Turandot: “Nessun dorma”

SeokJong Baek sings an excerpt from Calàf’s Act III aria in an early dress rehearsal. Production: Franco Zeffirelli. Conductor: Oksana Lyniv. 2023-24 season. Videography by Neville Braithwaite.

[@AuroraMarija]

Saw him last night and omg. So incredible, how have I never heard this man sing before?

[@doriansebastian8065]

I think he is Korean. Never heard of him

[@jy55739]

Cannot fathom that he has been a baritone for 17 years! What a fantastic tenor 😮🩷

[@elmamagbuhos4817]

Saw the opera at the Met and Seok Jong Baek is amazing

[@emanff18]

Bro just cooked in rehearsal 🔥🔥🔥 so good ❤️

[@jviltrakis83]

Honestly this is kind of the best that this has been sung on that stage in at least 15 years or so. Bravo!

[@mauriciobori]

yep 100%

[@dominickcorbacio2988]

Period!

[@ttkchang]

I him on saturday night 3/2/24. I said. how is it that he can be just as good any of the few recordings that we have: del monaco, pavorotti, etc.. the was 5 minutes of applause.

[@kimmillard9445]

, probably more than that, at least since PRE-Domingo. We're talking James King or Gianfranco Cechelle.

[@jviltrakis83]

@@kimmillard9445honestly I kind of think you’re right

[@jshum02]

I heard online SeokJong Baek in a master class I believe in 2015 with Thomas Hampson and I fell in love with his voice

[@jluff753]

WOW. I never thought anyone could top Pav, but I am in tears. Absolutely pristine. Bravo bravo bravo

[@biancacastafiore8760]

and he scored a tremendous success last night at the premiere. everyone was great last night - the maestra Lyniv, cast, chorus and orchestra. Bravi a tutti!

[@jeremycouplan3526]

…wow, a voice like this comes only once every 50 years …what a gift

[@maralisil]

Wow! He's wonderful! 😊

[@TexasLonghornsHookem]

What an absolutely powerful and most beautiful voice! Goose bumps for sure!

[@guilhermembarbosa]

Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@TaliGatitosor]

He's amazing.

[@cat921971]

Just saw this performance at The Met last night. Amazing. Bravo!!!

[@jackhamm1745]

Really exciting and thrilling!!!

[@ingmo9]

Am so totally smitten. Wow. ❤️

[@minseokleem2502]

그의 칼라프를 우리나라에서 볼수 있음 좋겠네요~!!!

[@Taine2]

Saw it last night, closing night. This man was magnificent. Very tough shoes to fill with this aria, but it did so beautifully and with the true power him being originally a baritone! Stunning. The whole company was spectacular. What an opera to close the season with! ❤️🇮🇹

[@Fanny-mo8cg]

J'aime énormément ! Clair , solide, de belles nuances. Bravo 😊

[@xiaozhang6565]

oh my god - so effortless! looking forward to watching him at Met Opera in a month!

[@WARMTAPES]

just amazing. so beautiful

[@yichenxue5865]

SeokJong！👏👏👏👏👏

[@davidworobec1673]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

I love it

[@bradleymonroe6443]

Bravo!! SeokJong Baek is the best tenor ever. He will always be our tenor hero. 🎼🎉✨✨

[@gailaltschwager7377]

Thank you!

[@zffman]

Were really pleased to watch him performing on March 8th. Worth visiting even just to listen him

[@user-jn8vb8uk1h]

우와우~ 축하 합니다 대한민국의 자랑 입니다 드뎌~^^👍🌹👍

[@hl4374]

Wow wow wow breathtaking beautiful

[@shalomirose7565]

Would love to see this in person. He is SUPER. Great voice and manner.

[@turbofreddy]

What a great singer.

[@olgabenko8300]

We saw him perform on March 8th, it was phenomenal 👏👏👏

[@joannebelle3662]

I’ve never loved opera before this ❤❤❤

[@jihyekatieyoo668]

Bravissimo!!

[@leme1294]

❤

[@Robin-kc9lr]

He was fantastic last night, as was the entire cast. What a fantastic performance!

[@f-xdemers2825]

Sometimes humans are more than what nature needed.

[@nomnomfoodthief]

I saw him earlier this month, and he is phenomenal ❤

[@justinleemiller]

Outstanding!👏👏👏👏👏

[@galinagilziktinova4856]

Наслаждалась, слушая волшебный голос, давно не испытывала этого ощущения. Спасибо

[@christinamarti4441]

Magnificent ♥️🙏🦋

[@yoyohou]

Just saw him at Met in the last performance of the 2024 production. He is fantastic!!!

[@swallow750]

I just saw him last night at met. Amazing voice and act. Tremendous!!

[@UXUI]

❤ Beautiful voce!!! 브라보

[@ioup5875]

Splendid !

[@petarabat194]

Božanstveno gledao sam u Metropolitanu uživo Imalo mi je srce iz grudi iskočiti od uzbuđenja Spektakularno Jedinstveno Nezaboravno

[@ui1222]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-ll9gj4od8w]

bravo!!!!!!

[@BlackSpock135]

,👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@tammy2100]

Наконец то хоть кто-то стоящий споет на этой сцене после Пласидо Доминго, с у довольствием посмотрела бы в записи,bravo!

[@Whiteaura12]

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[@BlackSpock135]

Wow , love the singer !!!!!

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

Don't get me wrong, but even if he wobbles a bit, but he ain't *that bad* he's still better than other tenors like Yusif Evaznov and Yonghoon Lee. No offense to the both of the tenors.

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

However I have one problem. Is Carlo Bosi back as emperor?

[@05350]

He just turned from baritone to tenor during the pandemic. Impressive.

