Ruby, as Tucker was called in our family, was my father's first cousin by marriage. Not only did he sing with power and absolute precision of tone, pitch, and pronunciation but he was the nicest and most generous person imaginable....always offering my dad football Giants and opera tickets. Whenever, I need a pick me up, I listen to this rendition of Nessun Dorma and the world becomes a brighter and more heroic place.
@otavianiluciano73974 жыл бұрын
God bless his soul.
@PrincessGold13 жыл бұрын
Just been listening to all the greats sing Nessun Dorma. IMHO this is the best. As close to a perfect voice as I've heard, in tone and ease. Easy to see how he was so beloved.
@Shamsithaca3 жыл бұрын
Thank you sharing. Its great to hear that he was such a nice and generous person along with his great voice.
@fitzgeraldanthony93333 жыл бұрын
Out of all the outstanding tenors who performed this aria, Richard Tuckers simply towers over them. It is the definitive version. It reaches a depth that can only be described as SOUL MOVING. Masculine, ROBUST, powerful, beautiful and simply HEROIC in delivery. Nobe does it better.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@Shamsithaca He was treated all his fans so very well, I knew him for a long time, had dinner with him after he sang and will always miss him, and that big rich voice, as the greatest Spinto tenor I've ever heard in the opera house, as I did many times. RIP.
@jamesdalessandro1120 Жыл бұрын
He is extraordinary, the most under-rated tenor of all time. Incredible power, technique, passion and color. One of the best versions ever recorded.
@joelweisberg10 ай бұрын
Bravo James! I echo your sentiments. Tucker was one of the all time greatest tenors as this live performance demonstrates. RIP Maestro Tucker!
@shicoff13989 ай бұрын
The great Spinto tenor was best heard live in house, as I saw him many times and he had a very rich powerful voice, coupled with great technique that served him well for 30 years. Our great tenor Richard Tucker. RIP 1913-1975. @@joelweisberg
@shicoff13989 ай бұрын
Agree!
@shirleyrombough81739 ай бұрын
He belongs with other great tenors, among the greatest: Pavarotti, Domingo, Gigli, Bjourling, Kaufmann, even Lanza and almost the Great Caruso.
@shicoff13989 ай бұрын
Tucker was our greatest American "Spinto tenor" singing many Verismo and Lyric roles, yes 30 roles in 30 years, also he was well respected in Italy where he sang in several cities, including Milan at La Scala and in South America in many cities many there , he received the "Italian Commendatore" award from them, their high cultural award, he was very great in opera and concerts, Lanza who had a beautiful voice chose a different path to fame, Mario Lanza (and I'm a fan of his films, concerts and studio recordings) was not an opera singer by profession, he sang concerts, radio, TV, 8 Films between 1948 and his last film in 1958, but opera was not his profession, he was not by profession and opera singer, he had great potential for opera and being among the greatest, of course that is all opinions, we all hear differently and studio records and live recordings are different, live is a better test then studio, you can hear some live Lanza records in concerts, but as for opera he sang only once in a big major opera house in one major big opera, two performances of Butterfly as Pinkerton in 1948 at age 27, but also Fenton in the light opera "The Merry Wives Of Windsor" he sang it in the Berkshires, he made no complete opera recordings at all, but many arias and songs where recorded by him and the 8 films he made (he also had his demons with a fast life style) but in the one film , "The Student Prince" released in 1954, they at MGM had his voice dubbed in and the actor Edmund Purdum played the acting part, Mario had gained to much weight much weight for the film, but his singing in it was beautiful and superb, but no he was not a professional opera singer as Caruso, Martinelli , Gigli, Bjoerling, Tucker, Corelli, Pavarotti, Di Stefano Etc. All those and more made their living singing and recording complete opera's as Opera singers, Lanza was rather unique and was judged differently but it was a great operatic voice no doubt, he had great potential with a very fine tenor voice, some said he was very Hammy in popular songs, but nobody sang "Be My Love" and some other songs like Lanza could, anyhow he died at age 38 in 1959, in his best years. American Richard Tucker made his Met. opera debut in Jan. 1945 and by 1952 he was the leading tenor at the Met. in the Italian wing opera house, until he died in 1975, he sang over 740 performances there and 30 complete roles, hundreds more times in other major opera houses world wide including being popular in South America and sang also in Asia, Israel and Canada, he also was a great and popular Cantor, he died at age 61 in 1975 just two weeks after great singing as Canio in Pagliacci one of his last roles starting that roe in 1970. RIP. Richard Tucker
@user-py1jg6bb2r3 жыл бұрын
He sings with great power and confidence, Grand operatic!!!
