Che gelida manina : Caruso, McCormack, Smirnoff, Cortis, Thill, Schmidt, Bjorling and Lanza.

This video features eight tenors of different nationality singing
Che gelida manina from Puccini's Opera La Boheme.
0:00 Italy : Enrico Caruso 1873 to 1921 Recorded 1906.
4:12 Ireland : John McCormack 1884 to 1945 : Recorded 1910
8:20 Russia : Dimitri Smirnoff 1882 to 1944 : Recorded 1913 (?)
12:39 Spain : Antonio Cortis 1891 to 1952 : Recorded 1929
17:37 France : Georges Thill 1897 to 1984 : Recorded 1930
22:20 Austria/Hungary/Romania/Germany : Joseph Schmidt
1904 to 1942 : Recorded 1932 (see nationality note below)
26:14 Sweden : Jussi Bjorling 1911 to 1960 : Recorded 1937
30:36 USA : Mario Lanza 1921 to 1959 : Recorded 1949.
Joseph Schmidt was born in a province of Austria-Hungary called Bukovina which became part of Romania after the first world war.
He moved to Germany in the mid 1920s and the vast majority of his recordings were in the German language.He was in France when Germany occupied that country during the second world war and, as he was Jewish, he fled to Switzerland in October 1942. He was placed in a refugee camp and died in November 1942 at just 38 years of age.
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Видео Che gelida manina : Caruso, McCormack, Smirnoff, Cortis, Thill, Schmidt, Bjorling and Lanza. канала Michael McGrail