@@vegeta1885 yeah but even with a good singing room, someone needs very very good technique to get the full sound to travel in that room. In short, squillo.
My mother saw Simon & Garfunkel play live in 1965 at her alma mater. Simon, Garfunkel, 2 mics, 2 stools, 3 guitars and a few percussion instruments. Said it was the best show she ever saw.
In our life time we will never see tenor that sings at this level of perfection. Luciano Pavarotti is a true gift from God and his legacy will carry on for generations to come.
@@robloxmodz7199 mercury was good, but he is not a maestro or brilliant, he never was able to produce his own song, like in his studio versions. But opera singers live in live, not in studio hut 😁
MAMA MIA ! I CAN'T GET ENOUGH. I met Mr. Pavarotti in person backstage after a magnificent concert....17 T.people. He was just a pleasure to talk with. I still say, MAMA MIA what magical voice.
yes his voice was superb when young but equally as great in a different way, nothing is like youth in any of us. But luckily we were able to enjoy it for 40 some years. no one ever will ever sing like that, it just moves your soul. spins you around and drops you on the floor
I’ve never heard a such sharp incredible stunning thrilling High C like this....Im not amazed that at that time in the ‘60 Pavarotti was called the new Bijorling. His voice sounds here so powerful and easy, like the Bijorling’s voice, an hero of thr Met in the Golden age of the Opera
You can really tell how Pavarotti kept improving himself throughout his career. His was more constricted here (although already much freer than the “good” singers now). Amazing how he managed to sounds better in his 60s than during his prime age!
The voice was always astonishing. I had the pleasure of hearing him, live, March 4, 1978, in the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Despite all the best intentions of recording engineers( and this is excellent) when one heard his voice, live, no mike, in person, even in a venue with acoustics more suited to Movies, he was a miracle. He ended his recital with Nessum Dorma, and the theater was in awe. We rewarded him with a five minute standing ovation. His great "Al Alba , Vincero!" was electric. I will not get involved with any of the pissy little disputes such as Lanza versus Pavarotti. I have only heard Lanza, as has everyone else, recorded, and unless one gets lucky and hears the live singing, it is all just surmising.
@@domicioannioulpiano6845 - It really doesn't matter who's better. Yes, Kaufmann is wonderful, but maybe we should just listen and be transported by whomever we like.
It wasn't "always astonishing". I was at Covent Garden in 1980 or possibly 1981 (I remember I went from uni, but forget which year) to hear his Ballo in Maschera. It was a bit rubbish. He basically phoned in the whole thing. One or two phrases were a bit more than nicely done. The rest was pedestrian and uninspiring, if wrapped in a nice sound. I guess that's the deal with live performance: sometimes they have an off day, or just can't be bothered. Edit: thinking about it, more likely 1981 or 1982.
I just spent the last hour listening to Gigli at your site. I love your collection of opera goodies. Check me out on You Tube. Enter Joel Barry sings Nessun Dorma. I've been a singer/pianist for 41 years but I studied opera technique for 3 years. The event you'll see was my uncle's 70th B-day, I'm now 72. Thanks Femme!
Tanti lo hanno amato...tanti criticato. Alcuni, invidiosi del suo talento e della sua straordinaria potenza. La speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeraanzaaaaaa che prima o poi ritorni
There have been singers that match and in some roles dare I even say bettered but it is the "whole package" that makes him so wonderful, his beautiful voice is but a part of it, his stage presence and vocalization combine to make him the archetypal Tenor. We were so lucky
My Sicilian father introduced us to opera. I was the only one of three boys that really appreciated it. And Dad packed us all up with Mom and off we went to live in Rome around 1959. Thanks, Dad & Mom!
My God!!! That C !!! And the look on his face while his produces it is like "I have to balance this note carefully or i could risk bringing down the ceiling" :p
It's very special. Because not only is he one of if not the greatest Singer in knowed history. But he loved to do it as much as he was gifted at it. Why I've always loved his little Smiles or Smirks. Because that reflected how much he was enjoying what he was or will be Singing.
