Mitridate, rè di Ponto: "Se di lauri il crine adorno"

[@dancewithaguitar]

This is some of the most beautiful singing I've ever heard. I can't stop listening. Can it get more legato than this? And his lack of breaths!! And his last high note!! Rock on Bruce!!

[@piustwelfth]

This is a sensational performance. His seamless transition to the abrupt high notes is extremely difficult, and he does it flawlessly (not to mention his gorgeous timbre).

[@Esch1lus]

Still coming here almost everyday, it makes me feeling I was poorer before listening to this precious rendition. Thanks Bruce for your effort, goosebumps are the easiest of my emotions to tell, it's truly a gift to enjoy when sorrow comes in your life.

[@fastfh]

Why is this not the most famous tenor ever? Such beauty and ease in singing this highly difficult piece. Wow!!

[@tiberioaugusto6328]

Stupefacente Bruce Ford...!

[@rayer1000]

This is one of the best tenor voices...ever.

[@swissarmytenor]

I've heard any number of renditions of this aria, and no matter how well-sung they are, they still - all of them - pale in light of Mr. Ford's rendition here. I've heard them all, and as competent and good as the restl may be, it is this rendition of Mr. Ford's that quite easily stands above them all. How fortunate Mr. Ford must feel to know that his efforts have made him the definitive interpreter of this aria. Bravo and congratulations!

[@taboopancake28]

Michael Spyres does a pretty good one too. Not sure how it stacks up in your eyes, but I'm a fan of both. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpqslZuug6eZq6ssi=q497tqmsks5NLcd2

[@Teresa-yw1he]

Vicino a qualcosa di sacro!...❤️

[@AHA270849]

Adorable! Diese Kraft und trotzdem Leichtigkeit in der Stimme, diese Piani, diese weiten Atembögen, die Phrasierung, der Ausdruck! Ich liebe diese Mozart-Arie, gesungen von Bruce Ford, über alles.

[@AmusedCondorBird-pq7fk]

Flawless! The greatest Mitridate of our times. Bruce Ford owns this role the same way Glenn Gould owns the Goldberg Variations.

[@tenorschofield]

Marvelous Bruce Ford!!!,one of the best tenors of our days!!!...BRAVISSIMO!!!

[@Musicdok]

Stunningly perfect, beautyfilled performance by Bruce Ford. To die for really

[@Ash-sr5pz]

I keep coming back to this every few month as I develop and work on my own singing... so incredibly humbling yet always reminds me of why I started in the first place

[@emeraldlessley5906]

lol saaaaame, I’ve been listening to this for years. It’s so good.

[@punya10]

@@emeraldlessley5906 haha. Same. This is my gold standard

[@lizryan2977]

I cannot understand why the audience aren't giving thunderous applause at the end of this. Did they not KNOW what they had just heard? Bruce Ford's life force in this tour de force. A fiendish sing and he makes it seem effortless.

[@organboi]

Most people don't know the aria or opera, so they didn't really know when it was over. Besides, there are plenty of people responding very well at the end. No reason to judge the audience here. I'm sure they were mesmerized. It's an unknown opera for most.

[@edmundasseilius1028]

I just adore this singer. His technic is out of Earth.

[@alexanderlionheart6473]

Omg this is out of this world. His tone and legato and ability to transition seamlessly are pretty much perfect.

[@GabrielaMonteroTV]

It is astonishing that such quality, such exceptional human achievement, is exposed to so few, hidden beneath the weight of so much trivia and noise in this far too busy world. This simply IS the art of singing, and the art of music at its most compellingly refined, sophisticated and magical. And spare a thought for the 14-yr old composer, young Mozart!

[@biancacastafiore8760]

indeed. perhaps one of the best singers of his time, and yet how many people - even opera fans - have heard of his name? instead people only know of the mediocrities that are considered “stars” because studios and impresarios tell us so.

