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  • Divino, maestro insuperabile. Questi 9 do di petto da brividi!

  • Bravo maestro!

  • You go LP!!!

  • Me casaria con los restos de pavarotti

  • Fantastic! I've always thought that Pavarotti had some spinto tendencies, it might just be the recording but I found that his voice didn't quite have the brightness/cut of a lyric. Then again, it's rare a voice ever falls exactly into a specific category... Either way, excellent performance.

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  • This aria is one of my absolute favorites. Not only is Pavarotti fabulous here, but the tune is so happy and graceful, and the melody is so charming and light, it makes me want to dance even though I hate dancing! Meraviglioso!

  • In my opinion his renditions were always the best. His Cs, there's something abt them that scream, lyric, easy for him, but manly. You could tell it was easy, but it had a virile powerful quality. I love being a tenor =)

  • Awesome!!

  • I know this song is known for it's 9 high Cs and everyone loves it for it(myself included!!) but from from 0:46 - 1:03 in my opinion is simply haunting and beautiful.

  • Ahhh Pavarotti! so so soory i never had the pleasure of seeing him perform live...

  • 9 people are mad they can't hit the high C...

  • I love it cause you rarely get a raw recording of my man Luciano!!!

  • people, in this performance he does nine effortless high Cs in the signature aria, and a record seventeen curtain calls. LEGEND OF ALL TIME

  • @treimsky He was never great at French diction, but that doesn't mean his interpretation of this aria isn't incroyable! ;)

  • omg .... he's AMAZING !!!!!!!

  • Good lord! I don't even know where those notes are on the piano, let alone have any hope of reaching those notes.

  • Bravo. That's all, bravo.

  • I can understand musical differences or differences in taste, but how in the hell can you push the dislike button on this video?!

  • @Bidooshram as it is typical with opera singing. Can't understand a word )

  • @skol101 If you don't understand French, then I wouldn't expect you would.

  • I have heard the maestro several times live.. He had a lirico spinto voice that was a large round tenor sound.. In Rigoletto, you NEVER had trouble hearing him, fabulous sound. Fabulous. and he had the top notes too!  He sang all the light high stuff at first, and did not avoid high D's at all.. because he had them.

  • Pour 8070jack. In fact there are 9 high c's.... Still flawless!

  • I hate how people dis Pavarotti, almost just because he is considered the greatest tenor. His diction is fine, and his voice is exhilarating. so stop frickin hating!!!!

  • Yup, definitely prefer Florez. The notes at the top for Pavarotti are pretty..but so tense! You can tell he's straining by how the next note after every c sounds - almost like a glottal stop.

  • @incredulousG3 Not at all. It is covered and very well focused.No glottal stops.As for Florez, he has a much lighter voice. That voice is made for Rossini, Donizetti and Mozart, but not for Verdi or verismo.

    Pavarotti was able to sing a wider range of operas because the voice is a lirico-spinto.

    And more- if you really want to compare , go to the commercial recording of Pavarotti with Bonynge on DECCA.

  • Va demasiado acelerado

  • I'm french but we don't have to care his french way of singing, it's so good to hear such a voice in that aria ! Always amazing !! Pavarotti forever !

  • Ever since I read Maestro's biography, I have been looking for this performance. Thank you for posting! :)

  • This song still gives me goosebumps! Extraordinary! Rest In Peace Mr. Pavarotti. Thanks for improving my life with your voice.

  • you can may find a better pronuncuation in another tenor But his voice cant find in other tenor!!!

  • The Maestro was in rare form here. His voice is sorely missed. He sings with the angels.

  • perfect C's!!!!!!!!

  • Well when you're an opera/ classical music singer, being able to enunciate languages like german, english, french, latin, italian etc is VERY important! Some places will probably boo you for poor pronunciation throughout!

  • yes..what a dunce...I guess the native speaker perfers Robert Alagna and hey..her english ain't so hot either

  • Oh dear, maybe, foreign languages were not Signore Pavarotti´s field of excellency. Can´t we just listen and admire his voice dancing along this melody?

    There is an Italian recording, "Amici miei, quel (?) allegro giorno". I don´t understand very much of the lyrics, but listening, I imagine a bright young gentleman meeting his friends for a ball, leading his young lady to dance, easily, elegantly - well, in countless movies we see it, and he sings it.

