Pavarotti's Che Gelida Manina High C in 1969!!

[stephanofmunich711]

La Scala is full of idiots. Let them sing the aria!

[stevevandien]

Pav was a great tenor, so don't mean to rain on his parade. But I never thought his high C came near Corelli's --

[MrDiabo76]

Il video originale è del 77 al Met con l'"amica" Scotto...in quell'occasione, purtroppo non fu un Do riuscitissimo

[AfroPoli]

Lame. In 1969 at la Scala he cracked and got booed.

[MariaCallasLegend]

@AfroPoli what is "lame"?at la scala he was in cold and the public was idiot!

[brujoa]

@MariaCallasLegend if you are a tenor, and you have a cold, don't sing

[ForAll23]

@AfroPoli

So…

Even the best chess players make bad move sometimes.

It changes nothing, he was a great star.

[HTHAMMACK1]

@AfroPoli LOL! Another third rate armchair opera critic on youtube slamming the greatest tenor that ever lived. Wake the hell up you idiot. You aren't fit to even comment on an amateur tenor, much less Pavarotti.

[SHICOFF1]

This 1969 performance of the aria is even better then the 1977 as I have it. Good sound.

[moo7chi7ld]

please tell me why this is one of his best Hi C's. I have an operatic type tenor voice, but sometimes I wonder if my notes above hi b flat have enough or any wight or chest tone in them, actually because they sound more like this recording than other ones, which sound fuller, more like the rest of his range.

[tdeane34]

That is insanely good! How about the rest of the aria? Please post it if you have it. It sounds like he was really on that day.

[aroncooker]

see how confusing this is mixing audio and video.....

[ilmaestro18]

Correction: This is actually from 1977, as part of the first Live From The Met telecast.

[MariaCallasLegend]

@ilmaestro18 The audio is from 1969 and the video is from 1977!!