Selected Recordings
This audio is a vocal journey through forty years of singing on the world's greatest stages. It shows the instrument through its growth in three repertoires, the bass, the heldon-baritone and baritone. If you listen carefully you will hear clear articulation of the text, a secure top voice and a consistent musical line. This is a vocal technique to sustain a long healthy career.
The first track of the audio is the opening scene from the Cincinnati Opera's opening night performance of Vincenso Bellini's opera “Norma,” it was Renata Scotto's first performance of the title role. The year was 1977. The second track is the Ah! Del tebbro scene from the same performance. A small clip of “La Divina” was left for context.
The third track is of the 1987 Richard Tucker Gala on the stage at Carnegie Hall with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The piece is the “Che mai veggio.....Infelice a tuo credevi and the Cabaletta....Infin che un brando vindice from Giuseppe Verdi's “Ernani.” The fourth track is the “La Forza del Destino,” Monastery Scene, the duet with Eva Marton as Leonora.
The following snippet is from Gaetano Donizetti's Opera “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The opera was Dame Joan Sutherlands' last performance of the role in 1988 in Barcelona, Spain.
The final three pieces are with piano. Richard Wagner's: abendlich from “Das Rheingold,” Giuseppe's Verdi's: Ella Giammai ma'mo from “Don Carlo, and Tosca e buon'falco from Giacomo Puccini's opera “Tosca.”These three were recorded in 2007 for the Carnegie Mellon University archives.
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