I was there in the audience and have carried the memory in my mind for all these years of how Caballé joined in the applause for Pavarotti after "Che gelida." How wonderful to actually see it again!! (Not to mention the hearing!!!)
This had to be the one-night gala in March, 1976 at the MET in New York. I flew in and stood for the whole opera with the flu. It is etched into my memory forever. They were both so exquisite I cried buckets of tears.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for sharing this. The pic was blurred, the two extraordinary singers were overweight (Mimi was certainly not looking like a consumptive!) but the singing transcended all of this - and you recorded this for us to watch while our world falls apart with this Covid 19. Great art like this holds us in one piece against the chaos. Bet you never thought your video would have such a powerful effect! Thank you again!
I cried during and after this performance... I never heard and FELT anything like that in all the future performances I attended.....The sound simply engulfed me like a warm blanket... AMAZING! Long for voices like this again.
Formidable! With what respect and admiration these two singing Geniuses listen to each other. And it is to be impressed with that powerful clean long "C"... Caballe's pianisimos do not cover Pavarotti's voice (in the high notes the female voice dominates the male voice), on the contrary they formed an absolutely organic duet. It is unrepeatable like concerts by Paganini or Chopin. We only have that very poor quality video, the gift of the generosity and daring of that viewer who was lucky to be present the birth of a Masterpiece!
Amazing to see this video! I was there. In my last year of law school at Columbia ... a friend snared tickets. This was a one-time special performance pairing Caballe and Pavarotti. It was astounding from beginning to end. The applause was unending. My friend and I left after 30 minutes of applause at the end, and people were still screaming and shouting. I will never forget Caballe breaking character to applaud Pavarotti's unbelievable singing of Che Gelida Manina. One of my cherished opera memories.
I am very envious of you, but hope to get to The Met once this virus has subsided. I won’t be able to see these two operatic giants but I want to catch Mr David Hallberg’s farewell performances with ABT before he leaves for Australia.
No tengo las palabras exactas para describir en su real dimensión lo q este video nos da al privilegiarnos con este registro histórico. Gracias. De Lima Perú.
one of the most beautiful arias ever written, and for mine one of the hardest to sing beautifully incredible simply incredible, thank you kindly for sharing
I just discivered this-how wonderful. We were there close to the front row. A never to be forgotten performance. Just saw the most recent La Boheme in Live from the Met in HD. It was good but I don't think any performance will match the 1976 one. This video made my heart soar. Thank you!!!
How ecstatic this moment...how sad I have missed Caballe over and over...Although, my toddler daughter sat on his lap with visit to his dressing room with her daddy, another tenor. Pavarotti tremendous talent. Caballe and Pavarotti together is vocally unimaginable to me to be in audience. I don't think I would be able to sit still.
cuando Pavarotti canta "poiche va preso stanza, la speranza!" se me pone la piel de gallina. lo he oido cantar el aria unas cinco mil veces y en conciertos, operas, grabaciones de video y disco y siempre me pasa igual... y la Mimmi de Caballe es de otra galaxia "altro di me non lei saprei narrare..." divinos los dos!!! la señora del publico que grita "brava bravo bravisimo oh it's beautiful" es mi heroe! esa es la gente que debe acudir a la opera con ganas y amor por el arte
Ho avuto la fortuna di ascoltare Pavarotti all'Arena di Verona nel 1972 ( un ballo in maschera)e al comunale di Bologna nel 1974(La Favorita)....Pav... The greatest the only 🌟
What a find on a Saturday afternoon-- I sighed--- I cried---I remembered times of hearing each in the theater and the sounds that inspired and still resonate in my heart. God-- there must be SUCH music in heaven!
Who cares about the little glitch in Pavarotti's top note. This is music sung straight from the heart, the way it is supposed to be performed. Both Caballé and Pavarotti are 'in the moment'. I love it.
Исполнители исключительные, но мне особенно приятно, что публика заслужила таких исполнителей, благодарно и восторженно откликаясь на уровень исполнения.
It was like Caballe brought her ‘A’ game after seeing Pav slaying Che Gilda Manina! I’d better give those $&@“ing pianissimos to show that I am worthy of this stage 😂 Mdme. Caballe you will always be remembered as a great soprano ❤️❤️❤️
My dear Uncle Louie, thanks a lot! Вы своровали для нас у всепожирающего Времени ещё один кусочек счастья. Я превратился в вас, слушал и смотрел, и мне вдобавок не надо было держать камеру! Какая красота!
Cada um em sua plena identidade vocal e artistica, me sinto como a senhora que grita sem parar, pois esse tipo de emocao e algo indescritivel!Brave sempre!(obrigada pelo download do video,um presente de domingo!)
I too was there and am so glad to hear from the many others who remember the performance as I do. Well of course. No one there could ever forget it. More a concert version, really, and when Caballé applauded along with the audience, the enthusiasm of the crowd around us grew even louder. The performance was first announced as La Bohème, TBA. Once the leads were named, the rush to get tickets was explosive. It was as if the Met delved into the secret casting dreams of its devoted audiences.
She had been through a cesarean delivery in 72 then an abdominal surgery 74? for a questionable growth...she was such a gracious woman, no knew too much of constant medical challenges...76/77 her husband had a heart attack...her musical vocal gifts were always a path way to her heart.
That lady really liked what she heard and was saying it out loud. What's wrong with that? Was she distracting to the performers and the performance? No. These two performers had he ability to stir up something in people. I'd rather be sitting in a rowdy crowd who likes what they hear than one that sits and politely claps.
🌿Remek delo 21.veka i svih vekova proslih i buducih koji ce doci!!!🌿Velicanstveni ,jedinstveni✨ Luciano Pavarotti ✨i ✨Montserrat Caballe✨🌏✨🌞🌟🌟🕊️Bozanstveni!!!Vrh!!!Nema dalje!!!♥️
Voces irrepetibles, sublimes. Pero hoy en día a los cantantes se les exige que, además, han de ser actores y otro detalle que no quiero comentar. Cuando uno de los dos está cantando, el otro parece que esté haciendo la declaración de la renta o rellenando la quiniela.
No. The tewnty stone divas were always there and always will be should their voices and skils worth it. In the _bel canto_ era, when heroines had to be credible because opera was just opera, singing theater, enterteinment, not elitist “high culture", they were almost all pretty women like today (Colbrán, Pasta, Malibran, Sontag, Grisi, Cinti, Dorus, Meric, Tacchinardi, Patton... ) BUT then there were Pisaroni (ugly), Ronzi (fat) or Alboni (extremely fat, even fattier than Caballé).
