Who is the 'B's knees?
Extremely dedicated YouTube-r, Rafael Araújo, has compiled this remarkable archive of clips of some of the world's great tenors battling it out to see who delivers the best High B (B4). Some of the archive material is extraordinary - and rather amusing.
Here is the line up with time codes. Who would be in your top ten?
Roberto Alagna | (0:16) |
Piotr Beczala | (0:32) |
Nicolai Gedda | (0:47) |
Jonathan Antoine | (1:02) |
José Carreras | (1:18) |
Mario Del Monaco | (1:31) |
Giuseppe Di Stefano | (1:45) |
Rolando Villazón | (2:00) |
Richard Tucker | (2:14) |
Jonas Kaufmann | (2:29) |
Alessandro Valente | (2:39) |
Giacomo Lauro-Volpi | (2:56) |
Alfredo Kraus | (3:13) |
Paul Potts | (3:29) |
Ramón Vargas | (3:47) |
Andrea Bocelli | (3:59) |
Franco Corelli | (4:20) |
Jussi Björling | (4:35) |
Giovanni Martinelli | (4:53) |
Plácido Domingo | (5:08) |
Mario Lanza | (5:21) |
Joseph Calleja | (5:40) |
Juan Diego Flórez | (5:52) |
Lawrence Brownlee | (6:10) |
Luciano Pavarotti | (6:23) |
And there's more!
2020-06-04