I have wonderful memories of the great city of Budapest, i had 10 days there in 1994. I salute the amazing reception they accord the great man on conclusion of this beautiful aria....Pavarotti had a heart as big as his voice, a force of nature, a one-off.
WOW!! Pav totally crushed it here! And the crowd responds with a full two and a half minute ovation! Pavarotti power, precision, and presence.....the best. He is 51 yrs old here. Veronika looks annoyed as hell by the audience adoration of Pav's performance. That's a tough act to follow to be sure. Question: Who does Che gelida manina better? Answer: nobody.
Yes, well sung as always in the aria, and I don't care at all about the transposing and high B, after all in this aria, it's common by most tenors in their later years, to sing the B here, and even early if not high C tenors, . Jussi Bjoerling also was considered excellent in it, as it was his signature role, long ago, yes Boheme, he first sang it at the Met. in 1938 as his debut opera there and also recorded it in 1956 complete, by the 1950's in his 40's he transposed it down when singing live also, so did Corelli, Bjoerling sang it in key on studio recordings always, as did Pav. JB died in 1960 at age 49 of a heart attack, I saw him in 1958 singing Rigoletto in Chicago, his voice recorded very well, not a large voice , it was quite adequate in most of his roles, he was a great artist in other types of music also. .His fans are many and avid, as with Mario Lanza who was not by profession an opera singer, but did sing concerts, films radio, TV and once a major opera in a major opera house in New Orleans in 1948 at age 27 , he did sing "Pinkerton" but he did not ever make any full opera recordings, he had great operatic voice but not an opera singer as such, he chose another way to fame died at age 38 in 1959, heart attack. Corelli, Bjoerling and Lanza all have a huge following, and of course Pavarotti, all basically lyric tenors, but Corelli was a spinto with dramatic color, for some heavy roles he did well, many more great singers of course . I knew Pavarotti through a mutual friend of his and mine, and talked with him etc. at a private party and after he sang a few times I saw him many times from his mid 30's on to his mid 50's, and have enjoyed his singing, he was very nice and a smart fellow and was a big super star tenor in his time, his favorite voice was Di Stefano's, I did ask him who he most admired, so read his book and of the spinto tenors he was a friend of Richard Tucker and admired him as a great non Italian tenor, he also was on the board of the Rchard Tucker foundation formed after Tucker died in 1975, and Pav. wrote the long forward in the Tucker Biography by "James Drake", as far as Bjoerling pav. liked his technique of course, but GDS was his own favorite voice, his fathers favorite was Gigli. Read the book about Pav. for "accurate info", because he wrote it himself. RIP.
@@shicoff1398 I agree w all you have penned here about all the great artists of opera/song/stage. Yes, older tenors have to "tone down". I would have loved to see ANY of these greats mentioned. I'm a sucker for powerful voices and Pav just has one of the best in that camp. Many claim Pav cannot articulate or act/move around the stage so he is less of a performer as a result. That is, to me, ridiculous. People have their favorites be it ice cream, sport teams, or opera singers (for those who indulge). Bjorling, as too many opera stars, died much too young. You were blessed to have met and seen Pav perform many times. I would have been happy w one performance. Tucker was indeed an outstanding tenor. I will have to get his biography. Thanks for that tip. Be well.
@@randalcolucci6833 Yes that book has pictures with Tucker, Pav. and Tucker's wife and Pav, and as I said Pav wrote a long forward at the beginning of the book, yes I saw all the greats in house in the last 63 years of opera going, I worked at a time in classical radio, so was close with many singers, like sop. Stella Roman, when I worked at the classical radio station, so was at Tucker's home in long Island as a guest and others, yes knew so many and saw them all in house, even Schipa in his 70's, all the famous soprano's back then, Callas Tebaldi and so many Tenors, plus Baritones, but I think now, well maybe the best singers are all dead now.. BTW the Richard Tucker, James Drake book is not expensive used on E bay or Amazon, usually about Eight dollars in this country. Thanks for your compliment and the link. Yes I met Pav a few times and at a private party, saw him many times in both concert and opera. I like several singers, and as a 10 year old kid in Chicago, in 1950 I went to the movies with others my age on a Saturday and saw a Lanza film, it was in Chicago, my home town, the film was "The toast of New Orleans "and so I got hooked on opera because of his voice on the screen, I wound up knowing his family and kids, in Calif. where I was later working, they are all gone now, except for one daughter, sad and they where younger than me, anyhow Mario he died at age 38 of a heart attack, lead a fast life. (his name was originally, Alfredo (Freddy) Cocozza RIP. Mario Lanza 1921-1959.
