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........Richard Tauber was the greatest Mozart tenor of his
time. Of his Don Ottavio on March 5th 1924 the critic of "Die
Zeit" wrote "Tauber's performance reached its climax
in Don Giovanni. It had never happened before that Don Ottavio,
a figure who usually remains in the background, was received
with such a storm of applause and that Don Giovanni himself should
have been overshadowed." Of the same performance in "Die
Deutsche Allgemeiner Zeitung":"He is the polished fine
musician who not only knows his part, but the whole score,and
creates from the complete ....... He sings the two arias incomparably;
how he gives by the power of his cantilena at the end of the
G major aria a soaring poised line to that baroque, octave leaping
melody; how he fills the coloratura of the B flat major aria
with dramatic life is quite unprecedented."....... ........what is astonishing about Richard Tauber's art is
exactly that it is by no means based on an outstanding, sumptuous
natural vocal talent, but rather on the somnambulant sovereign
usage of these vocal means, on a highly sensitive musicality,
a hypnotic power of expression, and an infinitely inventive performance
vision.........
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Richard Tauber
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