"Il balen del suo sorriso" aria from Il trovatore by Verdi | Lucas Meachem

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  • Опубліковано 18 гру 2024

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  • @alanbriones1487
    @alanbriones1487 10 місяців тому +2

    I’ve no joke been looking forward to hearing you in this piece for years. It’s every bit as great as I anticipated it would be! I hope we’ll get to hear it in NY sometime.

  • @davidhansel4198
    @davidhansel4198 10 місяців тому +16

    Such a beautiful voice with excellent legato and sensitive phrasing - and none of the wobble or "noisy" vibrato so often heard in contemporary singers of this repertoire. Bravo, Mr. Meachem!

    • @LucasMeachem1
      @LucasMeachem1  10 місяців тому +4

      thank you - the legato is so demanding. My breath support is fully kicked in for every note.

    • @emailvonsour
      @emailvonsour 9 місяців тому +1

      The vibrato is indeed wobbly.

    • @Michael-mh4vr
      @Michael-mh4vr 7 місяців тому +2

      Nice to hear a lyric baritone not trying to sound like Warren and swallowing his sound. Did anyone ever try to talk you into changing to heldentenor?

    • @kennethwayne6857
      @kennethwayne6857 7 місяців тому

      @@Michael-mh4vr Virtually every light lyric baritone has been subjected to that at some point.

    • @moishemillerr
      @moishemillerr 5 місяців тому

      @@Michael-mh4vrWarren didn’t swallow his tone!

  • @heart_of_a_Celt
    @heart_of_a_Celt 6 місяців тому +1

    A real inspiration, so glad I found this channel, my son wants to be an Opera singer since the age since he was baby practically. He is 16 and he loves your warm up exercise. His ambition is to try and get into Royal Irish Academy of Music. Thanks so much for sharing your gift with us and this great channel.

  • @mariusnine3548
    @mariusnine3548 10 місяців тому +4

    Perfect time in life for Verdi ! Bravissimo maestro !

    • @LucasMeachem1
      @LucasMeachem1  10 місяців тому +1

      thanks Marius! Verdi is amazing

  • @FelixElkehag
    @FelixElkehag 10 місяців тому +3

    Stunning, elegant performance.🎶 Bravo!!!

  • @somerandomguy84
    @somerandomguy84 4 місяці тому +1

    I would argue that no matter how big your voice is, you cannot sing the heavy stuff without a serious commitment to legato, as Mr. Meachem demonstrates wonderfully here. Bravo!

  • @vasastajkic-baritone
    @vasastajkic-baritone 9 місяців тому +2

    Bravo Lucas! This aria is hell and back and you did it so effective and effortless. Last passagio is amazing and i thought that you will cover it before Ah la tempesta, but your sound is amazing! I'm so happy that we can hear all of your skill in this demanding aria!
    In bocca al lupo!

    • @LucasMeachem1
      @LucasMeachem1  9 місяців тому

      That means a lot to me. That’s exactly how I feel. All my forces to bear in ONE aria 😳🥵

  • @darriusmorton6590
    @darriusmorton6590 10 місяців тому +7

    Lucas I sang with you at Minnesota Opera in a production of Thäis as a young Cenobite! It was a pleasure hearing you live during those rehearsals/performances, and it is an honor to have shared the stage with you. Congrats on Di Luna, it sounds incredible. Wishing you nothing but health, success, longevity and joy during these wonderful moments of your career. Thank you for the inspiration today, sir!

    • @LucasMeachem1
      @LucasMeachem1  9 місяців тому +4

      Darrius, thank you so much. I remember having a great time and your Cenobite was excellent. Wishing you the same - missing Minnesota these days.

  • @jameslee2943
    @jameslee2943 10 місяців тому +1

    Wow! Gorgeous performance, thanks so much for sharing.

  • @andyjeffrey9590
    @andyjeffrey9590 10 місяців тому +2

    I wish I could hear you sing Verdi live! This is sooooo good!

  • @asavarrette9757
    @asavarrette9757 7 місяців тому +1

    Great tonality. Crystal clear. Amazing technique too!

