Lawrence Tibbett 1896 - 1960 A compilation of the legendary American baritone

MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE AMERICAN BARITONE EVER!!! 0:00 O du mein holder abendstern from Wagner's Tannhauser 5:27 Eri tu che macchiavi from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera 10:04 Credo in un dio crudel from Verdi's Otello 15:15 Plebe Patrizi Popolo from Verdi's Simon Boccanegra 20:55 Si puo, Si puo from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci 26:19 Tre sbirri una carrozza from Puccini's Tosca 30:50 Gia mi dicon venal from Puccini's Tosca 33:44 Il balen del suo sorriso from Verdi's Il trovatore 37:29 Largo al factotum from Rossini's il barbiere di siviglia 41:49 Di provenza il mar il soul from Verdi's La traviata 47:32 Votre toast je peux vous le rendre from Bizet's Carmen 52:38 O sainte medaille, Avant de quitter ces lieux from Gounod's Faust 57:17 Ce breuvage, Vision Fugitive from Massenet's Herodiade 01:01:27 None but a lonely heart by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 01:04:51 Lover Come back to me from Oscar Hammerstein's II The New Moon 01:07:25 Going home from Dvorak's Symphony no. 9 New World THE END :) Lawrence Tibbett (November 16, 1896 – July 15, 1960) was an American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone with large, deep, and dark-timbred voice. His dynamic range (in his prime) ranged from forceful fortes to delicate pianissimos, he sang leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950. He performed diverse musical theatre roles, including Captain Hook in Peter Pan in a touring show. Tibbett studied in New York City with Frank La Forge and in 1923 at the age of 26, he signed his first contract, for $60 per week, with the Metropolitan Opera, using the name "Tibbett". The Met mistakenly added the extra "t" to his last name on his contract and he decided to keep the new spelling. Over the ensuing years, with the Met, he built a hugely successful career, displaying an outstanding voice, immaculate musicianship, and a strong stage presence. His Met roles included Valentin in Charles Gounod's Faust, Silvio, and later, Tonio, in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and the King's Herald in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin. He first achieved national recognition playing Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff.[1] Tibbett traveled to California in 1927 to sing the lead role in the Grove Play St. Francis of Assisi, and it was during that trip to San Francisco when he met ex-New Yorker Jennie Marston Burgard (daughter of New York banker Edgar L. Marston), whom he married in 1932.[4] During the 1930s, Tibbett toured Europe and Australia, performing on stage or giving recitals in London, Paris, Prague and Vienna as well as in Sydney and Melbourne. Tibbett made his first recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1926. He recorded exclusively for Victor/RCA Victor for his entire career. In the early 1930s, Tibbett also appeared in movies, after getting his start at Neely Dickson's Hollywood Community Theater.[5] His sojourn in Hollywood proved brief, although he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his first film, The Rogue Song, a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production with Laurel and Hardy, shot in two-color Technicolor (only a few minutes of footage of the film, as well as the complete soundtrack, is known to survive today).[6] Soon after, he starred in another MGM musical film, New Moon, opposite Grace Moore and The Cuban Love Song (1931), with Lupe Vélez. In 1935, he appeared in Metropolitan for 20th Century-Fox. This film is notable for its extensive segments of Tibbett's performing operatic arias in a stage setting. He also starred in the film The Prodigal in 1931 with Esther Ralston and Roland Young in which he sings "Without a Song." His final film was Under Your Spell in 1936. Also during the 1930s, Tibbett had a domestic radio program sponsored by the Packard Motor Car Company of America on which he sang formal music. The company chose him to announce the Packard 120 to the world on air; he drove one. When the firm wanted to sell less expensive cars, they persuaded him to add popular tunes to his repertoire in order to boost sales. He also appeared on Your Hit Parade. After his operatic career concluded, Tibbett performed in musicals and plays in the early 1950s. He spent a summer in stock as the Reverend Davidson in Rain and played Captain Hook in a short-lived tour of the John Burrell staging of Peter Pan that was mounted for Jean Arthur and featured a musical score by the young Leonard Bernstein. Veronica Lake played Peter. Most notably, Tibbett took over the Italian operatic bass Ezio Pinza's role in Fanny during its original run on Broadway. The Time obituary said of him: "Tibbett had a big, bronzelike, dramatically eloquent voice that combined ringing power with remarkable agility ... he left behind not only the echoes of a great voice but the memory of a performer who could feel equally at home with high art and popular entertainment, suggesting that there is a magical link between the two."