@@randalcolucci6833 Pav. was very close to a woman and her husband I knew in Chicago, they where his age, I'm just a few years younger then Pav, as you know, anyhow these Chicago people now gone also even went on vacations with him etc. they where connected to the opera and wealthy, so i was in the loop so to speak back then! Take care and get the Tucker book! You will love it, lost of singers are talked about as Drake also wrote two two books on Rosa Ponselle, the great American soprano and Caruso, his son etc.
@@randalcolucci6833 There is another book that can be had most likely for little money, called "The tenors " The Editor is Herbert H. Breslin not a long book from 1974, it has 196 pages and a short chapter on 5 tenors, all in 1974 where the most famous alive at the time, (though Tucker died at age 61 just after the book came out) they are Pavaoratti, Vickers, Tucker, Corelli, and Domingo , get the book if you can, also great pictures of all 5 tenors (including Pavarotti with his family and kids, 3 daughters etc.)
Pav was 51 yrs old here, btw. Changes w age come some changes with anatomy and some decrements physiologically. What is so hard to understand? So what if it wasnt a high C.
Oh my!! For a humble man this mut have.been overwhelming for Pavarotti!! Simply outstanding performance and this is why he will always be THE MAESTRO!! Sella in Canada...2017...
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I love it when they leave the applause, its a part of the performance and what a performance, magnifique.
Hungarian applaud!😂
@ they were a wonderful audience, turned into rhythm clapping, grand!!!!
I have wonderful memories of the great city of Budapest, i had 10 days there in 1994. I salute the amazing reception they accord the great man on conclusion of this beautiful aria....Pavarotti had a heart as big as his voice, a force of nature, a one-off.
I agree. Greetings from Hungary! :-)
Aplausos dignos de nosso Maestro.....siga resplandecente Pavarotti querido
The brilliant Tenor! The unique voice!
"What am I going to do, luciano? They don't allow me to sing" Mimi said😊
I'm so glad I can listen to it now! Greetings from Hungary :-)
Köszi hogy feltöltötted...csodalatos..!!!!
Csodalatos enekes Kincses Veronika..
csodálatos
Kincses Veronika a legszebb Mimi!
Csakegyapa köszi,nem találok szavakat....köszönöm,köszönöm
Las óperas más bellas las tiene Giacomo Puccini. De lejos!
Haftet the high C 4.08 min. the Woman looks in Heaven and feels in haven
The best tenor, for ever!
I would like to know more about this product can be found in the Lipson area
The brilliant Tenor! The unique voice!
WOW!! Pav totally crushed it here! And the crowd responds with a full two and a half minute ovation! Pavarotti power, precision, and presence.....the best. He is 51 yrs old here. Veronika looks annoyed as hell by the audience adoration of Pav's performance. That's a tough act to follow to be sure. Question: Who does Che gelida manina better? Answer: nobody.
Yes, well sung as always in the aria, and I don't care at all about the transposing and high B, after all in this aria, it's common by most tenors in their later years, to sing the B here, and even early if not high C tenors, . Jussi Bjoerling also was considered excellent in it, as it was his signature role, long ago, yes Boheme, he first sang it at the Met. in 1938 as his debut opera there and also recorded it in 1956 complete, by the 1950's in his 40's he transposed it down when singing live also, so did Corelli, Bjoerling sang it in key on studio recordings always, as did Pav. JB died in 1960 at age 49 of a heart attack, I saw him in 1958 singing Rigoletto in Chicago, his voice recorded very well, not a large voice , it was quite adequate in most of his roles, he was a great artist in other types of music also. .His fans are many and avid, as with Mario Lanza who was not by profession an opera singer, but did sing concerts, films radio, TV and once a major opera in a major opera house in New Orleans in 1948 at age 27 , he did sing
"Pinkerton" but he did not ever make any full opera recordings, he had great operatic voice but not an opera singer as such, he chose another way to fame died at age 38 in 1959, heart attack. Corelli, Bjoerling and Lanza all have a huge following, and of course Pavarotti, all basically lyric tenors, but Corelli was a spinto with dramatic color, for some heavy roles he did well, many more great singers of course . I knew Pavarotti through a mutual friend of his and mine, and talked with him etc. at a private party and after he sang a few times I saw him many times from his mid 30's on to his mid 50's, and have enjoyed his singing, he was very nice and a smart fellow and was a big super star tenor in his time, his favorite voice was Di Stefano's, I did ask him who he most admired, so read his book and of the spinto tenors he was a friend of Richard Tucker and admired him as a great non Italian tenor, he also was on the board of the Rchard Tucker foundation formed after Tucker died in 1975, and Pav. wrote the long forward in the Tucker Biography by "James Drake", as far as Bjoerling pav. liked his technique of course, but GDS was his own favorite voice, his fathers favorite was Gigli. Read the book about Pav. for "accurate info", because he wrote it himself. RIP.
