I upload some days before the audio recording of the broadcast of Pavarotti's Concert version of "Che Gelida Manina" from Paris (3/3/1965)! And now it's time for the Video ;) Hope to enjoy!!!
So many of us who are not pure opera lovers look to Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma" as his pinnacle. But to me this aria, "Che Gelida Manina", demonstrates best what makes him doubtless the Greatest Tenor of All Time. His power, his control, the matchless purity and sweetness of tone, and the heart and soul and meaning he puts into every performance -- all are so profoundly greater than any tenor I have ever heard. To someone like me, who loves the arias, but often knows little of the story they're taken from, Pavarotti's spirit, expressiveness, and immersion in the heart of the song communicates so much. He reached so many who had never been aware or cared for opera, and brought them to appreciate it. And as so many have said, a compassionate, humble, reachable person -- and a great teacher for those who followed. I'm just so glad we have the great recordings that will indeed allow him to sing on forever!
It does bother me how all the reactionary videos on you tube are to later live recordings of nessun dorma, so much from his early studio recordings show the real talent
Appreciate your very good comment. I feel that Pavarotti was truly special and different because he started out as a soccer player and started to get trained in a classical way to become an operatic tenor! He had a magnificent stage presence when he was young. I agree that this is one of the best!
It's certainly a matter of personal taste, and Pavarotti is without question one of the greatest of all time; but if you appreciate him I cannot recommend strongly enough the che gelida manina and the nessun dorma of my personal favourite tenor of all time, Franco Corelli. Both are easy to find on RU-vid. Here's a link to one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_yoQ2PMVMRY.html And here the other: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Eg-59NoES2o.html Seriously, you will thank yourself.
My grandson and I enjoy listening to a variety of music. He was about 3 years old when he heard Pavoretti for the first time. He listened intently, trying to understand the words. When the song finished, he applauded and shouted that was good. I agreed.
*Mein 'Vorschlag' einer* EQUALIZER-Einstellung -10dB (60Hz) -10dB (230Hz) -10dB (910Hz) - 8dB (4kHz) +15dB (14kHz) Hören "in *erster Reihe"!* Die Intonation der Instrumente wird *nicht* verändert; da jedoch vor allem die mAn. *eigentlich kaum hörbaren* Obertöne zunehmend verstärkt sind, gewinnt die Wiedergabe merklich an Brillianz & Text i besser verständlich. (An der Tonquelle sind zunächst die Obertöne maßgeblich und stark mit-verantwortlich für die "Tonfärbung" des Klanges. Je weiter entfernt ein Hörer, umso deutlicher lässt die sehr hochfrequente Signalintensität nach; *schneller* als die tiefere! Für ältere Aufnahmen bereits relevant beim Input in die unterschiedlich im Raum postierten Mikrofone. Dem wird mit neuester Aufnahmetechnik natürlich Rechnung getragen. Bei *früheren* Produktionen wirkt hier mMn. eine moderate Verstärkung der in einer Aufnahme geschwächt vorhandenen obersten Frequenzen diesem Hochtondefizit etwas entgegen; hören Sie selbst! Erstaunlich - -)
Being Italian his pronunciation was succinct, but the joy and love of his craft just shone on his face…he was destined to be a Star, and indeed a Star he became! What a treat for those who were there to listen to this wonderful performance. There will be other great tenors in the future I’m sure, but they will have to go an awfully long way to match this man who we all still greatly miss. Thankyou Luciano for all the joy and up lifting of our actual Souls which you brought us. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏💕😘💐🦋
I am Italian and a music person: what I love about him is that you did not need a libretto to follow. His pronunciation is so clear! Every now and then a slight regional accent creeps in, but generally speaking, if all singers could be as clear....
@@iulius951 Oistrakh was this good at the violin. Clarity is so super hard to do. Only a very very few can. Oh, and tone. Well, they were both good at a lot. Very very good.
@@ursmue1937 well was clearly out of his possibilties. He acknowledged by not singing ever again. A pure lyrical voice venturing into heavie repertoire has never been advisable to anyone.
