It's very forced actually

1 May 2021 He was very good, as always, and so moving as in this register, inspite of singing at the door of a butcher's shop, thanks to modern régie.

@@Bzcenci812 He is a wonderful Faust, but I hope he will sing Faust again elsewhere, that production by Castorf was so awful I couldn't stand it, I had to switch off, although the singers and especially JDF were great. That must be so tough for the singers to work under such conditions.

@@freesienundrosen8726 The worst was the scene of the seduction, and the fake sexual act, luckily a partial video. Perhaps you had already switched off. I couldn't see the last two acts because of a technical problem, but the Austria TV is transmitting the opera next Sunday.

Es muy bueno, pero nadie como Kraus que en paz descanse. Presta atención como no respira antes del ultimo agudo y su voz está más controlada... es decir, es menos como un grito: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8llgKuB2q3Sfo0.html

@@jofenbat Lo mismo que el caso de salvatore fisichella, no toma aire antes del agudo con una técnica fenomenal

Para esta aria se necesita una voz más melódica que potente.

Molodech

+operadog2000 Calling him "the greatest tenor of all time" is rather risky because there are various types of tenor voices. But undoubtedly Placido Domingo knew what he was saying when called JDF the best tenore leggero (light tenor) of all time. I agree with you that JDF's voice lost much of its previous lightness, brilliance and shine. I also think he forced his unusual instrument and he shouldn't perform so often. But still he has excellent performances, depending on a chosen repertoire and on a day, too. There aren't bad performances of him at all, there are only excellent and better ones in spite of the fact that his singing is often strained. IMHO the concert in Salzburg as a whole was magnificent. What makes JDF always so ravishing is not only the quality of the tone he is able to produce but - maybe mainly - the unique beauty of his timbre, his unmatched musicianship, absolute musical taste and thrilling interpretation, his personality. His singing is hypnotizing, magical...

+operadog2000 very true. there was an article about this very subjeci in the Record Collector given JDF 's singing of Ah mes amis & O muto asil as encores. It is vocal suicide. M. Bott posed the question '' would the young tenor become an old tenor? Henry Webb

he is one of the worst..his voice is boring..

"Certainly the greatest tenor of all time-no doubt..." LOL. Much doubt, I'm afraid. "All time" is quite a stretch. This was forced and vulgar in his phrasing. He doesn't have a pure tone and at least here, a firm grasp of legato. Check out Alain Vanzo; or for a heavier voice, DiStefano.

I also tought this was strained...heard him do better, he looked like he was strugling.

Please, he is not "signor" Florez, but "señor" Florez. He is a Peruvian and we in Perú speak Spanish. "Signor" is Italian - Best regards from Miraflores, Lima, Peru. Feb 13, 2018.

No!

Juan Cruz Gamarra lamentablemente si pero, que se le puede reclamar? Los del pasado no volveran y es algo que tenemos que aceptar.

Normal. Todo el mundo envejece.

@@luismanuel-tena envejece? No fue por eso, fue por mala técnica

Estimado Luis, la voz cambia con el tiempo, y madura,...y es maravilloso y emocionante para un artista, abordar otros repertorios, hacer nuevos discos, recuerda que JDF ha cantado mas de dos decadas casi exclusivamente Rossini.. y otros autores belacantistas. Lo bueno que hasta hoy mantiene sus agudos y sobre agudos limpios, y cristalinos como ningun otro.

Boris von der Linde He doesn't want to become a Spinto. But I think that he wants to make the same career as Alfredo Kraus. Of course if you compare the voices, Kraus had a most powerfull voice. Flórez have a great lyric voice, but his voice is not as big as Krau's ones.

Nacho Ferrer Alfredo Kraus is one of my favourite Opera Singers.

I'm also confused...

he's getting older. he's been a working singer for almost thirty years. it's gonna happen.

Crazy organist Corelli NO. 1！

Corelli was loud, that's all.

Nobody matches the young de Stefano in this -listen to his 1950 recording.

GdiS didn't last. He sang on natural ability in the early part of his career. After the first decade or so he was totally inconsistent. JDF is an artist and more accomplished in all areas of the singers art.

Yeah, poor technique

Resplendent? It was never resplendent.

POVERO VERDI, POVERO PUCCINI.

Parole sante!

Pero todo se lo aplauden...

Wrong musicality, nasality, too tiny, barking

This repertoire is not for him.

You must buy another pair of years.

you must study another pair of ears.... ....or ceturies

Dilettante.

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