I like how a joyful face while singing is enough to deliver the message of music. No fidgeting, no unnecessary gesticulation. Just enjoying the vibrations of a perfectly trained voice.
This is indeed a rare gem , Pinza is wonderful an amazingly beautiful singer , I should have liked to hear more of Blanche Thebom , divine , beautiful voice and singer .
As a deep bass, I can only envy the the oft piannissmo Pinza gets in the upper register that i cannot get, but yet his middle & low are so full and rich.
@@blazkoscaniglia_acting BRAVO! The previous subject in the thread was the rarity of basses who can sing pianissimi, but perhaps equally rare among the ubiquitous vocal "experts" is someone familiar with the term "basso cantante" and possessing an understanding of it. Arci bravo.
@@apolllumavlis6198 Do not tell nonsense! Pinza had not the high notes to sing baritone parts! Georg Hann and Giorgio Tozzi were baritones before they changed into the bass region. Cesare Siepi was also a bass. Even when he could sing high g1.
Beautiful duet. Pinza was a giant talent. Ms. Theborn is a discovery for me and I loved her singing and personality, which was a perfect match for Mr. Pinza.
La ci darem la mano is a most beautiful duet of seduction . I have seen a number of recordings of this , but none better than Pinza and Thebom , they are vocally perfect and really act their parts , one feels a sense of fun in this seduction that a girl would respond to . Most baritones seen to act as a macho Rue rather forcefully seducing a young girl . In this recording Pinza is really persuasive in his wooing and Thebom really warms to him , lovely .
Note that Pinza did look at the music on the piano. He was surely better at reading music than he is given credit for being. Although Thebom (mezzo) and Pinza (low bass) had voices too deep for "La ci darem", which calls for soprano and baritone, both did their parts beautifully. Pinza was positively Mephistophelean as the seducer. And Pinza's low D at the end of "Le Cor"-fantastic!!
Well, you might say though, that a mezzo is to a bass as a soprano is to a baritone. So that's probably why it evens out and works well in the end. Lol ha ha
Non è vero che Don Giovanni richiede un baritono, non necessariamente. La parte in acuto non va oltre il mi. Inoltre Mozart ha scritto parti molto più acute, che richiedono espressamente voci baritonali, quindi Don Giovanni può essere tranquillamente cantato da un basso.
Even when he's not trying Pinza cannot avoid making incredibly beautiful sounds of a type completely unknown today. Did you notice that Thebom gets the text backwards at the end of the aria?
Although ostensibly a basso cantante Pinza had a most sonorous low D (only Siepi, another basso cantante, could come close to matching him & ventured even a tone deeper on some occasions). Still the Pinza sonority was something unique on any level of dynamics, which one hears here.
Pinza's pianomissa parts where devine, so smooth. Thebom's voice matches Pinza's almost exactly. As I listen to her sing, I have two high (4.5 ft) brass tables of her's that I bought at auction two decades ago.
Sie haben in vielerlei Hinsicht Recht. Doch die Anziehungskraft auf die baritonischen Parts hat ihm einen schlechten Dienst erwiesen, Lauri-Volpi hatte recht. Die Erweiterung des Repertoires durch solche Parts hat sich negativ auf diesen wertvollen Bass ausgewirkt.
Probablemente y a pesar de que en la fecha de grabación no era precisamente un joven cantante , en términos globales creo que gana por goleada a sus colegas rivales.
"le Cor" is based on Alfred de Vigny's (romantic French writer) long and famous poem (21 verses in 4. parts of inequal length, inspired by the tragic end of Roland in Roncevaux)there: @t
J'aime le son du Cor, le soir, au fond des bois, Soit qu'il chante les pleurs de la biche aux abois, Ou l'adieu du chasseur que l'écho faible accueille, Et que le vent du nord porte de feuille en feuille. Que de fois seul dans l'ombre à minuit demeuré, J'ai souri de l'entendre, et plus souvent pleuré ! Car je croyais ouïr de ces bruits prophétiques Qui précédaient la mort des Paladins antiques. Âmes des Chevaliers, revenez-vous encor? Est-ce vous qui parlez avec la voix du Cor ? Roncevaux ! Roncevaux ! Dans ta sombre vallée L'ombre du grand Roland n'est donc pas consolée !
Excellent, thanks so much for sharing! Im trying to learn opera singing. I think im a Baritone. So its nice to not only hear, but see a golden era baritone. I tend to just listen to tenors, which is a mistake for my voice i suspect. I would love to build a golden era voice, well i can dream anyway! Thanks again, Colin.
If you are lucky you may be born with such a beautiful voice and certainly good training helps . Edzio Pinza did also sing Baritone roles , as demonstrated in this recording . Other baritones you should hear/see are Tito Gobbi and Ettore Bastianini , Tito Gobbi was an amazingly versatile actor and singer , there is so much to see and hear on youtube . You seem a little uncertain , do you have a good teacher ? Many good tenors started out as baritones , when really with correct training they were tenors , a good teacher should know which voice you have , good luck .
