Video Recording of 01/28/2025 Class
Tenors: Then and Now
LINKS FOR TENORS: THEN AND NOW
Il Volo (sons of the three tenors) in its second decade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFWB0md6rA0 (13:14)
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Tenors (from New York Times)
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/arts/music/five-minutes-tenors-classical-music-opera.html?referringSource=articleShare
Juan Diego Florez and Benjamin Bernheim Reveal the Secrets of the Tenor's Voice
www.euronews.com/culture/2022/12/15/juan-diego-florez-and-benjamin-bernheim-reveal-the-secrets-of-the-tenors-voice (12:00)
ROBERTO ALAGNA
Singing "Vesti la Giubba" ("Put on the costume") from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Nf-HBva-hKM (5:36)
With Angela Gheorghiu Singing the Brindisi from Verdi's La Traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z705kxc8mO8 (4:14)
Singing "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars were shining") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2aZ0C3Cxyk (4:10)
MARCELLO ALVAREZ
Manrico singing "Ah! si ben mio…Di quella pira" ("Ah yes, my love, in being yours") from Verdi's Il trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNXxLG9TU_Q (9:42)
Werther singing "Porquoi me reveiller?" ("Why do you wake me now?") from Massenet's Werther
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UmdfVn7-0k (3:31)
Cavaradossi singing "Recondita armonia" ("What strange and lovely harmony from such different beauties") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfHnbkd4iI (2:16)
PIOTR BECZALA
Singing "Dessun Norma" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.metopera.org/discover/video/?videoName=rigoletto-la-donna-e-mobile-piotr-beczala&videoId=4237125211001 (2:47)
Singing "Vincero" ("I will be victorious") from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-e4bAtsz0 (3:31)
Singing "Lensky's Aria" from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG5zK7GBXwQ (3:35)
Singing "In fernem land" ("In a faraway land") from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1-7nnQeAeg (4:41)
CARLO BERGONZI
Singing "Celeste Aida" and other Verdi arias
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GYlEKlHLsc (14:04)
Singing Franck's "Panis angelicus"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8bkN-brPFE (3:52)
Pollione singing "Norma, 'Me protégé" from Bellini's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ini8RPZs7Hk (9:44)
BENJAMIN BERNHEIM
Lensky singing "Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilito" ("Where, where, where did you go?")from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZEctqrDIU (8:20)
Romeo singing "Ah Leve toi soleil" ("Ah, get up sun, make the stars pale") from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
www.youtube.com/watch?v=umz8Jj7WC3Y (4:40)
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lagrima" ("One small tear") from Donizetti's L'elixir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4Aaua50c4 (4:09)
Werther singing "Porquoi me reveiller, o souffle du printemps?" ("Why do you wake me now?")from Massenet's Werther
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXJ9TM2caCs (3:31)
JUSSI BJORLING
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" ("Nobody sleeps") from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkSVH-lor-c (3:36)
Rodolfo singing "Che gelida menina" "What a frozen little hand") from Puccini's La boheme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_1Ry44K-MM (4:33)
With Robert Merrill, singing "Au fond du temple saint" ("At the back of the holy temple") duet from Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0OdRBr6NnU (4:36)
Singing "Celeste Aida" from Verdi's Aida
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cheBJTQxYU (1:29)
ROCKWELL BLAKE - COLORATURA TENOR
Count Almaviva singing "Cessa di pui resistere" ("Stop resisting") from Rossini's The Barber of Seville
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGCw0jGh6U (7:52)
Delivering Exquisite Trill from Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbyeZs_FF7s (7:07)
Interviews (1986) and mini recital of little-known works
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpPWyTOZEY (55:30)
BEN BLISS
Singing "Maria" from Bernstein's West Side Story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeZKLSCLW3E&list=PLcC1RngKDWz-mmR6VYHEaMW8qu3RchYbQ&index=3 (3:05)
Singing "O Wie Angstlich" from Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYUDPzJCB0&list=PLcC1RngKDWz-mmR6VYHEaMW8qu3RchYbQ&index=2 (3:48)
Singing "As I went down to the river to pray"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0b9V1bF9mk&list=PLcC1RngKDWz-mmR6VYHEaMW8qu3RchYbQ&index=10 (3:36)
LAWRENCE BROWNLEE
Singing "Come by Here"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10y1TRx6u8 (4:17)
Singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rup3Uo9eZcM (4:56)
Singing "Ah mes amis!" from Donizetti's La fille du regiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQjnJqNuU8 (4:05)
DAVID BUTT PHILIP
Singing "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars were shining") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU2BJM_JlZk (3:03)
Performing the Prince's aria from Dvorak's Rusalka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8VA1xcTqZU (0:33)
Performing "The House of Life" from Vaughn Williams's song cycle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY4jpOLTsfk (26:48)