@ljagerman113 жыл бұрын
First heard Richard Tucker sing opera in the late 1950's, and I forgot what a great voice he had! Every word is crystal clear and fully voiced. No glissando, just the right tremolo. A gift from the Gods!
@debradorfman79404 жыл бұрын
With due respect, Mr. Tucker's voice was a gift from G-d There is only one in his and my faith.
@sugarbist2 жыл бұрын
@@debradorfman7940 A Catholic man passes away and St. Peter greets him at the portals of heaven. He proceeds to show the Catholic man around heaven and passes an area saying to the man that this is where the Muslims are, and then the Hindu's and so on. But then St. Peter tells the man to stay quiet. The man asks why? St. Peter tells him,'' this is where the Jews are and they think they're the only ones here.
@peterschmitz83642 жыл бұрын
Richard Tucker war einer der besten Tenöre der letzten hundert jähre eine tolle stimme.
@bodiloto2 жыл бұрын
Un leone della lirica. Sublime. ❤️
@RainhadoCanto1112 жыл бұрын
My son grew up hearing opera arias that I so loved, for which I took some ribbing! What wasn't my surprise when off to college he asked if he could borrow some from my collection! I don't think anything else did ever floor me in such a way! This was his favorite aria! It was played during his funeral services!
@Robb33483 жыл бұрын
what a nice story! thanks for sharing this very personal and human memory of your son
@user-vx2wp1ez5s5 жыл бұрын
He was a little before my time, so it's great to discover some of these older videos, appreciate his talent and learn a little about the man. Some commenters here knew Richard personally and it's wonderful that they have such kind things to say about him. Thank you.
@arthurw80542 жыл бұрын
No disrespect intended to other great tenors, but in my amateur opinion Tucker is simply the greatest ever, the standard by whom others can be measured. Thanks for posting.
@shicoff1398 Жыл бұрын
Agreed and for his voice type, a Spinto I think for me he was #1.
@ricklevine35713 жыл бұрын
Wow he has a voice that can crack the crystalwear! Nice
@BytomGirl2 жыл бұрын
I love him as an opera singer as much as a Cantor, always made me cry
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
At services during the high holiday' s, I often was there in Chicago, seeing him as the Cantor, I looked around at the many faces, moved by his emotional delivery and often saw those faces, both men and women at times with tears coming down, it was something seemingly from another world.----- RIP. Richard Tucker
@BytomGirl2 жыл бұрын
@@shicoff1398 What an experience, how lucky you were to be at such service. My grandfather was a Cantor in Poland and I always cried too. There something so emotional about Jewish prayers. RIP
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@BytomGirl I heard Tucker also in opera over 20 times and knew him and his family well, I worked in the music field , RT had the greatest powerful and beautiful spinto voice I ever heard in over 63 years of opera going, I'm now past 80 and can tell you I saw them all, Corelli, MDM, Di Stefano, Bjoeling, Tagliavini and more also, do not let anyone make up false facts they know nothing about him .
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
"Bjoerling" is the American spelling, sorry above I misspelled his name.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@BytomGirl Yes, true, did your grandfather escape the Nazis there?