The legend is that in some of his first concerts the piano went silent and Pavarotti had to wait, because his voice was so overwhelming that the pianist became momentarily paralysed...this is the first time I've heard early Pavarotti, and I've listened to a few arias...and I can understand my fingers not being able to move along the tops if I heard this voice a few feet away
Thanks so much for posting this gem from 1964. I had not heard many early examples of Pavarotti, this is just incredible. And how handsome he was back then at 28 years old. I had just watched a 1965 clip of him with Mirella Freni doing the famous duet from La Boheme. He's my all time favourite tenor, and this has just cemented his place at the top of list of great tenors even more. What a star. He will never be forgotten.
Incredible performance, Pavarotti and Puccini, wonderful combination, I have this mental picture of them in heaven congratulating each other on their stellar careers
Luciano Pavarotti makes my day any time: ) Love, Love, Love his voice......just heaven! Thank got these people are around who enlighten my the day at least and hopefully many others, we need more great singers , great people like him in these very troubled times......!
What an extraordinary voice and artistry - the marry that kind of power with the sweet, musical tone - and to finish with that sweet pianissimo, the most delicate finish. Only once in our lifetime have we seen an artist like this. The century began with Caruso and ended with Pavarotti.
Che gelida manina, se la lasci riscaldar... Cercar che giova, al buio non si trova. Ma per fortuna, è una notte di luna, e qui la luna l'abbiamo vicina. Aspetti, signorina, le dirò con due parole: chi sono, chi sono, e che faccio, come vivo: Vuole? Chi son? Chi son? Son poeta. Chi cosa faccio? Scrivo. E come vivo? Vivo. In povertà mia lieta, scialo da gran signore rime ed inni d'amore. per sogni e per chimere e per castelli in aria! L'anima ho milionaria. Talor dal mio forziere ruban tutti i gioielli due ladri: gli occhi belli. V'entrar com voi pur ora, ed i miei sogni usati e i bei sogni miei tosto si dileguar! Ma il furto non m'accora, poichè v'ha preso stanza... la speranza! Or che mi conoscete, parlate voi deh! parlate... Chi siete? Vi piaccia dir?
Having been blessed to see and hear him, in person, 25 years ago, I will never forget how I wept as he made love to each and every note. It was a truly spiritual experience to hear this amazingly gifted man. If this was his earthly voice, can you imagine how he sounds in Heaven?!!!!
kitterbabe I was lucky enough as well to see him about 30 years ago, with my mom and grandmom, who are no longer here but left me with a true love of opera!
I saw him in 1998. When he sang, you were trying to figure out how a human being could make and project such power from the voice. Spellbinding live... He came out for 5 ENCORES that evening. No one wanted the concerto or the evening to end. It was magical. Forever my favorite, Maestro.
It is difficult to overstate this man's stature in the history of art. Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, Pavarotti. It was not until he passed that I realized that we had a timeless legend among us, yet I never took the opportunity to hear him in person. One of the poignant regrets of my life.
This divine being said that he was merely human and that Bjorling was extraterrestrial. Like all truly gifted artists, he was always glowing about other performers and did not boast. It is no coincidence that this humility came from a man whose rendition of this aria is simply incomparable. Every detail and every nuance possesses more control and more power than is humanly reasonable. If you heard a young tenor singing like that at Cardiff Singer of the World, you would just pass out.
I saw him at the ROH in 1975 in Boheme. He was magnificent! John Steane said in a letter to me that it was the Boheme of ones dreams,and so it was. Henry Webb
I come to this video and am always overcome with emotion at the beauty and clarity of a voice so beautiful it flys with the angels ! Rest well Maestro and know you are greatly missed! This world is less brilliant without you !
Amazing! His lower register seems more powerful here than in arias he sang late in his career. Here both high and low are strong and perfectly delivered. It was interesting to watch the athleticism of the ways he mindfully shaped his mouth for each note.
Wow! even though the video is old and the quality is poor, but I can feel the echo and the beautiful reverb of Pavaritt's voice . How beautiful! Thank you so much for this video.
Quisiera que estuvieran grabadas sus clases, sus prácticas, desde el comienzo, desde muy joven... Pavarotti es increíble y escucharlo es una experiencia fascinante. Lo que hace con esta aria aquí, con sólo un piano, sostenido por su bellísima voz...
