He died a month ago on January 8, but the news is just now being reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/10/nicolai-gedda-obituary
http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2017/2/News/Nicolai_Gedda.html
My very first opera album was a "La Bohème" with Gedda as Rodolfo.
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“I know that, in spite of the poets, youth is not the happiest season"
RIP.
The volume of his recordings must rival that of just about any other opera singer.
Must listen to him on Spotify.
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I remember that in 2015 his death was wrongly reported in some quarters (I think we even talked about it on here):
http://www.interlude.hk/front/nicolai-gedda-alive-well-thoroughly-immortal/
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I should have mentioned him in Jill McBain's "Your Favorite Tenor" thread; I thought of him later. Marvellous voice. I once heard him live in a piano-accompanied recital, a very long time ago. I was disappointed he didn't sing whatever I had heard him sing on recorded media that I was familiar with, but his voice blew me away.
share"Je crois entendre encore" from Les pecheurs de perles (1955):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCImfJUFSf0
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At the Gedda recital I attended some in the audience were clamoring for "Pearl Fishers" as an encore. I had never heard of it then and didn't know what the heck they were talking about.
This aria lies awfully high, doesn't it? I'm not sure I like Gedda particularly in this. Polenzani did this at the Met last year and I liked that production.
I think it's falsetto.
There's actually a more famous aria from the same opera, but it's a duet.
This is Gedda's most famous role:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mJyjq8JNAI
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Video blocked in the U.S.A. for copyright reasons. There are others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2i0qo-BeU
The duet from "Pearl Fisher" is awesome. You don't see many duets for men like that where the characters profess their friendship. "Iphigenie en Tauride" is the only other opera where I can think of a similar male duet.