Rigoletto Contest - Lucio Gallo - 2001

A year ago when I was doing the soprano and tenor contests, I was asked to do some contests to show off the lower voices. I never got to it, until now. My first idea was to create a contest for the baritone aria in I Puritani. However, I finally deceived on Rigoletto, and the aria, Povero rigoletto ....cortigiani, vil razza dannata. I have always thought this was a heart wrenching piece, that shows a spectrum of the baritone color. We have 20 baritones here, to score use a 1-5 for both singing and characterization. Peter Glossop - 1971 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmlqV2JzaQ Renato Bruson - 1990 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0vMuHa4vA Lucio Gallo - 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcn8ShyOdWA Ingvar Wixell - 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99J_nApx10A Louis Quilico - 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeoOPn2rt4 John Rawnsley - 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mnx8vAylc Carlos Álvarez - 2004 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l07ctEjXLEo Garbis Boyagian - 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnXqLGttwU Roberto Frontali - 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRByxhdkVZc Roberto Servile - 2000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOHqGDyPUk Chen Ye Yuan - 2004 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHRKLlyH2Q Justino Diaz - 1997 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZwLF1GdkE Cornell MacNeil - 1977 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9wUUUM1PfY Rolando Panerai - 1969 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OSSNZsgLw Leo Nucci - 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CPX0Mm8rro Paolo Gavanelli -1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI1XXP_KgBw Mario Sereni -1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJiNJh8SCQ Leo Nucci -1983 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0BnmbM6niE Piero Cappuccilli - 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEjUbPwhQ0 Aldo Protti - 1961 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19b2Ll4B_Bs