What a great performance, by two wonderful singers. Tucker's legato, pronunciation and vocal line is really great.

...beautifully sung, nicely phrased...two top pros in their formidable prime.

Tucker was indeed a top class tenor and merill had one of the most melodic warm baritone voices,like velvet,my favourite in this duet though is del monaco and bastianini

Oh my God! How amazing is this clip? I had never known about this and watching it just now . . . it's absolutely amazing to hear these two TITANS in this scene fill this music with so much beauty. Amazing!

From the glorious days of real singing. Thank you.

Glorious time on Met stage! I wish to see more of this, Wow, worth to rush there for any tickets!!! Bravo...

perfect singing from Richard Tucker, great tenor!

Two nice Jewish boys from Brooklyn sing opera in Italian on American TV when it was worth watching. Great performance and they actually sang and did not lip synch, which is joke. Thanks.

This is some of the best singing I ever heard both of them do. It sounds natural which is the highest compliment I can give. I do not think they are lip synching...this is the real deal. Lovely.

Opera on network television, AND with outstanding American singers. Those were the days.

Would that we had Verdi singers of this quality today. AND that they performed on network television.

This two wonderful lyrical artists together constructed the basis of modern opera. Hope they are never forgotten and that their model careers , serves us all followers to improve and to keep alive this divine code of the soul called lyrical music.BRAVOOOO

So beautiful!

In the early 60's, I would come home from elementary school and my mom would be working about the house (stay-at-home moms back then!) with her Caruso LPs playing. I developed a liking for opera (unusual for a boy of about 9), especially Caruso. This Solenne In Quest'ora with Antonio Scotti became my 1st favorite opera song. I could sing the lyrics right along with the guys....didn't have a clue what I was singing about! Now with KZfaq, my opera addiction is fulfilled!

I dare to believe that Verdi would have been very very satisfied with these two Hebrews (Nabucco reference) should they have been his house singers. They are impeccable Verdian style singers with gorgeous solid voices that when blending in a melodic line make the eyes fill with joy

Duetto fantastico a dispetto di una dizione un po' incerta...Bellissima testimonianza di due grandi Artisti. Grazie

fabulous

I have grown to enjoy Tucker. Merrill is great too

What a great pairing, what a great post! Thanks :D One of my favorite Baritone/Tenor duets

Brilliant!!!

Tucker at age 52 here was very solid but in 1960 he sang a Met. Brdcst. of Forza complete at age 46 that was sensational, and in the 1952 and later 1950's with Leonard Warren they owned the role at that time, age and the role matters, as Jussi and Di Stefano where so great in Tosca I saw GDS sing it in the late 1950's in house, terrific and Corelli I did prefer in Turandot as Calaf over them all, but Tucker was very great excellent in Cav., 1957, Chenier in 1960 and Gioconda in 1959, most are on you tube, Enjoy them all as they are all gone now..

Their Invano Alvaro is on the same exalted level as this. What great singing this is!

Two great singers!!!

Tucker especially in the 1950's with Warren live in the role was my top Favorite over anyone in the Forza role complete, but Merrill had a very beautiful voice, I've seen baritone Merrill and Bastianini both live in house, in fact I saw Tucker live in my home town, Chicago with lyric opera back in 1962 with Bastianini , he was singing Rigoletto and Tucker the Duke, RT sounded better in the house and in 1962, well that was just before Bastianini got sick ,a great show but still in Verdi for me it was Warren as my favorite Baritone, I don't say he was best because it's all just opinion, no right or wrong, we all have our favorites, I saw most all , so many of them live, starting when I was 17 in 1957 so have my memories and favorites, in house you really know a voice well, among them I saw Bjoerling in 1958, GDS in 1959 and also the very great sensational dramatic Del Monaco in 1959, also and of course lyric tenor Tagliavini, even Schipa in 1962 a great lyric singer and he was still good in his early 70's. now I don't go much to the opera, no singers thrill me that much and with health issues in my 80's I don't drive much at night. Enjoy them, the greats like Tucker etc. as they are gone now.

The broadcast was just a couple of scenes from this act, not the whole opera. I will post a couple of other bits later.

BRAVOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Amen brother

This is just wonderful, can't think of two better singers to do this opera. From what I hear Warren and Bastianini were both phenomenal here but I still prefer Merrill my favorite Verdi baritone. And what more can be said about Tucker? It was the ideal voice for Alvaro, none better. Thanks for sharing.

The Warrior's Way theme. Finally i found it!

This is a great performance especially from Merril, and Tucker also shows nice control of his voice. However, no one can quite match Batianini and Corelli in this scene.

Bel Canto ASOLUTTO ; -)) MANFREDO GREGOR - Baritono

You said it

Asi se debería cantar, a este tiempo, como lo concibió el compositor y en 432Hz no 440.

Maravillosos...pero Merrill este dúo lo tiene insuperablemente perfecto junto a Jussi Bjorling...

Do you have the Full DVD? Can you upload Bjorling and Telbaldi's performance as well? Please I have been looking for his video of Che Gelida Manina and haven't been able to find it anywhere

Good luck getting a ticket. :-) Even the devil will be standing in line. After all, it just doesn't get any better than this.

One of the most convoluted plots of any opera. It is said Pavarotti would not sung it because he thought it was cursed.

I agree with Steve Van Dien - opera should always be about the singing, not the cool new productions and the cute young boys/girls who can approximate some of the notes of the great operatic roles while, more importantly, dancing/trapeze-flying/rapping. Whatever. Still, Tucker and Merrill were two of our most wonderful 20th-century operatic artists.

It plays fine when I access it. It won't play in high-def, though.

the key was really hide OMG ahahhaha

Увы, из современных певцов, как бы хорошо технически они ни были подготовлены, никто не сможет это даже повторить, не то что перепеть!

It's not out of place. It explains his struggle with the high notes.

SEHR GUT

duo maravilloso solo que el tenor es Carlo Bergonzi

Atrocious performance by both