No wonder the audience was ecstatic.What a performance from the 2 very best opera singers ever.❤️❤️❤️❤️😁😁😁😁😁

Even Bjorling said Distefano had the most beautiful tenor voice.

Di Stefano has a beautiful voice, the beauty to convey meaning of the text and the power of drama. I love this aria, and Di Stefano's interpretation molto bene!!! tres bien!....

Veramente una meraviglia; il miglior cantante di tutti i tempi. Per quelli che abbiano orecchi e sensibilitá.

How much energy did Pippo give every time he sang. Absolutely my favorite singer, for all time!

Old man here saw Di Stefano in Wien in 1956 with Jean Madeira and George London in Carmen, You only live once.

Che timbro meraviglioso... si resta senza parole pensare che pochi anni dopo la sua voce era da rottamare monito per i giovani tenori. STUDIATE BENE! FATE LE GIUSTE SCELTE!

This is a truly remarkable voice and passion. I can never get enough of DiStefano.

Wow,I just love this man’s voice,even though he was too open.

Essa é uma das áreas mais adequadas para as vozes líricas. Talvevez, por essa razão, tantos tenores cantam-na bem. Mas ninguém, NINGUÉM, passa com sua voz, o drama e o desespero que D. Jose estaria sentindo naquele momento, como o nosso Pippo. Fique com Deus, Pippo. Muito obrigado GermanOperaSinger.

E eu ensaiando essa Ária aqui no Sul do Brasil em março de 2024. Grazie.

Mi Maestro y amigo haciendo gala de facultades vocales e interpretación al 100

Ogni volta è SEMPRE un BRIVIDO... CHE VOCE SUBLIME !!! PIPPO GRANDISSIMO.

Gran interpretación y potente voz. BRAVO GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO. Me agrada tanto como la del Gran Maestro Corelli

La dove tutti gli altri tenori finiscono Di Stefano comincia proseguendo a l'infinito!!!!!

UNICO x SEMPRE NELLA SUA IMMENSA GRANDEZZA!!! PIPPO DI STEFANO INDIMENTICABILE....

Il cantare sulla parola di Giuseppe Di Stefano significa dare significato ad essa e alla musica dalla quale viene rivestita: i compositori dell'ottocento e del novecento desideravano sopra ogni cosa che l'interprete privilegiasse il significato del testo e l'interpretazione drammatica rispetto alla bella emissione e alla bella voce... Inutile riaffermare che Di Stefano aveva oltre la dizione e la bella parola una voce di diamante con gli armonici che mai più abbiamo ascoltato!

The restaurant singer as you call him, had over 10 signature roles.That's more than LP,PD,&JC.

Love him.Thank you for posting♪♫•*♫ •♫♪

chi capisce ed ama la lirica non deve e non puo paragonare di stefano a nessun altro tenore del presente e del passato.peppino e unico nel bene e nel male.

Bravo maestro.

Giuseppe Di Stefano, la única incomparable, maravilla voz que nadie más igualó. El color de su voz, sus inigualables interpretaciones. Hermoso, bellísimo timbre, y color de voz. Ni tan estridente como Corelli, y Pavatotti, ni tan bajo y obscuro como Kaufman. Con bellísimos afilados, pianissimos, o fortes legatos. La más Exquisita voz de Tenor-Spinto que jamás ha existido. ☘🌻🇲🇽

pour moi la plus belle voix de ténor de tous les temps

Ti ascolto SEMPRE tutti i giorni. GRAZIE GRANDE PIPPO, sei e sarai nel mio cuore e di MOLTi altri.

pippo makes me forget he is singing. I just enjoy the moment instead of thinking about his technique. Im no professional. In fact Im in law school but I do sing a bit and from what I can tell he gives 100% to the audience. This kind of heat burns out quick but while it is lit, what a glorious light it produces. Check out my recording of this aria on here if you are curious. I love comments.

Ancora oggi si rimpiange l'interpretazione di Di Stefano piena di fioritura di lodi per la sua voce, per li suo modo di cantare, per la sua interpretazione....

Is this not the best version of this passionate aria? Any Carmen who rejects this Don Jose is just nuts. Out of this world.

C'è poco da aggiungere,è la passione che diventa canto ,sublime !!!!!! ciao Pippo

Grande Giuseppe di Stefano. Mi fa tristezza che di Stefano fu aggredito in Kenia nel novembre del 2004, gravamente ferito al cranio. Ultimi anni trascorsi incapacitato in ospedale a Milano. Rest in peace, Giuseppe di Stefano, grande tenore italiano.

Pippo, "tutto cuore"....

Excellent expression, the flame of love! Absolutely gorgeous and beautiful , also very stylish performance! artistic interpretation. The best!

Sorprendente!! Di Stefano nunca deja de sorprender. Qué maravilloso cantante.

