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La Fanciulla del West(The Girl of the (Golden) West) & The Music of the Night(+ ALW's Married Man) Comparison video.
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Don't forget to click 1080p at settings before watch!
1. 1)1954 Mario del Monaco -Quello che tacete: 0:01
2)Michael Crawford -The Music of the Night(Original lyrics version): 1:18
3)1954 Steber & Del Monaco duets: 2:56
2. 1)1961 Daniele Barioni -Quello che tacete: 5:06
2)Sarah Brightman -Married Man(The Music of the Night's previous version): 6:12
3)1961 Tebaldi & Barioni duets: 7:42
3. 1)1964 Franco Corelli -Quello che tacete: 9:50
2)John Owen Jones(West End) -The Music of the Night: 10:54
3)Kirsten & Corelli duets: 12:41
4. 1)1958 Mario Del Monaco -Quello che tacete: 14:49
2)Akutagawa(Japan), Samuelson(Sweden), McGillin(Broadway), Hofmann(Germany) -The Music of the Night: 15:56
3)Tebaldi & Del Monaco duets: 17:31
5. 1966 Kirsten, Corelli act 1 duet(Franco Corelli as Il Fantasma dell'Opera😉): 19:42
-The End-(BGM: Italian The Music of the Night(Luca Velletri)): 22:04
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Personally I think 'Beniamino Gigli' is closest tenor to Leroux Erik. (I also think swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling and french tenor Georges Thill are close tenor to Leroux Erik too.)
Gigli was perfect lyric tenor with honey-like sweet voice. Also, he sang Verdi's Otello (dramatic tenor's typical role) perfectly too.(+ To prevent misunderstanding: Opera Otello in Leroux's book is Rossini's opera Otello. Not Verdi's. Rossini's Otello is not dramatic tenor's role. But Leroux wrote Erik can sing like thunder, so I wrote about dramatic tenor's role.)
In addition, Gigli was italian tenor but he did huge success as Faust. And he was great Romeo. Of course, Gigli sang 'Rachel, quand du Seigneur' from french opera 'La Juive' greatly too.
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Gigli's Ch'ella mi creda(from opera La Fanciulla del West): https://youtu.be/HSYSlY1vCwA
Jussi Bjorling's Ch'ella mi creda: https://youtu.be/ety0I1I_AxE
Mikael Samuelson - Music of the Night (featuring, I believe, Elizabeth Berg). A short clip from the TV show ‘Dabrowski’ dated 1991.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE HANDS AND JUST HIS MOVEMENT IN GENERAL!
Phantom Of The Opera. September 22, 1991; Stockholm, Sweden Mikael Samuelson, Inger Olsson Moberg, Bengt Nordfors (?) Soundboard. Soundboard Audio taken from a Monitor Video and Remastered by MaskedLion.
Guys there’s a complete recording of the original Swedish production of Phantom staring Mikael Samuelson and Inger Olsson Moberg, did we know this existed?!
Hope you are all well and safe ❤️
Mikael Samuelson - Nattens Musik (Music of the Night)
Favorite version just after Crawford’s.
Also, is it just me or does the Christine here (Johanne Brochmann, I think) resemble Heather Sears, the Christine in the 1962 Hammer version?
I have be lucky and met two of my favorit Phantom of the opera actor in Sweden. The first one that i met was Mikael Samuelson in gothenburgs opera house and it was not planned.
I did not know that he was gona be there and i was there in the backstage doing a interview ( because it was a schoolwork) with one of the staff in the opera. When i told her that i really like Mikael Samuelson as the Phantom and she said that he was here and she could take me to met him.
I was beyond happy and he was so nice talk to and he fix a pen so i could get hos autograph (i hade a paper but not a pen).
The second actor was Peter Jöback and i met him after one of his concerts and i get two autograph and a hug from him.
Edit: it was not planned or with meaning to touch Peter Jöback in the way that I do in the photo but I don't regret it.