Thanks David, funnily enough i just finished reading Tito Gobbi autobiography, a great read. I cant find a local teacher. So i have been getting occasional online lessons for an expensive treat! Best wishes,COlin.
Michael Trimble gives very good lessons on youtube . I appreciate that he is a tenor , but the basic technique is the same . It is essential to develop a strong diaphragm to support your breathing , enabling an even flow of sound .
The two years between this and South Pacific were not too kind to Pinza. The cover art for that album shows a much older looking man than in this video, and the voice was not as good. I wonder if his health issues were coming into play.
This has very fine singing but it's hardly a glimpse behind the scenes, I think. The rehearsal stuff is so stagey and the singers have no radio microphone in their performance. I'm guessing this was a promotional short shown in movie theaters?
Is that what you comment on, with this glorious singing? Sure, diversity is of the utmost importance, but the reason this was posted was to share this historical document of Pinza and Thebom’s singing.
![What's My Line? - Dorothy Lamour; Ezio Pinza [panel] (Feb 20, 1955)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ok6QnH5G9O0/mqdefault.jpg)
I like how a joyful face while singing is enough to deliver the message of music. No fidgeting, no unnecessary gesticulation. Just enjoying the vibrations of a perfectly trained voice.
Ezio Pinza era una benedizione... Un vero basso! Che voce, e che eleganza! 💖
This is indeed a rare gem , Pinza is wonderful an amazingly beautiful singer , I should have liked to hear more of Blanche Thebom , divine , beautiful voice and singer .
There is a sense of the Divine when Mr. Pinza sings.
As a deep bass, I can only envy the the oft piannissmo Pinza gets in the upper register that i cannot get, but yet his middle & low are so full and rich.
A bass who can sing piano and pianissimo. Unfortunatly very rare to find, even in the old days
He wasn‘t a Bass,was Bariton....👀
@@apolllumavlis6198 I agree. But my point is still the same for baritons too
@@apolllumavlis6198 No sir, he is a bass indeed. A lyric one, “basso cantante” is the term in Italy.
@@blazkoscaniglia_acting BRAVO! The previous subject in the thread was the rarity of basses who can sing pianissimi, but perhaps equally rare among the ubiquitous vocal "experts" is someone familiar with the term "basso cantante" and possessing an understanding of it. Arci bravo.
@@apolllumavlis6198
Do not tell nonsense!
Pinza had not the high notes to sing baritone parts!
Georg Hann and Giorgio Tozzi were baritones before they changed into the bass region.
Cesare Siepi was also a bass. Even when he could sing high g1.
this is singing! not just gargling low notes. he was an accomplished musician on top of being an incredibly gifted singer. bravo pinza!
Note Pinza's perfect vibrato.
Оччччень ндра... Прекрасный Эцио! Что за прекрасные певцы!
documento semplicemente spettacolare. grazie!!!!!
Beautiful duet. Pinza was a giant talent. Ms. Theborn is a discovery for me and I loved her singing and personality, which was a perfect match for Mr. Pinza.
What a wonderful find.
Che voce, che garbo, che portamento, Ezio Pinza.
Great footage, beautiful voices
WHEN HE SINGS ... ALL MY FIBERS TREMBLE...
how nice to see the great Ezio Pinza for the first time move.
Maravilloso!
I will show this to my students 🥰🎶
AWESOME ........EZIO PINZA IMORTAL..................BRAVVVVIIISSSSIIIMMMMO.
Pinza un grande.y.ella una voz mezzo soprano.fabulosa,voces d AA mates hoy dificil
interesting great singers of the past rehearsal pinza great tone thebom in great caruso with lanza
What a monstrous low D!
D*
@@Tkimba2 Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't too sure (used the supertonic instead the tonic).
La ci darem la mano is a most beautiful duet of seduction . I have seen a number of recordings of this , but none better than Pinza and Thebom , they are vocally perfect and really act their parts , one feels a sense of fun in this seduction that a girl would respond to . Most baritones seen to act as a macho Rue rather forcefully seducing a young girl . In this recording Pinza is really persuasive in his wooing and Thebom really warms to him , lovely .
This is real singing and acting. Not the farce we get today.
Note that Pinza did look at the music on the piano. He was surely better at reading music than he is given credit for being.
Although Thebom (mezzo) and Pinza (low bass) had voices too deep for "La ci darem", which calls for soprano and baritone, both did their parts beautifully. Pinza was positively Mephistophelean as the seducer.
And Pinza's low D at the end of "Le Cor"-fantastic!!
Pinza was a leading Don Giovanni and Figaro. A bass was expected to sing these parts along with heavier material
Well, you might say though, that a mezzo is to a bass as a soprano is to a baritone. So that's probably why it evens out and works well in the end. Lol ha ha
Non è vero che Don Giovanni richiede un baritono, non necessariamente. La parte in acuto non va oltre il mi. Inoltre Mozart ha scritto parti molto più acute, che richiedono espressamente voci baritonali, quindi Don Giovanni può essere tranquillamente cantato da un basso.
Ezio Pinza's French sounds very good.
Murray Aronson:
I admire Ezio Pinza.