If anyone doubts there's a God just show them Pavarotti! Only God could bless someone with an instrument like that!!! It was handcrafted and mastered and refined finer than the world's most precious stones! A voice the angels listen to... he is probably singing in Heaven to the saints and angels!!! Thank you God for beauty in the world.. and thank you Pavarotti for sharing your gift. I am truly touched with a bit of heaven and joy every time I listen....
My very first visit to an opera was Traviata with Sutherland and a 28 year old Pavarotti. I will never forget it. It sparked my initial interest in Opera training myself.
I do t understand how 130 people can deslike this giant of opera and one of the greatest lyric tenor of all time. This people are deaf and has afull taste!! 😡😡 Bravo Luciano!!
it is always amazing how little effort he puts forth, all he moves is his eyebrows, training for 7 years really pays off. No one trains like that any more, plus his voice to begin with dominated any other voice from the past, present and future. Like there is only one Einstein, Hawking, etc.
+MrKritik77 In polish and finesse, maybe so. In power, tone, range & breadth - Pavarotti was a rank amateur by comparison! Enough said. Don't be fooled by Pavarotti's thin shrill voice. Lanza's high C was twice as broad and so you probably didn't even know he was hitting it! He went well above high C. Listen to Corelli's end of Nessun Dorma too, he actually broadened out where Pavarotti was thin as all hell.
+cooloox Thus endless crap about Lanza-he was not an opera singer-get it-he sanf 2 performances of Butterfly(couldn't even learn a complete role-sang very little live-was a hack movie star-essentially a studio voice,and sold his soul to Hollywood Pavarotti, Corelli etc. were opera tenors who mastered a couple of dozen roles-all of them, not just the arias and had the balls to sing live on stage in complete operas a thousand times They don't belong in the same discussion with Lanza
+Labienus Why even comparing then , we all appreciate both of them , they both did made opera more popular and they are each a class for them selves. It's just like comparing Ferrarri with Lamborghini.Like "tenislublinpl" said , they truly did raised the bar and I haven't heard young tenors even the older ones to even touch what Mario Lanza , Beniamino Gigli , Guisseppe Di Stefano , Luciano Pavarotti , Enrico Caruso , Franco Corelli and many more created and left to be admired. Cheers !
Exquisite... wish someone in sound engineering would remix this - and remove the notion LP is singing in a long box halfway down the hallway. Sound equipment in 1964 was what it was - a remastered version could easily pay for itself. I think most people here would pay for an enhanced version of this masterpiece.
I don’t tend to dish out glowing comments constantly, yet his C is absolutely glorious. Tears were in my eyes the six times I listened - spectacular talent.
Thank you very much !!!! One of the biggest regrets of my life Is not being able to watch him sing in a concert A voice that comes only once every 100 years !!!!!
No microphones. Just a man and a piano. Timelessly brilliant
What do you mean? There are three microphones.
@@eriontufa he mean no amplification.
@@enocjordanabi4207 The room has quite of a reverb so. But that's every classical singing room so....
@@vegeta1885 yeah but even with a good singing room, someone needs very very good technique to get the full sound to travel in that room. In short, squillo.
My mother saw Simon & Garfunkel play live in 1965 at her alma mater. Simon, Garfunkel, 2 mics, 2 stools, 3 guitars and a few percussion instruments. Said it was the best show she ever saw.
The most beautiful aria in operatic history sung by the greatest tenor in history. Evokes so much emotion
the greatest tenor in history..... true! Better tan Caruso.
Yes pavarotti is the best@@wallstreetpirate-hi5lm
i think Lanza sung it better, but tbh why doesn it have to be a pissing contest on whos better they are both brilliant
No soy europeo Ni una persona culta, soy tercermundista pero esto es audiovisualmente hermoso
Is it possible? Is it truly possible that a human voice could do this?
A velvet canon
Beautifully expressed....a velvet canon!
yes. LP's...
