| Nicolai Ghiaurov "La calunnia" from Barbiere - 331 sec
Vienna State Opera, 1979
Auteur : Oneguin65
Tags: Onegin65 Opera Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Basilio Nicolai Ghiaurov
 | | Verdi - "Lacrymosa" - Scotto, Horne, Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, Abbado - 391 sec
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Messa da Requiem (1874)
2. DIES IRAE
"Lacrymosa dies illa", Largo (Soli, Chorus)
Renata Scotto - Soprano
Marilyn Horne - Mezzo-soprano
Luciano Pavarotti - Tenor
Nicolai Ghiaurov - Bass
Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Roma
Coro della RAI di Roma
Coro della RAI di Milano
Claudio Abbado - Conductor
Live, Roma - 10/10/1970
Text:
Lacrimosa dies illa,
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus.
Pie Jesu Domine,
Dona eis requiem. Amen.
Auteur : Arsamene87
Tags: classica Classical Music Sacred Sacra Opera Verdi Requiem Scotto Horne Pavarotti Ghiaurov Abbado
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov - Boris Godunov - Boris' Death Scene - 510 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov in the death scene of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.
Auteur : Gabba02
Tags:gabba01 bass basso aria opera Ghiaurov Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
| | Pavarotti/Ghiaurov- Verdi Requiem 1967 - 478 sec
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and basso Nicolai Ghiaurov sing their magnificent solo pieces from the Verdi Requiem in 1967.
Auteur : operabeauty
Tags:pavarotti ghiaurov requiem verdi verdirequiem opera premiereopera tenor bass
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov sings "Vecchia zimarra" - 95 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov sings "Vecchia zimarra" from Puccini's opera "La Bohème"
Nicolai Ghiaurov as Colline, Mirella Freni as Mimi, Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo
San Francisco Opera 1990
Auteur : ManonLes88
Tags:opera puccini la boheme mimi rodolfo colline nicolai ghiaurov mirella freni luciano pavarotti
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov - Eugene Onegin - Gremin's Aria - 353 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov sings Gremin's Aria from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
Chicago, 1985.
Auteur : Gabba02
Tags:gabba01 opera Nicolai Ghiaurov Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky Gremin aria bass basso
| | Kraus, Freni & Ghiaurov "Final Scene" Faust - 585 sec
1977
Auteur : Oneguin65
Tags:Onegin65 Opera Gounod Faust Alfredo Kraus Marguerite Mirella Freni Mephistopheles Nicolai Ghiaurov
| | Cappuccilli & Ghiaurov - Simon Boccanegra -Suona Ogni Labbro - 388 sec
Piero Cappuccilli and Nicolai Ghiaurov in the Prologue duet from Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.
La Scala, 1978. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
Auteur : Gabba02
Tags:gabba01 Simon Boccanegra Verdi Piero Cappuccilli Nicolai Ghiaurov bass basso aria opera baritone duet fiesco
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov sings "Stenka Razin" - 304 sec
Russian folk song.
1. Iz-za ostrova na stryezhyen',
Na prostor ryechnoy volny,
|: Vyplyvayut raspisnyye,
Ostrogrudyye chyelny. :|
2. Na pyeryednyem Styen'ka Razin,
Obnyavshis' sidit s knyazhnoy,
|: Svad'bu novuyu spravlyayet,
On vyesyolyy i khmyel'noy. :|
3. Pozadi ikh slyshyen ropot:
"Nas na babu promyenyal,
|: Nochku s nyeyu provozilsya,
Sam na utro baboy stal." :|
4. Etot ropot i nasmyeshki
Slyshit groznyy ataman,
|: I on moshchnoyu rukoyu
Obnyal pyersiyanki stan. :|
5. Brovi chyornyye soshlisya,
Nadvigayetsya groza,
|: Buynoy krov'yu nalilisya
Atamanovy glaza. :|
6. "Vsyo otdam, nye pozhalyeyu,
Buynu golovu otdam,"
|: Razdayetsya golos vlastnyy
Po okryestnym byeryegam. :|
7. A ona, potupya ochi,
Ni zhiva i ni myertva,
|: Molcha slushayet khmyel'nyye
Atamanovy slova: :|
8. "Volga, Volga, mat' rodnaya,
Volga, russkaya ryeka!
|: Nye vidala ty podarka
Ot donskogo kazaka!" :|
9. "I chtob nye bylo razdora
Myezhdu vol'nymi lyud'mi,
|: Volga, Volga, mat' rodnaya,
Na --- krasavitsu primi!" :|
10. Moshchnym vzmakhom podymayet
On krasavitsu-knyazhnu,
|: I za bort yeyo brosayet,
V nabyezhavshuyu volnu. :|
11. "Chto-zh vy, chyerti, priunyli?
