Caballe, Domingo, Scotto on Pavarotti Tribute 2007

[parodycreator25]

I want to hug Renata Scotto and Montserrat Caballé, they are so cute :3

[helbar]

descansa em paz maestro

[bapqapmoc]

From where are all those amazing videos of Pav in his prime coming from? We want that!

[binturong]

Oh my god!!! is this the San Francisco's 1977 Turandot?? does the video of that performance exist??

[Mooorhe]

Unfortunately that video is not the SF Turandot.

[a28594]

..How he starts 'la donna e mobile' here is just heavenly ...he just flaps down the jaw and out comes that beautiful, rich trademark Pavarotti sound.

[ShawDAMAN]

Saw this on PBS when it first aired, very nicely done I thought.

[castorp1981]

I don't know what is wrong with Scotto but in these tribute-videos she gave Pavarotti the greatest compliment ; she says that Pavarotti is ''Numero uno'' or ''Number one'' ; in other words the best.

[jenni4claire]

I think they had a huge falling out in the late seventies about something- he said because she thought she was God, I can't remember what she said about it, though they supposedly made up for one of the UN charity gigs many years later, she does not seem to have entirely forgotten their spat.

[Mooorhe]

They had a fight because her voice was completely shot due to singing the wrong repertoire. They sang La Gioconda together (as you know) in SF, 1979. Scotto was not at all suited for it with her delicate voice and she was put through hell by the audience. There was a letter sent to her, which she believed was from Pavarotti (it wasn't), which, coupled with Pavarotti taking a solo curtain call ended their friendship.

Their young voices blended exquisitely.

[billyguns2]

Just compare Caballe's gracious and astute comments to Scotto's inappropriate critical comment about one of the greatest tenors the world has ever known; Pavarotti was much more than a "prima donna" you ungracious, jealous, nasty woman! You may have been a compelling artist, but never had the heart and humility of Caballe and Pavarotti. Mi fai schiffo e ribrezzo.

[billyguns2]

Not a word from La Scotto about the greatness of Pavarotti's singing; no, just that he was a "prima donna." The woman is atrocious, sempre la gelosia e cattiva; her comments upon the death of Maria Callas will live in infamy, all about herself and no gracious thing to say about one of the most important figures in the history of opera. Scooto could only dream about the international fame and instant recognition that Callas and Pavarotti achieved.

[craigpross]

uhhh.. the people making the video (which is probably longer than the 3 minutes here) obviously didn't include everything she said.. I wouldn't get too stressed out or catty about it...

[gaettatelli]

I just want to say you that Renata is a very sweet and human person,she isn't geaolus of Callas and Pavarotti,she knows her limits and her possibilities,i think that the interwiew with Renata didn't finished as here,but they put into this video only a little part.She love luciano,watch a tv show recorded in 2001 in modena with pavarotti and scotto and many others!thank you renata

[DanRobSo]

In Mr. Breslin's book he states that Luciano and Renata buried the hatchet with each other. They were both professional enough to perform in Verdi's Ballo in Maschera at the Lyric Opera after the SF Gioconda problem - today singers who have a spat like that would cancel. Maybe she was angry with him once, but I think she got over it. Also, Scotto credits Callas with much in her book and other interviews - you just don't see it here.

[sandytheslayer]

I ADORE Renata Scotto! Brava!

[StellaFan1]

There will never be another Pavarotti, that's for sure. What an amazing voice.

[ugolinifu]

THE BIGEST WAS LUCIANO! Why the another two gusy didn't come for his funeral??? Misterius!... They take advantage of his fame and charisma to make money and fame thru him on this three tenors concerts... then???

[Liwah]

They were famous in their own right too, you know.

[tena2]

exellent question, I have also asked myself that too, caballe, carreras, domingo, and many other, there were at least 25 singers still alive who I am thinking off who did not assist at his funeral.

I may know why, envy and he was a bit rude and full of shit when It comes to fame and compare him with other but its only an opinion.

