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2016/05/08

The 3 Best Movies of Italo Tajo

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(1) Udite, udite, o rustici (L'elisir d'amore)

Film, 1946

(2) La calumnia (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Film, 1946

(3) The opening scene (Don Pasquale)

The 5 Best Movies of Nicolai Ghiaurov

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(1) La Calunnia è un venticello (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

(2) Gremin's Aria (Eugene Onegin)

(3) Il lacerato spirito (Simon Boccanegra)

La Scala, 1978. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

(4) Vecchia zimarra (La Bohème)

(5) Là ci darem la mano (Duet with Mirella Freni)

Mirella Freni and Nicolai Ghiaurov in Japan

2016/05/07

The 5 Best Movies of Piero Cappuccilli

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(1) Si, puo! (Prologo - Pagliacci)

(2) Alzati! ~ Eri tu (Un Ballo in Maschera)

(3) Di Provenza & bis & high B-flat (La Traviata)

(4) Bergonzi, Cappuccilli & Stella "Garden Scene" (Il Trovatore)

(5) Il balen del suo sorriso - Verdi tuning (Il Trovatore)

Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) demonstrates the difference between the scientific musical pitch of A=432 (the so-called "Verdi tuning") and the higher, unnatural pitch of A=440. In this example, he sings a part of "Il balen del suo sorriso" from "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi.
In this aria, the baritone is forced by high tuning to incorrectly pass the register before the E-natural, as a result of the effort on his vocal cords. Cappuccilli gives this example twice, first singing with the piano tuned to A=432, and not passing register, as Verdi wanted, and then with the piano tuned to A=440, indicating to the audience with his hand when the early passage occurred on E-flat. "Watch out for those E-flats," he said before singing it.
Recorded at the Schiller Institute conference on Tuning and Registration; Milan, Italy; April 9, 1988.