Gedda was one of the best singers of the 20th century and Lorengar one of the most beautiful voices ever!!!

Pilar Lorengar sounds beautiful.Amazing Butterfly.

@melbapatti Fully in agreement with your comments. I saw Gedda in concerts , operas and oratorio plus I had a conversation with him about vocal technique. He is a wise and down to earth gentleman. His command of languages and vocal dynamics is unequaled. He is a tenor to be studied as an exemplary artist.

Grande Gedda y grande Pilar Lorengar

These are two of the most beautiful voices in opera !

I had the great honour to have a master class with this great lyric tenor in Sweden in 1973. Along with Jussi, Lanza, Domingo, Caruso he was the finest interpreter of lyric. His phrasing, timing and fenomenal voice portrayed evrything that the composers had in mind. I believe that he is in Sweden. Do you know different than I welcome information. Bravo Nikolai The Baldchemist

Uno dei più belli duetti d'amore ed intriganti del mondo dell'opera. Due interpreti di grandissima classe. Risultato 10 minuti di godimento celestiale. One of the most beautiful and intriguing love duets in the world of opera. Two very classy performers. Result 10 minutes of heavenly enjoyment.

Magnificent, how beautiful, how much love in them. It is an oceanic performance orchestra and singers into one tremendous wave of sound. Gedda, impecable, Pilar, may she rest in peace, truly a wonderful soul of a singer.

Madama Butterfly with Gedda and Callas (with Karajan) is considered one of the best versions of this opera.

Chi puo' pronunciare cosi chiaramente mentre canto... E' meraviglioso Gedda

YES! Gedda can mold to any style, language, and sings with a sensual passion, rather than mechanical technique like many others. You hit it on the head.

And it was the sweet astonishing Pilar to sing the same duet (in German) with Fritz Wunderlich... :°(

LEI Straordinaria. LUI grande squillo e grande facilità di emissione. Che sicurezza che bellezza di impasti timbrici. Un duetto di primissimo livello a mio parere. Grazie.

Voz heroica y cuando hacía falta romántica. Completo y poco publicitado. No le hacía falta, la calidad se demuestra por si sola.

The 1st act duet from Butterfly is generally divided into 3 parts: "Viene la sera" (line sung by Pinkerton); "Bimba dagli occhi" (line sung by Pinkerton) and "Vogliatemi bene" (line sung by Butterfly). This clip indeed starts at "Bimba dagli occhi". "Vogliatemi bene" is sung at 03.58 in this clip.

wonderful gedda

Such a treasure! So GLAD&LUCKY to find this. Grazie!

Què emociòn... Espectacular....

Just remember no throat mics in those days

Pavarotti listen to a really great lyric tenor who always sang the music in the published keys. Compare their high D's in Puritani Gedda's are not bleats. The performance at hand is really quite thrilling and has added interest since she did'nt make all that many recordings. The unison top C at the end is stunning.

Magic!

Today I know that this cannot only be achieved with technique, practice, experience and ability. That's just the preliminary work. Character always expresses itself whether you want it to or not. Only a beautiful character can really achieve such beautiful tones in the end.

There's no other Pinkerton to me. There's only Gedda.

I'm surprised I have never heard of Pilar, as she is a wonderful singer.

Thank you very much for posting this video. It's wonderful to have a document of Pilar Lorengar and Nicolai Gedda ... together. Any idea as to when and where?

like 200 =) Bello video. Gracias por subirlo.

brava !

yessss, maybe he doesnt really like butterfly, ah ah. Lorengar, meravigliosa, come sempre

yes!!!! gedda singn' his ass off!

As far as I know he is mainly in Switzerland, where he bought a house in 1968, though he used to spend a lot of time in Sweden. I didn't know that he held master classes already at that time. Tell us, Thebaldchemist, how was Gedda as a person.

Hello Herur. Thank you for the information. Well, at the risk of being over subjective, besides being very critical. He would not stand for incompetence. Modesty was not one of his characteristics. and why should it be; he had acquired musical genius. Along with Bjorling, Lanza, Gigli, Caruso, Domingo and of course Luciano, Nikolai Gedda was In my taste perhaps the finest lyric tenor ever. Those that love fanulous voices should spoil themselves and listen to Ivan Rebroff all 4.5 octaves.

Wow, where have those lyric tenors gone to?

yes....Gedda is a Marvel.... but Beczala to me says that something in the singing tradition is not lost yet.... and thats a beatiful hope ehhehe

Does Gedda say pieni di "follia"?

Gedda the BEST Pinkerton !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first biography was issued in 1977, unfortunately only in Sweden and Russian (and I don't know neither one nor the other). The second one, much altered, was issued in 1997. That one I have bought (and read, of course).

Mujviktor:can you posted it with Lorengar's name so that people can find her? She is truly magnificent.

@Remy1957 You mean the plastic chairs on the open (cold /heat) around a "stage" some call Greek (nothing Greek there) and "theater", in that cultural WASTELAND referred to as Los Angeles? No, I think not.

OK -- MrrK is actually right in one respect. Gedda was a god, but this is far from his best. He's just loud most of the time. Where are all those wonderful tone colors and dynamic shades he did so well.

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Is it available in better quality, please? Anywhere.....

And just because he might be the only one ever capable of doing it, he pronunces the final "n" of "vien" on the high C......

De qué año es esto?

Самый крутой мужЫк! Жалко, что Корелли не пел...

A Zenekar? Karmester?

Well... I am a huge fan of NG. This performance is still very good. But... the Gedda of 1977 cannot be the one of 1960-1970 at his golden voice. He is still powerful, expressive but here a bit rough sometimes.

Ki ėnekli a címszerepet ezen a felvėtelen? Ez hiányzik.

Do you call it barking? Gedda I think is still singing well in his 70s.Lorengar was one of the most real lyric soprano voices of the 20 century.Her repertoire was huge and her musicality high quality.

Gedda not at his best here but he was truly masterful singer though in this role for me personally no one comes close to carlo bergonzi in his recording with tebaldi/scotto in this duet

he's singing it as if it were Wagner ....oversung....he yelleth!

The Gedda/Callas "Butterfly" was awful; I threw my copy into the garbage. So much nicer to hear Gedda here with the beautiful Pilar Lorengar.