THE BEST THAT EVER LIVED, A ONCE IN A LIFETIME TALENT. SO GLAD I WAS ABLE TO LISTEN TO HIM,ONE OF THE HIGHLITES OF MY 80 YEARS.
With my teen daughters in tow i was at his free concert on the sands of Miami Beach among the one million who came to listen.
Tengo 41 y opino lo mismo, desde niña lo escuché y lo seguí como mi favorito 🤩
It's not true...he was great...but Caruso was probably the top.
In our life time we will never see tenor that sings at this level of perfection. Luciano Pavarotti is a true gift from God and his legacy will carry on for generations to come.
Absolutely - too beautiful for this world !
David Downing Freddie mercury
Amazing!!!!!!
@@robloxmodz7199 mercury was good, but he is not a maestro or brilliant, he never was able to produce his own song, like in his studio versions. But opera singers live in live, not in studio hut 😁
NOt only in our life, but what singer in history has ever compared? I cannot think of any.
I can't stop listening to this. This may be the best aria on the internet.
Jerrod Wertman Same here - been listening to this every day... such an apex of vocal and musical expression. His dynamics are impeccable.
I couldn’t agree more. He pulls you in. Takes my breath away every single time.
Hello , im your new neighbour on this area
ah mes amis if you're into high Cs
The best love song as well!
It really doesn't get better than this. Gift from God.
Che voce..... con quale naturalezza attacca "Talor dal mio forziere......" un' esecuzione eccezionale. Immenso Pavarotti!!!
Great tenors should never die.....our souls need them! Luciano, sei grande!
Tanti artisti in genere e tante persone comuni nn dovrebbero sparire dalla terra. Sono sempre i migliori ad andarsene presto...... 😓😟
@@cristinafusi1226
bella notazione
@@CharlieChaplin_ grazie gentilissimo
MAMA MIA !
I CAN'T GET ENOUGH.
I met Mr. Pavarotti
in person backstage
after a magnificent
concert....17 T.people.
He was just a pleasure to talk with.
I still say, MAMA MIA
what magical voice.
One of the best singers that has ever walked this planet
Isn't that that most effortless high C you've ever heard? Maestro your are the best!!
Beautiful but listen to Mario Lanza
Nicolai Gedda!
Jane Della Penna his nessun dorma was bad but his vesti la giubba was flawless. Pavarotti is still better at the higher notes... And all the others..
Not really. Bonisolli's was the most effortless High C i've ever heard.
Jane Della Penna
This high C was really open and resonant. Mario’s High was very passionate and husky sounding.
Just to compare the two 😁
when one has such a long career, we forget how astoundingly beautiful the voice was when they were young. Truly beautiful and magical
Yes, a long career, but unfortunately a short life!
yes his voice was superb when young but equally as great in a different way, nothing is like youth in any of us. But luckily we were able to enjoy it for 40 some years. no one ever will ever sing like that, it just moves your soul. spins you around and drops you on the floor
@@brookeggleston9314 yes he did not take care of himself.
@@ellenlyons7413 True, but I think he would tell you that he *lived!*
@@brookeggleston9314 cant put words in his mouth, didnt know him,
I was completely mesmerized by his facial expressions, clear enunciation, and controlled power. Brilliant performance. 👏
Just 29 and such a presence.
There will NEVER be another like him. Absolutely peerless. Be grateful we got to witness his incomparable talent in our lifetime.
One forgets just how glorious the voice of the young Pavorotti was!
4:05 do you see that little smile there? he knows hes about to tear this place down with that high c
420 for the note and for the
win..lol
For sure he's so cute
He was young. His humility of heart came later in his life.
@@cattycassals - I think so too. Makes me wonder why he would cover that face with so much facial hair.
i think it was a D
I’ve never heard a such sharp incredible stunning thrilling High C like this....Im not amazed that at that time in the ‘60 Pavarotti was called the new Bijorling. His voice sounds here so powerful and easy, like the Bijorling’s voice, an hero of thr Met in the Golden age of the Opera
He was the King of the high C's.
A young Pavarotti. WOW WOW WOW His voice just cuts right through you. First time I saw this. Unbelievable!