JOSE CARRERAS
Singing "La Donna e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LRo_ZpVIpE (2:16)
The Three Tenors singing "Dessun Norma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi1nTz3nlTc (3:01)
Singing "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars were shining") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_eDI5vPi0Y (2:46)
Jose Carreras in His Own Words
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UFqFFlK4g (24:16)
Jose Carreras: "The Legendary Tenor". Documentary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4eEdSVhmX0 (43:10)
ENRICO CARUSO
The Immortal Caruso: 100 Years After his Death
www.youtube.com/watch?v=axLWiRb0u2c&t=55s (31:30)
The Duke singing "La donna e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xv71g82-54 (2:06)
Cavaradossi singing "Recondita armonia" ("What strange and lovely harmony from such different beauties") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszOaB8qW-w (2:03)
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t936rzOt3Zc (5:50)
CHARLES CASTRONOVO
With Ekaterini Siurini, Alfredo singing "Parigi, o cara" ("Paris, my dear") from Verdi's La Traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNIbokFSGSc (5:18)
With Sonya Yoncheva, singing "O soave fanciulla" ("O gentle maiden") from Puccini's La boheme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5tz_Ng68SQ (4:07)
Jose singing "The Flower Song" from Bizet's Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UBiGasaDY4 (4:31)
FRANCO CORELLI
Manrico singing "Di quella pira" from Verdi's Il Trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIElPNn-l4 (2:07)
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_419NCt3k (3:12)
Singing "Ombra mai fu" from Handel's Xerxes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rm6NNe1KIc (4:09)
Canio singing "Vesti la Giubba" from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_UUS7DqVUQ
"The Best of Franco Corelli"complete CD
https://youtu.be/gp0Bt9JK2Tw?t=69 (3:51)
MARIO DEL MONACO
Otello singing "Dio mi motevi scagliar" ("God, you could have thrown every evil at me") from Verdi's Otello
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9jopGunXY (4:11)
Otello singing "Nion mi tema" ("Would you dare, let no one fear me, though he see my armed") from Verdi's Otello
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PvXjdbdm8 (4:53)
Radames singing "Celeste Aida" from Verdi's Aida
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfDdfavCaOU (4:23)
A Portrait in Music (in Italian)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-_wP-q85Cc (58:51)
FREDDIE DE TOMMASO
Singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME68Jj_DJ3U (3:32)
Singing "Pourquoi me réveiller?" ("Why should I wake up?") from Massenet's Werther
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfRbivF7SEY (3:44)
With Lise Davidsen and Quinn Kelsey singing excerpts from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfyuw1_Oxek (1:23)
Live conversation with Freddie De Tommaso and Jose Simerilla Romero
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvIQ_FXnyBo (58:55)
GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO
"A Tenor Sang" BBC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tal8zNAtFYw (26:47)
Rodolfo singing "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La boheme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi--hI-obQU (4:05)
Last studio recording of duets with Maria Callas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvMYGe7138 (49:12)
Singing 4 High Cs in Gounod's Faust
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFoy9V0rUjE (1:10)
PLACIDO DOMINGO
Singing famous opera arias (1996)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jzOevgNvFQ (1:29:12)
Singing at the 2018 World Cup Gala Concert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oGxRwFSs0M (2:46)
Singing "Esultate!" ("Exult and rejoice!") from Verdi's Otello
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcP3bcebjH4 (1:00)
Singing "La donna e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ2QTfN_7es (1:02)
Singing as a baritone, "Orfanella il tetto" (Boccanegra meets an orphaned woman whose story sounds strangely familiar") duet from Act I of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (with Marina Poplavskaya)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYMuVtGwbI (4:17)
2012 Interview with Bill Boggs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=amb_bSmXBxs (19:32)
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ
Tonio singing "Ah, mes amis" from Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4kzKPUTnw (7:15)
Idreno singing "La Speranza piu soave" ("I crave and implore, only dear, that you love me") from Rossini's Semiramide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0lEvG9WHs (8:39)
Singing Mozart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvbAyLLSU10 (2:30)
Singing "Volver" from album "Besame mucho"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBEYDjbrHaU (3:45)
NICHOLAI GEDDA
Rodolfo singing "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La boheme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLUrcyFcuhY (4:41)
Singing Russian songs and arias
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNxukOzYRY (20:07)
Nicholai Gedda in Memorium (multiple arias)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5BN7ObNlg (28:46)
