.

[@ohmy5650]

One of the best pronunciations of the french language by a non-French singer I've heard. But... vocally..., I'm daring to say this is my favourite rendition 💎

[@gerardcohen7780]

Non. Le français est approximatif et il articule mal. L'émission manque de clarté. On se demande même s'il comprend bien ce qu'il chante. Autrement, la voix est belle mais trop en force pour cet air.

[@jacquelinedumont5155]

Faust le premier opéra que j ‘ai découvert à l’âge de six ou sept ans l’émotion est intacte

[@lucianomontanaro6091]

Fenomenale....il miglior tenore oggi

[@gonzalobenavides226]

Una voz muy bella. De los mejores en la actualidad

[@liliacristinapohl4905]

¡¡Que magnifica voz y que esplendido Fausto !!...👋👋👋👋👋👋👋..

[@brucebrewertenor771]

Bravissimo !!! Bel canto illustration

[@cheniersanfrancisco4907]

Beautiful !

[@TimothyJonSarris]

controllo del fiato fenomenale

[@juandavidrojasmayorga6540]

amazing!!!!!

[@fredycastropinzon7342]

Muy buena interpretación Michael

[@np8700]

This is incredible!!! A decrescendo on a high C! Amazing!!!

[@wordsworks7084]

Also di Stefano was able to do this in his best time.

[@Kotek58]

In fact, if you listen carefully, it is a crescendo and then decrescendo. Brilliant.

[@nicolehourcade]

Amazing singer.The accentuation of the » phonème « in French is perfect. Mon chanteur américain favori en Francais. i will to see and hear him in Opera Comique in Le postillon de Longjumeau. J’ espère qu il chantera aussi à Toulouse et à San Francisco.

[@gerardcohen7780]

Pire au lieu de pure ! Tu parles d'un phonème...

[@MrPren]

Eleganza e bellezza.

[@samjordi]

Dios santo, es perfecto, ¿cómo lo hace? Maravilloso. (Tuve la suerte de verlo en "La favorite", en Barcelona, hace dos años, no tenía ni idea de quién era, me quedé impresionado).

[@AustrianAdrian]

Just saw him first time on stage in "La Vestale" (a dreadful production) - very masculine and beautiful voice and a very good French diction. I hope he will sing more in Vienna.

[@celibidache1000]

Masculine? It's almost falsetto.

[@ladyizolde9851]

@@celibidache1000 have you ever heard Spyres in a live performance? Or just watching Ytube video and post dilettantish comments?

[@veramolinari6352]

¡Maravilloso!¡Que placer para los amantes de la lírica!¡Gracias,Helmut!Saludos desde Uruguay,Sud América.

[@jaimenunez9403]

Perfecto... Sobre todo el piano después del agudo... Pocos lo hacen..

[@liliacristinapohl4905]

Impecable diminuendo en la frase final ..Tal como fue escrito por su autor ..👋👋👋👋👋..

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Dicció francesa impecable.Frasseig adequat. Vocalitat eximia. Total, un jove tenor destacat. Potser poc valorat...

[@operadog2000]

Molt cert. És un cantant meravellós.

[@juliocattan2503]

que buena tos.

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

Question: What act was this aria from?

[@olivierpadovani6081]

une leçon de chant : style , phrasé , diction , souplesse de la voix . Il faut engager Michael Spyres dans le Faust de Gounod .

[@mino7520]

Oui peut être dans une petite salle, mais pas à garnier ou à bastille, à moins d'une bonne sonorisation.cependant je dois reconnaitre que son timbre est agréable de même que sa diction française pour un américain.

[@DR-tx9mr]

Spyres is wonderful. The coughing into the microphone is unfortunate.

[@francescabelanger5525]

Swoon!

[@jacquelinedumont5155]

Fais-tu le premier opéra

[@yuriykulagin]

Молодец!

[@hectorbravo6862]

Hacer un filado en el Do5 son palabras mayores... aunque sólo sea en un recital.

[@wewper]

My goodness. In some ways, this is better than Giuseppe di Stefano's famous performance of the aria (as part of the complete role) from the Met in 1949.

[@josenogueira4581]

Kraus, Gedda, Beczala

[@flaze3]

great job Michael! I don't know why people come to the opera to cough... very annoying of them.

[@elizavetacarlsen7374]

👿 👍

[@Operafiend22]

A first rate tenor (not a bad bass impersonator either lol)

[@thricegreatart]

I LOVE Spyres but I just have to comment that there is an opportunity to make it even better. The phrases could be even better connected together a la Kraus. There is still some elegance to be found that way. But this is already an A performance, I'm talking about the diff between A and A+

[@jean-pierrepriolau1101]

Chanteur magnifique qui n’esquive pas les difficultés de cet aria . Le son n’est pas terrible, dommage. Mais merci pour la vidéo

[@lanonyme]

Enregistrement pirate . . .

[@carloshumberto3136]

Soberbio!

[@jacquelinedumont5155]

Fais-tu

[@alfredalfred3571]

changement d"emission et retoru a celui d'un ténor lyrique !

[@sukiserjeant9110]

I much prefer Mario Bahg’s his wording much clearer and superb tenor of this century !!!

[@palmatoscani9259]

Beaucoup de mérites à cette exécution et diction respectable pour un non français. Un bémol: j'espère que depuis cet enregistrement quelqu'un lui a appris à distinguer entre "salut" et "sali" "pire et pure". Il n'arrondit pas les "u" qui par conséquent passent pour des "i"

[@annashlimovich]

Nice, a high C is done well but diminuendo was not so great, he better would do it Roberto Alagna way, that was sensational

[@ransomcoates546]

A mistake to try the di Stefano diminuendo here. Didn’t quite work, and the vowel was ugly.

[@Beadle_Bamford]

It’s not a di Stefano diminuendo, it’s a Gounod diminuendo and it was fantastic.

[@operadog2000]

Better than Di Stefano's scratchy high C that started with head voice whereas Spyres went from Chest to head voice.

[@annashlimovich]

Agree, even with Pippo it was a bit precarious.

[@johanronnung1665]

Not bad for a bariton.

[@KajiVocals]

Low tenor.

[@rapsodie1211]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TheBaritonoAssoluto]

@@KajiVocalstimbre isnt dark enough to be a low tenor. He has a very middle of the road tenor sound. He can over darken for color effect but natural sound is pretty bright.