[@ARTUROPVIOLA]

One of a kind !!! One of the very best and such a humble man!

[@headdd2699X]

a dir poco spettacolare - simply spectacular

[@sapalass]

Well this is how it has to be singing! I think this is the most technical singer I ever heard.

[@davidoff7312]

Just incredible how beautiful a lyrical tenor can sound...

[@JD96893]

He is unbelievably good

[@organboi]

Thanks, Amadeus Mozart for posting!

[@ottaviacortesi3108]

Super!!! Bravissimo !!! La miglior interpretazione di queste bellissima quanto impervia aria. 🌹

[@babachlovari4782]

Absolute perfection 👌🏽

[@gerharring]

This is so unbelievably awesome, I have no words and to think that after 5 minutes of the most challenging and beautifully sung aria he gets a rather feeble applause. They should have been standing up thumping the floor for at least the same time he was singing!!

[@haranoe]

That's because the supposedly cultivated audiences will not applaud the composer, only the exceptional singer or, at most, the exceptional work: they would faint over either "Don Giovanni" or, say, Gösta Winbergh singing this same cavatina, but never over the exquisite craft of a score like that of Mozart's "Mitridate", or the barely acceptable skills of a Bruce Ford trying to do justice to that composition.

[@ah332]

Because it's royal opera house...the English can't appreciate this stuff.

[@dubbelhenke854]

@@haranoe If you listen to Winbergh first, Ford seems a bit cold and strange. Winbergh is much more touching.

[@haranoe]

@@dubbelhenke854 Ford does sound cold and "strange" because he has a feeble command over an equally underdeveloped voice. Gösta is far from being a perfect singer, but he sounds more like a singer than Bruce Ford. That he would seem more or less touching, would be a gift...

[@tangistanguy]

@@haranoe What are you talking about, for heavens sake ????? (" Ford does sound cold and "strange" because he has a feeble command over an equally underdeveloped voice.") Have you ever in your life listened to a tenor ??? OMG, this is the top of ridicule comments I have ever seen here !! CONGRATS, you are the winner. 🤣

[@vocetenore]

Simply the most beautiful, elegant, amazing performance

[@tenorschofield]

What a great tenor he is!!!bravo!!!

[@jmahlon]

Unreal technique.. So incredible!

[@tenorschofield]

MARVELOUS!!!

[@gerharring]

Awesome, if I were to choose between all the Tenor facts, this is one I would pick, simply beautiful. I know most like to go for the big voice but this just beyond words. This is special type of Tenor that the famous Pavorotti could not even dare to touch

[@gabrielbelimo9762]

Splendide 😻👍👍

[@Chris-qe2uq]

Anyone who disliked this video is either not an opera singer, jealous or both.

[@MrAlmebo]

Bruce Ford ist ein Ausnahme-Tenor. Unvergleichlich schön in seiner Technik. Ohne Fehl und Tadel. Während andere Tenöre andauernd up to date sein müssen,macht er sich so rar!

[@jira3312]

This is so beautiful...no words needed...

[@TheSunlight74]

Amazing, just amazing. This is LIVE too people!

[@Jackswansontenor]

4:34 to 4:44 is unbelievable.

[@timothykeatley1664]

You sing this one very well, Jack :)

[@lesliejohnflanagan]

Yes. Simply amazing, beautiful singing

[@nelsonpianista]

absolutely WONDERFUL!!!

[@ismaelpons]

Sin duda una interpretación insuperable, a piena voce y sin falsear en ningún momento. Realmente no creo que haya hoy en día ningún tenor capaz de mejorarlo.

