Enrico Caruso - Vesti la giubba - 1902, 1904, 1907
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2008
- Caruso was the first gramophone star to sell more than a million copies with his 1907 recording of 'Vesti la giubba' from the opera 'Pagliacci' by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Here are his recordings from 30th of November 1902, 1st of February 1904 and 17th of March 1907.
Vesti la giubba is regarded as one of the most moving arias in the operatic repertoire. The pain of Canio (Caruso) is portrayed in the aria and exemplifies the entire notion of the 'tragic clown': smiling on the outside but crying on the inside. This is still displayed today as the clown motif often features the painted on tear running down the cheek of the performer.
The opera recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband.
More Caruso info on my non-profit website www.enricocaruso.dk (English).
Text of the aria in Italian:
Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio!
Non so più quel che dico
e quel che faccio!
Eppur è d'uopo sforzati!
Bah! Sei tu forse un uom?
Tu sei Pagliaccio!
Vesti la giubba
Ela faccia infarina.
La gente paga e rider vuole qua.
E se Arlecchin t'invola Colombina,
ridi, Pagliaccio, e ognun applaudirà!
Tramuta in lazzi
lo spasmo ed il pianto;
in una smorfia il singhiozzo
e'l dolor! Ah!
Ridi, Pagliaccio,
sul tuo amore infranto.
Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor.
English translation:
To act, with my heart saddened with sorrow.
I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing.
Yet I must face it.
Courage, my heart!
You are not a man;
you're but a jester!
On with the motley,
the paint and the powder.
The people pay you and want their laugh,
you know.
If Harlequin your Columbine has stolen,
laugh, Punchinello! The world will cry 'Bravo!'
Go hide with laughter
your tears and your sorrow,
sing and be merry, playing your part.
Laugh, Punchinello,
for the love that is ended.
Laugh for the sorrow
that is eating your heart.
Remember, this guy held back his vocal power on recordings. His voice was so powerful he could break glass! Thus when he hit super high "c"'s during recording sessions they would distort. So you will never hear him like my grandfather did! My granddad told me he was unbelivable in person! What a monster voice!!!!
Meraviglioso ed insuperabile, quando canta scandisce in modo unico le frasi e le parole sono estremamente comprensibili. ..un fenomeno unico!
Caruso sings so easily; Pavarotti always sounds like he's working hard to get those high notes, which he hits; but Caruso is a natural tenor, and is a better tenor. I'm a highly-qualified professional musician, like my father before me.
Listen to the 1902 recording and you cannot believe anything could be better. But then you hear 1904 and it is better. Perfection cannot be improved on, but then you hear 1907 and it blows your mind. Nobody even begins to compare with Caruso. Pavarotti? Pah!
mario lanza grew up listening to him.....and most certainly surpassed him. as well know the recordings were not as good as they were when mario came into action...but....my god, mario blows caruso away....what a voice on him
How interesting to compare the three recordings. They are identical in every way, phrasing, control, resonances. The only difference is that the voice is slightly darker in 1904 and then in 1907
I wish I could meet CARUSO and show him that I17 years later...Im listening his voice from a 3X7 inch flat device...
We are fortunate that so many of Enrico’s recordings have survived! What a fabulous voice!
Che dire,un napoletano con la poesia Nella sua voce
Fun fact: He was in San Francisco in 1906 when the big quake hit. He escaped with just an autograph photo of Theodore Roosevelt and went to eat breakfast at a nearby hotel. That's after the quake and while half the city is on fire......and he's eating a hearty breakfast. He was definitely one of a kind. Oh and he vowed never to return to San Fran after that.....I guess the breakfast wasn't that good.
My father was a tenor, a HUGE devotee of Caruso, and had sung with the Chicago Met in the 1930's and one of my earliest memories is him singing along with Caruso's Vesti. I get goosebumps and tears in my eyes listening to it now. I can hear my dad singing along. <3
I first heard this when I was four years old, and my grandfather, himself an amateur opera singer, told me what the lyrics meant. I fell in love with Caruso and this aria. I remember reading that Caruso used to drive conductors insane, because he refused to follow their tempo, but always set his own, often irregular, and just expected the orchestra to follow him! But he was absolutely the best ever, so they just had to do it his way. I'm glad they did.
Dear tom ‘on with the motley ‘ my beloved grandfather had these recordings when i was a child in clonmel in ireland
Sono passati più di cento anni ma l'arioso dei pagliacci di Enrico Caruso è rimasto per me il più bello! Di una modernità impressionate e di una sobrietà straordinaria ! Dal punto di vista strettamente stilistico sembra inciso stamattina.......
El mejor, el único gran tenor del mundo. Gracias Enrico Caruso por tu maravillosa voz.
I´m not really an opera fan but his voice is so amazing.
I was first introduced to the strength, feeling and mastery of the Great Enrico Caruso by my father 50 years ago.....I still get goosebumps from the beauty of this man's voice.
Il più grande di tutti. Cantava l'anima della melodia
That this is making me cry, from over a century ago... that SAYS something about the power of Caruso.
Listening to this brings back lots of memories. My grandmother and great aunt used to book all the acts at the Met, Beverly Sills was my babysitter, and Laurence Melchior a family friend and yet, I never "got" opera. My late cousin was a baritone in the Swiss national opera, and I went to visit him one year in Bern. I saw he had a record on the phonograph and started to play it. He came running in and was perturbed that I hadn't approached playing it with proper reverence. In any case, he allowed it to be played, and the voice filled up the entire house. Afterwards, he couldn't speak for 10 minutes. That was the effect Caruso singing Vesti la Giubba had on him, and then I got it.