Giacomo Lauri-Volpi News
Italian opera singer (1892-1979)
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On this day in 1927 the Metropolitan Opera opened its 1927 season with a revival of Turandot featuring Maria Jeritza and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi.
2019-11-02 08:51:31
An artist should be careful not to put themselves in a box: I chat to tenor Leonardo Capalbo about the challenges of singing the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos
Verdi: Don Carlos - Leonardo Capalbo, Raehann Bryce Davis - Opera Vlaanderen (Photo Annemie Augustijns) We have heard Italian-American tenor Leonardo Capalbo twice in the title role of Verdi's Don Carlo(s), first this Summer with Grange Park Opera, and then more recently in Ghent with Opera Vlaanderen. Whilst we were in Ghent, I was lucky enough to be able to meet up with Leonardo to talk about his career, his voice, and the role of Don Carlos in particular.Performing Verdi's Don Carlo (in Italian, in the four-act version) was Leonardo's debut in the role [see my review], and he followed this by performing the opera with Opera Vlaanderen in French in the five-act version [see my review]. Was the change in versions and language was a challenge I wondered? He responded that he feels that everything is a challenge but he loves Verdi's music and finds Verdi's characters the […]
2018-04-28 15:24:52
Super-artistry
2018-04-09 03:04:47
Two singers, 2018
April 9, 2019. Two singers. Franco Corelli’s birthday was yesterday: he was born on April 8th of 1921. One of the greatest tenors of the mid-20th century, he, together with Giuseppe Di Stefano and Mario Del Monaco, brought the level of tenor singing to heights which seem unreachable today. Add to it two supreme sopranos, Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, the great baritone Tito Gobbi, the mezzo Giulietta Simionato, the base Cesare Siepi – all of them at the top of their form in the mid-1950s. What a glorious era! Corelli may not have had the most beautiful voice, but the power, clarity, phenomenal breath control and sheer excitement he generated were incomparable. Listen, for example, to this 1955 recording of Cavaradossi’s aria E lucevan le stele from Puccini’s Tosca. One may quibble with the interpretations, with the notes he holds a bit too long – just because he can! […]
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