Ey ty, Fil'ka, shut, plyashi!
|: Gryanyem, brattsy, udaluyu
Na pomin yeyo dushi!" :|
12. Iz-za ostrova na stryezhyen',
Na prostor ryechnoy volny,
|: Vyplyvayut raspisnyye
Styen'ki Razina chyelny.
Tr. Jacob Robbins, 1921
1. From beyond the wooded island
To the river wide and free,
|: Proudly sail the arrow-breasted
Ships of Cossack yeomanry. :|
2. On the first is Stenka Razin
With a princess at his side,
|: Drunken, holds a marriage revel
With his beautiful young bride. :|
3. But behind them rose a whisper,
"He has left his sword to woo;
|: One short night, and Stenka Razin
Has become a woman too!" :|
4. Stenka Razin hears the jeering
Of his discontented band,
|: And the lovely Persian princess
He has circled with his hand. :|
5. His black brows have come together
As the waves of anger rise,
|: And the blood comes rushing swiftly
To his piercing, jet-black eyes. :|
6. "I will give you all you ask for,
Life and heart, and head and hand,"
|: Echo rolls the pealing thunder
Of his voice across the land. :|
7. "Volga, Volga, mother Volga,
Deep and wide beneath the sun,
|: You have never seen a present
From the Cossack of the Don. :|
8. And that peace might rule as always
All my free-born men and brave,
|: Volga, Volga, mother Volga,
Volga, make this girl a grave." :|
9. With a sudden, mighty movement,
Razin lifts the beauty high,
|: And he casts her where the waters
Of the Volga move and sigh. :|
10. Now a silence like the grave sinks
To all those who stand to see,
|: And the battle-hardened Cossacks
Sink to weep on bended knee. :|
11. "Dance, you fool, and men, make merry!
What has got into your eyes?
|: Let us thunder out a chanty
Of a place where beauty lies." :|
12. From beyond the wooded island
To the river wide and free,
|: Proudly sail the arrow-breasted
Ships of Cossack yeomanry. :|
Auteur : Herur22
Tags: Nicolai Ghiaurov Stenka Razin Russian folk song
| | Ghiaurov, Manolov - Il Grande Inquisitor - 522 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov is King Philip in the inquisitor scene from Verdi's Don Carlos. Opposite him as the Grand Inquisitor is another Bulgarian bass - Pavel Manolov. Recorded live in 1960 at the Bulgarian National Opera in Sofia.
Trivia: Manolov was a mainstay at the Bulgarian National Opera in the middle of the 20th century.
The part of Filippo is sang in Italian, and that of the Inquisitor - in Bulgarian.
Auteur : radsvid
Tags:bulgarian opera verdi don carlos inquisitor ghiaurov manolov
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov "Vous qui fate l'endormie" Faust - 204 sec
1977
Auteur : Oneguin65
Tags:Onegin65 Opera Gounod Faust Mephistopheles Nicolai Ghiaurov
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov - Don Giovanni La Ci Darem la Mano - 196 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, Bulgarian: Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978. The two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena up until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack.
Ghiaurov was born in the small mountain town of Velingrad in southern Bulgaria. As a child, he learned to play the violin, piano and clarinet. He began his musical studies at the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1949 under Prof. Hristo Brambarov. From 1950 until 1955, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory.
Ghiaurov's career was launched in 1955, when he won the Grand Prix at the International Vocal Competition in Paris and the First Prize and a gold medal at the Fifth World Youth Festival in Prague. Ghiaurov made his operatic debut in 1955 as Don Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in Sofia. He made his Italian operatic debut in 1957 in Teatro Comunale Bologna, before starting an international career with his rendition of Varlaam in the opera Boris Godunov at La Scala in 1959. 1962 marked Ghiaurov's Covent Garden debut as Padre Guardiano in Verdi's "Forza del Destino" as well as his first appearance in Salzburg in Verdi's "Requiem," conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Ghiaurov first shared a stage with Mirella Freni in 1961 in Genoa. She was Marguerite, he was the devil in "Faust." Married in 1978, they lived in her hometown, Modena. He made his US debut in Gounod's Faust in 1963 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and he went on to sing twelve roles with the company, including the title roles in Boris Godunov, Don Quichotte, and Mefistofele.
Ghiaurov made his Metropolitan Opera debut on 8 November 1965 as Mephistopheles. He sang a total of eighty-one performances in ten roles there, last appearing there on October 26, 1996, as Sparafucile in Rigoletto. During the course of his career, he also performed at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera and Paris Opera.
In the late 1970's Ghiaurov sang the title role in the first complete stereo recording of Jules Massenet's opera Don Quichotte (Don Quixote).