@marcomalpassi76553 жыл бұрын
Che voce meravigliosa ! Un gigante!
@sugarbist12 жыл бұрын
Tucker always had a solid tecnique with excellent high notes
@charlesmitchell18885 ай бұрын
Perfection best I have ever heard
@shicoff13985 ай бұрын
Yes, the posters many of them are not into opera live in house, Mario Lanza had a fine natural beautiful voice but never sang the role of course, in fact by profession of course he was not an opera singer as such, he sang only once in a major opera house in a major opera, 1948 in Butterfly, just 2 performances, he went into film, concerts and radio, also it was not a great role for the great Lyric tenor Pavarotti, but was a signature role for Franco Corelli a great tenor as Calaf. his greatest most well known role . Tucker sang the opera on occasion with very good reviews at the Met. and in Texas, yes he did sing it with Nilsson, with good reviews, but his Forza, Chenier, Juive and Gioconda where even greater, among his greatest roles, with his Forza performances in the 1950's with Warren being exceptional and they are on you tube, I don't get on a singers post and flame him or her, it's rude--- I saw Tucker over 20 times and knew him personally--- he was the greatest Spinto tenor for me of them all, in house his voice was very large rich and round 100% even from the bottom to the top and he as with the great Dramatic tenor Mario Del Monaco was better live then in a studio, when people state so and so "was the best", of course it's just their own opinion, who cares, whoever you like is the best for us. It also depends on the role. The major professional critics agreed in reviews that Tucker was great, anybody can read reviews in the Archives, and in fact Tucker was one of the greatest of his voice type in the 1950'sand was "The leading tenor at the Met. opera Company". he sang well over 700 times there in 30 years from 1945 till he died in 1975 and hundreds more in Europe, South America and many major American houses, often on opening night for the ( Met. 7 times) and opening nights in Chicago, Calif. Italy, and in other places. The most important opinion is your own of course, and we all hear differently, no right or wrong. RIP.
@r.crompton22866 жыл бұрын
Can't understand how there are 5 "thumbs down." They must have come from people exceedingly dull of spirit and/or completely out of touch with the highest level of vocal talent as was clearly expressed by the late R.T.
@kbhprinsesse5 жыл бұрын
Or just from people with a taste that differs from you, Mr. Crompton. It's clear to anyone that this is singing on a very high technical level - but that doesn't prevent some people for having other preferences when it comes to timbre and/or interpretation. For my taste this lacks some "emotion", no matter how great it is on a technical level.
@r.crompton22865 жыл бұрын
kbh prinsesse Fair comment. This presentation was staged for TV. Here RT sang three selections interspersed with discussion between himself and the host. If there is any lack of emotion on Tucker's part, it may have more to do with the fact that the setting was quite informal, which may have contributed to a more relaxed delivery than what he was accustomed to giving from the opera stage, the setting where he always gave his best.
@kbhprinsesse5 жыл бұрын
@@r.crompton2286 Or perhaps just that his style is less emotional than the style of other tenors singing Calaf.
@mattbudesa30384 жыл бұрын
@@kbhprinsesse Tucker is solid. It's just hard to listen to him and compare him to guys like Pavarotti and Lanza. Still very good in his own right though.
@kbhprinsesse4 жыл бұрын
@@mattbudesa3038 indeed he is, but as I've written above he just may not be to some people's taste because they prefer a different approach. Just like some people may recognize that any random artist is gifted, yet they won't feel moved by this artist.
@MrGer22957 жыл бұрын
Remembering RICHARD TUCKER on his birthday today ! Born: August 28, 1913, Brooklyn, Kings, NY, United States Died: January 08, 1975, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
@debradorfman79404 жыл бұрын
May his memory be for a blessing.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@debradorfman7940 Yes.
@richardhill526611 жыл бұрын
He seems to me for years to be inhuman because he always was vocally perfect! Thank you so much for this live video of him!
