Luciano Pavarotti/Mirella Freni - O soave fanciulla - Live 1969

Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni(in my opinion, the greatest Rodolfo and Mimi ever) sing O soave fanciulla from act I of Puccini's La Boheme

Live 1969 - La Boheme - Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI conducted by Thomas Schippers

This video is part of my tribute to the late Luciano Pavarotti, who as you should know, died a year ago today (6th of September). I'm posting up a few live recordings of his, just to try and get across the true Pavarotti to those who think that Pavarotti's greatest hour was singing with the spice girls. This recordings shows the true Pavarotti, a gorgeous, youthful, colourful, joyous and refined voice. Recordings like this are why I consider him to be the best Rodolfo. His Mimi was Mirella Freni, who I consider to be the best in her role. This recording is one of my favourites.

Rest in peace Maestro, may you sing with the angels.

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• Freni
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• rodolfo
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• boheme
• puccini
• italian
• tenor
• soprano
• opera
• soave
• fanciulla

[loveluciano1]

The Great Luciano. no one is like him, just wonderful.

[crazydutchmusician]

IMHO, the absolute best Boheme pair. No one can touch these two.

[JoshuaHo93]

@Aerohog1 he was approached many many times for that performance. if no one else could do it, he would. why? for the sake of the Olympics. he has an illness which explains his larger than life size. no one would want to be bloated.

and his voice is due to his age. you're such an ignorant person. sigh..

[darackious]

epic of all epics... i love this... it took me years to find this beacause i saw this done on highlander the series and i wanted to hear this song again.

[MrPipposiculo]

Questa edizione che registrai a suo tempo ,è famosa per una gaffe di Musetta , nel finale invece di dire "Madonna benedetta fate una grazia a questa benedetta ,dice a questa maledetta!

Grazie per avermelo fatto ricordare!!

[jd7x7]

@happywealthyme yes but puccini didn't write a top c for the tenor - he wrote an e below. tenors really should respect the far more beautiful original version. grrr :(

[Aerohog1]

Nice to hear the great Freni and the legend-to-be before he became the bloated, over-working-his-voice celebrity. Remember the Olympics in Turin! Pav was there looking like he had been cryogenicaly frozen and barely thawed out for the opening performance. No self respecting opera class singer would have been singing in those conditions, risking their career..

[happywealthyme]

Mirella is a great Mimi...Love Pav but Bjorling is my fav...Pav hits a great last note here with Mirella Both beautiful and I can listen again and again

[numetutelare]

Adesso ci dovremmo accontentare di gente come Villazon o Alvarez ed il prezzemolo Netrebko...povera lirica.

[Bret6464]

@madisonelectronic I saw them at the Met in La Boheme, twice :-))

[madisonelectronic]

I heard these two at Lyric Opera in the 70s. I saw him in Chicago at least 8 times after. People sometimes forget (me) how lucky they are to hear these people even once in their life live. The house can only hold so few seats.

[trovatore90]

è sempre un bel duetto, cantato in modo egregio, non mi soddisfa la orchestrazione mi sembra un poco fiacca!