I am in tears to view this incredible voice. I spoke with him one time before an appearance in South Carolina. One of the great experiences of my life!

I was there. Hines was amazing. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. As an NEC student, I was able to get in early and be seated close to the stage. I also got to meet Mr. Hines after the concert in the green room and chat with him for a while as he signed programs and talked to everybody. He was great.

Very moving and thrilling. His voice still such density, and a cavernous low E! Amazing. A great man and a great singer to the end.

I am an opera bass singer from Russia. I had a Great teacher. I consider Mr. Hines as my second teacher. Every Day Ising Old man river with the record of Mr. Hines. He is absolutly great!

God bless him! He sang Mefistoles in my first opera ever, and I was hooked. The year was 1950. What a career!

Bravo! He was a great opera singer, and a man of God as well. I heard him singing Don Carlo in San Juan Puerto Rico, I will never forget that amazing performance!

Jerome Hines forever in our hearts!!! 🙏😇

I thank God for giving me the opportunity of living such a wonderful moment with this fantastic singer. Still have recorded our last telephone conversation. I will never forget him.

Bravo to Jerome Hines! He was Filippo in the first opera performance I ever saw and sang both roles magnificently for decades. What a gift to us to have given this great voice in one last performance as the Inquisitor! God's gift, shared with us. Thank you!

che voce!!!! a 80 anni...magnifico

A beautiful person and vocalist into eternity

Quanto talento. Um nobre baixo pesado.

Verdi had this precise voice in mind when writing for such an imposing presence. Bravo!

Caraca! OMG! How is it possible to sing like this when his body was so fragile. Wunder?! Wonderful!

I have chills, I met Mr. Hines in the early 1990s when he launched Opera Music Theater International to bring operatic performance to high school students in Newark NJ and had the joy/pleasure of performing with him as well as listening to him perform for us on more than one occasion. I also had the pleasure of meeting his wife Lucia, ah when I was young and thought his voice shook the ground. For us he performed Old Man RIver. He also performed Foust it was incredible.

I visited him in January 2000, at his home in New Jersey. He gave me a class, and then he suggested me to correct something. He said: "I don't want to teach things I cannot do. So, he did a vocalization from low "C" to high "G", with a powerful, young sound! His wife, Lucia Evangelista, was very ill, in their bedroom, asisted with a nurse. He invited me to salude her and, then, we watch together a video of them both, singing "La Ci Darem La Mano" and she, singing "Sempre Libera".

As someone who has sung onstage with Mr. Hart, I can tell you that "light-voiced" has nothing to do with this man's massive, wall-shaking sound. This should put into better perspective just how much power Hines had to his voice even at that age. Great men and great voices, both of them.

Thank you so much your meaningful life... we will remember you forever...

Indeed. Until a few minutes ago, I had never heard him at length. Wunderbar!

Oh my God, Jerome Hines.....a legend

Marvelous. May I say, a joyful bass, in that it gives joy to listen and see this man at 80 doing what he loves to do, and to do it so well at that stage in life. A joyful bass.

Con l'eta' è diventato piu raffinato !!! Meraviglioso ,meraviglioso !!!!! Mari

Hines had a tank voice!!! I'm studing on his records especial "Il Grand Inquisitor"! He had the best of the best Inquisitor I ever heard!!

touching, amazing moment, person and record

Wonderful to hear such legend - RIP

He knew how to sing!🌹

22 de septiembre de 2001 Jerome Hines apareció en la ópera por última vez. A la edad de 80 años y algo enfermo, interpretó su famoso Gran Inquisidor en Don Carlo para la Ópera de Bel Canto de Boston, sonando increíblemente como él, especialmente considerando que tenía 80 años. Uno de sus alumnos, Craig Hart, tocaba Felippo y no podía sonar como un bajo dadas las circunstancias. Hines hizo que su alumno de voz ligera sonara más como un barítono lírico que como un bajo de Verdi. El triunfo en esto es todo de Jerry. Trabajó duro para poder ponerse en forma para cantar esto. Él "entrenó" con los bajos de sus estudiantes en preparación. Jerome Hines nunca se defraudó y nunca nos defraudó. Más que cualquier otra lección, quizás Hines nos enseñó a los cantantes a nunca dejar de cantar. Era el hombre que no dejaba de cantar. Gracias a Maestroshore por permitirme tener una copia de esta publicación. Ese año debutó en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires como Felipe II en Don Carlos de Verdi regresando en 1954, 1962, 1964, 1966 y 1967 como Borís Godunov. Uno de los más grandes bajos del siglo XX. Inolvidable.

After watching it twice I must add one more thing - remembering that Jerry had prosthetic hip which had somewhat slowed down his scuba-diving from his place in the Bahamas shortly before doing Macbeth (Banquo) in 1989 - looks like it finally slowed him down - what a career - what a singer -

Che musica ,che musica ,che musica !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!grandissimo VERDI !!!!!! MARI

I love it when it modulates up in C#

HINES took over this performance!!

A legend on his own right! Best of the best. My admiration to him!

Seems like basses keep their voices to the end....this is good. I'm 49, and a bass, and just beginning!

I love Jerome Hines voice on c# on low voice tone

Hallucinant !

