Roberto Alagna - Berlioz Review

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Roberto Alagna - Berlioz ReviewIt seems that one of the chronic diseases of modern times is a lowering of standards of operatic singing. A decline or just a temporary slump? There was a comparable shortage of new voices of real quality in the inter war years of the last century, but things improved after ww2. It certainly seems that most of todays great singers are not as great when compared to their predecessors, but there are a select few that measure up i think. Perhaps most of us are so used to hearing butchers like russel watson, or better but still mediocre singers labelled as "great", that when someone truly great comes along we fail to recognise their quality.
Roberto Alagna is the finest tenor of his type (heroic-lyric) since 1960, when we lost the great Jussi Bjorling. His voice is warm, his style individual, his breathing technique simply phenomonal (listen to his long breath span in the La Juive aria on his french arias disc, and on numerous examples on this disc).
Did a review before mine label him as not being good enough to make a choir audition? was Jussi Bjorling a choir boy? was his predeccesor and compatriot the great Georges Thill good enough to be in a choir? These are questions we must seriously ponder. Maybe Caruso was a cold, inexpressive and inhuman singer? Maybe Pavarotti faked those high c's in Daughter of the Regiment? Does he really wear a fat suit? hmmmmm......
Anyway, when berlioz wrote his music, it was sung for him during his lifetime by singers much more like Alagna than Vickers. If we can listen to it without thinking that Alagna is trying to impersonate him, we might find that, hey, this tenor is very different, both in his voice and his basic approach to singing. His interpretation is his own.
Nowhere is it set in stone that only a purely dramatic tenor can sing this music. This is just the sort of repetoire that Alagna excels in. Infact no one today can match him in his singing of just about anything french, and this disc proves him to be the most significant french tenor since the late Thill.
Must have been one hell of a choir he was going for.Roberto Alagna - Berlioz Overview

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