Corelli is without question the best. The man didn't just hit a high C most of the time but a high C# or close enough to it. Mans power is unmatched.

Per me il più bel do della speranza lo emette Jussi Bjoerling. Spontaneo, ampio, sicuro, timbratissimo.

Bjorling (and that was an early recording)!!!

Jussi Björling - Rodolphe himself!

A lot of brilliant voices. But Kurt Baum is totally new discovery for me. What a voice.

Pavarotti,always

This is always a very difficult choice. Actually Che Gelida Manina is an aria that many tenors sing really well. Gigli, Di Stefano, Pavarotti, Bjorling all of them sang it really well, I could probably narrow that down to Pavarotti and Di Stefano. Tucker sounded really fantastic on this aria and in this role when he was still a lyric tenor, and Mario Del Monaco as well in his early years. Gedda was also fine in this role. I really enjoy Franco Corelli in this role as well, it is not really traditionally suited to his voice, but he sang and performed it with the most emotion and passion out of everyone.

Caruso, Gigli...

I simply love Bergonzis high notes. He didn't have them every day. But when he was in good shape they had so much space and shimmer ❤. Sure, there is not so much squillo as in Corellis, they are smooth and warm. And I love them...

Pavarotti .. cos he sings it like an Italian peasant, relishing every note. Also the Karajan recording which made the young Pavarotti famous has the incomparable and under-appreciated Mirella Freni :)

Once again, thankyou OT for another great compilation! So sad that many of these great tenors died way too young!😢 Franco Corelli, always my favourite! ❤❤❤❤

Thank you 😊

Le grand pavarotti

Björling doesn’t just sing it or belt it out he molds and loves it. The best.

Cesare Siepi è senza dubbio il miglior basso di sempre, grazie mille cara Ingrid per questo gioiello

No hay duda que son todas voces maravillosas, pero Rodolfo de La Bohene es Jussi Bjorling

After nearly 120 years and recorded in 1906 using the 'primitive' acoustic technology of the period, Caruso remains the yardstick. He died just a few years before the introduction of electrical recording so what we hear is only a fraction of what must have been a veritable cathedral of sound. The others are mere country chapels, excellent though some of them are.

The great maestro Franco Corelli, unique, excellent and exceptional❤

Alfredo Kraus produced a stunning High C here. Nicolai Gedda also had briliiant high notes. The tiny tenor (not in this video) Josepg Schmidt was also excellent. At this level all the tenors are good.

Corelli,unico, eccellente e eccezionale

Jussi Bjorling the N. 1. The High C is wonderful: no comparison!

La bohemê 4 perfeden oluşan Giacomo Puccini 'in inanılmaz bir operasıdır. Bu arya 1. Perdede söylenir gitmeyen varsa muhakkak tavsiye ederim çok severim teşekkürler emeğinizie sağlık 🙏

Every one of these tenors is incredible! I like to take into consideration when I listen to all of these wonderful comparison vids (thank you @opera.turkiye !), is how the artist sings/interprets the phrase, rather than just focusing on a high note or climax. In other words, I consider the meaning of the words and how its delivered in the context of the entire aria or passage. For example, Bjorling launches a spectacular clarion powerful C--- but to me, comes out a little jarring. The leap from the Ab to the C is sung without the legato written in the score. That tiny fraction-of-a-split-second break in the pronunciation of "speranza" makes a huge impact... On the other hand, Bergonzi's interpretation and execution utilizes portamento very nicely and, again in my opinion, delivers an exceptionally gorgeous rendition. Tucker, Corelli, and Pavarotti also give amazing renditions.

Questa nota è la "pietra miliare" sopra la quale ogni Tenore nella sua carriera dovrà confrontarsi. Ognuno la interpreta con la sua inconfondibile voce ! Chi sarà il vincitore ?

Pavarotti coreli jussi sin duda los mejores

Franco corelli

Carlo Bergonzi (in my opinion)

All of them... and another ones.

Ha! I could recognize Caruso! (She says with a smirk!)

We’re are Fritz Wunderlich and Mario Lanza?

Io ho sentito in teatro molti grandi tenori in Bohème, Pavarotti, Aragall, Bergonzi, addirittura Corelli nella sua ultima recita al Festival pucciniano, ma quello che mi ha impressionato maggiormente, come vocalità ed interpretazione, è stato sicuramente Gianni Raimondi: peccato non averlo inserito in questo contest !!!

Caruso, Kurt Baum

Viele sehr schöne Stimmen. Schade, das Fritz Wunderlich keine Erwähnung findet.

No Aragall, Fisichella or Araiza?

