Such a shame his ROH main role debut as Cavaradossi in January didn’t happen.In the meantime he’s released this selection of Italian popular arias . I think his singing is sensational .....and he’s only 27....
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A (very) short trailer here (in Florence?). Yes, certainly a very mature voice:
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I just hope he doesn’t get overhyped.Comment
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Another fan here of this record . An impressively non nasal tenor.Comment
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If you take a look at the You Tube (Decca marketing in full swing..) you will see the die is set. We can only hope he is sensible about what he does and the frequency of his performances.....Originally posted by Gary Freer View PostComment
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Have avoided that - please don’t tell me they are calling him the new or British Pavarotti or the like ?Comment
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Not Decca, but Fiona Maddocks dared to make the comparison in her review of Tosca in the Observer in December:Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
“The real excitement, however, was for Cavaradossi, Freddie De Tommaso, making his role debut, the first British tenor to sing the part at Covent Garden since 1963, and at 28 the youngest. He had upstaged himself already, days earlier, attracting rave headlines by jumping in halfway through for Brian Hymel, taken unwell during the other cast’s opening night. Half Italian but raised in Tunbridge Wells, De Tommaso – remember the name – is hurtling to stardom.
Having trained at the Royal Academy of Music, first as a baritone, then switching up to tenor, he won the international Plácido Domingo Tenor prize in 2018 and was quickly signed up to Decca. Bright-toned in the Italianate style, but with heft to soar over the orchestra in mid-range, De Tommaso is not shy to show how loudly, how securely, how effortlessly he can sing. That prolonged, dazzling high A sharp on “Vittoria!” was, to tell it straight, milked. Why not… it was a rare thrill to hear a tenor voice of this ease and brilliance. The new Pavarotti? We’ve heard that before. This time it might just be true.“
I don’t think the comparison to Pavarotti is warranted, not least because his voice is very different, but he was very good indeed in Tosca, and certainly much better than others I have heard in this role at Covent Garden over the years.
He’s still very young, so I hope he is cautious and doesn’t agree to sing everything that his thrown in front of him."I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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