BENIAMINO GIGLI
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8Lf_SAPIo (3:31)
Singing "M'Appari" from Flotow's Martha and other arias
www.youtube.com/watch?v=98bfcRdmRUM (3:15)
Singing "O sole mio" ("My sunshine")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp29AMc-A7g (2:18)
STEPHEN GOULD
Singing in Wagner's Tannhauser
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFFiruZbNY (8:32)
Reflections on singing in Bayreuth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqh_uYxPsCk (4:31)
Commenting on Siegfried
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZrt9v4dWWM (2:40)
VITTORIO GRIGOLO
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnSmNA8jBI (3:03)
Cavaradossi singing "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars were shining") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPvj-1WHIc (2:37)
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwKRbhz3p8 (3:45)
JERRY HADLEY
Singing "It Must Be So" from Bernstein's Candide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dt1KuYS6eg (2:05)
Remembering Jerry Hadley (Memorial Concert)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqDZlF5zFl8 (15:11)
Nemorino singing "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ectexzzX8Cg (6:01)
1999 Interview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYg3yTsVlAc (41:26)
BEN HEPPNER
Documentary: "Moving Through Music"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEGh2rd4FE (5:31)
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcH54Dd7QX4 (3:07)
Lohengrin singing "In fernem land" ("Far and away, inapproachable to your steps") from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3t4y977wGk (5:51)
CLAY HILLEY
With Irene Theorin, singing in Act II from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5WZUqYIAIc (10:06)
Singing "Falke" from Act II from Strauss's Die frau ohne Schatten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwkX_KbGskU (9:29)
Singing Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IOnG4H-NIE (7:25)
BRIAN JAGDE
Singing "Recondita armonia" ("What strange and lovely harmony of such beauties") from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS0w0OXNBug (2:04)
Singing "Dessun norma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV-Z1KXvEY (3:01)
With Zeljko Lucic singing duet from Verdi's La forza del destino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4PbAzzK1o (2:37)
Talking on The State of the Art (Music Matters with Jason Tramm)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePa-GwcQuM (57:25; start at 4:00)
SIEGFRIED JERUSALEM
Siegmund singing "Winterstuerme" from Wagner's Die Walkure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaubLgByV0 (2:58)
Lohengrin singing "In fernem land" ("Far and away, inapproachable to your steps") from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkG8lM-hmM (5:33)
With Waltraud Meier, Tristan singing "Liebesnacht" from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSGyexK9a-0 (21:23)
Singing Strauss's "Zueignung" (lieder)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3eKS6sGGD8 (1:47)
BRANDON JOVANOVICH
Singing "Meco all'altar di Venere" from Bellini's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=S2wcJzIwNSgFinal&feature=youtu.be (6:51)
Talking on The Opera Kiss that Never Happened
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue3xgNRzOMw (1:35)
Receiving the Richard Tucker Award in 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_HBQ4GBmxQ (3:47)
JONAS KAUFMANN
Passaggio in the tenor voice: Antonio Pappano and Jonas Kaufmann
www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cEasddfC8 (7:13)
Walther singing "Morgenlicht"(Prize Song) from Wagner's Die Meistersinger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=63yxzHgli2A (7:35)
Werther singing "Porquoi me revillier" ("Why should I wake up?") from Masssenet's Werther
With Sophie Koch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKhikZ4oVE (3:10)
Singing in Concert, 2017 (brief examples)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpIcu0pQeLE (1:32)
Review of October 2021 Performance in Houston (Article)
https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/jonas-kaufmann-wakes-up-houston-first-review/
July 2022 Interview with Gero Schleiss
www.dw.com/en/jonas-kaufmann-tenor-supreme/av-55745943 (26:06)
ALFREDO KRAUS
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87TW-7B_S4 (5:27)
The Duke singing "La donna e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Gd2EIt2Vg (2:09)
Werther singing in Massenet's Werther
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-teWQiJSdg (57:32)
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ciBrTvR1fw (2:56)
GARY LAKES
With Susan Dunn and Dolora Zajick, singing in Verdi's Aida
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4aOZm5ohA8 (17:50)
Singing in Wagner's Die Walkure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIh4HDpZcCo (31:05)
Singing Grand Duet from Berlioz's Les Troyens with Kathryn Harries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3PDSBByy-w (10:55)
MARIO LANZA
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccii's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZ2XA84MPI (3:16)
Singing "Vesti La Giubba" ("Put on the costume") from Act I of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRhmogBs-gU (2:59)
