Grande Samuel Remy. Un grande Mefistofele ❤❤❤

Te lo agradezco muchisimo

Bello

Although not a really great composer, Boito did, IMO, come through with one memorable score. It is more than a one aria opera as the Prologue & Epilogue alone demonstrate. They are not alone. L‘ALTRA NOTTE & Faust‘s final aria are examples as well as the stunning scenes for Mefistofele especially if you have a superb singing actor. Although Ramey has a smooth timbre & conventionally beautiful instrument he must bow to Norman Treigle in this role. Treigle‘s sound was unique & more exciting & memorable in live performance than on record. Having watched Treigle in the role on stage & also owning his studio recording is a case in point. He timbre in the former is rough but seeing him in the role onstage some 5 months before his death remains a revelation. Ramey, theatrically, is just not in Treigle‘s league, IMO, nor I doubt if anyone since has had similar impact in the role. Treigle remains truly in class of his own among operatic singing actors & Chaliapin is perhaps his only rival, in this role anyway.

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Further proof, not that we needed it, that Boito was an infinitely better librettist than composer, the one aria (You know which one.) notwithstanding.