Luciano Pavarotti - Ah mes amis - Live at the Met 1972

Luciano Pavarotti's first ever performance of La fille du regiment at the Met. The audience goes wild, quite rightly too. This performance took place on the 17th of February 1972.

From act I of Donizetti's La fille du regiment

Live 1972 - The Metropolitan opera orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge

Here are some parts of a review about this performance:

''The show was constantly being stopped Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera, where a new production of Donizetti's "La Fille du Régiment" was staged. Joan Sutherland stopped the show at her entrance and several times thereafter. Luciano Pavarotti stopped the show with his first aria and, later, with the "Quel desin" aria, the one with the nine - high C's.''

^ The reviewer named the aria wrongly of course

''In the last two years Luciano Pavarotti has come up fast, and today he is the reigning tenor in the lyric side of the Italian repertory. God has kissed his vocal cords, as he has said. This is a voice on the Gigli order, though used with more taste and musicianship. He sings the B's and C's as though he is not afraid of them, and the voice has an absolutely unbroken scale.''

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[8070jack]

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

[Myownpickle]

@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.

[alauc]

Bravo maestro!

[starmanbridges]

You go LP!!!

[BambinoBaritono]

Me casaria con los restos de pavarotti

[JordnBee]

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.

[blindbirdoperamusic]

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!

[Bret6464]

@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 :-))

[Omar9315]

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 =)

[assindiastignani]

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.

[fcg2367]

Awesome!!