His recordings were my introduction to the opera world which is a blessing and a curse, as no one else I've heard can perform these amazing arias with as much theatricality. (If I'm wrong, UA-cam world, please let me know who else out there compares to RV; I'm eager to hear them.)
I think you'll search far and wide and not find anyone even close to Rolando. All the more the case because not even Rolando can perform the way he once did.
After the operation, he could sing again - and beautifully -, because he sings with so much feeling and abandon, but I think I agree with you, Paul, that not even he himself can perform the way he once did!! God gave him the most exceptional talent since Mario Lanza. (This is now only my opinion!!) Greetings, Cora xxx
@@corarossouw6580 Have you listened to Jonas Kaufmann? His is a different style, but just as great and enjoyable. I do wish we would be able to hear Rolando again.
available---not as much as the met would like. Rolando however stands apart from every other tenor of this generation IMHO. I lament his early departure from Opera proper but treasure what he gave.
Rolando WILL go on but never at the same level he had once achieved. The MET will NEVER go out on that same limb and count on him for 3 major performances in a season---one created especially for him. Netrebko won't look adoringly at his superior talent in wonderment. Just the way it is and I still do lament his early departure from the Position I SO wanted him to have--not only because I thought his talent warranted it, but we NEEDED him on the World Opera Stages. Juan Diego Forez is, IMHO, an absolutely supurb Tennor. He also shares some of the credit for shifting me RESOLUTLY on the Sopranoes, for the first 30 years of my Love of Opera and NOW over to a long overdue appreciation of male opera singers. Luis, Di Stefano was a WONDERFUL tenor. He and Callas were at one time nearly perfectly matched in terms of temperment--perhaps NOT talent. Guiseppe said it as well as anyone. He said, "The first time I heard Maria sing I was nearly dumbstruck. I thought, "This is a woman who sings like a man---by which I mean, with the Passion of a man". Yes it's an arguably sexist statement but it has to be filtered through it's period in time and it WAS the ultimate compliment De Steffanio could pay the woman he absolutely regarded as the greatest soprano of the 20th Century. He himself did not think he completely matched her stature but he was an ideal tenor to pair with her for much of her career--Just as Tito Gobbi was an ideal, Barratone--Visconti an ideal stage director, followed by Zepherelli---Tulio Serafin an Idea mentor Conductor. Angel/EMI the ideal recording studio for her. She worked with THE best. But she was simply the best. Onasi was an f'ing disaster. Meneghini was loyal to her and probably overall very supportive and helpful. But he was much older and again Guiseppe is spot on when he says, "Callas was a WOMAN. A woman with a voice, NOT a voice with a woman". She wanted love and romance and all the things most of us do, she just made a hopelessly disasterous choice. I say in my first comment to this video that ONLY Callas as Lucia is a match for Rolando as Edguardo--when he could sing the way he does here. That is the highest compliment I can pay him. It remains my final answer! :-)
I suppose--in the same sense that Calla had a short but brilliant carrier. Would I have preferred that he held back---not a chance. This is one of the JEWELS in all recorded opera. I here one or two areas of "strain" but more by far I hear a singer completely IN Character and breathing life, meaning and heart into every single note and vocal expression. I would not trade Maria Calla for a thousand Joan Sutherlands--do disrespect. We sill have Juan Diego though he doesn't make himself 100%
Regrettably not to be. Rolando "lost" his voice. Do I wish he hadn't--YES absolutely. I had Front Row Center Orchestra seats for the Year he was to be FEATURED at the met. A Lucia, L'elisir and especially a Tales of Hoffman done FOR him. He had throat surgery and made a single appearance. The MET will NEVER go out on that limb again. Many say his singing--in the style on display here lead to his premature vocal demise.
I do like Rolando´s performance but he´s still a little bit down compared to Giuseppe Di Stefano´s interpretation. Search for his live performance 1955 with Callas, Panerai and Karajan´s direction. He is superb, simply the best.
Spectacular, Wonderful,Magnifico,Encantador!!!! His voice give me emotions never felt with any other tenor. Rolando keep on going. I love you
Grande interpretazione, piena di pathos e disperazione. Voce qui ancora possente con acuti squillanti e disinvolti. 🎵🌹🌹
Excelente interpretación. Gracias.
MARAVILLOSO ROLANDO VILLAZON 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 BRAVO!!!!
Умопомрачительно красивый голос ! БРАВО МАЭСТРО РОЛАНДО !!!!
