Singers like this doesn't exist no more. We can bless the old era for such a gift. Great!!!!
@jameshom61713 жыл бұрын
With Scotto & Giacomini, you can feel the passion and drama of the situation - kudos to both of them, perhaps the best version of this duet you are ever going to hear.
@mariobarbov96054 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic and outstanding... this is TRUTH and it gives you everything! Total singing... opera is dead but when it was alive it produced jewels like this one!!!! Thank you
@grahammorgan38583 жыл бұрын
Great to hear these two in their prime. So often most recordings and video of great singers only captures them in vocal decline years after their best and largely due to a very slow and narrow process of gaining renown. With much improved technology and infinitely more recording tools available today...and so cheap...well the chance of catching today's and future greats in their prime is infinitely improved. Pity is we can glimpse in this video little more than a tiny sample of what we would gave if they lived in our time
@martincroft49972 жыл бұрын
Richard Woitach conducting so sensitively. And that violin solo is divine. And then the gloriousness of both of them. Superb.
@neileddinger68638 жыл бұрын
It's great to have this souvenir captured from a bygone era, faded as it is. When Renata Tebaldi retired from the Metropolitan I turned my affections on Renata Scotto. I loved her recordings of Lucia and Gilda. I saw her first in Le Prophete, then Boheme, Trovatore, Francesco di Rimini. I was at the fateful opening night of Norma which was disturbed by a lone fanatic but came back for the last performance which was triumph. She was a real succesor to Gioconda and Manon Lescaut (with Domingo) was her triumph. Her farewell Butterfly left me with beautiful memories.
@timopragod14 жыл бұрын
These days are over (at least for the near future)! Italian opera at it's finest and I DO miss this kind of singing nowadays............ Call me old fashioned!
@berrydivo37026 жыл бұрын
Tim: If you are still alive, "you are old fashioned'.
@pammyjones11516 жыл бұрын
Tim....if you are still with us, nothing wrong with being "old fashioned" shows great taste and I'm old fashioned too.....those days are long gone I'm afraid.....
@tenore86 жыл бұрын
Right there with you Tim.
@ann-mariedvardsenalexis84916 жыл бұрын
Opera IS old fashioned and We need to take care of the tradition and that includes the old technique. Only Then opera will be great and loved by the Modern audience also!
@edwardamosbrandwein35833 жыл бұрын
@@pammyjones1151 They are, indeed! Gone...NEVER TO RETURN!
@RhineCherry12 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THESE VOICES TOGETHER!!!
@celioguim4 жыл бұрын
Great video, loved it! The ending of the duet is a perfect example to follow what Puccini wrote. I don't like when tenors go up to the high C, I love when they sing the "Vien, sei mia" ... so full of passion ... Giacomini, sei grande!!!!
@CrustyJoeMC Жыл бұрын
Puccini also wrote in the high C (optional).
@bravomurph14 жыл бұрын
Scotto at her superb zenith in her most treasured role. Thank you kind sir
@user-pr9tu6tm4j Жыл бұрын
Слушать это сейчас ,как сувенир,восторг!!!!!Спасибо за запись...
@SleepDisorderedBreathing6 жыл бұрын
It's not easy being a tenor :P we still love you Giacomini
@FacePaster11 жыл бұрын
wow. i can't believe someone here was insisting this isn't giacomini. good lord. and the camera is certainly close enough to show a close view of this very recognizable tenor, as if his voice wasn't distinctive and recognizable enough.
@robjo12 жыл бұрын
Stunning Scotto!!
@FoggyRoad8114 жыл бұрын
Her great period was short, but WHAT greatness, in this role especially.
@mrantiquedealer13 жыл бұрын
REAL singers! Not today's substandard fakes that pass for "greats"!
@jeremycouplan352611 ай бұрын
Hahaha, real singers yes! - good old Puccini, they felt his genius too! - let’s be fair though, there are some great voices today, and we shouldn’t really compare…
@ezayi14 жыл бұрын
Didn´t have to wait till 6:25 to know this is Giacomini. I didn´t even know there was an argument about it and realized it from the beginning. My first thought was; "wow, Scotto sounds great here and Giacomini is fabulous sounds so fresh and beautiful. It is SO obvious!
@fionaauel3393 Жыл бұрын
Merci. Quel duo... Giacomini, extraordinaire. Ténor unique...
@perpieta10 жыл бұрын
Wonderful scene-- thank you, thank you. RS and GG are great. You know, even though he didn't fully understand the language, Puccini loved the "emotionalism" of Belasco's popular American plays--Madame Buttefly and Girl of the Golden West--and adapted those plays for his operas. He'd also adapted Sardou's melodramatic La Tosca (a vehicle for Bernhardt). The source plays have faded into oblivion, but Puccini's genius and music live on!
