"Il balen del suo sorriso" aria from Il trovatore by Verdi | Lucas Meachem
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2024
- The visual is TERRIBLE. But I can't express how long this journey has been to get to this pivotal baritone role, the proof in this video representing my current product means a lot to me personally. I'm thankful to my friend for capturing this from our final dress rehearsal here in Bologna. My apologies it serves nothing visually.
Bringing Conte di Luna to this most particular and knowledgeable opera audience, in the home of Verdi and Puccini of the Tuscan region, humbles me and grounds me in this music. Grazie!!!
Conductor: Renato Palumbo
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.
Who needs visuals with beautiful singing like that? Thank you for sharing it.
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.
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!
thank you - the legato is so demanding. My breath support is fully kicked in for every note.
The vibrato is indeed wobbly.
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?
@@Michael-mh4vr Virtually every light lyric baritone has been subjected to that at some point.
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!
Darrius, thank you so much. I remember having a great time and your Cenobite was excellent. Wishing you the same - missing Minnesota these days.
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.
Stunning, elegant performance.🎶 Bravo!!!
Wow! Gorgeous performance, thanks so much for sharing.
Perfect time in life for Verdi ! Bravissimo maestro !
thanks Marius! Verdi is amazing
Great tonality. Crystal clear. Amazing technique too!
I'm in awe, this is so good
My friend Robert Watson frequently raves about you. It’s certainly easy to see why. Great legato, real vowels, and ringing high notes. Bravo.
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!
That means a lot to me. That’s exactly how I feel. All my forces to bear in ONE aria 😳🥵
I wish I could hear you sing Verdi live! This is sooooo good!
Come to Palm Beach Opera or Miami!
Such elegant singing.
Exquisite top to bottom 🤩🔥
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!
That legato is just great
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 : )
Лукас, поздравляю!!! Эта партия - мечта любого баритона! Очень сложная и красивая. Поздравляю!
Do you know Thomas Studebaker? He is a fantastic Heldentenor and my voice teacher who also studied with Marlena Malas.
I knew him. A former baritone. I heard him sing Ruiz in this opera at the Met. It's been ages.
Bravo! a wonderfull perfomance: perhaps "il balen del suo sorriso" is the most difficult aria for baritone in italian opera...
True
"Voce caprina?"
Mahtava ääni ja esiintymien ❤😊
how old is this recording? looks abit ... ::P
Last week
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!
Why do so many male voices today (modern technique??) "sound in the chest, dark?? and the mask where the voice is projected???
Poor production value.