1:42:48...who said he did not

sing high C onstage????????

Category:general -- posted at: 6:22pm EDT

You  sang with the best!!!! Love to

dear Paul on his birthday!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:50pm EDT

My old buddy!..Paul...we met in 1961

You were Guardiano.I was Melitone

and Marchese..GEE,one of us made it!!!!

Illustrious career of one of the most

beloved people I know. Happy Birthday!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:48pm EDT

Sorry..I tried something new, and the

Tucker post came out twice and some

text cut off...but you get some idea!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:10pm EDT

My Favorite Tenor Tucker once told his dear friend Ed Rosen, "I do not like to bunt..I hit home runs." Believe me he "bunted" a lot...The legato was there..despite some complaints...so what if he held "bellezzze" in Tosca a bit longer, and there was evidence of the cantorail training and some sobs......so...big deal.....Ever hear of GIGLI?? You take the man as a whole...a fabulous lirico-dramatico voice..rang through the Met like a golden tone of incredible size and beauty at the same time. I used to go ballistic when he dropped the sword in Forza, came up front, and let out that glorious B at the end of the "Sleale" duet. I also adored the act 2 Chenier "Credi al destino," showing the legato that some deaf people did not hear. I saw him maybe 65 times..NEVER gave a bad performance in my view...gave 1000%...perhaps too much after the first heart attack,where George Jellinek asked him to take it a bit easier.NO WAY! The 1964 Cav w.Farrell echoes in my mind so vividly...especially, "Per me,pregate Iddio." Sorry he did not get to do the Juive at the Met.His last perf.from Spain show he could have gone on at least 15 years more. Thank you,dear Richard Tucker........there was NO ONE like you!!!!!!!! I was at the unveiling of the monument at Lincoln Center. I believe pigeons are scared to death to go near the statute..They have as much respect as do millions of others.... Love Charlie

 


Tucker once told his dear friend Ed Rosen, "I do not like to bunt..I hit home runs." Believe me he "bunted" a lot...The legato was there..despite some complaints...so what if he held "bellezzze" in Tosca a bit longer, and there was evidence of the cantorail training and some sobs......so...big deal.....Ever hear of GIGLI??
You take the man as a whole...a fabulous lirico-dramatico voice..rang through the Met like a golden tone of incredible size and beauty at the same time.
I used to go ballistic when he dropped the sword in Forza, came up front, and let out that glorious B at the end of the "Sleale" duet. I also adored the act 2 Chenier "Credi al destino," showing the legato that some deaf people did not hear.
I saw him maybe 65 times..NEVER gave a bad performance in my view...gave 1000%...perhaps too much after the first heart attack,where George Jellinek asked him to take it a bit easier.NO WAY! The 1964 Cav w.Farrell echoes in my mind so vividly...especially, "Per me,pregate Iddio."
Sorry he did not get to do the Juive at the Met.His last perf.from Spain show he could have gone on at least 15 years more.
Thank you,dear Richard Tucker........there was NO ONE like you!!!!!!!! I was at the unveiling of the monument at Lincoln Center. I believe pigeons are scared to death to go near the statute..They have as much respect as do millions of others....
Love Charlie

Category:general -- posted at: 6:53pm EDT

Great artist left us 8/26. One of the

wonderful artists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:14pm EDT

Jose Van Dam  8/25/40

One of the supreme singers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 6:35pm EDT

  I recall Dever and Zajick backstage

 after a Trovatore comparing flu symptoms.

  How do they do it???? Mme.Dever has

  a gorgeous voice and is an endeared

member of Facebook, along with so

many Met singers.(I have to be nice,because

they sneak around).

Category:general -- posted at: 10:57pm EDT

GORGEOUS rich mezzo...Barbara Dever.

I want more of you to know about singers

who are not as well-known as they should be..she is wonderful...

Category:general -- posted at: 10:52pm EDT

More from my buddy,Ta'u!!!!!

Glad he has a turntable so he can

RAID my unplayed LP's...………………….

Category:general -- posted at: 8:15pm EDT

Happy Birthday to a guy I "discovered"

Ta'u Pupu'a...Former football star

who NEVER sang a role until our

Rigoletto,and I flipped!

Ta'u thought a passaggio was an

Italian dish...no kidding!!!!!!!

Great guy!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:04pm EDT

I TOLD Sam to teach Sam.Jr. Mefistofele

but the kid likes Jay-Z!!! Vergogna!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:01pm EDT

  Hope my favorite singer feels better

  after some laryngitis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 4:53pm EDT

But I am tired of a tenor singing baritone..it

is a "gimmick."...even though we are both Jan.21

babies...……Sorry, Placido.

 

Category:general -- posted at: 5:27pm EDT

Lots of "stuff" but love it......

Category:general -- posted at: 5:18pm EDT

My beloved friend....40 yrs...………………..

Category:general -- posted at: 4:43pm EDT

Wants to do heavy stuff..Oh well.

Category:general -- posted at: 4:40pm EDT

Get the stopwatch!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 4:37pm EDT

  But who knows her???????????????????

Category:general -- posted at: 4:22pm EDT

test

Category:general -- posted at: 4:15pm EDT

Janet Baker...GREAT lady...8/21/1933!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 3:21pm EDT

Gianna Rolandi  8/16/51...….NOTHING funnier

in all my opera life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:40pm EDT

Imagine..Magda once was told, "Don't quit your day job!!!"

 

 

LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 1:44pm EDT

Happy Birthday to a sweet guy, and glad

he is feeling batter after an illness.

He is a great talent and what a gorgeous 

family.....flown in suddenly to replace

Giordani a few years ago..HUGE success.

Category:general -- posted at: 1:57pm EDT

Leon Nucci continues his fabulous career!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:36am EDT

After mom died, I started to sing again..I cannot read music but I did listen a lot to Corena.

Hope you do not mind my ego!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 12:22am EDT

Give the kid a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 12:19am EDT

When Ashley Putnam made City Opera

debut, some lady in the audience did

this. I told Henry Price said, "I was there."

He said, "ME TOO!!!"

 

Category:general -- posted at: 12:16am EDT

Great man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 12:12am EDT

  GORGEOUS VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And Weikl born a few days earlier in 1942

Category:general -- posted at: 12:08am EDT

When I would sing (lower key) "Dein ist mein ganzes herz" ma liked Gedda more...Why?

Today she would like Piotr more!

Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:41pm EDT

v

They bought out Piotr's contracts

elsewhere so he could do this. He is an electrician.

I always said he was a live wire!!!!  BUT No RATS?????

Category:general -- posted at: 12:59pm EDT

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