June Anderson - Luciano Pavarotti - La Fille du Regiment

[appeace1]

What you can't understand French w/ an Italian accent???--lol Pava, by his own admission, was not good with other languages; however, just listen and enjoy the magnificence of the voice!

Im lovin' the dramatic placing of the reading glasses---priceless!

"WooHoo, I think I'll have another kiss!"

^o^

[mrluistena]

Brava Anderson.

[mrluistena]

buena voce Luciano ma francese orribile.

[discovolante21]

June Anderson is great. Maestro Pavarotti is not bad.

[vocalissimo1]

Il nostro caro Luciano - voce divina, francese orribile!

[skitzo429]

the conductor totally wasnt waitign for them at 7 minutes

[MadameBorgi]

¿El director de orquesta estaba borracho al final? se había adelantado a los cantantes....que desastre

[Miauriceful]

Pavarotti was not good at languages​, he always had problems with foreign languages​. Fortunately for him he was born in Italy, so he could sing in his native language almost always.

[robibolero]

The rudeness of Pavarotti when he speaks french intolerable. Inaudible....

[robibolero]

La sguaiatezza di Pavarotti in francese è intollerabile. Inascoltabile ....

[tomclaudetom]

et une partition?mr pavarotti........

[tomclaudetom]

drole de francais mr pavarotti parcontre june anderson parfaite brava

[ArmandoCintra]

Kinnda Austrohungarian French. hahaha.

[bpicaud1]

I'm a super fan of Pavarotti but I must admit that, although frequenting this role during 20 years, he stayed unable to pronounce correctly a straight word in french, in opposition to his famous collegues as Kraus, Domingo or, earlier, Gedda, Björling...

[Webarton]

LOL LP says DAWNS instead of dans with the the unpronounced "s"... LOL so funny I just picture my highschool French class where the kids read the passage as "dawns", very very funny.

[littlebuggermate]

They're both good, part.J. Anderson, but LP's French is almost impossible to understand...

[jmahlon]

the small train-wreak at the end was the conductors fault. Was not listening to the singers at all...hello portamenti happening.

[jmahlon]

he definitely needed those glasses.

[Mooorhe]

A huge shame. The same vocal cords that produced this duet and his two arias so beautifully 20 years before this performance produce this, which pales in comparison.

[jmmartinez0328]

Magnífico Luciano como siempre, pero bajo riesgo de parecer un amargado, es de notar su tremendo error al inciar el aria, todo por no ponerse los lentes, jajaja... aún así... el mejor tenor de todos los tiempos.

[saaalvaaadoor]

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[alexandriusgirl]

Oh God.... Pavarotti is amazing, but I seriously have no idea what language he's singing in here.

June <3

[WANK83]

He is singing in french. A quite irregular french though...

Exceptional interpretation

Regards from France

[jabreyes]

June Anderson, bellisima, bellisima.

[jabreyes]

Una cosa que me sorprende y confunde de Pavarotti es su exquisita voz tan llena de emoción contrastada con la frialdad de su expresión. Pero en este video Pavarotti es un artista, me parece tan poseido de su papel y ademas feliz de estar haciendolo. Por supuesto soy un ignorante en esta materia.

[tena2]

La educación en este mundo se está perdiendo por desgracia, es muy penoso la forma de contestar de la gente y es muy penoso ver la falta de humildad y de saber estar.

[tena2]

Una cantante puede ser más o menos querido por el público pero Señores no se está bajo ninguna obligación de dar un 10 en todo lo que Pavarotti hacía, las personas tenemos nuestros ideales de trabajo operístico, vocal, técnica etc, me parece lamentable que personas como AZMETALERO tengo que faltar el respeto a la gente para imponer su gusto, aún sin conocer con quien hablan.

[loveluciano1]

Very beautiful duet of Luciano Pavarotti and june anderson. beautiful aria i love it and I love Luciano more.

[Joeleole]

What happened at the end... break-down in communication much?

[tena2]

Por que Luciano sigue en esta representación leyendo lo que canta? él canto la fille du regiment muchas veces y sin leerlo en escena, que acaso no retiene las cosas bien? es algo curioso esto de servirse del texto habiendo cantando la ópera entera tantas veces.

[AZMETALERO]

lavate la boca antes de criticar a uno de los mejores tenores del mundo anda a cantar vos a ver que haces

[tena2]

Perdoname usted, primero muestre educación cuand hable con alguien que no conoce y segundo está usted faltando al respeto.¿ Es que la gente olvida la razón y finalidad de este espacio de youtube? Tengo todo el derecho a opinar aquí tanto como usted y no estoy obligado compartir su opinión, no me tiene por que gustar la poca habilidad del Señor Luciano para los idomas y tampoco estoy obligado a nada, yo nunca he ofendido a Luciano.

[MisterSoprano]

Very good. About opera singers and foreign lagnuages... mostly they don't speak the language they are singing in, most of them don't speak italian, but, when they study for a role, they have people who explain them every word of text and they learn it by heart. :)

[tena2]

Yes thats right, but you mean pavarotti because I know many tenors, domingo, kraus, caballé etc who actually speak very good french, Languages is not luciano´s best skills but wow sung very well.

[TraVoiBelle]

Yes, but the speaking of these langueges doesn't make they better that this one

[NEMETORSZAG]

le français de June Anderson est parfait, mais celui de Pavarotti (qui a besoin du texte..) est vraiment épouvantable!