First note of this aria and I forget to breathe. It goes straight to the heart.
magnifique Rolando nous manque
D'Accord
chanteur et acteur toujours aussi unique
Excelente!!!!
Rolando is weeral alles van hemzelf. gewoon prachtig!
His recordings were my introduction to the opera world which is a blessing and a curse, as no one else I've heard can perform these amazing arias with as much theatricality. (If I'm wrong, UA-cam world, please let me know who else out there compares to RV; I'm eager to hear them.)
+Casey Cronan No-one.... xxx
I think you'll search far and wide and not find anyone even close to Rolando. All the more the case because not even Rolando can perform the way he once did.
After the operation, he could sing again - and beautifully -, because he sings with so much feeling and abandon, but I think I agree with you, Paul, that not even he himself can perform the way he once did!! God gave him the most exceptional talent since Mario Lanza. (This is now only my opinion!!) Greetings, Cora xxx
@@corarossouw6580
Have you listened to Jonas Kaufmann? His is a different style, but just as great and enjoyable. I do wish we would be able to hear Rolando again.
You are so so so right. Blessings and curse because NO ONE can compare to him. He has ruined all the tenors for me :D.
don't be discouraged, he's back in outstanding form.
maravilhoso
available---not as much as the met would like. Rolando however stands apart from every other tenor of this generation IMHO. I lament his early departure from Opera proper but treasure what he gave.
Uffff!!!
Rolando WILL go on but never at the same level he had once achieved. The MET will NEVER go out on that same limb and count on him for 3 major performances in a season---one created especially for him. Netrebko won't look adoringly at his superior talent in wonderment. Just the way it is and I still do lament his early departure from the Position I SO wanted him to have--not only because I thought his talent warranted it, but we NEEDED him on the World Opera Stages.
Juan Diego Forez is, IMHO, an absolutely supurb Tennor. He also shares some of the credit for shifting me RESOLUTLY on the Sopranoes, for the first 30 years of my Love of Opera and NOW over to a long overdue appreciation of male opera singers.
Luis,
Di Stefano was a WONDERFUL tenor. He and Callas were at one time nearly perfectly matched in terms of temperment--perhaps NOT talent. Guiseppe said it as well as anyone. He said, "The first time I heard Maria sing I was nearly dumbstruck. I thought, "This is a woman who sings like a man---by which I mean, with the Passion of a man". Yes it's an arguably sexist statement but it has to be filtered through it's period in time and it WAS the ultimate compliment De Steffanio could pay the woman he absolutely regarded as the greatest soprano of the 20th Century. He himself did not think he completely matched her stature but he was an ideal tenor to pair with her for much of her career--Just as Tito Gobbi was an ideal, Barratone--Visconti an ideal stage director, followed by Zepherelli---Tulio Serafin an Idea mentor Conductor. Angel/EMI the ideal recording studio for her. She worked with THE best. But she was simply the best. Onasi was an f'ing disaster. Meneghini was loyal to her and probably overall very supportive and helpful.
But he was much older and again Guiseppe is spot on when he says, "Callas was a WOMAN. A woman with a voice, NOT a voice with a woman". She wanted love and romance and all the things most of us do, she just made a hopelessly disasterous choice.
I say in my first comment to this video that ONLY Callas as Lucia is a match for Rolando as Edguardo--when he could sing the way he does here. That is the highest compliment I can pay him. It remains my final answer! :-)
I suppose--in the same sense that Calla had a short but brilliant carrier. Would I have preferred that he held back---not a chance. This is one of the JEWELS in all recorded opera. I here one or two areas of "strain" but more by far I hear a singer completely IN Character and breathing life, meaning and heart into every single note and vocal expression. I would not trade Maria Calla for a thousand Joan Sutherlands--do disrespect. We sill have Juan Diego though he doesn't make himself 100%
Regrettably not to be. Rolando "lost" his voice. Do I wish he hadn't--YES absolutely. I had Front Row Center Orchestra seats for the Year he was to be FEATURED at the met. A Lucia, L'elisir and especially a Tales of Hoffman done FOR him. He had throat surgery and made a single appearance. The MET will NEVER go out on that limb again. Many say his singing--in the style on display here lead to his premature vocal demise.
made NOT a single appearance I meant to type.
It doesn't have to be a choice, I believe he could maintain this energy with better technique, why does that have to be a dilemma?
I do like
Rolando´s performance but he´s still a little bit down compared to Giuseppe Di
Stefano´s interpretation. Search for his live performance 1955 with Callas,
Panerai and Karajan´s direction. He is
superb, simply the best.
Monstruoso...