MICHAEL SPYRES - Duca / Rigoletto - Ella mi fu rapita & cabaletta

Michael Spyres, in his role debut as Duca in Verdi's Opera Rigoletto. Recorded in October 2008.
More info about the tenor can be found at:
www.fischerartists.com/Spyres.htm

[@ladyizolde7493]

OMG! This is the first class studio quality of singing in a live performance. Michael, you are my opera hero!

[@luigianiha]

Simplemente extraordinario. Uno de los mejores tenores actuales.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Oh my.. what a beautiful voice. That legato..

[@e-bikeskibum7141]

Just fabulous!!!

[@gunnarcharles226]

Eek

[@erwinbrunner]

one of the best tenors today,,,right along with JDF,,,,from top to bottom solid,,,beautiful timbre,,,voice full, and round,,,,solid technic. hope to hear lots more from you,,,thank you

[@alexandranickel542]

Stimme Ihnen zu ! Sehr schönes Timbre, sehr gute Diktion und nicht irgendwie "gequetscht" in den hohen Tönen.

[@moorfan1]

Absolutely fantastic! Spyres is magnificent!

[@MichiamavanoErnesto]

Bravissimo! Che Duca, che legato. Complimenti di cuore

[@ROSSINIINWILDBAD]

Ah Michael we love the way you sing! After the first note it is clear: Here is flowing melos, taste, musicality - and power.

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

Ogni tanto si sente un Tenore !!!!!! E non corre ,la canta in maniera dolce come dev'essere questa romanza!!!!!!!! Mari

[@Meinzul]

estupendo Michael Spyres...Bravo

[@juanjoperabilbo]

UN FENOMENO VOCAL. GRAN BARITENOR

[@MMotta-mk8uq]

Ele canta demais!!! Beleza e extensão vocais inacreditáveis!!! Fabuloso!!!

[@aliciasarramida]

Beautiful voice!!!!

[@alexbond4998]

This is amazing.

[@MMotta-mk8uq]

Simplismente fantástico!!!

[@Chriswren9]

Would love to see more! Thanks for posting!

[@Alieaz]

and what a fantastic trill!!!!!

[@zekaleon]

fantastic trill indeed, and you rarely hear man doing trills (excluding falsetists)

[@65attila]

Top notch performance with a nice even voice and nice flexibility and good top notes.

[@SpecialtyHorseTraining]

I first heard his astonishing "Je crois Entendre encore" with the most incredible, delicate phrasing.........and yet he can just as thrilling in something as opposite....His Rossini Otello also very impressive..........

[@pureffm]

The trill at the end is not written but somehow while listening to other versions before this, I always felt the trill would be really nice. I am glad he had the same intuition.

[@johannesgrau5956]

its written in the recordi score

[@janettucker3196]

Yes!

[@doet1064]

its written.... :D

[@pureffm]

@@doet1064 shake on the others of not singing it properly 😅

[@doet1064]

@@pureffm it has nothing to do with proper singing its a cadenza and you can give it your own interpretation its art... and because he is so versatile and is able to do thrills and singing rossini he did this cadenza as is written in the riccordi libretto :)

[@dxhtz]

this guy makes good choices..

[@juanjoperabilbo]

increible su tesitura. le permite cantar igual arriba y abajo. GENIAL

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Bravo Spyres!

[@dickinsonmaiden]

Please correct the name, he is the great Michael Spyres!!! You are always the best young tenor for me and I wish you all the best! See you soon, Alessandro!!!

[@eliseofumaroni4210]

Bravissimooooo!

[@georgecarlson5836]

Excellent point, about his passagi. Maybe what I should have said is that it's & an instrument you just can't categorize, as discernably baritone vs. tenor, given the relative ease with which he sings either.

[@fabriziomariagarzi5534]

Che bravo

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

fabrizio maria Garzi questa volta la nostra opinione e' uguale ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mari come Callas.

[@fredojoaquim4764]

Nice!

[@hankblaustein4149]

does anyone know why gelb has not engaged spyres more? is he waiting until he passes his prime? very puzzling.

[@patricksdonnelly]

Jeez, this is a hard room. How good do you think you deserve things to be?

[@gestas60323]

magnificent !

[@07fantine]

J'adore ce ténor, dans tous les répertoires ... je rajouterais juste que le public qui tousse, éternue pourrait s'abstenir d'assister à la représentation, c'est vraiment désagréable. Soignez-vous Grrr !

[@lanonyme]

La salle était peut être mal chauffée ce qui explique ces éternuements ! ! ! Souvent dans les concerts des gens toussent. C'est gênant pour ceux qui apprécient le grand Michael Spyrer.