Singing "Granada"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWXNSlZU0Us (3:09)
Singing "Be My Love" (his first Gold record)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_D9zqyphw (3:30)
FRANK LOPARDO
Rodolfo singing "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La boheme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AVa8fPjf10 (4:35)
Tonio singing "Ah mes amis" from Rossini's La fille du regiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08WTMnQ8zj0 (2:34)
Singing from Verdi's Requiem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHXxaMFHXHE (3:20)
Singing from Verdi's "Requiem" with Rene Pape
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPRNlYGsOXk (7:59)
GIOVANNI MARTINELLI
Eleazar singing "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" (" Rachel, when the Lord..")from Halevy's La Juive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIn9mMA9dmw (4:12)
Radames singing "Celeste Aida" from Verdi's Aida
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGLvZuV51M (5:00)
The Duke singing "Questa o quello" ("This woman or that") from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ixy7i0IXc (2:10)
LAURITZ MELCHIOR
Walther singing "Morgenlicht" (Prize Song) from Wagner's Die Meistersinger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqnATSWX6I (4:24)
Lohengrin singing "In fernem land" from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpcMsMhcqTk (4:33)
Singing "d"hardelot" ("Because")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4idZnNalLM (2:07)
Appearing on stage with Victor Borge singing "Come Back to Sorrento"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ILp1vI70c (3:56)
With Kirsten Flagstad, singing the "Love Duet" from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3o0qV6TiA (9:30)
CHRIS MERRITT
Singing Rossini's Stabat Mater
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jotEsqmjQE (5:43)
Singing cabaletta in Rossini's Zelmira
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZaE4yY4yc (3:14)
Link to article on desperate financial status
https://slippedisc.com/2015/04/an-international-us-tenor-appeals-for-funds-to-continue-his-career/
STANFORD OLSEN
Arsace singing "Ah, dov'e" ("Oh, where is it? Where is the challenge?") from Rossini's Semiramide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WEJV14lCgo (8:25)
Singing "The Holy City" with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAc3krFyQA (5:38)
Singing "Ich Baue Ganz" ("Love, only love, can now direct me") from Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61Z9ln_uqI (6:15)
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs (3:15)
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrh5oiy5kR8 (6:12)
Rodolfo singing "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La boheme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXC43BFEULE (6:11)
The Duke singing "La donna e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM (2:50)
60 Minutes Interview (1993)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J7yxY8RcR0 (8:46)
PETER PEARS
Singing Britten's "What Harbor Shelters Peace?" from Britten's Peter Grimes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwAJ9YEdo7A (1:11)
Singing in Act III, Scene 2 from Britten's Peter Grimes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVNAYikjbE (7:57)
Singing Schubert's "Auf der Bruck" ("On the bridge")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dBFY30kdY (3:29)
Singing Five Haydn Songs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVpYsew-XU (16:23)
JAN PEERCE
Singing "The Bluebird of Happiness" (best known recording and title of autobiography)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GLpGjhr0Xo (4:20)
Singing "Avenu malkenu"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5x5UuIFjE (3:01)
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0w-1FnHOE (2:57)
With Roberta Peters, singing from Fiddler on the Roof
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiu5KYKiy0M (10:59)
MATTHEW POLENZANI
Singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elixir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbpEZtIDV6I (1:37)
Singing "Danny Boy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2w435yVq0 (4:00)
Lincoln Center Spotlight on Matthew Polenzani
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxYgiW-_FPU (3:06)
Don Jose singing the Flower Song, "La fleur que tu m'avais jetee" ("In my prison I stayed, withered and dry, this flower always kept its sweet odor") from Bizet's Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAg0K-tLuw (3:53)
Alfredo singing "O mio remorso!" ("Oh my remorse, oh disgrace") from Verdi's La traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WBRMI43060 (2:08)
TITO SCHIPA
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_3-NIgePA (2:36)
Singing "Ecco ridente" ("Here, laughing in heaven, emerges the beautiful dawn") from Rossini's The Barber of Seville
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcaIDQfE_O0 (5:07)
Cavaradossi singing "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD6tQ6wpqkA (2:45)
JOSEPH SCHMIDT
Singing "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUq85plaVE (2:49)
Singing "Di Quella Pira" ("The flames of that terribly pyre") from Verdi's Il Trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGrHJlRnF-M (2:16)
"A Tenor Sang" BBC Program
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-LdwKY66vo (27:47)