You can really tell how Pavarotti kept improving himself throughout his career. His was more constricted here (although already much freer than the “good” singers now). Amazing how he managed to sounds better in his 60s than during his prime age!
Nowhere to hide. Just Pavarotti and a piano, Absolutely breathtaking!
The voice was always astonishing. I had the pleasure of hearing him, live, March 4, 1978, in the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Despite all the best intentions of recording engineers( and this is excellent) when one heard his voice, live, no mike, in person, even in a venue with acoustics more suited to Movies, he was a miracle. He ended his recital with Nessum Dorma, and the theater was in awe. We rewarded him with a five minute standing ovation. His great "Al Alba , Vincero!" was electric.
I will not get involved with any of the pissy little disputes such as Lanza versus Pavarotti. I have only heard Lanza, as has everyone else, recorded, and unless one gets lucky and hears the live singing, it is all just surmising.
But, of course Kaufmann is better
@@domicioannioulpiano6845 - It really doesn't matter who's better. Yes, Kaufmann is wonderful, but maybe we should just listen and be transported by whomever we like.
It wasn't "always astonishing". I was at Covent Garden in 1980 or possibly 1981 (I remember I went from uni, but forget which year) to hear his Ballo in Maschera. It was a bit rubbish. He basically phoned in the whole thing. One or two phrases were a bit more than nicely done. The rest was pedestrian and uninspiring, if wrapped in a nice sound. I guess that's the deal with live performance: sometimes they have an off day, or just can't be bothered.
Edit: thinking about it, more likely 1981 or 1982.
@@domicioannioulpiano6845 Lmao.
ended his recital with what now?
The type of man you'll witness once in a lifetime
Honestly, I think just once in many lifetimes
In 1990 he said that he thought that the great Caruso was the greatest. By that scale we will prob be waiting a bit longer. RIP maestro
It was a miracle
I knew this recording of him as a younger man would be absolutely beast mode. Goodness. Incredible once in a lifetime voice.
He is undisputed number 1 in anyones top 5
I wouldn't say once in a lifetime. I prefer Domingo even during Pav's lifetime and several earlier tenors were better.
The tenor voice of his generation. Domingo excelled more in musicality.
Beast mode it is.
@Mikep487 Bruh Domingo sucks ass
This is why I love RUclips, countless undiscovered gems await discovery!
The absolute power and control. Astonishing. Bravo.
Que joven y guapo Luciano, nunca lo había visto así.
Hermosa voz como siempre.
Un immense merci pour cet enregistrement d'anthologie que je n'avais jamais vu. Tellement magnifique...
No other explanation except true God-given talent. Born to sing true glory. Above and beyond expression.
What a great voice. Never saw him this young before.
You don't have to be a singer to know how HARD this aria is. It's also just very long with hardly any breaks. Gotta love 60s Pavarotti. Bravo.
Blows my mind to see & listen to this brilliant tenor early in his career. Without the beard and ample girth, I wouldn't have recognized him.
I bet that High C is still bouncing off one star after another! Riposa in pace Maestro!
I just spent the last hour listening to Gigli at your site. I love your collection of opera goodies. Check me out on You Tube. Enter Joel Barry sings Nessun Dorma. I've been a singer/pianist for 41 years but I studied opera technique for 3 years. The event you'll see was my uncle's 70th B-day, I'm now 72. Thanks Femme!
totally agree！！！
well put !
Fully agree!
I have fallen in love with this aria bravo maestro!
Tanti lo hanno amato...tanti criticato. Alcuni, invidiosi del suo talento e della sua straordinaria potenza.
La speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeraanzaaaaaa che prima o poi ritorni
Merci infiniment pour cette rare pépite
La voix sublime d'un jeune Pavarotti , aigus cristallins projetés avec aisance . Merci, spassiva
There have been singers that match and in some roles dare I even say bettered but it is the "whole package" that makes him so wonderful, his beautiful voice is but a part of it, his stage presence and vocalization combine to make him the archetypal Tenor. We were so lucky
My Sicilian father introduced us to opera. I was the only one of three boys that really appreciated it. And Dad packed us all up with Mom and off we went to live in Rome around 1959. Thanks, Dad & Mom!
