Opera title: | Ernani |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Ernani Synopsis |
Libretto: | Ernani Libretto |
Translation(s): | Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Don Carlo |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 3.02 |
Previous scene: | E questo il loco |
Next scene: | O dei verd'anni miei |
Cornell MacNeil (born 24 September 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota)A true Verdi baritone with the darkness of a bass and the ringing top of a dramatic tenor. We no longer hear voices like this singing Verdi. Dark voices with no core/squillo are just as bad as bright voices with only core/squillo, but no darkness to balance it. MacNeil had chiaroscuro.
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