Beniamino Gigli shows how a tenor sings an OO vowel on a high note O paradiso Berlin, 1932

In other uploads of this, the audio of the aria portion was pitched a half step too high. With this corrected version, Gigli's voice is far less shrill and irritatingly juvenile. We hear that the voice is powerful, penetrating, and mellow (pastosa). Beniamino Gigli sings “O paradiso,“ from Meyerbeer's L'africana Berlin, Sportpalast, 1932 ..................................... Yes, the singing is... extra. Trrill™ is about florid passages, improvisatory underpinnings, staccato'd intuitions, and virtuosities even at their most ridiculous. But it's also about the biggest, boldest form of vocal emission, with aural examples of basically correct singing, correct impostazione—chiaroscuro, vowel clarity, firm and centered pitch, correct vibrato action, absence of throatiness or thickness, sounds free from constriction and from the acoustic noise that accompanies it—with occasional video examples that demonstrate what the body, face, mouth, jaw, and t