FOREVER you will be in our hearts, Sir Pavarotti! I've always admired you since I was a little girl. Love you always! Miss you!
How beautiful was The Maestro- beautiful features, beautiful expressions and smile, beautiful voice ! Rest with the angels, you did good !
And so much more attractive without the facial hair.
My God!!! That C !!!
And the look on his face while his produces it is like "I have to balance this note carefully or i could risk bringing down the ceiling" :p
This is the Pavarotti I like to listen to. Her he shows his great talent as tenor,for me he never sings better in the later years.
Brynjar Hoff
That smile at 4:07 never fails to get me happy. And now, two years later, it also makes me melancholic and nostalgic.
It's very special. Because not only is he one of if not the greatest Singer in knowed history. But he loved to do it as much as he was gifted at it. Why I've always loved his little Smiles or Smirks. Because that reflected how much he was enjoying what he was or will be Singing.
Glory to God this was good. Wow. Truly a legendary talent if ever there was one.
This is one of the best things ive ever heard
With that young age and techniques, his voice was untouchable. It's so powerful and clear as crystal. Thank you so much for sharing it. Bravo!
The legend is that in some of his first concerts the piano went silent and Pavarotti had to wait, because his voice was so overwhelming that the pianist became momentarily paralysed...this is the first time I've heard early Pavarotti, and I've listened to a few arias...and I can understand my fingers not being able to move along the tops if I heard this voice a few feet away
For sure this piano man followed him everywhere, including here to Moscow.
Ma perché dobbiamo inventare queste idiozie che dimostrano solo infinita tristissima ignoranza?
wow I know those who sang with him were astounded, and gap mouthed at this voice. I think the audience was a little stunned.
OMG what a performance! The stark piano accompaniment makes the aria even more intimate and striking... wow...
And THAT’S how you sing Che gelida manina!
He loved this role and especially this aria. He chose La Bohème for all his major house debuts.
Thanks so much for posting this gem from 1964. I had not heard many early examples of Pavarotti, this is just incredible. And how handsome he was back then at 28 years old. I had just watched a 1965 clip of him with Mirella Freni doing the famous duet from La Boheme. He's my all time favourite tenor, and this has just cemented his place at the top of list of great tenors even more. What a star. He will never be forgotten.
How happy he looks! Such joy and passion in doing the thing he loves!
Unico, insostituibile, inimitabile, Maestro Pavarotti. Mi dispiace che non sei ancora con noi
El Rey de la Opera sin duda alguna.... Lastima que ya no esta. Esos agudos bestiales lo hacen inigualable
Infallibile! Voce stupenda! Un mostro sacro! Pavarotti e Pavarotti! Una marca, una garanzia!
it is enough to bring a tear to a glass eye. Thank you for all those song`s. My life was make better for the hearing of them.
È sempre bello riascoltarlo e ricordarlo. Grande!
Todo un maestro el gran Lucciano Pavarotti. Ese "DO" es uno de los más gloriosos que he escuchado. La perfección hecha voz.
4:18 c'è stato una vibrazione di terremoto in casa che tutti ci siamo dati - le nostre gelide manine. Grande, Luciano per sempre!
His voice is INSANE
The most "natural" of all tenors.
The only insanity is in using that word for such a voice.
Incredible performance, Pavarotti and Puccini, wonderful combination, I have this mental picture of them in heaven congratulating each other on their stellar careers
Luciano Pavarotti makes my day any time: ) Love, Love, Love his voice......just heaven!
Thank got these people are around who enlighten my the day at least and hopefully many others, we need more great singers , great people like him in these very troubled times......!
What an extraordinary voice and artistry - the marry that kind of power with the sweet, musical tone - and to finish with that sweet pianissimo, the most delicate finish. Only once in our lifetime have we seen an artist like this. The century began with Caruso and ended with Pavarotti.
Tenor hasta la muerte, me encanta como mantiene la compostura despues de semejante ACTUACION... Un espectaculo escucharlo...
He was great even then and just got better. Amazing voice.
Che gelida manina, se la lasci riscaldar...
Cercar che giova, al buio non si trova.
