Give Puccini some credit.. the Scarpia Te Deum with the magnificent orchestral accompaniment is some of the greatest minutes in all of opera

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

Jeffrey L. : Where did Puccini sing the Scarpia Te Deum? At the MET, Covent Garden or La Scala? Who sang with him?

@FueganTV

Жыл бұрын

I think it's the greatest passage in the whole opera! The way it builds up and its diegetic polyphony (evil scheming juxtaposed with a religious mass) are breathtaking.

@acadela3506

Жыл бұрын

John Pickford : what?

@no_Ray_bang

9 ай бұрын

such a great spectacle, musically, conceptually, visually

@postmodernrecycler

29 күн бұрын

It's the good stuff. The low tube bells, the organ, the choral, the thunder claps, the grand church spectical, the counterpointed themes in the scene's narrative, the high tube bells for the mass. I go to Tosca for this piece alone.

Macneil rarely came out of character, even during curtain calls. A great voice and legacy.

His live recording with Price and Corelli is superlative!

I met Mr. Macniel and also Ludovic Spies when I was an extra in Tosca in 1973 San Francisco Opera. I played the part of a monk the the procession. He was a swell fellow. a great experience when I was young.

@JWP452

2 ай бұрын

The glorious Kurt Herbert Adler San Francisco Opera!

YES. *THAT* is the correct way to sing.

Macneil was up there with the very best of baritones,totally captivating,totally believable

This is Macneil past his prime (he would retire in 1985), and yet he is still brilliant. Yes, his voice is showing signs of wear and doesn't have the full richness it had earlier, but he wields it with such dramatic effect that it actually works better that way. His Scarpia is rough and gruff, one that doesn't have time to pretend to be suave and dashing like others do. Behrens' Tosca is never close to being seduced by this beast, she knows from the start he is a man to fear.

@sgnmath1234

Жыл бұрын

He retired from the stage in 1988 singing Tonio from Pagliacci

@nskull9368

7 ай бұрын

We no real vocal beasts in opera these days… 😢

@jafb67

Ай бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly! MacNeil at his prime was one of the best ever! His Rigoletto from 1962 with Sutherland and Siepi is some of the most beautiful and powerful baritone singing I’ve ever heard.

Truly an unrepeatable giant of the lyric art.

Grandissimo Cornell.....

Volcanic voice.

Un vero Signore. !!!!! Padrone assoluto della sua bellissima voce. !!!!!! Bravoooooo. !!!

By this later stage in Macneill's career, the voice was huge, dark and heroic. ie. 3:25, a climactic high F.

un Scarpia excellent ,voix et jeu de scène !!!

I loved The BIG MAC saw him many times when I was a student in High School. My Dads favorite Baritone! Magnificent Voice. The Biggest Voice ever!

Thank you for posting this great performance, no equals. To bad he didn't do more commercial recording. I saw him a few times at the met opera.. Rigoletto and nile scene in Aida gala.. I those days they were almost taken for granted. I wish they were still here.

I recently discovered MacNeill and I think he was an outstanding singer. I cannot think of anyone nowadays on this level. Bravo

Great singer and remarcable actor ❤

He is excellent.

amazing singing actor

@mollygarden9535

Жыл бұрын

and he had the best guru! (Tito Gobbi, and he WAS a guru.)

Tosca is the first opera I ever saw live, and it can still make me cry at certain moments. George London is my favorite Scarpia, but MacNeil was very fine also!

потрясающе, я не знал этого исполнителя, какой драматичный и демоничный взгляд! какой тембр!

0:01 MacNeil: I'm not so sure about this . . . 1985 MacNeil: *snappy snappy*

loudest voice i ever heard great before he develpoed a wbble in voice still great

@larrywoods6318

2 жыл бұрын

Please define wobble.

@user-il5oq5df6l

Ай бұрын

Maria Callas and Hans Hotter had wobbles too.

Люблю всіх Тосок і Скарпіїв світу!

Magnifique

I choose Scarpia!!!!Love, Tosca

Unico!

I enjoy this so much! My favorite interpretation!! So musical! I saw him at the end of his career nothing short of fantastic! This performance was incredible!

Bravo!

Today Big Mac would have been 100 years old. If only he were still with us

Wow!

Wow! Only baritone who comes close to Milnes. I'd say they are almost equal.

The wobble had already come . MacNiel was.masterful in how he.used the deterioration of his voice for powerful.dramatic effect

@larrywoods6318

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a wobble (like Callas) as big heavy voices age the vibrato widens, and still on pitch, a wobble is not on pitch.

@jefolson6989

2 жыл бұрын

@@larrywoods6318 a stopped clock is right twice a day. Callas , on a single note, goes sharp and flat, but within the extremes is the correct pitch. MacNiel delt with this by singing high notes with very little vibrato toward the end, but the BEAT, wobble, call it what you will was still there. His work at the Met in the 80s was due more to his power as the house union rep than his voice. Nobody messed with Big Mac. But he continued to be effective on stage.

Жыл бұрын

That is *not* a wobble. I am perplexed as to how easy people claim stuff in public while being absolutely clueless about them. A wobble is a non-pulsating pitch excursion, usually without a proper accent on the center pitch, while a vibrato is a pulsating pitch excursion with an accent on the center pitch, which is perceived as *the* pitch, and the off beat of the pulsation on a lower pitch, which is usually not at all perceived (but can be if the vibrato frequency is slower than 6Hz as in the case of MacNeil here). Do the world a favor and educate yourself before spewing garbage about none the less but one if the greatest baritones to have ever existed

Люблю во веки веков.

