Christa Ludwig's favorite tenor in her favorite role of his

I'm captivated every second... Vicker's didn't rely on gimmicks....just conviction and a hell of a lot of god-given talent

Saw him LIVE at the Met Opera and was truly amazed how he threw himself into this role.

I have seen some very moving Otellos, McCracken and Domingo in particular. But Vickers was in another dimension. He rips your heart out --

Powerful, intense, deadly sad: great tenor, magnificent Otello. Thank you.

I do love Jon Vickers!!!....thank you 😘

Difficile de commenter la perfection, merci d'avoir partagé.

Quelle mort dramatique émouvante ! Vickers, vu en 70 à Salzbourg dirigé par Karajan, avec Freni et Glossop, reste égal à lui-même, mon meilleur Otello, d’une grande sensibilité, grande musicalité, interprète des plus intelligents, grand verdien, très bien soutenu ici par l’excellent Levine, autre grand Verdien, et une très sensible Scotto au très bel art du chant, fragile et poignante. Vickers Don Josė était éblouissant, Vickers Peter Grimes fut stupéfiant d’humanité dramatique. Un merveilleux artiste rarement égalé. Merci Lohengrin.

Φωνή και ηθοποιία, μέλος και δράμα, ... εξαιρετικός. Ευχαριστώ, φίλε.

De los grandes tenores del siglo XX, un músico excelente, un artista insuperable, intérprete consagrado en todo aquello que cantó. Bravo maestro.

Great performance by Vickers!!!Along with Ramon Vinay ,MDM, Jon Vickers in the performance conducted by Tulio Serafin in 1960 , had not then sung the role on stage, but his interpretation has a maturity to be wondered at. ‘Dio! mi potevi scagliar’ is near perfect: correctly accentuated, sung mezza voce with no muttering, truly dolcissimo at ‘l’anima acqueto’. If the top B flats aren’t quite there in the duet with Iago, the love duet has a manly robustness and the final ‘Un bacio’ as he lies dying is tenderness itself!

Can’t get enough! Thanks so very very much 🌹🌹🌹

I hope this means more Vickers clips are coming! (One of my favourites, just for laughs, is his part of Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix opposite Verrett from Covent Garden. He sings most of it leaning back, and softly. Then he leans back some more and sings louder, then leans back even more-at this point, he's practically horizontal-and sings even louder. Just because he can LOL. Je T'AAAAAIIImehhh! You'd have a hard time finding open, full-throated singing like this anymore-and I mean both him and Verrett. These days it's all about that pinched sound forced out through the mask, whatever that means.)

Bravo vikers ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Sublime Jon Vickers et Mirella Freni !

Completely fabulous

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That great voice. It looked as if Renata Scotto was really frightened of him. I remember watching an interview with Scotto, and she said he was so intense and she thought he was really going to strangle her. He looked so evil. Horribly taken by Alzheimer’s. That was a stellar cast at the Met.

I was fortunate to see and hear Vickers twice, in Chicago, as Florestan and Parsifal. Wish I could say the same for his Otello, Tristan and Grimes --

My first Otello

Exquisite.Thank you for posting.♫♪ ॐ¸¸.•*¨*•♫

total legend!!!

Jon Vickers, foi um dos melhores, se não o melhor Othello, Tristão e Peter Grimes de todos os tempos. Ele bem merece o título que recebeu do NYTIMES. "Tenor monumental" será que vai aparecer alguém que possa enfrentar estes três papéis com a grandiosidade deste Deus. Duvido. Bjs.

A true helden voice singing Otello, something we don't find anymore nowadays. Just wonderful. And Scotto is superb as well.

Cornell MacNeil and a young James Morris

This was vicious.

Vickers is excellent! But my favourite Otello is Ramon Vinay.

As much as I like Vickers I still think Mario de Monico's early 60's recording is the finest and the same for Tebaldi and Karajan/VPO/Decca engineering all at their very best. A classic recording if ever there was one.

Cuando el arte estaba por encima de sensiblerìas polìticas y faltas de criterio histórico.

Vickers non interpreta Otello : egli È Otello ! Un immenso monumento alla tragedia della mortifera gelosia. Opera che adoro, che ho ascoltato moltissime volte, cantata da altri tenori molto bene , ma da nessuno come Vickers , con la sua forza tragica e l'arte rarissima della totale simbiosi dell' uomo col suo personaggio .12:25