[@Margery789]

Having heard several HFA recordings of Michael Spyres, the person recording manages to cough in the middle of area on many occasions. Can you either give the person recording throat lozenges or get someone else to record. Coughing is as distracting as a cell phone ringing.

[@konradottingen7187]

Is this a school play?

[@georgecarlson5836]

Remarkable that a baritone should be able to sing tenor, without revealing any signs of same, but if your looking for a different vocal quality, or coloring, which sets him apart from other classically trained singers, you won't find it here.😊

[@KajiVocals]

Tenor. Clearly tenor if you look at his passaggi. Lower but still tenor.

[@conradsiebert]

Pavarotti had a bigger instrument to work with. I find Spyres more lyrical at points! BRAVO BRAVO!

[@vivegedda]

Buy yourself a better pair of ears!!!!

[@edraith]

Lol, no. If you hear him live, Spyres actually has a very big, powerful voice, full of colours wich he usually keeps down in order to be more agile. He could sing as a baritone way better than a lot of our nowadays barkers with those little woofy voices wich can't go up nor down.

[@edraith]

@Barone Vitellio Scarpia I don't know, I worked with him and remember a beautiful rossinian baritenore voice with an extremely agile and easy vocal emission in both rossinian tenor high tessitura and in extremely high notes at least up to a High D5 (but he can sing way higher too) If he's a baritone (it might be he's actually a high baritone with an inredibly easy vocal emission over his whole range) he's an incredibly talented one with the most easy and agile higher register ever for a baritone!

[@edraith]

I honestly do not like him in Verdi tho.

[@edraith]

@Barone Vitellio Scarpia conoscevo questa sua imitazione, anche io da ragazzo facevo le imitazioni e adoravo imitare Gigli, Siepi, Schipa, Caruso, Bastianini... Maybe he is more akin to a baritone than a to a tenor voice but then again he is able to sustain both tessitura and vocal range so why should he not try? His vocal range spans roughly from a Baritone Low G2 to a Contraltino Tenor High G5 so anyway that would make him a high baritone with an incredibly extended high range and with an astoundingly easy delivery while singing in tessituras that are way higher than his natural one. ^_^

[@tamarakupchenko8230]

Assomiglia molto a Gianni Raimondi))

[@e.g.8454]

Non certo nella voce

[@irmar]

Per niente!

[@larivedranelestasi4333]

Bueno.... lamentablemente canta muy bien el Bel Canto, pero no aplica nada de eso a Verdi. Es bien sabido que los grandes cantantes del pasado dotaban a Verdi de un uso belcantista dando asi mas expresion al propio Verdi. EJemplos sobran: Callas, Bjorling, Carreras, etc.... ¿Que les sucede a los cantantes de ópera hoy en dia? Si se abandona completamente la vieja escuela, el canto queda vacio.

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

Solon de Atenas e'. Colpa dei maestri di canto! Non ci sono. Bravi maestri questo e'quello che penso io questo e' un pezzo magnifico se cantato come si deve !!!! Mari

[@carlosstieffel4842]

Se canta con el cerebro sin corazón....

[@numetutelare]

Sì molto meglio in Verdi che in Rossini, se non deve fare acrobazie vocali la sua voce é assai più convincente...

[@giudiciadanna4550]

Ma caro, si mangia parecchi Flores e consimili in un boccone. In teatro ha pure un grande volume. A Parigi in Pre Aux Clercs fu magnifico...e poi basta con Rossini, non se ne puo' piu'.

[@e.g.8454]

Simpatico tenore ne carne ne pesce, qualcuno ha detto che fisicamente ricorda un po' sua maestà Beniamino Gigli, a livello vocale c'è un abisso tra i due.

[@zoltanvarga8448]

very clever, but he sings above his male voice and the upper fifth is weaker than that of a true dramatic tenor.

[@myrabyanka5442]

IMO a very good singer, but his voice doesn't send me. Not particularly distinctive or memorable. Just nothing where one can say that's Spyres! Guess that's what one poster meant by generic. Also, can't really hear him over an orchestra.

[@ransomcoates546]

I don’t understand the enthusiasm surrounding this singer. The sound is colorless and generic. And the high note at ‘angeli’ fell completely back in his throat.

[@gunnarcharles226]

?

[@phvangalen4310]

Well, he will be performing in Bayreuth this year twice. He sang Verdi's Requiem with the Berliner under Gatti to high acclaim. He sang with the Met, he was twice awarded last year with the price of best opera sanger etc. Maybe it is just a matter of perception? 😊