"He commanded a remarkable vocal instrument, strikingly generous in size, warm in timbre, dark in color. He rolled out the resonant tone at his command with generosity, and with special ease at the burnished top." remarks Martin Bernheimer in Ghiaurov's obituary in "Opera News."
Auteur : MusashiTzu
Tags: Nicolai Ghiaurov Don Giovanni La Ci Darem la Mano
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov sings Ella giammai m'amo - 543 sec
A young Nicolai Ghiaurov sings King Philip's aria from Don Carlos. Recorded live in 1960 at the Bulgarian National Opera in Sofia.
Trivia: This was Ghiaurov's first Philip in Italian. He was just 31.
Ghiaurov was married to soprano Mirella Freni. They are shown together on two pictures in this compilation.
Auteur : radsvid
Tags:bulgarian opera verdi don carlos ella giammai m'amo ghiaurov
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov - Mort de Don Quichotte - 616 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov - Mort de Don Quichotte
Vladimir Fedoseev, Tchaikovsky BSO
Moscow, 5 October 2002
Auteur : sfumato77
Tags:Ghiaurov Don Quichotte Massenet
| | Interview with Freni, Ghiaurov, and Ghiaurov - 519 sec
Here's an interview with Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Vladimir Ghiaurov from 1996.
Auteur : 5f00tnothing
Tags: mirella freni mirellafreni ghiaurov opera interview intervista
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov "Il lacerato spirito" Simon Boccanegra - 245 sec
N. Ghiaurov as Fiesco. Riccardo Muti piano. Ravenna, 1982
Auteur : Oneguin65
Tags: Opera Verdi Simon Boccanegra Fiesco Nicolai Ghiaurov
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov - Nabucco Vieni O Levita... Tu Sol Labbro D - 328 sec
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, Bulgarian: Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978. The two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena up until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack.
Ghiaurov was born in the small mountain town of Velingrad in southern Bulgaria. As a child, he learned to play the violin, piano and clarinet. He began his musical studies at the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1949 under Prof. Hristo Brambarov. From 1950 until 1955, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory.
Ghiaurov's career was launched in 1955, when he won the Grand Prix at the International Vocal Competition in Paris and the First Prize and a gold medal at the Fifth World Youth Festival in Prague. Ghiaurov made his operatic debut in 1955 as Don Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in Sofia. He made his Italian operatic debut in 1957 in Teatro Comunale Bologna, before starting an international career with his rendition of Varlaam in the opera Boris Godunov at La Scala in 1959. 1962 marked Ghiaurov's Covent Garden debut as Padre Guardiano in Verdi's "Forza del Destino" as well as his first appearance in Salzburg in Verdi's "Requiem," conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Ghiaurov first shared a stage with Mirella Freni in 1961 in Genoa. She was Marguerite, he was the devil in "Faust." Married in 1978, they lived in her hometown, Modena. He made his US debut in Gounod's Faust in 1963 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and he went on to sing twelve roles with the company, including the title roles in Boris Godunov, Don Quichotte, and Mefistofele.
Ghiaurov made his Metropolitan Opera debut on 8 November 1965 as Mephistopheles. He sang a total of eighty-one performances in ten roles there, last appearing there on October 26, 1996, as Sparafucile in Rigoletto. During the course of his career, he also performed at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera and Paris Opera.
In the late 1970's Ghiaurov sang the title role in the first complete stereo recording of Jules Massenet's opera Don Quichotte (Don Quixote).
"He commanded a remarkable vocal instrument, strikingly generous in size, warm in timbre, dark in color. He rolled out the resonant tone at his command with generosity, and with special ease at the burnished top." remarks Martin Bernheimer in Ghiaurov's obituary in "Opera News."
Auteur : MusashiTzu
Tags: Nicolai Ghiaurov Nabucco Vieni Levita... Tu Sol Labbro Dei Veggenti
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov "Ella giammai m'amo" - 475 sec
Gala Tucker 96
Auteur : Onegin65
Tags: Opera Verdi Don Carlos Philippo II Nicolai Ghiaurov
| | N. Ghiaurov & R. Bruson in duet from Ernani - 349 sec
Riccardo Muti piano. Ravenna, 1982
Auteur : Oneguin65
Tags: Opera Verdi Ernani Carlo Reanato Bruson Silva Nicolai Ghiaurov
| | Nicolai Ghiaurov "A te l'estremo addio" S. Boccanegra - 339 sec
Teatro alla Scala, 1978.
Abbado/Strehler
Auteur : Onegin65
Tags: Opera Verdi Simon Boccanegra Piero Cappuccilli Fiesco Nicolai Ghiaurov
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