Tony Curtis once said that fame is a separate career, and if you want to be a famous artist, you must dedicate as much or more time to the cultivation of fame as to your art per se. He did not, you see, play the celebrity game. He was basically elbowed out of the country's opera scene, back to Italy and Austria, where he was greatly respected. A good example of a great tenor who retained his artistic seriousness and personal dignity was Giuseppe Giacomini. One is to retain an old-world elegance and artistic seriousness, and the other is to discover American show business, and the enormous money to be made there. There are two reactions a foreign singer can have when he or she lands in America and determines to make their career here. But what about the modern tenors Domingo and Pavarotti? My instincts tell me there is something other than music at work in both cases, and it's just plain tough to get one's head around the voice and artistry per se, without taking many other things into consideration.
Many singers of Italian background were to follow, in all kinds of music, from Galli-Curci right up through Mario Lanza, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. I know he was Italian, by birth, but he quickly became Amerca's tenor, lived here, married here, and had his great career at the Met while under contract to RCA Victor. I did finally write about Caruso last year, when I finally found the key for the discussion, and that turned out to be the fact that he was the first media triumph in the history of American classical singers. Liu later posted the photos on Weibo.For reasons I am not quite sure of, there are three tenors I find it hard to write about: Caruso, Pavarotti and Domingo. Liu said he went to apologise to the singer after the concert as he felt his participation was “rude”, according to the report.Īpparently accepting Liu’s apology, Oropesa took photos with him and gave him her signature. When it was her turn to sing, she changed the lyrics of “lover” to “thank you”. Oropesa was at first surprised but soon smiled happily. “I stood up to sing because Lisette Oropesa is a musician I love very much and I happened to have learned this opera before,” the 24-year-old student said. So when the second bar began, he joined in. Liu said for the first bar where a male singer should have sung, no one sang. For her fourth song she chose to sing La Traviata which requires a male singing partner, however no male singers had been arranged. For those who are interested in knowing more about what's happening :Īt the end of the concert Oropesa sang four encores due to the strong response from the audience.
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