Thank you so much Maestroshore!!

Thank you so much for this

My introduction to Jerry was walking into my first rehearsal with the Seattle opera at the age of 25 and hearing his booming voice proclaim " Ah, another normal sized guy (I'm 6'6")". I was instantly a fan and disciple and I cherish the experience of trying (in vain) to equal the standard he set as Padre Guardiano, the role in which we were double cast, during that production

Grande Maestro👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Hines at 80 sings rings around the singer portraying Filippo.

Magnífico Hines!!!

Mostruoso!

a voice of presence !

Just. Owns it. Magnificent !♡♡♡♡♡♡

Thank a lot for your book Mr 🥲

Wow!!! what a voice Jerome Hines had, he mades the young bass (is he so?, sounds like a ligth baritone to me ,sorry) sounds very ligth. My uncle in Italy ( a very famous already past away spinto tenor) told me in 2002 , that Hines was not only a very tall and sounding bass, but a great and smart writter; he suggested me to buy his book "Great Singers on great Singing" which I did (still read it after 100 times!!! and still amazed!!!). He sounded until his last performance as the best of the best...BRAVO!!!!(we wil not forget you Jerome Hines!!!)

Filippo is clearly an undeveloped baritone. Hines always knew where the correct accent on the word 'eresia' is. Most don't.

This is a historical recording for Hines is still a giant as always despite his age. It's a pity that King Philip is no match against him.

Bravo Tom. Bravo Craig. Jerry, we miss you.

WOW- Magnificent

His voice was in great condition. I've heard many singers of 50 or younger who have big wobbles, while he has a natural vibrato

magnificent

With all due respect, I believe that some of the 'infirmity' that Jerome Hines exhibits here (as described in the poster's description) is an intended part of his performance. We see him use a cane, and begin seated during the Met performance from 20 years earlier (on KZfaq), and he even stands up - for dramatic effect - at almost the same point. Likewise the assisted exit from the stage at the end of the scene - also in the earlier staged performance (when he was about 59). Of course these two performances that are separated by more than 2 decades are both similar in showcasing Mr. Hines' remarkable vocal power and immense stage presence!

Watched this after reading his book "The Four Voices Of Man" the second time. There he explaine how to keep your voice healthy up in the age.

AMAZING

I use these words only on this occasion; Oh My God!

Amazing no more needed to be said.

Thanks for this. Totally agree with your assessment that Craig Hart is a baritone. It’s a far cry from Furlanetto who is amazing in this role. Plishka is v good but I find more gravitas wanting. But I agree so much about Hines’s singing here! Thanks!

Superbe !!

I hate opera fans, constantly criticizing anyone who isn’t their favorite. I don’t think he’s a bass by nature though, but he is by no means “undeveloped”. To sing the notes he does with the clarity he does requires much technique. Nature is unfair with whom it gifts it’s voiced to. Regardless, Philipo here sings with bass technique. Needless to say, Heins sounds incredible, even at 80.

bien-sûr Hines est vieux... son timbre est plutôt intact, mais son corps est fatigué... il est limité pour le soutien de son souffle... mais il a beaucoup de classe et de courage... très émouvant... grande classe ! ... j'ai un disque où il chante König Marke dans les années 1950 !

I saw him do this in Baltimore, maybe a few years earlier. he wore hush puppies with the robe - great, a real trouper

I was in the audience at this performance. Not to take anything away from Hines's performance, but it is nonsense to describe Craig Hart as "light-voiced." His voice does not sit as low as Hines's: that is simply because he is a bass-baritone (and so described himself on the program), not a bass *sans phrase*.

I sang with Jerry in his late 60's at the Portland Opera - Macbeth and Faust - we became great friends with our faith in common - and yes, I have known his work since his debut in '45 - my favorite Wotan, Mefistofeles et al - you name it - and this is glorious - at 6'8" he was an astonishing stage presence, and always did his own makeup - what a guy!

I would saw him in this and other roles in Baltimore in those last years, he was wonderful, but I remember him coming on in costume and wearing hush puppies, which he may have here too.

Knew Jerry. A class act - and human.

Hines impressionante

dal vivo Jerome Hines aveva la voce del basso vero molto più bella e grande della vocetta del baritono - basso Samuel Ramey... Grande Hines !

BRAVO JEROME HINES❗️😃 ❤️❤️❤️

OMG.. Sooo tall

The Greatest basso ever past,present, or future.

What a naturally glorious voice he had, and a truly fine singer as well. Also had a great knowledge and understanding of singing. When he appeared on Stefan Zucker's Saturday Night at the Opera broadcasts (and was also the one who brought his good friend Corelli to the show), his voice was gorgeous and booming even when he spoke normally. I pity his younger partner. The old man literally put him to shame here.

Maybe he was the only bass who could compete C. Siepi in terms of darkness and consonance of the voice. Here he proves that Grand Inquisitor is in his automatism, acquired through the experiences.

Perche farlo?

It is NOT "Felippo", IT IS Filippo!!!

Olavo de Carvalho que me indicou.

Well, I know both voices and both men. My opinion stays the same.

1 Jerome Hines = 50 Ramey .

Why he need a cane