@cesrra13 жыл бұрын
the great Giacomini!
@MUSICALLAN14 жыл бұрын
oh yes, definitely Giacomini.
@bl599575 жыл бұрын
Ho letto tutto ciò che è stato scritto. Leggere che la Scotto è finta,ecc.mi intristisce e vorrebbe forse mortificare la più grande fraseggiatrice che l'Italia del dopoguerra abbia avuto...Credo che la sua Cio Cio San non abbia rivali(vocalmente negli anni migliori,ovviamente).Grande anche la Signora Kabaivanska che ho ascoltato tante volte nel ruolo.
@mapaezpumar649 жыл бұрын
WOUNDERFUL, OUTSTANDING ...BRAVI!!!
@DimitrisLian5 жыл бұрын
So glad he cracked, actually. I could enjoy Scotto's divine high note uninterrupted. The greatest Butterfly of all times!
@a_Brahms3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing 🙏
@ridvansadirxanov15032 жыл бұрын
FANTASTICO!!! INREPITIBILE!!! FAVOLOSO !!!
@MM-ki6ye11 ай бұрын
Magnifici.
@ricardocrampton56299 жыл бұрын
Yes, young Giacomini! ;)
@Bobrogers994 жыл бұрын
I've recently encountered Giacomini here on KZfaq, and although most videos I've seen were apparently in the latter part of his career, his voice and range were beautifully intact. Not quite so for Renata Scotto, whose voice was embarrassing in her 20th Met anniversary Butterfly performance broadcast on radio.
@gerontius33 жыл бұрын
Outstanding. Magnificent conducting as well
@martincroft49972 жыл бұрын
I so agree. Do we know who the conductors is? Also the violin solos are gorgeously played.
@assindiastignani11 жыл бұрын
The point is, Madama Butterfly is not a Japanese opera, just as Fanciulla del West is not an American opera. They are both intensely Italian operas, which portray these two countries from the point of view of an Italian composer living 100 years ago, thus your criticisms are superfluous. There are so many aspects of these libretti that don't represent historical fact, but so what? They are romantic operas, no more and no less.
@edwardamosbrandwein35833 жыл бұрын
And neither is "TURANDOT" a Chinese opera.
@tenorschofield10 жыл бұрын
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@niconico72813 жыл бұрын
Renata Scott la mejor actriz encima de un escenario de ópera junto al monstruo de la Callas. Giacomini una Tenor en mayúsculas!Felicitar a la persona que hizo esta grabación!
@scriabin5013 жыл бұрын
Scotto e Giacomini, Butterfly, che domandare ancora? Ebbene si! Li amo.
@roberto90033 жыл бұрын
Questa è la vera voce di Pinkerton e non i tenori leggeri di oggi che cercano di cantarla.
@paolopaolo2110 жыл бұрын
Scotto è Butterfly unica
@luissanchezroma10105 жыл бұрын
Who is the amazing conductor???????!!!!!!
@Orfeus803 жыл бұрын
I was so curious to see/hear Scotto‘s Butterfly on stage because on disc she seems to be singing for the microphone. And indeed,unless she's singing forte here, she can't be heard above the Puccini orchestra. All the "small" singing works in studio but not on stage.
@Vikingvideos509 ай бұрын
Tremendously good violin solo too!
@germanquintero101219463 жыл бұрын
MARAVILLOSO DUO
@sozanmarshall28324 жыл бұрын
Smashing
@pierrebrignone46823 жыл бұрын
Merveilleux giacomani .il méritait encore plus de gloire
@ciociosan14 жыл бұрын
BRAVI!
@altanotte14 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning! Is there a footage of "Quanto cielo, quanto mar, Ancora un passo or via"? Thank you!
@luisalbertovega75187 жыл бұрын
Scotto la mejor Chio Chio San
@shirleyrombough81734 жыл бұрын
This is just wonderful. How I wish I'd known of Giacomini years ago. I've been fooling around with Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras for all these years, though they are wonderful. But how Giacomini could have added to the thrill of those three. Is he still singing?
@shirleyrombough81733 жыл бұрын
Also, I would love to have heard Giacomini singing Turridu in Cavalleria.
@williammountfield85082 жыл бұрын
He died a year ago.
@ritawing1064 Жыл бұрын
I sang in performances with him his voice and musicality were beyond great!
@johnkblanchard9 жыл бұрын
Do we know what year and where this was filmed?
@julianavolpatti12 жыл бұрын
I love Callas ones too
@caninbar10 жыл бұрын
@tenor23 It's in the title! Giacomini!
@ambras.65303 жыл бұрын
who is this amazing conductor?