Che voce,che voce . . . non mi stanchero' mai di dirlo.Lafca88.

Fantástico . Grandíssimo di Stefano .

NINNO FLORIO. Mi agradecimiento a Dios ya que te brindó las facultades precisas para ser el mejor tenor del siglo XX, y nos permitió gozar de tu bel canto.

Unico,insuperabile!

bravo Pippo,indimenticabile.

Lo splendore vocale di Pippo!

Anche se educato, corretto , puntuale, il suo canto dava sempre la sensazione di una spontaneità, di una splendida naturalezza; egli cantava guidato da un impulso che aveva dentro, quasi un bisogno fisico....

la voz del alma

Magna Grecia ha prodotto marmo, filosofia e PIPPO !!!! La voce piu diretta piu generosa e affascinante del dopoguerra. PS. Appoggiare una gola spalancata (veramente aperta) e una pronuncia sulla parola italiana non e facile. LUI cel'ha fatta per anni. Risultato che lascia suo nome e sua arte popolare segnati per sempre nel panorama lirico. UN GRANDE

Ah pippo . Pour moi la plus belle voix de ténor de tous les temps . Dans cet Arian observe sa technique parfaite et ses aigus sont des soleils

I don't understand how people compare Kaufmann to Di Stefano (or Wunderlich or Pavarotti). Di Stefano is the prototype for smooth, italian singing (with technical flaws, we all know). Kaufmann has a dark, in the middle register "cloudy" sounding voice with now real squillo. There is nothing "italian" in his voice.

PIPPO=MAXIMO

Serata in onore di GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO Teatro alla Scala, Milano - Ridotto dei Palchi Giovedì 8 Aprile 2010, ore 18:00 ingresso libero fino ad esaurimento posti

Perfection!

Glorious gloriousGLORIOUS!!!

Ritengo che l'ARTE di Di Stefano possa spingere qualche giovane studente a interpetrare come il Maestro o per lo meno avvicinarsi al suo canto e ad abbandonare la comoda sicurezza di una corretta emissione per affrontare tutte le difficoltà della verità drammatica insita nel carattere del melodramma, con la consapevolezza storica e stilistica che è solo questo il modo di mettersi veramente al servizio del compositore e di realizzare le sue più intime intenzioni.

Stupenda!!

Merci d avoir existé !

might be the same one who he told that he'd rather sing a short time but with this voice than a longer time with one that isn't his (more or less I read)

To Michael Chung: I agree with your sensitive comments. Isn't this just gorgeous?

The conductor of this performance, by the way, is Max Rudolf. And the whole performance is very, very good! (Robert Merrill sang Escamillo, and Lucine Amara sang Micaela.) By the way: The Act III Don Jose-Escamillo duet (beginning with "Je suis Escamillo, torero de Granada") from this broadcast was spliced into a number of 1970s and 1980s LP releases of the Karajan 1955 performance of Carmen at La Scala (with Simionato, di Stefano, Roux and Carteri as the principals), including those on Bruno Walter Society (later Music and Arts) and on Turnabout/Vox. Most of those releases are, indeed, from that La Scala performance - except for the Prelude to Act I and the entr'actes at the beginning of Acts II, III and IV (those are clearly from Karajan's 1963 RCA Victor studio recording, with the unmistakable sound of the Vienna Philharmonic), and the aforementioned duet.

I am a lifelong fan of di Stefano but I have never heard this wonderful recording. Is it available?

@SageFlores What you're saying is a given. Bjorling's health by that point was so far-gone that it wouldn't have made a difference had he performed or not.

@A7madeus I am entirely with you.

@guanacadecorazon12 Yeah Pavarotti also said Di stefano was his all time favourite..

Best forever!

You are right! DG6DA! !!!!

@guanacadecorazon12 Yes the best.

astonished that Kaufmann is mentioned in the same volume let alone paragraph, let alone sentence, as the likes of Distefano, Pavarotti etc

great

Molti dicono che chi ascolta Di Stefano non capisce niente di lirica... Beh,io preferisco bearmi della mia ignoranza,allora!

Geniale

Gracias por darme oportunidad escuchar voz tan maravillosamente calida. No hay otra para mi.

La Klasika Kanto kaj unu kantis per la plej bonaj kantoristoj de la tuta mondo.

Kaufmann's voice IS throaty but I wouldn't call it "crap."