PETER SCHREIER
Singing "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEmWwb_BL5s (4:08)
Singing Schubert's "Standchen"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyJrcFZ0ZE (3:13)
Singing "Gute Nacht" from Schubert's Winterreise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDoUoL68-8 (1:11:55)
NEIL SHICOFF
Eleazar singing "Rachel! Quand du seigneur"from Halevy's La Juive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrr0WJnL-GQ (9:37)
Werther singing "Porquoi Me Reveiller" from Massenet's Werther
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E796TC0F_c (2:52)
MICHAEL SPYRES
Speaking on "What is a baritenor"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AulhnpSYrwo (3:56)
Singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ1Zo8hluNI (3:52)
Singing "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs (5:04)
FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI
The Duke singing "La donne e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Qs_q-bD-g (8:31)
Nemorino singing "Una furtiva lacrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbXAgLNc8g (4:27)
Singing Schubert's "Ave Maria"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJaPAJWUgY (2:22)
RICHARD TAUBER
Singing Schubert's "Serenade"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVrbz_oJ3g (3:08)
Don Ottavio singing "Il mio tesore" from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyFFEs-XfQ4 (4:10)
JESS THOMAS
Parsifal singing "Nur eine Waffe taugt" from Wagner's Parsifal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJx2BlYhZfQ (4:05)
Walther singing the "Prize Song" from Wagner's Die Meistersinger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15eAK_pwOQ (3:50)
Lohengrin singing "In fernem land" from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_5nB9U0N28 (6:13)
Interview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOB-096JA4 (52:19)
RUSSELL THOMAS
Manrico singing "Di Quella Pira" from Verdi's Il Trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FOwKlLlyb8 (2:01)
Singing Act 2 Cavatina from Gounod's Faust
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDlQaq-KJ9M (2:50)
Pollione singing "Alt'altar di Venere" from Bellni's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbo0P1-j4WA (8:31)
Cavaradossi singing "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h0CiaYEj2A (3:26)
Tenor Russell Thomas in Conversation with Michigan Opera Theatre's Arthur White
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6i-SFlTMNc (21:43)
RICHARD TUCKER
Calaf singing "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGKTKaddM5s (2:59)
Singing selections from Leoncavalli's Pagliacci on the Ed Sullivan Show
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5MPHbMtTbQ (4:29)
Singing "Kol Nidre"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu45D-5E0ZA (7:36)
JON VICKERS
Don Jose singing "La fleur que tu m'avais jetee" (Flower Song) from Bizet's Carmen –slowly, the way the composer intended it to be sung
www.youtube.com/watch?v=itB1UlPFln4 (4:35)
Florestan singing "In des Lebens" from Beethoven's Fidelio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXyZJO-0hmM (4:36)
Peter Grimes singing in Act III, Scene 2 of Britten's opera
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWT0jsCbl28 (7:32)
Siegmund singing "Wintersturme" from Wagner's Die Walkure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtZpYnpbKQ (3:01)
Cavaradossi singing "Recondita armonia" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq8gJXZm9Xw (2:45)
Otello singing "Dio mi motevi scagvliar" from Verdi's Otello
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPJv2qZZjCY (5:29)
Compilation of excerpts from different operas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdbpj6OQZR0 (1:00:44)
ROLANDO VILLAZON
Jose singing "La fleur que tu m'arais jetee" from Bizet's Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnkAi9PlO0 (4:42)
Bravo. A Collection of the Tenor's Greatest Arias
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekhbhnrbrpw (5:16)
Singing "Serenata Latina"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebw4mrpr_jM (4:51)
With Anna Netrebko, singing "Va! Je t'ai pardonne!...Nuit d'hymenee" from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrQ2dIr7ATk (13:21)
KLAUS FLORIAN VOGT
Singing "In fernem land" from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_bBB7utvm8 (5:41)
Singing "Morgenlich leuchtend" from Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3cNPmnql1E (4:33)
Singing Florestan's aria from Beethoven's Fidelio (negatively received)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqrYfmyKuX8 (2:35)
FRITZ WUNDERLICH
Don Giovanni singing "Il mio tesoro" from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bAJx7HYVg (5:19)
Singing four songs by Schubert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKza9KxrcwY (10:01)
The Divine Art of Fritz Wunderlich with Hermann Prey (from Rossini's The Barber of Seville sung in German)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNqDzPMglXU (8:29)
The Life of Fritz Wunderlich
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNV52d4M8nU (3:39)
Questions and Additional Information
Please reach out to Instructor Margie Satinsky with questions and requests for additional information. Contact information is: (919) 383-5998 (home/work), or (919) 812-2235 (cell/text), or margiesatinsky@icloud.com.