@amantedellopera16813 жыл бұрын
Definitely giacomini,even with awful picture you can tell its him,the voice alone says it all.ps my favourite butterfly in scotto
@LoveMusic-pd5iz Жыл бұрын
Please tell when was this performance?
@paolopaolo2111 жыл бұрын
il suo "vogliatemi bene" non ha pari in nessuna anche se gli anni passano per tutti
@margybickerton10162 жыл бұрын
I loved the Butterfly with Scotto and Jose Carreras - now that was pure magic !
@ulrikewermann12682 жыл бұрын
no
@margybickerton10162 жыл бұрын
Yes to me it was better - but everyone has their own opinion of course- Jose Carreras transmitted the feelings of his operas to the audience and that is true opera and a true Tenor at his very best that beats all others -
@ulrikewermann12682 жыл бұрын
@@margybickerton1016 Carreras for me was a great pretender....like Kaufmann.
@ulrikewermann12682 жыл бұрын
@@margybickerton1016 Did you ever hear him on stage? His hands were expressing what he could noch express with his voice....as you said. My opinion.
@margybickerton10162 жыл бұрын
@@ulrikewermann1268 Yes I did many times - I was lucky -He was so expressive on stage and he did transmit emotions no other tenor did - He was fantastic and today although older he can still hold an audience.
@singermanz2 жыл бұрын
What year?!?!
@bradleymonroe64438 жыл бұрын
7:49 do you hear Giacomini hit a high C? The soprano Renata Scotto is so louder than Giacomini. I think Giacomini needs to bring the volume up for his high C! or is it an A? I am not sure?
@novagerio92448 жыл бұрын
Giacomini doesn't attempt the High C at all. He sings as it's written.
@tomsalmon63347 жыл бұрын
Actually, having sung a few of these myself I can tell you that he did not sing it as written, which is with a lovely lower harmony. He attempted the optional C ...twice and went in for a kiss when the second one didn't make it either. Oops! But you know, it is live, he is human, crap can happen. And otherwise he is stunning!
@HammondDER4 жыл бұрын
He cracks trying to hit it.
@luigimaffei9132 Жыл бұрын
Che peccato, la registrazione è molto scadente le voci vanno e vengono e tutto viene ridimensionato.. Ma questa è stata una performance eccelsa da entrambi.
@Lenkov19347 жыл бұрын
e cmq l'audio non è originale del video, è stato aggiunto dopo.......
@craigwalters10 жыл бұрын
He was great up until that high 'C'. How unfortunate. But that can happen
@caninbar10 жыл бұрын
a little too often though ;)
@luizmaxcarvalho65356 жыл бұрын
Oh fuck right off..
@photo1615 жыл бұрын
@@caninbar Tucker absolutely risked that very dangerous high C, preferring instead Puccini's own lower, easier optional ending.
@photo1615 жыл бұрын
should read, "absolutely NEVER risked..." etc. sorry...
@SilfredoSerrano11 жыл бұрын
Kind of the point...this is Puccini's version of Japanese...
@pkunzip50114 жыл бұрын
@AfroPoli Scotto NEVER sang Butterfly w/Prevedi at the MET. This is definately the MET production. What does it matter what other tenors were listed? Check the MET annals. Then you don't have to make such absurd statements. This performance actually happened on April 8, 1978. She NEVER sang this part with Olvis, Theyard, di Giuseppe, etc. What are you saying when the archives are there for everyone to read????
@sorobji14 жыл бұрын
he would have to go ruin it by trying to sing the high c. notwithstanding, this was truly great singing on the part of both of them. scotto's butterfly was a little over the top at times, acting wise, but musically and vocally, hers was the best.
@PacRimJim11 жыл бұрын
No Japanese woman - especially in 19th-century Japan - would convey the body language that Scotto does here. It may seem a minor point, but to anyone familiar with Japanese women, Scotto's Butterfly seems to be an Italian woman galumphing about the stage in a kimono.
@berrydivo37026 жыл бұрын
David: Yes, it is a minor point. Now shut up and be grateful that this video is here for all of us to enjoy.
@shirleyrombough81734 жыл бұрын
It really doesn't matter. It is an Italian opera composed by an Italian composer about what he thinks Japanese culture is about. Where in the world would we find the location of Mozart's Die Zauberflote(sp.)? Or Turandot?