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
they can have an opinion and fine, but if you didn't hear this man in the house , then you do not get it, he did not record well and anyone of course can say anything as for opinions, that dos not make facts, there is a park named after him in NYC . many complete opera's on major labels. MDM did not record well either, Pav. did and so did Jussi B. I saw them both and as you know as we have Talked about it-- and Corelli and Bjoerling I did see in over 63 years of opera going.
@charlesmitchell18887 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic voice thought I had heard them all but simply the very best
@shicoff13985 ай бұрын
He was a magnificent tenor (a spinto) in his prime long years , born in 1913, in Brooklyn NY. died in 1975 of a heart attack. ------ RIP.
@hswatnik13 жыл бұрын
Great to see this superb video with Richard Tucker in fine form- thnx!
@Miss_Chick2 жыл бұрын
Just breathtaking!
@bigjoetube2 жыл бұрын
The greatest American tenor ever!!!!!!!!!
@rogerengblom5061 Жыл бұрын
Even better than mostly europen tenors in my opinion.
@shicoff1398 Жыл бұрын
@@rogerengblom5061 True! IMO the greatest Spinto tenor I've ever heard in house, saw him many times from 1961 on till late 1974 just before he died. RIP.
@shlomo8448 Жыл бұрын
Correlli?
@PrincessGold13 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful, and so easy. Must have wonderful technique.
@trilobit42 жыл бұрын
Wow!!! He was incredible!
@shicoff13982 күн бұрын
He was!
@1155north12 жыл бұрын
I'm not particularly a Tucker fan, but this is stunning! Thanks for the post.
@mlwhepfiorino3392 Жыл бұрын
He had a Mario Lanza quality in voice, I enjoyed that. 👍I am comparing the two, I have my preference. AAC. (ML)
@user-gb7ks8zz9q4 ай бұрын
В первые слушаю,узнала от Зарембы
@1927edith11 жыл бұрын
Wonderful voice, I just heard him in Radio one or two days age !
@alessandromoccia4712 жыл бұрын
Meraviglioso!
@hectorbravo68625 күн бұрын
La opera verista era lo suyo para esa época. Por ahí el italiano salió medio american un par de veces (no sé por qué la palabra "ópera" no me la acentuó al comienzo).
@LGranthamsHeir4 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best interpretation of 'Nessun Dorma' ever. Better than those by contemporary artists like Bocelli and rival those by opera greats such as Domingo and Pavarotti.
@guidogreco3414 жыл бұрын
The CALAF of the XX century Franco CORELLI...you have to hear also CECCHELE...TUCKERS masterclass
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@sugarbist perhaps should get on a Corelli site and scream Tucker as he does here about Corelli.
@sugarbist2 жыл бұрын
@@guidogreco341 My favorite Cavalleria is with Cecchele, when he was 30 years old, but Cecchele did not have a very large voice in the opera house or at least at the Met. I think everyone is familiar that Corelli was a great Calaf. Your comment may reflect that people may forget this. But perhaps we can still appreciate other tenors in the role.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@sugarbist Most of the comments here are positive about Tucker anyhow and why he posted it and said Bravo Corelli /MDM is unusual, no mention of Tucker it seems.
@shicoff13985 ай бұрын
He is as emotional as he should be here, just fine and warm, the fact. is this isn't "Vest "La Giubba" where the tenor pours out his heart,. Tucker was one of the greatest of all time, that is not just my own opinion, and both the major critics of his day and singers he worked with like Tebaldi who said "He had roses in his throat" she also mentioned him as "Mr. terrific" she said he "Was terrific". if folks like and prefer others that's fine, as for me, he was a sensational spinto tenor. BYTW Cecchele was really great in the Cav. studio made film you mentioned, of course it's not a live Brdcst. and as far as the great Bjoerling, he was more lyric then spinto and so never sang the Turandot role live, but he made an excellent recording of it in the RCA studio in 1959 with Tebaldi and Nilsson. studio is a lot different than live .