Ma per fortuna, è una notte di luna,
e qui la luna l'abbiamo vicina.
Aspetti, signorina,
le dirò con due parole:
chi sono, chi sono, e che faccio,
come vivo: Vuole?
Chi son? Chi son? Son poeta.
Chi cosa faccio? Scrivo.
E come vivo? Vivo.
In povertà mia lieta,
scialo da gran signore
rime ed inni d'amore.
per sogni e per chimere
e per castelli in aria!
L'anima ho milionaria.
Talor dal mio forziere
ruban tutti i gioielli
due ladri: gli occhi belli.
V'entrar com voi pur ora,
ed i miei sogni usati
e i bei sogni miei tosto si dileguar!
Ma il furto non m'accora,
poichè v'ha preso stanza... la speranza!
Or che mi conoscete, parlate voi deh! parlate...
Chi siete?
Vi piaccia dir?
Having been blessed to see and hear him, in person, 25 years ago, I will never forget how I wept as he made love to each and every note. It was a truly spiritual experience to hear this amazingly gifted man. If this was his earthly voice, can you imagine how he sounds in Heaven?!!!!
kitterbabe I was lucky enough as well to see him about 30 years ago, with my mom and grandmom, who are no longer here but left me with a true love of opera!
I wish everyone that saw him would elaborate and tell all of us pitiful and sad people who didnt see him exactly what it was like.
I saw him in 1998. When he sang, you were trying to figure out how a human being could make and project such power from the voice. Spellbinding live... He came out for 5 ENCORES that evening. No one wanted the concerto or the evening to end. It was magical. Forever my favorite, Maestro.
It is difficult to overstate this man's stature in the history of art. Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, Pavarotti. It was not until he passed that I realized that we had a timeless legend among us, yet I never took the opportunity to hear him in person. One of the poignant regrets of my life.
This divine being said that he was merely human and that Bjorling was extraterrestrial. Like all truly gifted artists, he was always glowing about other performers and did not boast. It is no coincidence that this humility came from a man whose rendition of this aria is simply incomparable. Every detail and every nuance possesses more control and more power than is humanly reasonable. If you heard a young tenor singing like that at Cardiff Singer of the World, you would just pass out.
❤
I saw him at the ROH in 1975 in Boheme. He was magnificent! John Steane said in a letter to me that it was the Boheme of ones dreams,and so it was.
Henry Webb
Alucinante!. Se puede cantar mejor?!. Qué voz! y tenía 29 años. Si existe la perfecciónl, aquí está..
caspartanus1 Para mí, nadie como Pavarotti en "La Bohème", qué facilidad tenía y qué majestuosidad dió a esta Aria especialmente. Bravíssimo!!!!"
Alucinados, Cabrones perfección ????en que sentido
Amén! Brillo, ternura, pura belleza. No tiene igual.
La voz de un angel poderoso y gigante...
I come to this video and am always overcome with emotion at the beauty and clarity of a voice so beautiful it flys with the angels ! Rest well Maestro and know you are greatly missed! This world is less brilliant without you !
Amazing! His lower register seems more powerful here than in arias he sang late in his career. Here both high and low are strong and perfectly delivered. It was interesting to watch the athleticism of the ways he mindfully shaped his mouth for each note.
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El Mundo de la Ópera.....
Wow! even though the video is old and the quality is poor, but I can feel the echo and the beautiful reverb of Pavaritt's voice . How beautiful! Thank you so much for this video.
My favorite opera song
o solo mi o by il divo
electrifying effortless brilliance as always. Pavarotti was special.
I have watched and listened to this incredible video at least 40 times over the past few years. every single time I am transported somewhere....
OMG unbelieveable- tearjerker- RIP Maestro !!!!
the one and only , Maestro!
So rare to see a young Pavarotti!!! THANK YOU for posting!
Maravilloso, formidable, estratosférico. Dominio de todos los registros pero con la válvula abierta a tope.
Quisiera que estuvieran grabadas sus clases, sus prácticas, desde el comienzo, desde muy joven... Pavarotti es increíble y escucharlo es una experiencia fascinante. Lo que hace con esta aria aquí, con sólo un piano, sostenido por su bellísima voz...