@edwardamosbrandwein35833 жыл бұрын
@@shirleyrombough8173 TURANDOT is set in Ancient China but again it is seen from the perspective of a late XIX/early XX Century Italian composer like Puccini
@shirleyrombough81733 жыл бұрын
@@edwardamosbrandwein3583 It would be nigh to impossible for a composer (or anyone, really) to erase all cultural effects on one's work. I think Puccini probably tried to see each opera as representing the culture in which it was set - La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, for example - each reflects enough cultural traits of its settings that we know we are watching a story set in Japan, 19th century Paris. e.g. To see Renata Scotto "galumphing about in a kimono" could be explained by her new-found freedom, after having f0und the thrill, joys of love for the first time (despite Lt. Pinkerton's being such a louse). Her marriage, though fake in Pinkerton's mind, was real in her own. And to Edward Amos Brandwein, I knew Turandot was set in ancient China but did not know how Puccini knew the culture of that place and time.
@edwardamosbrandwein35833 жыл бұрын
@@shirleyrombough8173 I don't know that, either. To be precise, I don't know whether Puccini was versed in Ancient China History AT ALL. But that's not really the point: the aim of composers is not "to teach History through Music" but to make the public enjoy their compositions. Don't you agree?
@opricnik4 жыл бұрын
Ma lei cantava o faceva finta?
@luisalbertovega75187 жыл бұрын
En este duo y en esta opera a quien le preocupa lo que haga el tenor?
@paolopaolo2112 жыл бұрын
è la Tebaldi quasi come la Scotto questa è donna l'altra è frigida!!!!
@Mooorhe14 жыл бұрын
@AfroPoli Oh dear, what a fail. It is obviously Giacomini. Your perception of reality is so very warped.
@HammondDER4 жыл бұрын
Great voice crack on the High C! Giacomini's original style :)
@ezayi14 жыл бұрын
Sorry dear... but this is Giacomini. Vocally and physically. It is Obvious!
@marisarossi66927 жыл бұрын
dicono che la migliore sia stata Toti Dal Monte.
@damianhunziker21324 жыл бұрын
Toti dal Monte con tutto il rispetto non aveva la voce per questo repertorio. La più grande di quella generazione fu a mio avviso Licia Albanese, la più grande Butterfly di sempre
@edwardamosbrandwein35833 жыл бұрын
@@damianhunziker2132 Toti Dal Monte only attempted the role on record (witj Gigli, 1930).
@Lenkov19347 жыл бұрын
tra le più GRANDI BUTTERFLY ci sono state, ANTONIETTA STELLA E RAINA KABAIVANSKA!!!!! anzi la Kabaivanska E' LA MIGLIORE!!!! l'ha cantata per 30 anni, con più di 400 recite in tutto il mondo!!!!
@fabriziomariagarzi55345 жыл бұрын
Beato te che ci credi...ho udito dal vivo entrambe...le grandi sono state Callas, Moffo, Price, Tomowa Sintow...
@occhioverde718 ай бұрын
Per me la Tebaldi è insuperabile
@rnerse8 жыл бұрын
Scotto ha una voce piccola per il ruolo...
@fabriziomariagarzi55345 жыл бұрын
Si.
@ginopietracupa43055 жыл бұрын
se la Scotto ha voce piccola.... allora la De Los Angeles aveva una voce che doveva essere rilevata con un microscopio
@fabriziomariagarzi55345 жыл бұрын
Gino Pietracupa, ho ascoltato dal vivo entrambe, la De Los Angeles aveva piu' volume e inoltre aveva l'ottava bassa perfetta, quasi da mezzosoprano. Aveva un suono penetrante e omogeneita' nel suono...a parte gli ultimi anni. Non era voce piccola e aveva uno charme incredibile.
@ginopietracupa43055 жыл бұрын
@@fabriziomariagarzi5534 La De Los Angeles Troppo limitata come voce e tecnica, limitata nell legato, nell volume E poi infantile, Quando la Victoria azzardava una smorzatura, eventualità rarissima, il suono diventava opaco e fisso. Nelle emissioni a piena voce era vetroso e duro. La voce era di timbro carezzevole, questo è vero..Ma voce non duttile e acuti duri. La Victoria messa male con gli acuti La de Los Angeles ha sempre avuto acuti stridulini e fissi, Ma è stridula e dura negli acuti Anche nel 56, Celletti stronca De Los Angeles , secondo lui é un doppio bluff, no ha colori no ha dinamica, la tecnica, La Victoria è una bamboletta a me De Los Angeles pare malensa Stucchevole,
@fabriziomariagarzi55345 жыл бұрын
@@ginopietracupa4305 scusa, ma tu la Victoria De Los Angeles l'hai mai ascoltata dal vivo? Era il contrario di cio' che dici e di cio' che diceva Celletti, che non era il Dio in terra ma portava solo acqua al suo mulino. Non era un voce molto fonogenica. Possedeva anche i sopracuti ma non li volle mai usare. In Manon arriva ad un Re nella Gavotta che e' perfetto.
@markdrinkwater15084 жыл бұрын
Scotto was not great, Ermonela Jahos Butterfly today is far superior.