[@andresduranmaillo4320]

los cantantes no tenemos por qué mejorar nada de otra persona, ni superar a nadie. No somos futbolistas. ¡Somos artesanos, músicos! Cada uno hace, deshace, falsea o no en función de lo que quiere, puede o desea hacer. ¿Mozart quería una voz plena para esto? ¿Una voz que sonara como Pavarotti en todo el registro? No lo sé. Sé que tanto esta versión como la de Croft me gustan, por ejemplo. Una voz puede ser plena, con una técnica genial si quieres, pero ser menos interesante que una voz que falsea (como dices) pero con timbre y una musicalidad preciosa. Humilde opinión de alguien que está cansado que traten a los cantantes como pilotos de fórmula 1.

[@ErnestoRodriguez-fn1sh]

Es verdad que cada cual tiene sus características y que cada uno trata de superarse a sí mismo: tener su estilo propio. También es verdad que hay personas que tienen un don especial ( en cualquier actividad) y esa peculiaridad, que irradia con más brillo que el común, es la que sorprende y maravilla gratamente y ello no implica ser detractor de los demás. 👌👍🇪🇸🌿

[@timkeller1510]

He deserved bigger applause than that. That was extraordinary.

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

I think the conducting was dull & featureless & that may have something to do with the audiences lack of enthusiam.

[@thesaucegroup1877]

@@anthonyehrenzweig1635 who cares about the Conductor......no one

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

He achieves the impossible here. Incredible.

[@gabykogut6462]

the staging and costumes are very weird, but bruce ford's voice is gorgeous, and that's what counts!

[@giacomoserra4823]

GREAT SINGER

[@emeraldlessley5906]

I just want to know who these 7 downvotes are 🤔🤔 clearly people with no taste. That transition back into the A section KILLS ME. Perfection. He’s amazing.

[@organboi]

Maybe some people don't like his overly forte singing of Mozart. Maybe too loud for Mozart in places? And parts seem messy, phrase wise.

[@PortaDoria]

A model of mixing the voice

[@Startsingingnow]

Perfection! I love his voice!

[@tenorschofield]

BRAVISSIMO!!!

[@tenorschofield]

100% de acuerdo con usted, este tipo de puesta es lo que realmente ayuda a la difusión de tan bello y emblemático arte!!!!!Bravo!!

[@T-O-M-E-K]

yes, yes, yes - wonderfull

[@jokembachh]

Un ejemplo de buen gusto y estética , tanto por la calidad de los cantantes como por la escenografía, del cual debería beber mas de uno a la hora de llevar al escenario una opera.

[@rolandoguytenor]

Maravilla!

[@Wamprechts]

Bravo!!!

[@GermanoBrissac]

Amazing!!

[@tenorschofield]

Magnifico!!!

[@AlfredMertens]

Singen in höchster Vollendung! Bruce FORD zeigt es uns !

[@krajncrocky]

the best!

[@ruggeronorge1]

why vídeos like this have only 13k views?

[@vocetenore]

I think I account for at least half of those views

[@mscott3918]

@@vocetenore I think I have to put my hand up for about 90 per cent of the rest.

[@giordisauro1]

Meraviglioso

[@inesdeerausquin5658]

If I do not return to you, faithful shores, with hair adorned with laurels, At least I do not bear a face tinted with shame & disgrace. Conquered & oppressed, I still remain the same, And I bring you, hidden in my breast, ever the same, my great heart.

[@joaopedro12]

this aria is so fitted for tenor, damn it's all there. It's beautiful bruce just makes it male and elegant, noble really. it's mozart...

[@karilamminpaa8987]

I would like to invent new words of praise ; perfection seems ...empty and overused. But what else can I say ? Thank you for the music - and I am not talking about Abba which I also enjoy !

[@CapitanTartaria]

Genius

[@Agorante]

Mozart was blessed with bad tenors. All the arias in the full opera are very florid.- except this one. The first Mithradates Guilelmo d'Ettore couldn't sing runs so he had the young Mozart write him an aria that played to his one strength - giant leaps. When He brought Don Giovanni to Vienna the tenor couldn't manage "Il Mio Tesoro" so he wrote the easier "Dalla Sua Pace". Thanks tenors.

