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Otello Complete
G. Verdi
Otello Complete
Genre: Classical
 
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All Artists: G. Verdi
Title: Otello Complete
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Meisterwerke
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 5/4/2006
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
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Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 4011222219237
 

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Vinay's Otello: a big voice now forgotten
Octavio C. Fischer | Brasil | 01/21/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"I've bought this Otello, recorded at The Met with Vinay, Warren and Albanese. I heard it immediatily and I think it's the best of all Otello I've heard with Ramon Vinay. Of course, Vinay isn't my preferred Otello (I like Del Monaco's and Vickers's), but it seems (and everyone says) that he has a huge, a big voice. That is the first thing I consider necessary to sing an opera like Otello. But he has more than a big voice. He was one of the best opera singers of all times. Unfortunally, Vinay and also Warren are forgotten. Today, with all technology we have in the world, audiences doesn't seems to matter with that (big voices). What would be of Del Monaco, Corelli, Vinay or Vickers today? Perhaps, they wouldn't be so apreciate by the experts we have nowadays, that prefer beautiful faces, nice guys instead of real and powerful voices. I'm affraid that in a few years opera will like Popular Shows: with wonderful make-up, but using microphones on stage! This is paintful, but today's some opera houses seems they are killing opera in this sense: voice is no far important. Important is to be handsome and have just a necessary voice to call tourists; just that. But this will be like a gun shooting on there own feet, because in a few years people will not more like to go to the opera; just because opera will be so similar to popular show that it will not be more considered "opera".

But, going back to Vinay's Otello, you have to buy this recording. Everyone is singing fantastic, especially Vinay and Warren. That's is the real "The Met"."