Grand Inquisitor Scene - Paul Plishka and Jerome Hines, MET 1980 (with subtitles)
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2012
- Grand Inquisitor scene from Verdi's Don Carlo. The full DVD is now available from the MET online shop at www.metoperashop.org/. This great production was recorded February 1980 for TV broadcast. In this scene are Paul Plishka as Philip II and Jerome Hines as the Grand Inquisitor.
For me. Jerome. Hines is the classic Inquisitor. In voice and acting.
Plishka is certainly an impressive bass on his own right, but Hines is an absolute BEAST.
Jerome Hines has a magnificent voice.
What a breathtaking scene and an incredible ending by Plishka! A king in turbulent thoughts and slow disillusionment.. meanwhile Hines is the embodiment of religious absolutism, his take on this character is so impressive. It must have been one of a kind experience watching this alive. To me, opera is the apex of all art forms.
Wonderful duet from two MET legends. Hines with a MET career of 866 performances over 41 years. Plishka 1655 performances over 51 years.
Just as I remember it in the House, Pliska's voice was so very beautiful...
I believe it possible that half of the clicks are mine.... that is how much I love this duet in exactly that performance!
These two are giants. Paul Plishka is absolute perfection.
Hines is utterly terrifying.
Jerome. Hines is the proper Inquisitor characterization. Both vocally and artistically. I saw him on the stage of the. Met!! He was extremely impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Lucky enough to have seen Hines as Boris. Gigantic and stupendous.
Perfect role for Hines & this is certainly a late career high point. Hugh sound!
Jerry was amazing and what a nice man he was.
grande Jerome Hines!!
Wonderful duet..... great artists..
two great singers just listen
Interesting to hear how light Plishka sounds next to Hines. They're marvelous together but there's just no one like Hines - certainly not anymore. Very few real basses around, and of those even fewer are worth listening to. I admired Ramey very much, and saw him live, but I also saw Hines (very late) live and the latter remains America's greatest basso IMO.
That ending was wonderful!
Thanks for sharing this. This is back when opera was still opera :) But I was there in the audience and Hines sounded twice as loud as he does here. I think the miking evened him out.
Sound engineers usually do more harm than good! Someone once described Hines's voice as being able to drill through concrete. A remarkable instrument indeed.
+Joseph Shore hear hear just a brilliant performance from two great singers.
This is perfection.
That no, giammai!! is really awesome
sublime, apothéose de l'art lyrique ,dans sa plénitude et de ses interprètes au sommet de leur art !
I saw this broadcast while I was in high school. Hines blew me away.
Wow. I have the DVD and still can't get over it. Hearing it live would have been a life moment!
Thank you for this. Thank God for Verdi and singing actors such as these two. I've watched it over and over. My first opera at he Met was this one with Hines singing Phillip and a ver young Justino Diaz , 1964. What a scene!
+Paul Goulet That must have been amazing!!
Hines superbo vocalmente e scenicamente
Grande Hines
What do you think of Plishka?
What's crazy to think is that this is 1980, and that Jerome Hines had been singing the Grand Inquisitor for at least 30 years by then - there exists his performance in this role, in this same opera house, from that now legendary MET Saturday Matinée broadcast from 1950, the start of the Bing Era, with Jussi Bjorling singing Don Carlo. He must have been really old in this video here, yet the voice is 100%
I think I have a recording of that broadcast!
Amazing
Una scena che, anche presa da sola, costituisce una piccola opera lirica completa.
Bellissimo.
saw JH several times in his late years. he would shuffle on as Grand Inq. in brown hush puppies. He was great
At 6'6" tall, it is a wonder his knees lasted as long as they did. Definitely one of the greatest bassos ever.
Operatic History!
grande Pliskha!
HINES GRandissimo . BRAVI
Saw these guys t the Met. Thanks for posting this.
MAGNIFICO DUI
Quelle fin, superbe ahurisant!
Grande Jerome👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What a rendation! Great singing and great characterization! (Is that the correct word? Sorry, I am not born into the english language)
I forgot there was a time when Plishka didn't wobble.
Because Hines started so young he seems older than he was here, which was 59 or 60.
We can compare this recording to the exact same production but with Ghaiurov/Furlanetto, and it's astonishing how incredibly better Hines is as the Inquisitor here. Furlanetto was woefully miscast.
Thanks You Tube
Hines inquisitor ... very well, but Hines was the best Philip II of all time
Bodiloto. A tal punto no . MA NON SI puo paraggonare. Hines fu fra i più grandi bassi di tutti tempi . Cordiales Salutations .
Does anyone know what the Grand Inquisitor's low note is? Does he go down to an E2 or F2?
I checked the score - E.
+BassetHoundTrio awesome! he does it so well. exceedingly rare even amongst true basses.
where did u get the score?
imslp.org
qui est le chef d'orchestre ?
James Levine
@@BassetHoundTrio merci !
1 Hines = 30 Ramey .