La fleur que tu m'avais jetée Dans ma prison, m'était restée Flétrie et sèche, cette fleur Gardait toujours sa douce odeur Et pendant des heures entières Sur mes yeux, fermant mes paupières De cette odeur je m'enivrais Et dans la nuit je te voyais Je me prenais à te maudire À te détester, à me dire Pourquoi faut-il que le destin L'ait mise là sur mon chemin Je m'accusais de blasphème Et je ne sentais rien moi-même Je ne sentais qu'un seul désir Un seul désir, un seul espoir Te revoir, ô Carmen, oui, te revoir Car tu n'avais eu qu'à paraître Qu'à jeter un regard sur moi Pour t'emparais de tout mon être Ô ma Carmen J'étais une chose à toi Carmen, je t'aime

People tend to dwell on the negative.My 1st attempt is to share information and not attempt to get lured in with who was the best.GDS A Non Credevi Tu and Addio Mignon could be the2most beautiful arias I ever heard.Many great tenors in their prime including Volpi Gigli MDM FC Cortis Lemeshev De Muro& JB to name a few, seemed unsurpassed in their prime and perhaps should be remembered thatway.When people make statements that I'm not familiar with,I ask questions that are often never answered

Certainly from the mid 1940s & into the mid 1950s one could say that Di Stefano had the most beautiful NATURAL LYRIC tenor voice of his time but even in his prime he could be inconsistent & faulty technique, pushing through the passaggio into a more open sound in his upper range, & adding a heavier repertoire had taken its toll on his instrument by around 1960 & shortly before even. His voice, gradually throughout the 1950s, lost the ultimate beauty that one hears in some of his recordings from the mid 1940s. That was the problem. When his natural instrument could not be reinforced by a solid technique the deterioration began. Di Stefano also indulged in an excessive life style & that with increasingly full spinto roles did his voice no favors. Musically even early on he could be careless as well which his live MET TRAVIATA with Steber a year or so after his debut demonstrates. What a sad tale! When I listen to his Italian songs from his very early career I believe they have yet to be surpassed, in beauty, for any lyric tenor, which was his true timbre, IMO. Only Corelli can equal & surpass him in many Italian songs but he was a full spinto. For the type of lyric voice Di Stefano had his chief competitors were perhaps Wunderlich & Pavarotti & the former sang a largely different repertoire in songs, anyway.

@A7madeus Absolutely, and I'd say he passed the torch to Josep Carreras. These two voices are similarly beautiful, these two are honest emotionally in their singing and acting, and both men were and are wonderful human beings. Thank you GermanOperaLover for this marvelous posting.

@richiedrr What do you mean by over-weighted?and over singing?Forget what did him in.

One word: SEX.

Di Stefano resembles Prasido Domingo

Kaufmann is good , but no tenor can be compared to Pippo Di stefano the most beautiful voice ever

Listen to Josep Carreras - not the same voice for sure but the phrasing is incredibly similar and the emotion, for me, better with Carreras...

totally agree with u

And of course Stevens finished the performance. Hell, Bjorling performed a few hours after a heart attack. Singers today would be calling their understudies with a hangnail.

Pensar que un pseudo entendido dijo que el frances de Pippo era un desastre!

Pippo, you brute ... how do you break someone's arm in an opera?

@ShawDAMAN Kaufmann's voice is so unique. It is a baritone quality in a tenor. It is the uniqueness of Marilyn Horne, a rich mezzo - but an amazing bel canto and yes sometimes even coloratura range. I do enjoy him very much. But Pippo and Josep are always the closest to my heart.

@VinylToVideo. I think Bjoerling was 49 when he passed away. It also sounded like he had alot of good opera left. I think of three tenors who left us way too soon. Bjoerling, Mario Lanza, and Fritz Wunderlich. Had Di Stefano done some things even slightly differently, how much better could his career have been.

not Alagna! No one surpasses Di Stefano & Pavarotti!

for me the best rendition of don jose is the one by nicolai gedda

I love Jussi Bjorling....but Di Stefano was superior even to Bjorling...not what concerns technique but overall speakind DI STEFNO was superior...By the way ,Byorling himself once sayd DI STEFANO was "the best of us all" ciao

Sung with feeling, a little sharp but it could be just the recording. I don't like the exaggerations after @2:00.

There's something interesting a tenor told me about him. A conductor that di Stefano sang under once asked him if he doesn't know how to cover. Di Stefano showed him that he can and knows how to but he prefers not covering :).

Si bravo ma in questo brano preferivo Carrerras.

The B flat is already over-weighted. It wasn't bad technique but oversinging (not the same) that did him in.

Pavarotti said the same thing of the modern era, "Alagna is the best of us all"

Always in love with Di Stefano, but Kaufmann is, perhaps, the best tenor we have in our time out there.

Kaufmann is NOT bel canto tenor, No maschera at all. I don't understand how can he sing only using just throat , I feel very uncomfortable and ugly ! too, sorry about that

Heh. Kaufmann is no Di Stefano when it comes to beauty of voice; but technically speaking he is probably better suited to this role than Di Stefano and I for one am glad to have a tenor as good as him today.

Pippo's voice is much much more beautiful than Kaufmann's there is no doubt but I think in this specific aria Kaufmann's voice and performance is more suitable than that of Pippo.