in Barcelona Olympic games ceremony... Soundtrack (RCA Victor) includes some rare arias e.g. Domingo´s Spirto gentil, Carreras´ Niun mi tema or Aragall´s Cielo e mar!... very very nice...
Simple wonderful :) - Nicolai Gedda is the best Jenik ever (and Smetana´s Dalibor too!), Giorgio Tozzi is excellent Kecal and also great actor. This inscenation has some divergences against libretto (Marenka doesn´t entrance in this scene). And - of course -its end is stupid :))
Gedda IS Werther. By his nature, by natural melancholy of his voice, by physiognomy, by his aristocratism... No other tenors up to date sung this aria so beautifully...
Gedda sings this famous aria... He is NOT in italian repertoir so strong as in french or russian, but in this role he is very acceptable :) (swedish duo Gedda + Nilsson in Tosca is very atractive - what do you mean?? :))) )
Jaime Aragall is one of the best lyric tenors of second half of 20thC. Although in this concert he was not in his best form, beauty and purity of his tones are still "in" :)
I don´t know why, but I love last twenty minutes of Puccini´s La fanciulla. There is few beatifull moments like this aria (and also recitative "Per lei...") or whole scene of Minnie. I understand why Domingo loves this opera... :)
