Nicolai Ghiaurov

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia TrailerA Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song TrailerThe Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 Trailer

Nacio el 13 de Septiembre de 1929, en la excitante ciudad búgara de Velingrado en, al sur de Bulgaria. Durante su infancia aprendió a tocar varios instrumentos. El obligado paso por el servicio militar de su país provocó que uno de sus instructores, impresionado por la potencia con que aquel joven recluta entonaba los cánticos marciales, le recomendara estudiar con Christo Brambarov, barítono y profesor de canto. Estuvo un año con él, y luego se marchó a la URSS para seguir sus estudios en elConservatorio de Moscú. Hizo su debut operístico en 1955 interpretando a Don Basilio enEl barbero de Sevilla, deGioacchino Rossini, e, inmediatamente, se consagró como uno de los más grandes cantantes de su tiempo. A lo largo de su vida interpretó muchísimos personajes, pero sus principales actuaciones fueron Mefistófeles en el Fausto de Gounod, Felipe II en Don Carlos, Don Giovanni en la ópera homónima de W. A. Mozart y el protagonista en Borís Godunov. Admirado por su poderosa voz, estuvo particularmente asociado con interpretaciones de Giuseppe Verdi. Cantó en los grandes teatros de ópera del mundo, como el Metropolitan de Nueva York, el Convent Garden y Glyndeburne en Inglaterra, La Ópera Estatal de Viena y decenas más durante cincuenta años. En 1991 fue condecorado con la Legión de Honor de las Artes y las Letras de Francia por sus interpretaciones del repertorio operístico francés en todo el mundo. Ghiaurov se casó con la pianista búlgara Slatina Ghiaurov y, eventualmente, con la soprano italiana Mirella Freni con quien trabajó en diferentes óperas, como por ejemplo La Boheme de G. Puccini. Ambos cantantes vivieron en Módena, ciudad italiana que vio nacer a Luciano Pavarotti. Con una gama inmensa de grabaciones discográficas, videográficas y presentaciones en general, Ghiaurov subió al escenario, por última vez y ya septuagenario en el histórico teatro La Fenice de Venecia, para interpretar al personaje con el que debutó (Don Basilio). Murió el 2 de Junio de 2004, a los 74 años de edad en Módena, a causa de un paro cardíaco, luego de permanecer hospitalizado tres semanas.

Most Popular Nicolai Ghiaurov Trailers

Total trailers found: 14

Don Carlo Trailer (1983)

28 July 1983

Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vocal and expressive demands of their roles.

La Boheme Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.

Verdi Ernani Trailer (1982)

28 July 1982

It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian Baritone that he was at that time; Nicolai Ghiaurov proves again that he was one of the greatest "Verdi Basses"; Mirella Freni shows that there was more to her than just being Mimi and Susannah-in fact I can remember reading that at the time of the premiere of this production that there were fist fights (not unusual in La Scala's gallery) between Mirella's many fans--between those fans that just wanting her to continue singing the light lyric repertoire that they were use to her singing and those that felt she should and could sing the lyric-spinto repertoire which, of course, she proved that,indeed, she could (She's still singing more than twenty years later).

Verdi – Messa da Requiem Trailer (1967)

26 November 1967

Herbert von Karajan conducts La Scala Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.

Eugene Onegin Trailer (1989)

06 August 1989

A filmed version of Tchaikovsky's opera. Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana, who believes Onegin is her fated love.

Aida Trailer (1985)

01 November 1985

La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger-than-life staging.

A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song Trailer (1992)

01 December 1992

Tony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of some of the carols sung by opera stars.

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (1978)

27 October 1978

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding opera singers and conductors.

Khovanshchina Trailer (1989)

03 January 1989

The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Macbeth Trailer (1979)

30 June 1979

Piero Cappuccilli and Shirley Verrett lead Verdi’s sombre masterpiece, drawn from one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedies.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia Trailer (2001)

30 April 2001

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber into a major event.

The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 Trailer (1991)

23 September 1991

Gounod: Faust Trailer (1973)

09 September 1973

Tokio 1973 live recording of Charles Gounod's opera Faust