@Sharkyl_K.2 ай бұрын
luciano pavarotti non è che sia il massimo anzi è da applaudere a Tucker!
@shicoff13982 күн бұрын
Pavoratti was basically a Lyric tenor, this was not a great role for him live , as some others like Boheme, and other more Lyric roles .This is a role for big Spinto or even dramatic voices spinto Tucker, Corelli and dramatic Mario Del Monico, not a great role for Pavarotti live, but a great lyric tenor.
@remc708 жыл бұрын
I believe this song was use in the movie "Sums of all are Fears"
@leonardcohen55296 ай бұрын
Какой замечательный голос был у Такера, и пел он соответственно своему огромному таланту, но пусть простят меня поклонники этого великого тенора за мое субъективное мнение. Когда "Nessun Dorma" исполняет Франко Корелли, то есть ощущение сказки, волшебства, ну и сам голос очень красивый, в случае с Такером подобных ощущений, лично у меня, нет - просто красивое пение.
@shicoff13982 күн бұрын
It depends role, as for the role "Calaf" Corelli was a king in that entire role on stage, (nobody was greater in his time in the role complete and live according to most critics, Bjoerling made a great recording of it complete but never did sing it live complete as his voice was a Lyric tenor basically and a bit small for the role on stage, so he did avoid it (but he was a singer of great perfection with great technique and free of most bad habits) as far as some other roles, they (Tucker and Corelli) both sang, like Boheme, then Tucker for me was preferred but that is my preference. and yes I saw both men sing it in house, Tucker in 1962 in Chicago and Corelli there also in 1965with Freni , of course some of Tucker's best roles Corelli didn't ever sing in any opera house, such as Ballo, Rigoletto and Manon Lescaut, I have heard and seen both men in the opera house and each in their own best roles, I find both among the many greatest of all time, the best is whom ever you prefer, there is no right or wrong. The best is whomever you prefer best, no right or wrong but as far as the complete role of Calaf Corelli was a king and in the 1950's in Forza Tucker and the great American Warren owned the role and both where our greatest two in their own voice types back then, Warren born in 1911 and Tucker in 1913. Tucker was also a very great Cantor in the Temple and sang in very important posts in both Chicago and NY, he was born in Brooklyn NY. the birth year was 1913, died in 1975 at age 61 of a heart attack . RIP.
@leonardcohen55292 күн бұрын
@@shicoff1398 спасибо за ваш интересный и развернутый комментарий.
@shicoff13982 күн бұрын
Your so welcome! and BTW see Corelli (on Swedish TV, on you tube) with Nilsson, the great Swedish soprano "Turandot" in her time the excellent Turandot and where they both take turns singing, in their older age from the 1980's and are quite good, (they speak in English) it is very moving from two past greats, all gone today!
@leonardcohen55292 күн бұрын
@@shicoff1398 посмотрела с большим удовольствием и не раз. Какие они милые и видно, что рады друг другу. Они мне очень нравятся и в "Аиде", жаль, что могу только слушать, т.к. есть аудио, но не видео. А вообще, существует видео-запись "Аиды"?
@shicoff1398Күн бұрын
@@leonardcohen5529 Yes, the 1949 (TV Video) "Toscanini" Tucker Aida, with Tucker, soprano Nelli and baritone Valdengo in the lead roles complete, and live in a concert performance, it is available commercially on DVD and the big aria from it "Celeste "Aida with Tucker is on You Tube on a Video..
@katsamforever4 жыл бұрын
WOW
@josephhapp93 жыл бұрын
🌺🌺🌺
@bokewilhelm1452 Жыл бұрын
klasse
@elainebmack6 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Richard Tucker trained to be a cantor?
@josephhapp93 жыл бұрын
Multi tasking.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
Yes and he always was also a Cantor.