  • @mjbrookstenor89
    @mjbrookstenor89 10 місяців тому +1

    My friend Robert Watson frequently raves about you. It’s certainly easy to see why. Great legato, real vowels, and ringing high notes. Bravo.

  • @johnboulanger5201
    @johnboulanger5201 9 місяців тому +4

    Bravo! So elegantly sung, with a perfect balance of tenderness and underlying power. As a baritone (with a few years on you) I can appreciate what you said about the journey to a role like this. It is a privilege to watch you on that journey, especially as you share the experience through your wonderful videos.

  • @Joe-ry7ih
    @Joe-ry7ih 9 місяців тому +1

    Wow! Your sound has such an amazing bite but also such depth - as a young baritone I am super jealous in the best way possible! Haha!

  • @jonathanholley3407
    @jonathanholley3407 6 місяців тому

    Who needs visuals with beautiful singing like that? Thank you for sharing it.

  • @zacharymendenhall
    @zacharymendenhall 9 місяців тому

    I'm in awe, this is so good

  • @JackJohnsonNY
    @JackJohnsonNY 9 місяців тому +2

    Such elegant singing.

  • @falkfink
    @falkfink 10 місяців тому +2

    That legato is just great

  • @thehound6126
    @thehound6126 10 місяців тому +1

    Do you know Thomas Studebaker? He is a fantastic Heldentenor and my voice teacher who also studied with Marlena Malas.

    • @kennethwayne6857
      @kennethwayne6857 7 місяців тому

      I knew him. A former baritone. I heard him sing Ruiz in this opera at the Met. It's been ages.

  • @smurf902
    @smurf902 5 місяців тому

    This is fabulous. Really and truly. I actually thought I'd given up on baritones and bass-baritones, looking for a beautiful tone that's handled with musicality. Usually you hear just a big wobble of big, pushed sound. This is the complete opposite: musicality, gorgeous open tone, and completely in-tune.

  • @et_baritone
    @et_baritone 10 місяців тому +3

    Exquisite top to bottom 🤩🔥

  • @ДмитрийЧернов-я3щ
    @ДмитрийЧернов-я3щ 9 місяців тому

    Лукас, поздравляю!!! Эта партия - мечта любого баритона! Очень сложная и красивая. Поздравляю!

  • @will8026
    @will8026 6 місяців тому

    WOW what an awesome performance Lucas! Thanks for sharing it! Question: Everywhere in the past 24 hrs I'm seeing the term "tilting the larynx" for some weird reason. That term isn't used in professional circles is it? It's one of those popular words like "icon" that suddenly everyone is using for no reason, right? Please tell me I'm right on this one : )

    • @depressedlarynx
      @depressedlarynx Місяць тому

      People say things like 'tilting the larynx", "covering", "vowel modification", "turning over the sound", etc to refer to a male voice moving through the passaggio. Generally speaking they are just different ways of describing the same action/sound.

  • @ubaldosagripanti9324
    @ubaldosagripanti9324 9 місяців тому +1

    Bravo! a wonderfull perfomance: perhaps "il balen del suo sorriso" is the most difficult aria for baritone in italian opera...

  • @tristantristan8432
    @tristantristan8432 9 місяців тому +1

    Bravo. Excellent musical interpretation, and vocally very well done. I don't know if opening the voice up so much prior to the last high G at the end is necessarily correct vocally, I understand it is a difficult section in the aria and you are also looking to end the aria with "fireworks" but too much of this could be hard on the voice in the long run. Once again though - Bravo!

  • @daipod3148
    @daipod3148 10 місяців тому

    how old is this recording? looks abit ... ::P

  • @Konttis
    @Konttis 9 місяців тому

    Mahtava ääni ja esiintymien ❤😊

  • @brunofaessler361
    @brunofaessler361 5 місяців тому

    Verdi composed for singers. Your are most of the time left alone with marginal support by the orchestra.. It's a high risk but a huge opportunity too. You used the space, he gave you, very well!

  • @ahmedelshimyclassicdramati1089
    @ahmedelshimyclassicdramati1089 2 місяці тому

    You can be a tenor

  • @Fortissimo76
    @Fortissimo76 Місяць тому

    Hvostovsky sang it better!!