[sebastienchartry]

toi ta geule ;) si tu etais italien ;) et que tu ne ^parle pas le francais courament ? comme tu ferai ;)

tu insulte le plus grnad ténor de tout les temps ;)fai gafe ;)

[jmahlon]

hisimperialmajesty has no idea what the frack he is saying. Worthless comments.

[Haristotel]

Can someone send me the lyrics!!!

Please.

[pavadomingo]

That means he sang La fille du regiment, the complete role without konwoing what he was saying?

[hisimperialmajesty]

Well, like I said, he had the gist of what he was saying, he just never learned the language.

[jose2carreras]

So in essence, you're trying to say that his roles such as Don Jose in Carmen and similar others were basically done by lip-synching or something to that effect? Then why were they so successful?

[hisimperialmajesty]

Not lip-synching so much as memorizing lines. The reasons he was so successful:

1) He had an incredible voice; no one had ever sang this particular role entirely in its original key.

2) He was not quite as bad an actor as most people like to think or say, especially in comic roles.

[jose2carreras]

So basically, his Don Jose (Carmen), Werther, and Faust were all sung because of memorising lines?? Even onstage(check out the DG Carmen at the Met with Pavarotti and Baltsa)? You've got to be kidding, no-one can sing so many roles with practically no understanding of what's going on...

[hisimperialmajesty]

But that's what I'm saying, he still had a good idea of what was going on, he knew what his lines meant, even if he didn't speak French itself. As an example, I've memorized lines to songs in Latin before, and I knew what those words meant and what the song was conveying, but I don't actually speak Latin.

[fvrp]

Pavarotti is the best tenor for ever!!!!!!!!!!!

[hisimperialmajesty]

As a matter of fact, Pavarotti did not speak French at all. He just never got around to learning it, which he regretted as he had many fans in France. But because of this, he had to learn the libretto phonetically, so it's possible he only had a general idea of what he was saying, rather than what each word and phrase meant.

[jose2carreras]

So... pardon my curiosity, but if that's the case, then are you trying to tell me that his French opera roles (such as Don Jose in Bizett's Carmen, and the title roles of Gounod's Faust and Massenet's Werther, for example), are all phonetically learned as well?

[hisimperialmajesty]

That is my understanding, from biographies I've read. But that's of little detriment, in my opinion. He still sang such roles second to none.

[cmorgan22]

Florez is technically flawless, but my test of any singer is if I get goose bumps. I always did with Pav. in this role. Saw Anderson at the MET in this, but that was when Pav realized he couldn't sing the 9 high c's and cancelled. Just heard Florez, and while technically perfect he just didn't do it for me. Pav will always be my favorite in this role.

[orlycst33]

Pavarotti excellent as usual! French was not his primary language besides, those who wanted him to be perfect are not perfect themselves. PAVAROTTI THE BEST TENOR EVER!!!!

[Klassizismus]

Not that you understand me wrong, I really find their singing great; but what I find strange is, that Pavarotti after having sung this role sooo often, doesn't know the text by heart; and at 3.14 he looks as if he sees the text for the first time in his life!

[fvrp]

Santo Dio!!! Pavarotti the best forever!!! MAestro Luciano, I miss you...

[paulinexxxx]

Thanks so much; I regret so much that there is no film of he and Sutherland singing this. Anderson is wondeful. I saw them sing this opera at the Met.

[drdre333]

So entertaining... it put a smile on my face for many reasons.

[albertogrilo]

Very Good. But a bug mistake from the orchestra at the end

[nickbigd]

ok but what the heck happened at the end?  that was a mess - it sounded like the whole orchestra skipped a measure?

[nickbigd]

Terrific - Thanks for posting!

[marutarg]

la gente que dice que estaba en decadencia, no tiene idea , todos sabemos que los tenores psan por una edad en que son expectaculares, pero todo se lo lleva el tiempo pero el hasta sus ultimos dias tuvo estupenda su voz

[ivancin25]

y asi dicen qeu a los 57 años ya estaba en decadencia y cantabdo la fillia regim,ent master

[tena2]

a ver en decadencia no pero los expertos como yo en opera somos realistas querido amigo, pavarotti aqui interpreto justamente el duo de la fille que menos exige a la voz, si le ponemos en pou mon ame, ya veriamos pues sé de buena tinta que se le agotaron los agudos altos de cabeza ya hacia años, y eso que yo soy admirador de pavarotti.

[urns100]

=0 pues la ultima vez que canto que fue ahi en torino 2006 llego a un si bemol y eso que hacia un frio de la fregada, pero pues si efectivamente su voz se deterioro rapidamente acuerdate que el fue catalogado como tenor lirico spinto pero aun si fue una de las voces mas hermosas que haya existido

[tena2]

el nessun dorma de torino fie cantado no me acuerdo si media tono o un tono mas bajo por lo tanto no logró recordar bien pero sé muy bien que no cantó el nessun dorma en su tono escrito por puccini, además yo soy defensor como el postumo kraus de o se puede cantar o se calla uno, hay que ser un hombre leal, no tiene mérito cantar opera cuando no se puede. eso si habian muchos roles que bordaba pavarotti.

[tklogan11809]

class act, both of them.