What you think about it?

[Mooorhe]

Many famous singers were, Domingo skipped it for a rehearsal and others will have had their reasons. Freni was there and many others were as well.

Pavarotti was an Italian, he wasn't intentionally rude, his mentality was just far different from what people are used to. He wasn't full of shit. And he always respected the singers of the past. Once compared to Bjorling, he said 'Oh, please, I am only human'.

[55patri]

Una voz celestial, Bravísimo maestro

[iriisblue]

I'm really tired of these dilettante copywriters who refer to a "natural" voice as if it jumped out of bed one day sounding like that. This man mastered a technique of great finesse and applied it steadily and intelligently over many years to achieve what he did, and to maintain such a high lperformance standard. The foundation of his technique was gleaned from Joan Sutherland, and he was very open about that.

[Ginotti]

You that you're absolutely right.

[Lohengrin]

scotto lived all of her life with the word "primadonna" stuck in her head... i find it tremendously ridicilous because she never was one

[magicmonkichi]

@Lohengrin

I never understood the "air" she has about her.

[MrSebtian]

@Lohengrin Then you have none WHAT-SO-EVER any knowledge about opera. How dare you?. Just because you obviously didn´t like her, does not mean she wasn´t one of the primadonna of her time. What I find ridiculous is your TREMENDOULSY RIDICULOUS comment.

[Italia1987]

one of the best.... i have a met subscription for this season, and i have to say, none of the tenors singing there now even come CLOSE to this voice. truly great.

[alecs1976]

he always sounded like a fat, sated baby. I never liked his sound

[fred0125]

you probably don't like filet mignon or lobster either

[alecs1976]

listen to peter dvorsky at his very best, there you have your filet mignon!

[fred0125]

dvosky is wonderful, but peter at his best is an equal to luciano on a bad night

[alecs1976]

oh please, don't be ridicolous. get a new set of ears. peter dvorsky's voice was more colorful and his top notes were strong and blooming - pavarotti's top note were always sort of tight (except for his very early years before he decided to become a spinto-tenor, that in substance he never was!)

[Kafkandinsky]

It's natural for a lyrical tenor to become a lyrical-spinto tenor when the voice gets darker with the age.

[alecs1976]

that a voice matures into a heavier repertoire can take place..but in pavarottis case the voice only got thinner and tighter towards the top notes...that's because he added more squillo to his sound - but that didn't make him a spinto tenor, and roles like kalaf or manrico are definitely spinto repertoire. but had he sticked to bellini and donizetti he could not have made this career.

(a similar case ist marcello alvarez, he's got a beautiful, blooming sound. but now he's also singing manrico.)

[Kafkandinsky]

Corelli made him similar critics as you are doing to him. He said that making the move to dramatic roles would damage his miraculous voice (is not secret to anyone that everyone thought Pavarotti's voice was something out of this world, but as happens with other tenors, having the best voice doesn't mean you have the best singing).But as you said, its easy to understand why he made the move. Belcanto lyrical roles were not a challenge to him anymore.

[colino72]

Well, you can say you personally didn't like him, and no-one can say that your opinion is wrong, but from an objective, technical perspective, the range of harmonics in his voice is not at all common, and I think that is why he was able to go more dramatic. He had plenty of lower formants, as well as the bright, upper harmonics. It is a scientifically measurable great voice.

Agreed, you don't have to like it. Some people actually like Domingo's sound, so opinion is an odd thing.

[drdre333]

A unique star. Most definitely.

[fred0125]

Perhaps then that it's all in the ears of the beholder!

[drdre333]

Always! ;-)

[libro07]

Incredibile!! We will always remember you, Luciano. The sun shone in your voice indeed!

[stdterreca]

lovely voice, unmatched by any other

[Lohengrin]

Yes he was a phenomenon. I believe he is the greatest tenor we have ever heard up to now...

[dee1153]

He was a phenomena! Thanks again for posting this!