Tito Schipa sings 4 Neapolitan songs: O' Marinariello, Come facette mammata and plus...
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Tito Schipa (27 December 1888 -- 16 December 1965) was an Italian tenor. He is considered one of the finest tenore di grazia in operatic history. He was endowed with a natural, sensuous voice which he deployed with great intelligence and taste.
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Schipa was born Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa in Lecce; his birthday was recorded as January 2, 1889 for military conscription purposes. [1] He studied in Milan and made his operatic debut at age 21 in 1910 at Vercelli. He subsequently appeared throughout Italy and in Buenos Aires in Argentina. In 1917, he created the role of Ruggiero in Puccini's La rondine.
In 1919, Schipa travelled to the United States, joining the Chicago Opera Company. He remained with the Chicago company until 1932, whereupon he appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1932 to 1935, and again in 1941. He also sang at the San Francisco Opera, beginning in 1924.
From 1929 to 1949 he performed regularly in Italy, including at La Scala, Milan and the Rome Opera. He returned to Buenos Aires to sing in 1954. In 1957, he toured the USSR but, oddly, never appeared in opera in England.
Schipa's artistry is preserved on film. For example, in 1929 he appeared in a Vitaphone movie short, singing "M'appari tutt'amor" from Flotow's opera Martha.
Schipa's stage repertoire, which in his early career had encompassed a wide range of Verdi and Puccini roles, eventually contracted to about 20 congenial Italian and French operatic roles, including Massenet's Werther, Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Cilea's L'Arlesiana. In concert, Schipa performed a preferred array of lyrical operatic arias and songs, including Neapolitan and Spanish popular songs. He delivered each of them with an infectious spirit and a refined sense of style.
Schipa made numerous audio recordings of arias and songs during his career, beginning in Italy in 1913. His recorded output included a famous 78-rpm set of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, made in 1932. This was one of the earliest complete opera recordings and it is still in circulation on CD.
Like his contemporary Richard Tauber, Tito Schipa was an early exponent of that rare breed of tenor who also conducts. (Latterly, Plácido Domingo carries on that tradition.) Although some contemporary critics considered Schipa's voice to be small in size, restricted in range and slightly husky in timbre, he was still capable of provoking intense public outpourings of support among his legion of fans. These fans were enthralled by Schipa's superior musicianship, as well as by his winning personality and his ability to breathe life into even the most trite song or hackneyed aria. Michael Scott (Record of Singing: 1978) whilst admiring Schipa's charm and taste point out that it is not correct to say that Schipa was a master of bel canto; indeed Scott and others regard Schipa's recording of Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni as one of the worst ever made, with sloppy runs and sketchy ornamentation. To be fair Schipa himself did not claim to be an exponent of the bel canto style.
Schipa retired from the operatic stage in 1958, (although he undertook concert engagements until 1962,) to teach voice, firstly in Budapest. He died from diabetes in 1965 at the age of 77 in New York City, while teaching there.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.
I think it was Schips s son that said my father didn’t have the most powerful voice but he had one of the most beautiful voices.!what an inspiration an extremely gifted Italian going around the World and singing like that from young days to Old Age w such a voice that transcends time. Where are any young people like that ?
Talked to an old man who heard Schipa I'm Mefistofele at the Arena di Verona. He said he dominated ensembles. It carried like crazy. Never a problem hearing him. Light doesn't mean small. Alfred Kraus and Klaus Florian Vogt have that same projection. They have that singers format. The perfect frequency.
@@jefolson6989 You are correct. Resonance and projection are just as important,if not more important, than just sheer power. For me, there is nothing more pleasing to the ear than the voices of great lyric tenors such Gigli and Schipa.
@@CraigFrancisSoto I agree. And I've heard many "big" voices that just go nowhere in a large opera house. Alfredo Kraus! Carried for MILES.
Indeed! Where are they?
@@jefolson6989 Tito's squillo was so exquisite and nearly perfect! That was why his voice carried easily to the back of the audience
l'unico, dopo caruso, tenore che poteva permettersi di cantare le canzoni napoletane e anche in un ottimo rispetto della LINGUA napoletana.
Che dire......emozione pura!insieme a Caruso,di Stefano,del monaco,corelli,il massimo.
Dio sia benedetto per averci dato ascoltare questa voce!; uno dei pochissimi tenori di sempre in grado di emergere anche in questo repertorio!
What superb enunciation! I don't speak Italian but I can clearly hear every single word!
Śliczne, smutne, urzekające melodie podobne do stanu mojej duszy🌷🌼🌺🥀🌹🏵💮💐
O Marina Riello da piccola la cantavo con. Mia madre fortissima. Emozione
Toda la musica hace bien al corazon alma espiritu .Por eso me gusta hace muy bien.Yo asi lo siento...
for me the most beautiful version of this great song
i so agree with you .beautiful
The great tenor love by God and Angels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Magnifico Tito Scipa arberesh ...
One of my favourites from Tito Schipa's recorded output is the first item here. - John Austin, Australia
Que bella época de voces excepcionales y de música que cubre el alma.Patricio Mesa.de chile
voce melodica poetica nella sua composizione
When I listen to Schipa like this,the only word that comes into my mind is EXQUISITE.
Me Too Friend!!
YES!
poetry in motion
Beautiful Neapolitan songs and voice. Thank you.
Grazie per averlo condiviso 💥☀️
아름다워요
Muitas canções que ele canta foram músicas de uma belíssima novela brasileira sobre a saga dos imigrantes italianos no Brasil, particularmente São Paulo, e o sul do Brasil.
el mas grande de todos los tenores del mondo
Beautiful ! Thank you for posting !
gracias a Tito schipa los tenores aprendieron a administrar mejor la voz..entre otros el Dr Ortiz Tirado,Juan Arvizu, Néstor Mesta Chaires, Genaro Salinas y otros tantos..sin embargo nunca le dieron el mérito acumulado..un gran recuerdo para este notable tenor napolitano.
tito schipa me abrió las puertas a la bella música italiana
Molto bene!
As good as it ever got in tenor sung opera. TY Dobrib for sending and Cesaare for posting.
Very nice!!! Thanks!!!!
This was my father’s favorite
Senza dubbio, il più grande !
Minha mãe 2019 95 anos. Portuguesa, imigrou com seus pais para São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Havia muitos italianos e trabalhou em casa de família italiana e disso lembra -se desse cantor Italiano e muitos outros.
Molto bene, io abitana Olanda.
O - Hell ya ! From 8:00 on * O Surdato innamurato Califano !
great song and Tito does it very well
superb!
Thank you for posting.
FAVOLOSO TITO SCHIPA!
My grandfather...
El mas grande entre todos los grandes de su epoca¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Tito Schipa o Rouxinol de Deus!!!!!!
❤❤
Excelente!!!!
I lived. Vicious.
Una voz pequeña pero con buena proyección, rango limitado (no llegaba al C5 mal llamado do de pecho).
Un tenor que no pueda con los grandes roles verdianos y puccinianos, lamentablemente no llega muy lejos.
Dicción exquisita sin duda y un timbre excepcional más o menos hasta el A4, de ahí hacia B4 la voz perdía un poco de calidad.
Sus detractores, que los tuvo, decían que viajaba siempre con una maleta llena de partituras transportadas para que le acomodaran a su rango.
fabulos
That's it I'm moving to napli
IO. Ricardo. QUESTE. Canzoni. Da. Qua ndo. Ero. A. Teenager. Anna. Scripa
Потрясающеڰۣ✿Браво...Браво:)
Лариса Шатихина 2
Je préfère Carlo buti
UNA VOZ EXQUISITA