@@shicoff1398 I agree w all you have penned here about all the great artists of opera/song/stage. Yes, older tenors have to "tone down". I would have loved to see ANY of these greats mentioned. I'm a sucker for powerful voices and Pav just has one of the best in that camp. Many claim Pav cannot articulate or act/move around the stage so he is less of a performer as a result. That is, to me, ridiculous. People have their favorites be it ice cream, sport teams, or opera singers (for those who indulge). Bjorling, as too many opera stars, died much too young. You were blessed to have met and seen Pav perform many times. I would have been happy w one performance. Tucker was indeed an outstanding tenor. I will have to get his biography. Thanks for that tip. Be well.
@@randalcolucci6833 Yes that book has pictures with Tucker, Pav. and Tucker's wife and Pav, and as I said Pav wrote a long forward at the beginning of the book, yes I saw all the greats in house in the last 63 years of opera going, I worked at a time in classical radio, so was close with many singers, like sop. Stella Roman, when I worked at the classical radio station, so was at Tucker's home in long Island as a guest and others, yes knew so many and saw them all in house, even Schipa in his 70's, all the famous soprano's back then, Callas Tebaldi and so many Tenors, plus Baritones, but I think now, well maybe the best singers are all dead now.. BTW the Richard Tucker, James Drake book is not expensive used on E bay or Amazon, usually about Eight dollars in this country. Thanks for your compliment and the link. Yes I met Pav a few times and at a private party, saw him many times in both concert and opera. I like several singers, and as a 10 year old kid in Chicago, in 1950 I went to the movies with others my age on a Saturday and saw a Lanza film, it was in Chicago, my home town, the film was "The toast of New Orleans "and so I got hooked on opera because of his voice on the screen, I wound up knowing his family and kids, in Calif. where I was later working, they are all gone now, except for one daughter, sad and they where younger than me, anyhow Mario he died at age 38 of a heart attack, lead a fast life. (his name was originally, Alfredo (Freddy) Cocozza RIP. Mario Lanza 1921-1959.
@@randalcolucci6833 Pav. was very close to a woman and her husband I knew in Chicago, they where his age, I'm just a few years younger then Pav, as you know, anyhow these Chicago people now gone also even went on vacations with him etc. they where connected to the opera and wealthy, so i was in the loop so to speak back then! Take care and get the Tucker book! You will love it, lost of singers are talked about as Drake also wrote two two books on Rosa Ponselle, the great American soprano and Caruso, his son etc.
@@randalcolucci6833 There is another book that can be had most likely for little money, called "The tenors " The Editor is Herbert H. Breslin not a long book from 1974, it has 196 pages and a short chapter on 5 tenors, all in 1974 where the most famous alive at the time, (though Tucker died at age 61 just after the book came out) they are Pavaoratti, Vickers, Tucker, Corelli, and Domingo , get the book if you can, also great pictures of all 5 tenors (including Pavarotti with his family and kids, 3 daughters etc.)
the end was not in C, was it?
Not high C for sure :-)
It was a B but it still sounded beautiful
Pav was 51 yrs old here, btw. Changes w age come some changes with anatomy and some decrements physiologically. What is so hard to understand? So what if it wasnt a high C.
transposed?
Luiz Max Carvalho i think no
Oh my!! For a humble man this mut have.been overwhelming for Pavarotti!! Simply outstanding performance and this is why he will always be THE MAESTRO!! Sella in Canada...2017...