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

@@05350 I think he's like Michael Spyres who does baritenor

[@somerandomguy84]

@@bryanschlippjr4894 His vibrato does slow a little around the passaggio (F-G), but at least it's right on the money on the high As and the high B

[@julialluchcortes5805]

Muy buen tenor bravo😂

[@ohmy5650]

Good Lord... 💎

[@가창예술의경지]

브라보 Bravo

[@gilbertopineda7883]

👌🏻👍🏻👏🏻

[@BlackSpock135]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@Evangelio543]

Tremendo

[@vmjhl07]

Bravo…😮

[@veljankapopovska4387]

Ubavo. ❤🎉

[@mcgurkryans]

Great sustain at the end… I saw him on his final performance of the series (Saturday matinee)… he was definitely out of gas by then… cutting his “vincero” short. Great performance nonetheless. Good to see an Asian male lead in a Chinese opera.

[@lawrencecavanagh7880]

Nobody Sleeps through that! Nesun Dorma.

[@Evangelio543]

Lo canta diferentes a otros tenores que se Ben forzado. El lo canta natural.muy buena tesitura vocal.

[@Aneta_Skarzynski]

A beautiful attempt - bravo!😍 I listen to the recording: this is a dark and richly aliquoted tenor voice, however lyrical, but not dramatic. In my perception - the part of Calaf should be sung by a heroic tenor. I wish him good luck and success! 💛

[@biancacastafiore8760]

he’s at least a spinto, not a lyric

[@somerandomguy84]

@@biancacastafiore8760 Not only that but we've gotten to this weird point where if someone sings with shape and finesse that they aren't a big voice. All voices should sing with style.

[@boundary2580]

@@somerandomguy84people are really judging the size of the voice from curated recordings. If you put static over this and said it was from some random Italian tenor from the 30s people would be calling him a full dramatic tenor. There really is no pleasing these people, they need to actually go see these people live before judging.

[@hl4374]

I don’t know anything technical part of opera singing, but his voice and singing makes me appreciate the beauty of life. That’s good enough for me.

[@Aneta_Skarzynski]

@@hl4374 Excellent!

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

Hold up, which broadcast is suppose to happen on WQXR this Saturday? Turandot or La forza del destino?

[@johnryan7616]

Neither. It's a listener's choice archived performance of Ernani.

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

@@johnryan7616 Oh, thanks

[@bryanschlippjr4894]

@@johnryan7616 What does LA forza del Destino mean in english

[@jct35j]

@@bryanschlippjr4894 The Force of Destiny

[@bbailey7818]

@@bryanschlippjr4894 Literally 'The Force of Destiny' but probably more accurate 'The Power of Fate.'

[@biancacastafiore8760]

save yourself for the performance!

[@paragod333]

But he knew this was being filmed for PR puposes.

[@kurogo24.4.21]

日産ドグマ!

[@trueself1752]

He is great, but what happened to the orchestra at the end??? Is this a clip from rehearsal?

[@biancacastafiore8760]

yes, read the info above

[@rafffa26]

i just got pregnant by seeing this, and I dont have an uterus.

[@meropemerope6096]

why are the subtitles so wrong? lol

[@syncoresyncore7727]

No wonder, why Met recruited him…

[@glacialimpala]

He kind of does look like Asian Pavarotti 😮

[@ey8767]

We always "mocked" Placido Domingo because he cracked badly in the 1987 production, but it turns out that he's last "listenable" Calaf since then in Met, until this tenor of course. I would say his acting needs improvement but I am happy that they are not casting bad singers in the role.

[@smurf902]

Wobble wobble wobble

[@m.l.rayito4000]

Low and relaxed larynx, complete opening and use of the entire emission channel in the generation of sound (pharyngeal cavity, oral cavity and cranial resonators), correct coverage of the sound in the transition to the high register, adequate coordination between the so-called chest registers and head registers, correct diaphragmatic support of the air column, giving rise to a natural and free emission, with a round and homogeneous sound, regardless of the register and the dynamics, adequate articulation and without any continuity solution in the execution of the sound arc ("legato singing"), etc. In short, the artist knows and respects what we could call the natural, physiological mechanism of emission of the human voice and which is the basis of the great Italian school of singing of the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Some slight and occasional affectation in the timbral quality of the voice, probably due to some small mismatch in the support, does not justify, I believe, a comment as simple as "wobble, wobble, wobble", at least if we want to be truthful. in relation to the execution of this beautiful art. Kind regards.

[@kimmillard9445]

Beatifully done until he ends the last "Vincero" quite sharp. Still better than anyone else I've heard in this role in several years.

[@chiensyang]

I also notice he finished abruptly.

[@kimmillard9445]

@chiensyang , thinking the conductor stopped the orchestra. He held out the note plenty long. Maybe too long as he continued to get sharper.

[@robertomunizmoran840]

NO ENTIENDO LA REAQCCION TAN FRIA DEL PUBLICO......

[@SK-el2wg]

rehearsal kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoi0iJWNfbyniqssi=uBQD8CpJn16dwerT

[@critic9216]

Stick with Corelli. Or Del Monaco.

[@papagen00]

maybe i'm biased but i saw this production with Luciano Pavarotti in the 80's. this korean tenor needs to work on his Italian, "the best today" is not good enough.

[@PP-wp2bx]

Sure, obviously you are comparing a legendary Italian tenor singing in Italian with a Korean tenor singing in Italian regarding their pronunciation. So fair. I wish we could hear Pavarotti singing a Korean song....

[@papagen00]

@@PP-wp2bx fyi I'm korean and would NOT want to hear an Italian singing korean songs.

[@f-xdemers2825]

Italian has nothing to do with it. Its music.

[@luigifar3616]

Bravissimo.