@user-ry9zf5fp4v

Жыл бұрын

Я люблю его очень..два благородных баритона-он и Бастианини-оба прекрасные Ангелы оперы!

Lo pude escuchar en vivo en Bs As dos veces una voz impresionante

Люблю ... Скарпіа

Люблю.

I miss him.

MacNeil is my favorite scarpia!

@marcelpopa8018

2 жыл бұрын

senti Tito Gobbi .

@e.g.8454

2 жыл бұрын

MacNeil Milnes Bastianini London Tibbett Taddei Warren Carroli Ramey Ruffo Granforte Stracciari Battistini Gobbi..

@rodolfolomelig8349

2 жыл бұрын

@@e.g.8454 Ramey has the most beautiful voiced ever Scarpia, Bastianini sings it beautifully, but Gobbi embodies the character

@whovian1591

Жыл бұрын

@@e.g.8454 you forget giangiacomo guelfi, and gabriel Bacquier!

@user-ry9zf5fp4v

Жыл бұрын

@@rodolfolomelig8349 Бастианини тоже воплощал..по началу он кажется холодным и строгим в своей игре-послушайте его Скарпиа раза три..и он открывается вам, удивительный, необъятный,природный актёр

This looks like the Verrett/Pavarotti production which is as close to my personal standard of perfection (for Tosca) as I can realistically expect. Met Opera/ Tito Gobbi production conducted by James Conlon 1978.

I think Gabriel Bacquier’s french scarpia is the best one ever. Worth listening to.

@MOV1983

Жыл бұрын

The video is not about Gabriel Bacquier.

@acadela3506

Жыл бұрын

@@MOV1983 Obviously? I'm giving a recommendation.

@AP-dd3xp

8 ай бұрын

@@acadela3506awful recommendation

Хорррош Скарпиа. Сыграл и спел.

👏👏👏👏

really too bad that the microphone was apparently right on the front of the stage. would love to hear a little mix from what that sounded like in the house. still stunning 💪

Un gran bel Baritono......ma si illude che Tosca possa cadere fra le sue braccia.....Cornell Macneil per essere un artista straniero ha una buona dizione e una bella maschera d' attore...uno Scarpia ad hoc. Elsa Asta

@angelabender8132

2 жыл бұрын

Il sesso può essere cosa diversa dall’amore e Scarpia si riferisce al sesso che le cantanti d’epoca non disdegnavano essendo libere. 😀

Клас.

Gobbi is good for it too!

I guess one of your baritones would be Tibbett, right? So who would be the last one?

@trrill

2 жыл бұрын

I guess it'd be a tie between Merrill and Bonelli. I would tend to prefer Bonelli; he was a *complete* musician and artist compared to Merrill.

Who do you feel the other ones are? Merrill and Warren?

@Evvivaverdi

6 жыл бұрын

If it is not meddling, Tibbett and Warren, I suppose.

@Operafiend22

6 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Stern Apollo Granforte, Giangiacomo Guelfi, even the live recording of Bastianini

@deadwalke9588

6 жыл бұрын

If we're just basing this on American Baritones, then you have to talk about Richard Bonelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Leonard Warren, and Sherrill Milnes.

@artemsmirnov7067

5 жыл бұрын

Well, the greatest is Bastianini. Best American is Warren, probably. Then maybe Milnes

@cathyborrege5373

5 жыл бұрын

@@artemsmirnov7067 Bastianini a baritone without peer. You Tube: Ettore Bastianini "Eri tu Che, Macchiavi", Masked Ball. Unequaled.

Ottima pronuncia, anche della "r"...

A little bit out of time at the beggining of the aria, but very well performed. I still prefer Gobbi and Bastiniani over him.

@user-ry9zf5fp4v

Жыл бұрын

Бастианини красивый, невероятный..хотя не любил роль Скарпиа

But, he doesn’t sound evil!

Very good performance............however Tito Gobbi's is with out doubt the best Scarpia

Not the best Scarpia rendition, but passable.

This is awesome singing, no doubt. But I wouldn't say it's the best recording. Guelfi is technically better. MacNeil struggles a bit at the top. It's too 'open' and that's something I have noticed as his career progressed. Gobbi had a similar quality. I think it's not necessarily bad singing but I think it limits the singer's shelf life. Anyway, I recommend changing the title of this video. You're implying MacNeil is better than Guelfi. I think that's a silly comparison. MacNeil was more bass-baritone than Guelfi, but both absolutely extraordinary voices. Early MacNeil is my favourite of his output.

@trrill

2 жыл бұрын

Well I recommend you get your own channel and stop telling other people what to do! This video title implies no comparison whatsoever with Guelfi, whose Te deum video is on *my channel*, by the way. It refers, instead to MacNeil's interview in Jerome Hines's book. And your comments about MacNeil's voice have been made hundreds of times by many, many other people for the past 50 years and are as irrelevant as theirs. MacNeil sang well until he retired at 65. You can see his final performance here on KZread.

@splodsquadubdob

2 жыл бұрын

@@trrill I'm interested that you are quoting Hines. Thank you for mentioning. I must correct your presumption of me: You're recommending that I stop telling people what to do? Well, what are you doing? Read your own headline. And I wouldn't say there is a categorical way to sing Scarpia. Guelfi's different version clearly shows this. Interesting information though on MacNeil. Thank you for sharing that. Sorry, if you don't like my discourse.

@larrywoods6318

2 жыл бұрын

@@trrill bravo

Detached performance. Boring.

Люблю.