Nasal VS Non nasal singing (baritone/bass baritone/bass voices in 20th century)
BAD: Ruggero Raimondi, Eberhard Waechter, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Theo Adam, Hans Hotter GREAT: Ezio Pinza (55 years old!), George London, Titta Ruffo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkNkYL1L7GQ
Saturno Meletti is a great baritone, he studied with the greatest voice teacher - Arturo Melocchi. His voice has a lot of squillo!
La cenerentola by Gioacchino Rossini performed in Italian
Conductor Mario Rossi - 1949(RA)
Orchestra - RAI Torino
Chorus - RAI Torino
Cenerentola - Giulietta Simionato
Clorinda - Ornella Rovero
Tisbe - Miti Truccato Pace
Don Ramiro - Cesare Valletti
Dandini - Saturno Meletti
Don Magnifico - Christiano Dalamangas
Alidoro - Vito Susca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogJFXBsFjs
September 29, 1955.
Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti performed in Italian
Conductor Herbert von Karajan - 1955(LI)
Orchestra - RIAS Orchestra (Berlin)
Chorus - Teatro alla Scala
Lucia - Maria Callas
Edgardo - Giuseppe di Stefano
Enrico - Rolando Panerai
Raimondo - Nicola Zaccaria
Arturo - Giuseppe Zampieri
Alisa - Luisa Villa
Normanno - Mario Carlin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiA_Pa-Gyw
1:23 I vespri Siciliani overture
11:45 Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller
Rodolfo - Mario Del Monaco, tenor
17:37 Merce dilette amiche from I vespri Siciliani
Elena - Herva Nelli, soprano
21:53 Rachel quand du seigneur from La Juive
Eleazar - Mario Del Monaco, tenor
28:04 D'amor sull'ali rosee from Il trovatore
Leonora - Herva Nelli, soprano
33:20 I gioielli della madonna intermezzo
39:24 Suicidio from La Gioconda
Gioconda - Herva Nelli, soprano
43:58 Teco io sto from Un ballo in maschera
Amelia - Herva Nelli, soprano
Gustavo III - Mario Del Monaco, tenor
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aT83Bajrlo
0:00 In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut)
2:01 La mamma morta (Andrea Chenier)
5:33 Vicino a te (Andrea Chenier, with Luigi Marini)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pz1I622YI
I due Foscari by Giuseppe Verdi performed in Italian
Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini - 1951(RA)
Orchestra - RAI Milano
Chorus - RAI Milano
Francesco Foscari, Doge di Venezia - Giangiacomo Guelfi
Jacopo Foscari - Carlo Bergonzi
Lucrezia Contarini - Maria Vitale
Jacopo Loredano - Pasquale Lombardo
Barbarigo - Mario Bersieri
Pisana - Liliana Pellegrino
Fante del Consiglio de' Dieci - Aldo Bertocci
Servo de Doge - Gianni Barbieri
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghVwDwa9cWg
The third movement (Elegie, Larghetto elegiaco) of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Serenade for strings. Conducted by the greatest Russian conductor, Maestro Kirill Kondrashin.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZ3gXXQ2i8