We all miss you Maestro, and you will live on in our hearts and memories forever through your recordings...RIP....
If anyone doubts there's a God just show them Pavarotti! Only God could bless someone with an instrument like that!!! It was handcrafted and mastered and refined finer than the world's most precious stones! A voice the angels listen to... he is probably singing in Heaven to the saints and angels!!! Thank you God for beauty in the world.. and thank you Pavarotti for sharing your gift. I am truly touched with a bit of heaven and joy every time I listen....
Bellissimo... tante grazie!
Viva l'Italia🇮🇹
Bravo!!!!
この声量、寸分ブレない音程、美しい声、凄い迫力・・・。
さすがパバロッティ。
My very first visit to an opera was Traviata with Sutherland and a 28 year old Pavarotti. I will never forget it. It sparked my initial interest in Opera training myself.
Wow! That must have been AMAZING
The pleasure of this wonderful voice remains with us, brings joy to the heart, and a happy tear as well. Bravo Maestro,bravo....
I do t understand how 130 people can deslike this giant of opera and one of the greatest lyric tenor of all time.
This people are deaf and has afull taste!!
😡😡
Bravo Luciano!!
Phenomenal. The best clip I've seen of Pavarotti. He's gone up a great deal in my opinion after that magically intense & expressive performance.
it is always amazing how little effort he puts forth, all he moves is his eyebrows, training for 7 years really pays off. No one trains like that any more, plus his voice to begin with dominated any other voice from the past, present and future. Like there is only one Einstein, Hawking, etc.
The best of the best, bigger than life Luciano :)
I saw Luciano twice in Miami Beach: first in the Convention Center and later at a free concert on the beach. This is the best love song everest...
What a badass :) He put the limit so high that nowadays tenors break their voices trying to catch up with him.
+jgraif
Lanza sounds like an amateur, when compared to the great Luciano. Enough said!
+MrKritik77 In polish and finesse, maybe so. In power, tone, range & breadth - Pavarotti was a rank amateur by comparison! Enough said.
Don't be fooled by Pavarotti's thin shrill voice. Lanza's high C was twice as broad and so you probably didn't even know he was hitting it! He went well above high C. Listen to Corelli's end of Nessun Dorma too, he actually broadened out where Pavarotti was thin as all hell.
+cooloox Thus endless crap about Lanza-he was not an opera singer-get it-he sanf 2 performances of Butterfly(couldn't even learn a complete role-sang very little live-was a hack movie star-essentially a studio voice,and sold his soul to Hollywood
Pavarotti, Corelli etc. were opera tenors who mastered a couple of dozen roles-all of them, not just the arias and had the balls to sing live on stage in complete operas a thousand times
They don't belong in the same discussion with Lanza
+Labienus Why even comparing then , we all appreciate both of them , they both did made opera more popular and they are each a class for them selves. It's just like comparing Ferrarri with Lamborghini.Like "tenislublinpl" said , they truly did raised the bar and I haven't heard young tenors even the older ones to even touch what Mario Lanza , Beniamino Gigli , Guisseppe Di Stefano , Luciano Pavarotti , Enrico Caruso , Franco Corelli and many more created and left to be admired. Cheers !
Ryuobbi Fair comments!! It makes you wonder why voices have changed over the years and these olden day voices can no longer be matched.
No lo había reconocido, solo me encantó. ❤❤❤❤❤
The most beautiful voice ever ❤️
Exquisite... wish someone in sound engineering would remix this - and remove the notion LP is singing in a long box halfway down the hallway. Sound equipment in 1964 was what it was - a remastered version could easily pay for itself. I think most people here would pay for an enhanced version of this masterpiece.
Impresionante, sin palabras!!!
I don’t tend to dish out glowing comments constantly, yet his C is absolutely glorious. Tears were in my eyes the six times I listened - spectacular talent.
I love you Maestro. No doubt you're in heaven serenading the angels. RIP
Thank you very much !!!!
One of the biggest regrets of my life
Is not being able to watch him sing in a concert
A voice that comes only once every
100 years !!!!!