    Bellissime, most beautifully.

  • If you're just here to hear the C's, try 5:00

  • @Bidooshram Y a quien le importa no es un arte de diccion meramente. Cuantos cantantes de francia han sido los tenores mejores del mundo en el repertorio frances en los ultimos 100 anos?. Existen muchas cosas mas importantes. Usted ha tratado de cantar en espanol, Italiano, Ingles o aleman?. en el pasado los cantantes cantaban es su lengua Materna. El maestro lo resuelve el Idioma stisfactoriamente y profecionalmente. Es un fenomeno!

  • This is what operatic french sounds like, guys.

  • El gran maestro Pavarotti es insuperable por su técnica y registro vocal

  • The french is not the point - it's the music! Pavarotti is not famous for being a good french speaker!!!!! He is famous for having the greatest voice and technique we have ever been lucky enough to hear!!!!!

  • Pavarotti é facilmente comico nesta aria!!

    Um tenor de graça como poucos!

    O unico que se compara a ele neste papel é Kraus!

  • magistrale

  • sin menospreciar a luciano que es un grande del bel canto pero me gusta mas la interpretacion de alfredo kraus

  • why would any poster comment about french pronounciation when the tenor sings 8 flawless high c's? sheesh.

  • @8070jack actually its 9

  • @8070jack 9 bro

  • @8070jack Because people need to understand what he's saying when they heard him LIVE! Duh!

  • @8070jack

    Ohh, you're damn right!

  • @8070jack 9 :)

  • There are any number of answers to the question, what kind of person would comment on the French pronunciation of a tenor who can sing like this, but since there may be young children out there reading this, let's just say only a very very silly person. I mean, it's not like we have a lot of singers running around today who can do this, is it? In the music world "Luciano" is an adjective, and it means supreme and flawless vocalism. Basta.

  • @8070jack The French and Francophiles are a unique breed :-)) What counts is perfect prononciation, so what if the voice is mundane and boring as long as it's perfect French, Vive La France !! XD Luciano's French is just fine, even I can understand the words and I am not French (merci mon dieu!) Also consider legions on non-Italian native singers who butcher Italian opera on all the great stages everywhere :-)

    Luciano is the master, there will never be another Pavarotti :-))

  • @Bidooshram

    Je ne parle pas parfaitement français, mais je dirais qu'ici on peut (puisse?) comprendre la plupart des mots qu'il chante. Peut-être c'est car je connais bien le libretto.

  • on peut :-)

  • pavarotti in bad french or somebody else in good french? I know which i would choose and it is the big guy!

  • Hasta el momento NADIE ha cantado como Pavarotti esta ARIA , NADIE .

    NOBODY SING THIS ARIA LIKE PAVAROTTI , NOBODY.

    NESSUNO.

    JCV

  • @JuanCarlosValls Con todo respeto al gran Pavarotti, Kraus es infinitamente superior en ese Aria, no solamente en el fraseo sino tambien en el tempo.

  • @LAZARUSREX1 TAMBIÉN ES CIERTO ESO , KRAUS UN GRANDE ..Y OBVIAMENTE MAS ELEGANTE EN SU CANTO .PERO PAVAROTTI ME GUSTA MUCHO EN ESA ARIA , QUIZÁ ME EXTRALIMITÉ EN EL COMENTARIO .

    JCV

  • @JuanCarlosValls Es un placer comunicarse con un caballero como Ud. Lo cierto es que cada uno tenemos nuestros gustos. Muchas gracias por el video. SALUDOS.

  • il grande luciano per questa magnifica esecuzione è stato applaudito per 15 minuti di fila al metropolitan...e c'è gente che ha il coraggio di mettere "non mi piace"...mah...

  • magnfico

  • greeeeeeeeat ! best 4ever

  • In his prime he was something special that is for sure!!!!!!

  • Luciano - THE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!

  • La fille du régiment

    o The Observer, Sunday 23 May 2010

    .... “As her shy, knobbly-kneed boyfriend Tonio, Juan Diego Flórez returned to wow us with those famous top Cs and pure, unsullied vocal gymnastics. Only Pavarotti, in living memory, could make it all sound so similarly effortless...”