[@Agorante]

The best thing Bruce Ford probably ever sang was the role of Agorante in Rossini's "Riciardo e Zoraide", His entrance aria is a hoot. Fabulous music and he sings it in Blackface. The music is fiendishly difficult.

[@organboi]

Um, what are you talking about?

[@declamatory]

His third "Blondie" in "The Abduction of Figaro" is amazing!

[@BirdArvid]

Ridiculous that this world-class tenor hasn't sung at the Met!!!

[@biancacastafiore8760]

he did, long time ago. they only gave him a few Barbers

[@Ms1ms03]

❤️❤️❤️

[@emtnz1569]

Guauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuoñoooooooooooo

[@piquete48]

Esto es cantar y lo demás son carajadas !!!bel canto del de verdad !!!!!

[@marcomicheletti9957]

0:29, se di lauri

[@stashikjelisjeev]

1:40

[@angelotenor]

AH-MAH-ZING!

[@binhdao1991]

so good @@ the sound makes me think of other tenor: Michael Spyres

[@Musicdok]

Michael was a huge admirer of Bruce

[@XPRT10R]

@scribeuisum Parte male? Ma la conosci l'aria?? Parte perfetto e continua così.

[@dhoulkarnain]

A translation somebody? Thanks.

[@Winnepausakee]

I suppose the real mavens of opera have known of Bruce Ford for decades. He is a newer voice to my ears and I supposedly have tracked the male singing voice for 40 years. How is that Ford escaped my notice? Did Domingo and Pavarotti just have a better PR department, or was it the rumored prejudice against American singers that in the minds of some stalk the major operatic houses in the US? In any case, Brava Bruce Ford!!!!

[@cherubello9340]

Spettacolare, mancano però i trilli

[@moo7chi7ld]

any luck?

[@oivil1]

Parte male? ma come si fa a dire una cosa simile!

[@ramirogorriti]

Se me cae la baba.

[@valentinagaida6242]

нет,нельзя нам быть с тобой. Это будет неправильно.

[@jomoses07]

he makes me so angry with his hahahahahamaingness...why can't i sing like that.....fail me...fail.

[@aaronbarber6238]

I know your comment is 7 years old, but as a practicing tenor the trick to this aria is voice placement and once you nail that technique, it opens so many doors, It’s taken me years to figure out the proper placement for notes like the high B and C, and only discovered the voice placement for those notes only a few days ago, I’m still not certain if my placement is correct, but I’ve previously never reached these notes with the purity and vibrato that I can now. It feels so different from singing high A, and B flat, and it doesn’t feel like an outward expulsion of pressure, it actually feels like an in and upward intake of whatever this action is. Play with your voice placement, find your passagios and very carefully test out different ways of getting through them using different head and facial pressure placements. Like I said, I’ve only just discovered a way for my own voice to comfortably reproduce what Ford has done here, but our voices might be very different so you must take great care with how you handle reaching these notes. Keep at it, I never thought I could ever touch this aria, but the possibility is there now, and if I continue to carefully study how to manage my voice during this brutal aria, I too might post a video of me singing this. Keep at it, I’m certain you sound awesome!

[@Herman6507]

OK, I dare: Listening the various renditions a dozen times my ranking is 4)Ford 3)Croft 2)Spyres 1)Winbergh. Although performing with apparent ease no doubt, Ford to my opinion has a rather thin voice, while Winbergh was a living sound-box.

[@biancacastafiore8760]

croft??????😮

[@piraselisabetta5167]

Re si scrive senza accento

[@GiuseppeGatto-dn8sb]

nell'edizione originale è con l'accento, si tratta di italiano antico

[@jamessharp4075]

Very good but I prefer Rockwell Blake

[@samuelkock7693]

He squeaks like a mouse.

[@senna6773]

And you think with your intestines and speak through your ass hole.

[@mscott3918]

@@senna6773 Unfortunately a typical KZbin fault.