For me Jussi Björling is the best!!😀

Giuseppe di Stefanos Stimme passt für mich am besten zu der Rolle.

about the comment by Ilecier and Jussi singing slightly sharp on the high C, Bjoerling actually had a very great ear and often when he sang live would sing slightly sharp intentionally for effect, I saw Jussi live singing in the opera house in 1958 in Chicago (I was age 18) there where no high C's in the opera I saw him in however, but also so did the Movie tenor Lanza sing slightly sharp in some concerts he gave. both men had good ears, of course in oera Jussi was the more polished tenor so singing slightly sharp, increases the excitement, but here some recordings used could be slightly off in speed, changing the pitch, which has nothing to do with the singers, anyhow the whole aria is beautiful and many singers chose especially too transpose it down and sing it as B, not the high C, yes there is more then high C's to a great aria like this one and usually Boheme is an opera best sung by Lyric or lyric spinto tenors such as Bjoerling, Pav., Gigli, Gedda, GDS, Tagliavini, early Tucker and also Peerce etc. . but here we have Spinto's like Corelli and Tucker doing a fine job also. Tauber skipped even transposing it down to high B and avoided it completely as he was older here, he died of lung cancer in 1948.

Bonisolli

Can you tell which tenors hit the Hi C and which took the easy way out by hitting B nat

Corelli e di Stefano una bella lotta, Gedda mi sorprende sempre, Bergonzi sempre bene

Very clever Richard Tauber. Did he sing the note?

corelli, bjorling, bergonzi. the early pavarotti was good, too, but he could not maintain the line (yet) coming down from his high c.

Roberto Alagna ... 1995г...)))))

No Helge Rosvaenge/Gianni Raimondi?

Really good voices, geeat singers all! sometimes the aria in original tone, sometimes transposed. I like Bergonzi, Bjoerling, Caruso, Gigli, not to much Hadley, Lauri Volpi, Baum. Ah, maybe I'm wrong but seems to me Bergonzi right before the big phrase he cough, clear the voice??

At 5:36 its Richard Tauber, not Tucker again.

Alle!

Giacomo Lauri Volpi la dolce speranza!!

Several are really ropey.

Non ci sono gare di abilità. Qui parliamo di tenori che hanno fatto la Storia dell’Opera ! Ognuno ha offerto qualcosa e oh quanto han dato !

Pavarotti!

1. BERGONZI 2. Tucker 3. Di Stefano

Tucker, Corelli,Gigli!!!

IT SEEMS AS IF THE COMMENTATORSD BELOW HAVE NEVER LISTENED TI GIGLIS CHE GELIDA MANINA

Caruso ❤

Bjorling, eterno Bjorling.

Fleta era maravilloso, los demás también.

Caruso

Franco Bonisolli

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Mario Lanza

I sang 11 times the part we hear, in 18 minutes. 11 HIGH C´s. (Not al the tenors sing the C... ) Find my video as " karifrid,Che gelida manina, 11 high C " I was 55 at that time...I learned 9 tenorparts, but NEVER got to sing on stage...

En gustos se rompen géneros y si bien es cierto que un sobre agudo es una nota importante e impresionante difícil de dominar y darlo esplendoroso, yo, en cambio prefiero valorar al cantante por su línea de canto musical primero, pero sin dejar de considerar su calidad y nivel interpretativo, que tiene que ver con su capacidad de actor intérprete y su nivel de artista creador del personaje teatral que interpreta... Hay cantantes como Kraus y Pavarotti que no interpretan casi nada y se subordinan a la técnica vocal para no fallar la nota aguda y no interpretan para no arriesgarse o porque no son lo suficientemente artistas teatrales.

Bergonzi all the way.

Never Di Stefano! 1:56

Sound is not great on some recordjngs so hard to judge some of them like massini,volpi,for me tucker,bjoerlig,gigli,kraus,bergonzi and yes del monaco is super here

come acuti puri Tucker era imbattibile.In questo caso il mio Jussi li stende tutti,poi Fleta e Hadley(ma perchè si uccise?)

Perhaps FLETA is the best.....

Ah Tauber, you cheeky dog

Gigli, Tucker, Bjorling Bergonzi in that order

Corelli, Tucker , Björling, Pavarotti, Gedda. While Caruso is half a note flat (thus not comparable), Björling is almost half a note sharp......

Falta Aragall.

Pippo!

Tauber che cavolo c’entra?

the great Mario Lanza, u need to put him in your videos

1. Corelli 2. Corelli 3. Corelli. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

E finalmente Jussy!

Il do di Franco le supera a tutti!

Tucker!