  • alfredo kraus is best!! 

  • More than twice as many people have listened to the Florez version of this aria. Poor bastards!

  • Thanks Norm. Were you there, at the Met, for this?

  • I had the honor of singing in this opera last year with our local opera group.Such a fantastic production.

  • X mauriciomille

    si è francese tutto il testo è francese (je ne marcè su votre amour c.a.)

  • stfu about his french listen to his voice *_*

  • who cares... when you can sing with that core and ease... He has at least the double the voice of todays big stars in this rep.

  • wowww :O is paul potts? singing in french ?? amazing !!!

  • @lordnecro82 You're fucking retarded.

  • This is a quality tenor should sound. Now that is High C. Juan Diego Florez cheated.

    Pavarotti is the champion. It will be no other for a while.

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  • @jwhitaker26 What a silly comment. Florez cheated? By the same token I could say Pavarotti 'cheated' since HIS high C wasn't as big as say, Lauri Volpi's.

  • is diction even an issue when your singing up there (no question mark needed)....he sounds incredible! tremendous. the guys was a phenomenon!!! AWESOME!!!

  • I prefer Juan Diego Florez BY FAR!

  • @Zva26

    you are not a fan of great singing. Florez is a dwarf voice compared to pav

  • @JCLAWS here, here!  Absolutely...they're not even in the same universe.

  • @Zva26

    well, I think that's a little unfair given the poor tone quality compared to the excellent recording quality Florez can deal with today! Whereas doubtlessly JDF is today's reference, the interesting question when it comes to the 60s-80s is: Kraus or Pavarotti? Pav had the prettiest voice, Kraus the ultimalte nobility and technical skills, if you ask me. But lucky us that finally Florez came along. He is quite a miracle of a nowadays singer...

  • @Zva26

    I like both Pavarotti and Diego, another amazing guy to check out is Lawrence Brownlee. Incredible as well!

  • @jrjorgensen2519 Larry's a great guy and Iove his voice, but neither he or Florez is Pavarotti. Yes, they are one fach lighter, but they simply don't have the excitement or core to their sound that Pav had.

  • @Zva26 nope...

  • @QuiRan82 - In my humble opinion, neither can be compared. Florez is a tenore di grazia, or rather more. Pavarotti was a spinto and had a bigger voice. Florez has unearthed Rossini operas that Pavarotti would never have attempted, and rightfully so. I loved Pavarotti's voice, but certainly NOT the obese clown he became as the years wore on. Florez is a different singer altogether, and a much rarer one. Also, I prefer Kraus and Gedda to Pavarotti anyway.

  • @Zva26 As has been the case with many tenors, out of boredom, he ventured into rep that was WAY too big for him (Radames, Calaf, RIccardo, etc). Pav was a light-lyric to Florez's leggiero - very similar. Pav had a similar range but with more color to his voice. Being generous, one could call Pavarotti a full-lyric, but never a spinto. And calling Florez more rare? No one has come close to replacing Pav yet. . . it just happens no one likes Rossini enough to endure it with bad tenors.

  • woof.... interesting interpretation of French Diction...

  • this French is amusing

  • Dopo Pavarotti e finita .Oggi e la zanzara che canta questo repertorio...

  • @bodiloto chi florez?..si..secondo me la fa molto bene yang yang

  • @Fragenoa92 bravo/a ,sei forte hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha .

  • Pavarotti is incomparable here. Bonynge - demented, but Luciano isn't thrown!

  • The thing about Pavarotti is that he threw those high C's as the most natural thing in the world. With every other tenor you can feel the effort. The notes just flow as easily as if he were singing twinkle twinkle little star in the shower.

  • BRAVISSIMO MAESTRO!!!!

  • there are no video recordings of this? :(

  • we miss you prince of opera,none can compare to you.rest in peace.

  • this ópera is in french isnt?, is he singing in french?, thanks

  • @mauriciomille Oui. It's La Fille Du Regiment(Daughter of the Regiment).I actually had the pleasure of performing in this opera last year

  • @MaeliniValentine thanks

  • He's trying to ;).

