https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GhwDObJk84
Unconventional performance! Check out his range at 2 mins 20 seconds. Incredible.
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UnconventIonal how so? Anyway, awesome! Tibbett was good at everything.
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Didn't he add a couple of extra notes at the end?
What do you think of this version from another American baritone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYameVeiRWQ
Very impressive too I thought.
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Didn't he add a couple of extra notes at the end?
Oh, yes. I listen to a lot of older recordings on the one hand and a lot of HIP on the other, so I sort of take that kind of thing for granted. But you're right, of course, a lot of singers don't do that, especially in the mid 20th century.
I listened to Leonard Warren video when you posted it on the big forum. Wonderful, of course. A sound to make at least temporary bisexuals of the straight. (Though weird how he throws away the famous "Figaro, Figaro, Figaro" bit. Maybe he figured that patter isn't his speciality anyway, so why pretend.) (And I don't know who the conductor is, but I love him. Warren's working the facial expressions overtime and he's just having NONE of it.)
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What's HIP, dude?
Glad you liked the Warren too. Can't help with the conductor I'm afraid!
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Historically
Informed
Performance
The name is of course an aspiration rather than a reality.
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Tibbett was not good at everything. Certainly this exhibitionistic and strained performance in third-rate Italian is hardly "good."
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Certainly this exhibitionistic and strained performance in third-rate Italian is hardly "good."
If this is too much exhibitionism for you, then you're listening to the wrong composer; I much prefer to hear a strong singer "strain" than an indifferent singer who happens to be perfectly within his range; I also much prefer a good, honest foreign accent to a passable imitation of the native accent.
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