Originally posted by RavelloI understand italian. I can't write (speak) it properly 'cos I don't do that from a long time ago.
If you don't understand italian and try to translate it with a 2 bit free online translator and then take the piss at me, you'de better shut up the next time.
Now you have something to whine about.
Anyway, you should attempt to learn better manners. You are being rude without a reason.
Sorry if I have offended you, Sir... 😛
Originally posted by CrazyLilTingOh, sorry Mrs Bon Ton, seems to me that you were the one being rude without a reason in first place.
Anyway, you should attempt to learn better manners. You are being rude without a reason.
By the way you don't understand italian, if not you would have understood my statement correctly, you understand italian as much as I understand Swahili.
Now give it a rest and move on.
Basta Pasta Pavarotti!! I've been collecting older tracks from the greats Benjamino Gigli, Franco Corelli and Mario Lanza were wonderful. Forget all the talk about Lanza being a showman..he had a magnicent voice with power, range and control... My Mum in Napoli says Napolitans will never love a singer from out of district Pav is a northern pig haha.. They did like Giuseppe Di Stefano in his hey day. Listen to Lanza's nessun dorma and you'll be hooked!!
Had to edit this in from Wikipedia..
The Voice
There is little disagreement that Beniamino Gigli possessed the most beautiful lyric tenor voice of his time. It was also a large voice, which—with Gigli's extraordinary technique and vocal understanding—permitted Gigli to make frequent forays into repertoire normally reserved for spinto and dramatic tenors. Andrea Chénier was Gigli's favorite role. Another role in which he was unsurpassed was that of Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut. Both of these roles are supposedly for "heavier" voices, not lyric tenors.
Gigli's heart, which he infused into every phrase he sang, made him a natural in the realm of popular song. Whereas Caruso sang every song like it was his last, Gigli made each song or aria sound like he could sing twenty more with equal ease. And he sometimes did: Gigli's stamina was such that, after an opera, a piano would be wheeled onto the stage, and Gigli would sing an improvised concert of 10, 20, sometimes 30 encores. Virtually all of these post-opera concerts were fundraisers for which Gigli did not receive a penny. Gigli sang like this for 41 years without interruption. It is likely that neither Gigli's vocal longevity nor durability will ever be surpassed.