But his french was never good.
Even when he's not trying Pinza cannot avoid making incredibly beautiful sounds of a type completely unknown today. Did you notice that Thebom gets the text backwards at the end of the aria?
That was probably on purpose to give herself a better vowel on the low note.
Although ostensibly a basso cantante Pinza had a most sonorous low D (only Siepi, another basso cantante, could come close to matching him & ventured even a tone deeper on some occasions). Still the Pinza sonority was something unique on any level of dynamics, which one hears here.
Sou fã do Ezio.
Muito bom
Pinza's pianomissa parts where devine, so smooth. Thebom's voice matches Pinza's almost exactly. As I listen to her sing, I have two high (4.5 ft) brass tables of her's that I bought at auction two decades ago.
Wow
I always wondered why some people out there think he was a baritone. I never understood why they felt that way.
He is the best bass
@@ariasemusicaslegendadas7657 I wouldn't call him my favorite bass, but he's definitely very good.
ER WAR UND IST DER BESTE BASS ALLER ZEITEN
Sie haben in vielerlei Hinsicht Recht. Doch die Anziehungskraft auf die baritonischen Parts hat ihm einen schlechten Dienst erwiesen, Lauri-Volpi hatte recht. Die Erweiterung des Repertoires durch solche Parts hat sich negativ auf diesen wertvollen Bass ausgewirkt.
Probablemente y a pesar de que en la fecha de grabación no era precisamente un joven cantante , en términos globales creo que gana por goleada a sus colegas rivales.
❤❤❤
What a pity Pinzo went racing ahead with some of these phrases....wonderful voices.
"le Cor" is based on Alfred de Vigny's (romantic French writer) long and famous poem (21 verses in 4. parts of inequal length, inspired by the tragic end of Roland in Roncevaux)there: @t
@t
J'aime le son du Cor, le soir, au fond des bois,
Soit qu'il chante les pleurs de la biche aux abois,
Ou l'adieu du chasseur que l'écho faible accueille,
Et que le vent du nord porte de feuille en feuille.
Que de fois seul dans l'ombre à minuit demeuré,
J'ai souri de l'entendre, et plus souvent pleuré !
Car je croyais ouïr de ces bruits prophétiques
Qui précédaient la mort des Paladins antiques.
Âmes des Chevaliers, revenez-vous encor?
Est-ce vous qui parlez avec la voix du Cor ?
Roncevaux ! Roncevaux ! Dans ta sombre vallée
L'ombre du grand Roland n'est donc pas consolée !
It's also rare video of any women! I only counted one and that was in the audio booth! Even the harpest was a male!
8:32 - "Amour viens aider ma faiblesse"
10:24 - "Là ci darem la mano"
Excellent, thanks so much for sharing! Im trying to learn opera singing. I think im a Baritone. So its nice to not only hear, but see a golden era baritone. I tend to just listen to tenors, which is a mistake for my voice i suspect. I would love to build a golden era voice, well i can dream anyway! Thanks again, Colin.
Colin Bell Well Ezio Pinza was a true bass not a baritone. If you'd like to see a true baritone, Leonard Warren or Lawrence Tibbett are your best bet
Thanks i will check out those two names! Best wishes.
If you are lucky you may be born with such a beautiful voice and certainly good training helps . Edzio Pinza did also sing Baritone roles , as demonstrated in this recording . Other baritones you should hear/see are Tito Gobbi and Ettore Bastianini , Tito Gobbi was an amazingly versatile actor and singer , there is so much to see and hear on youtube . You seem a little uncertain , do you have a good teacher ? Many good tenors started out as baritones , when really with correct training they were tenors , a good teacher should know which voice you have , good luck .
Thanks David, funnily enough i just finished reading Tito Gobbi autobiography, a great read. I cant find a local teacher. So i have been getting occasional online lessons for an expensive treat! Best wishes,COlin.
Michael Trimble gives very good lessons on youtube . I appreciate that he is a tenor , but the basic technique is the same . It is essential to develop a strong diaphragm to support your breathing , enabling an even flow of sound .
Мэтры !
The picture is squashed. You can see that in Thebom's 'figure' and the conductor's ass.
The two years between this and South Pacific were not too kind to Pinza. The cover art for that album shows a much older looking man than in this video, and the voice was not as good. I wonder if his health issues were coming into play.
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i think sometimes you need to make a reaction video abaout umm kulthoum
This has very fine singing but it's hardly a glimpse behind the scenes, I think. The rehearsal stuff is so stagey and the singers have no radio microphone in their performance. I'm guessing this was a promotional short shown in movie theaters?
Notice the orchestra - all white men. Times sure have changed.
I'm just fine with the all- male orchestra if Pinza comes with them.
Yeah because white people were really nice to each other in the 40s
Is that what you comment on, with this glorious singing? Sure, diversity is of the utmost importance, but the reason this was posted was to share this historical document of Pinza and Thebom’s singing.
Soon they will cancel videos/audios with this singing. I won t be impressed.
@Geremia Campolonghi they don t need belcanto. They care only about who is opressing whom.