Apollo Granforte sings Largo al factotum LIVE, 1932. Insanely powerful Italian baritone

This is the only known film footage of the one of the very GREATEST Italian baritones Apollo Granforte, here in the ultra difficult aria from Rossini s Barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville). It is extremely rare footage and has probably rarely, if ever, been seen by anyone outside of Australia, where it was filmed in 1932. The audio of the transfer was pitched a halftone too high. Since no baritone in his right mind would transpose the Largo UP on purpose, I have repitched the audio to its true key. As a result, Granforte s voice takes on it the more sonorous quality that we know from his studio recordings. , Baritones, Opera, BelCanto This channel is primarily about vocal emissionaural examples of basically correct singing, correct impostazionechiaroscuro, vowel clarity, firm and centered pitch, correct vibrato action, absence of throatiness or thickness, sounds free from constriction and from the acoustic noise that accompanie