  • @Mooorhe Il est à peine compréhensible mais quelle sonorité! En français, seuls Alfredo Kraus et Juan Diego Florez sont excellents, avec une pointe d'accent mais un grand naturel, ce qui les distingue de tous les autres interprètes.

  • @veronique118 Lawrence Brownlee also has good French diction too.

  • @veronique118 i've you ever heard Lawrence Brownlee's version. He also has very good French pronunciation.

  • @Mooorhe Some sing in better French, but none in better voice! ;^)

  • @Mooorhe Oh please, it's Pavarotti. He could make up a language for all we care -- Or speak Martian while he is belting out those sultry tones.

  • @mauriciomille yeah i think he made his best to sing it in french. it's widely known though that the maestro wasn't very skilled with languages.. of course, that's not to discredit his amazing talent and contribution to the opera world. singing in french, especially in opera, however, is hard enough already. lol you almost have to find which words to sing with french inflections and which ones to sing with italian inflection so that it all sounds sort of clear. lol it's really confusing. hahaha

  • @mauriciomille there is an Italian version that replaces the dialogue with recitative

  • @mauriciomille You are an odiot.

  • @mauriciomille  You are an idioT!

  • @mauriciomille Yes, that is french

  • @mauriciomille

    what a silly comment .

    By the way are you french?....... aren't you?

    I'm afraid to already know the answer

  • @mauriciomille bwahahahahhaha loves it

  • @mauriciomille It does not matter when you sound like this. The shocked sounds after his first C's are not the result of his poor diction.

  • Grande, grande, grande, grandísimo Luciano.

  • Oh, we miss Pav sooo much....!!

  • Why in the world is this so fast?

  • Pava is unfrickinbelievable! But what's up with Bonynge? Did he do a line of coke before conducting this aria or what? It's like he's trying to race Pavarotti to the end. Bonynge usually does a better job...but this is pretty sloppy.

  • The best Tonio EVER!! Incredible high notes... beautiful voice, amazing technique, and... so expressive! :) Thanks Luciano!! BRAVO!!

  • Pavaorotti, Tu restes le meilleur! Ta voix nous manque! Je n'ai pas eu la chance de te voir sur scène. Mais ton génie vocal et artistique remplit ma vie de bonheur! J'essaie de ne pas trop déranger les voisins quand j'écoute tes envolées vocales dans "Che Gelida Mania" ou "Come un Bel di di Maggio"! Personne chante comme toi. Je t'écoute ...Pour mon âme... Pour son salut... Youcef

  • il Maestro è sempre il maestro, c'è poco da farsi. Ho sentito dire che solo Enrico Caruso possedeva una voce più forte della sua, vero? Ahimè ne capisco molto poco di lirica..

  • @giancoclub Pavarotti il solo. Caruso è stato il capostipite del belcanto all'italiana...ma meglio di pavarotti...mmmmhhh. Credo di no.

  • ,,,This is a little fast lol, but interesting enough Pavs legato was excellent....his voice was pouring out from beg to end

  • Very nice, the best tenor.

    I kind like it more with this one guy Alek Sharder.

  • what moron is conducting ?

  • According to the description, Bonynge. Terrible isn't it....

  • A. Kraus : tecnica perfetta, voce molto estesa ma non eccezionale, molto appuntita e priva di grandi attrattive in senso timbrico. L. Pavarotti : solida tecnica vocale, voce molto estesa, rotonda e abbastanza versatile, timbro splendido, lucente, solare, acuti facili, quasi contraltini. Morale ? Grandissimi entrambi, anche se io, vocalmente, preferisco Pavarotti.

  • D'accordo. Evviva Luciano!

  • Devo dire che secondo me i Do di Kraus non sono così perfetti tecnicamente. Li trovo un po' "tirati". Pavarotti, d'altro canto: meraviglioso!

  • A. Kraus aveva una tecnica perfetta ( su questo non si discute ) e un'estensione vocale pari a quella di Pavarotti, se non maggiore. I suoi famosi " do " probabilmente possono dare quest'impressione perché molto più appuntiti di quelli di Pavarotti ma comunque molto sicuri tecnicamente.