@jeffreymiller48143 жыл бұрын
Well all opera is a total FAIL without secure singing. Tucker’s dead-center, pitch dominant tone is a relief to hear after having so many 21st century muscular, out of tune, wobbly messes flung upon us. The absolutely perfect legato is a lesson in bel canto. The sheer vocal virtuosity of his effortlessly athletic approach to those lines of RINGING high As and final penultimate B natural put him in a class by himself. Even Corelli knew it. When Tucker died in 1975, Corelli lost his sparring partner, and retired from opera the next year.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
true, people never being in an opera house in their lives make up nonsense about Tucker as he was so good he is a threat to their idols, I don't care really but he did not record as great as he sounded in person, I saw him and both Corelli and Pavarotti many times, I worked in classical music and know that RT had a very big voice in person and a great one, so they can make up false facts, but read professional reviews and also the Italians loved him in Itay, so did Pav. who wrote the forward in the Tucker book by James Drake . RT sang over 700 times at the met. opera and totaled hundreds in other places, so the facts stand in print not made up BS, a bigger voice then great lyric tenor Pav. or fine movie singer Lanza with his great beautiful voice and he sang one complete opera in a major house in two shows in 1948, great yes, but more in concerts and films then opera in his life time, Tucker was a great tenor needed to be heard in the opera house. RIP.
@georgevincent18345 ай бұрын
Pretty damn good, but Corelli OWNS it.
@shicoff13983 ай бұрын
Corelli owned the opera of course, it was his "signature" role, his greatest role, and here is just the aria, so many others sang it, some very well, but not all the opera (even small voiced Bocelli sang the aria) as Jussi Bjoerling also sang the aria but not ever the opera, he did record it though complete, Tucker did sing it complete and well occasionally, but his best roles where in other Operas, not Turandot, Bjoerling's signature role was Boheme no doubt, but he was basically a more lyric tenor then either Tucker or Corelli or dramatic De Monaco , I saw JB in 1958, (I was19 at the time) it wasn't as large a voice as on records or those two spinto tenors, or of course MDM, a big dramatic voice. I saw him and Corelli both also, also Tucker very often in house, anyhow this is about Tucker, and as you basically said, this was was very good (in his prime here) . RIP. Tucker 1913-1975
@EllencyOfficial Жыл бұрын
Ottimo La naturale, veramente bello. Peccato un po' per la pronuncia... Per il resto davvero nulla da dire. Uno dei miei nuovi tenori preferiti.
@josecarrerastema8654 Жыл бұрын
E' un si,non un la
@marksmith3947 Жыл бұрын
I've listened to a lot of tenor comparisons recently. I would rate Tucker higher than Del Monaco , but not as good as Corelli in his prime. Tucker's vocalism was superb. I don't think he had the most beautiful voice though
@radiodivalive4 жыл бұрын
BRAVO FRANCO CORELLI - DEL MONACO
@user-py1jg6bb2r3 жыл бұрын
They are gigantic, but this is about Tucker, grand tenor too.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
they are not aware how great he was.
@shicoff13982 жыл бұрын
@@user-py1jg6bb2r yes!
@user-py1jg6bb2r2 жыл бұрын
@@shicoff1398 Italian tenors dominated across the board, especially tenors... but Richard Tucker is no less than Corelli in anyway, he enriched operatic in so many ways and makes American lineup a good standing across the world! Made in Brooklyn, USA...so proud!!
@user-py1jg6bb2r2 жыл бұрын
@@shicoff1398 Son wonderful to see your emails, thank you for many posting emails. I was heavily involved in work and was also deeply addicted into Olympic games(indoor team sports, such as volleyball...). I am back on Opera Channel. It is funny that some motivational speaker and health doctors recommend people to learn good singing or just shut down yourself in your car to sing loud, it is great for liver cleansing and good mood... I guess they now know that singers are pro good health. I thought of your grandfather of 100 years of age immediately when I saw that speech.