  • Mah, se lo dice Lei che sulla tecnica di Kraus non si discute. A me continua a sembrare che i suoi Do non siano tecnicamente perfetti... ma in fondo non me ne importa più di tanto...

  • Si fidi, si fidi : nulla togliendo al GRANDISSIMO Pavarotti, le posso assicurare che quella di Kraus era una tecnica PERFETTA.

  • La mia opinione di cantante professionista, non pare. Ottima tecnica, certo. Ma perfetta proprio no...

  • Nessuno è mai perfetto. Saluti.

  • Sono daccordo. Comunque amo molto Kraus. Ricambio i saluti.

  • @jcbcn751 Totalmente de acuerdo

  • Anche in molti dei più celebri tenori "dall'acuto facile", come Alfredo Kraus (il quale raggiungeva a voce piena addirittura il Mi4), le note superiori al Si sono in realtà emesse da un REGISTRO ESCLUSIVAMENTE DI TESTA , mentre solo in rari casi (p.e. Luciano Pavarotti) il Do4 appare, almeno parzialmente, sostenuto dalla risonanza toracica.

  • È il 17 febbraio 1972 e al Metropolitan Opera di New York è di scena La figlia del Reggimento di Gaetano Donizetti. Gli spettatori più appassionati sanno che nella partitura dellaria Amici miei che allegro il giorno compare una sequenza di otto do di petto consecutivi e veloci, un passaggio spinoso per qualunque tenore, che, come specificato dallo stesso Donizetti nella partitura, è comunque autorizzato ad intonare la nota in falsetto.

  • Di fronte centinaia di persone Pavarotti compie un doppio miracolo. Non solo gonfia il petto e lancia in platea gli otto do a piena voce, ma ne aggiunge addirittura un nono, tutto originale, preso per la coda, al termine di un vocalizzo infinito. Il pubblico è incredulo e scatta in piedi, facendo scrosciare un applauso a scena aperta che dura venti minuti interi.

  • I read in "Great Singers on Great Singing" that Pavarotti had a cold for his Met debut, and the audience still went wild. Great to hear this!!!

  • damn, was teh conductor late for a his plane or something

  • why? heheh

  • @cmhmuscle LOLOL yeah could this go any faster?

  • i think the tempo was a bit fast, but i LOVE pavarotti. absolutely amazing singer

  • The King of the high C's!

  • Not his best performance of this but heck, so what? Still beats everyone else.

  • amazing,I get shocked when He sing 9 C2.

    omg

  • Bravo! Perfect!

  • Unbelievable....I have a few complete operas of Pavoratti from the '70's. Does anyone know if they are of any value?

  • They would be worth a million dollars for every lang play record, if the were not available3 on CD.

  • Luciano Pavarotti la voce più bella di sempre. Parlando per metafora è l'unico tenore ad avere il motore con il turbocompressore

  • Il più grande tenore di tutti i tempi. Si può dire che fosse meno musicista di altri, che fosse commerciale, che fosse un fenomeno mediatico......ma aveva una voce che gli permetteva di farci capire cosa fosse Dio nella lirica!

  • Luciano sei grandeeeeeeeeee!

  • + 5 ! IL SUO  REPERTORIO !!!! BRAVO !!!!

  • Bravo!

  • dico a tutti voi ascoltate bene perche i do sono di una lucentezza unica ,e senza fatica

  • potete dire cio che volete pavarotti rimarra il piu grande tenore di tutti i tempi

  • bastaaaaaaaaa pavarotti aveva il talento nel sangue..kraus nelle corde vocali...

  • Bravo, bravissimo, quasi quanto Kraus.

  • in effetti kraus e piu giu di lui ^^

  • This needs six stars...

  • Obviamente el francés puede mejorar pero.... a quién le importa???... que fabuloso Pavarotti!!!

  • Pavarotti, la voz mas bella del siglo, el timbre unico entre los tenores, y no lo digo yo, lo dijo, Corelli, Stefano, Alva, del Monaco, los agudos como el do de aqui, no tiene comparacion. bellisimo!!!!

  • Awesome.  WIsh the clip would include more of the applause :)

  • Sta via da lei il tubo strano e Castro sanno ciò che il suo fare? manrico60?