@@handcuffs3253 Thank you . Even without the high fidelity of his later recordings his strong clear voice brings tears . In these days of so much sadness and negativity my spirit yearns to escape into the beauty of lyrical opera and a simpler time.
ursmue1937 as is always the case a lyrical tenor must chose roles suited to his range and might I say , his feeling for the role .Perhaps I should have said that Pavarotti was one of the greatest tenors of all time especially suited to lyric opera.I liked his Otello i saw At the Met in 1967 or 1968 .and he received 7 curtain calls as I recall . You are correct however in that his unique contribution to opera Was in his roles in La Boheime and the greatest butterfly production I have ever attended in Italy 1964 . What singer can bring men to tears over and over even after hearing the piece for 40 years ?
haha, there're always someone pretending to understand classical masterpiece. I always wonder why they bothered themselves to click this in the first place...
Hi Dan. I apologize to you for my comment on Pavarotti - Che Gelida Manina 1965. If expressing an emotional connection to this music after 35 years, classifies me as someone to be laughed at, ridiculed and called a pretender and questioned as to why I even bothered to listen to this video without you knowing anything about me.. Then please, tell me and all us mere mortals on utube of the illustrious professional career you must surely have had with your technical knowledge and of the great experience that sets you apart from a pretender such as myself???
Luciano Pavarotti has always been a favorite of mine,people laugh at my for loving opera the way i do! My comment to them has always been,you have no taste!
@@morganhanson7940 You totally misunderstood dan maodi's comment. Dan was talking about the people who gave the video a thumbs down, wasn't talking about you... As for your original comment, many people dislike opera, no matter who's singing.
A belated apology to my father. He would play Classical LPs every Saturday morning in the living room. Drove me crazy! I teased him with: "It all sounds the same!" LOL. Fast forward many years later and "The Three Tenors" was the rage. You know what? Some of the songs generally moved me to the depth of my soul. THEN I remembered how my father spoke glowingly of Pavarotti ( and later how when driving and upon hearing Bocelli for the first time it made him pull off to the side of the road in sheer joy of Andrea's gifted voice ). So, I got the CD and explored a bit more of Pavarotti on my own through BMG Music Club ( anyone remember that? ). Purchased his "Greatest Hits", came across his singing of "Che Gelida Manina" and INSTANTLY fell in love with it! Always beautiful. Bravo! Thank you, Dad, for planting the seed in my earlier years which later sprang to fruition!
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI NOT ONLY WAS THE GREATEST BELCANTO-SINGER . HE ALSO WAS A WONDERFUL MAN FULL OF BEST VALUES AND THANKFULNESS. HE IS ONE ITALY AND THE WORLD CAN BE SO PROUD OF.
Why would one say that? Listen to singers before him. Everything continuously degrades in opera, like in almost all other arts. Commercialization, low tolerance barrier, etc. opera singers are applauded now because of their efforts, not the quality of their singing. Luciano Pavarotti is magnificent, but the last of Mohicans.
@@johanneskreisler7647 Haha- Don’t take this the wrong way, but besides reminding me of myself, your cadences and pessimism recall Gloucester in Act 1 scene 2 of King Lear. -Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities mutinies, in countries discord- etc. Please give a nice backscratch to Kater Murr for me.
My old dad, had he still been with us, would have loved seeing this. His favourite aria being sung by his favourite tenor. He died in 1982 before Pavarotti became a household name, even amongst philistines like me who are not fans of opera.
Your comment about your dad made me smile. My father loved this aria so much he would ask me to play it over and over. I think of him every tine I hear this. God bless Pavarotti and our dads! (And moms 😊)
As a 30 year old tenor you can hear his green and freshness. He's more covered than open, yet his high C is so bright and open like no others! His diction became so much clearer in his later years, as he admitted that he learned it from Giuseppe Di Stefano. His changing in style and perfection in techniques allows him to be one of the greatest tenors of all time! RIP.
Паваротти Велик и Прекрасен! Нелло Санти - Гений оперного Дирижирования!❤❤❤ в итальянском репертуаре Санти абсолютно вне конкуренции. Какой баланс, какая мягкость оркестрового сопровождения певца, как он потрясающе СЛУШАЕТ малейший изгиб вокальной линии! Одним словом Гений поет, и ему дирижирует Гений!
One year before I was born! What a devine voice! I can never hear enough of him. Thank you so much for the rear video! It's precious! Love from Greece.
@@OperaMyWorld Συγνωμη, έγραψα στα αγγλικά, γιατί νόμιζα ότι το έχει ξένος το κανάλι. Λατρεύω τον Παβαροττι! Ο μόνος που πραγματικά προξενεί με την φωνή του ρίγη στην ψυχή μου. Και πάλι ευχαριστώ πολύ για το υπέροχο και σπάνιο βίντεο. Καλή δύναμη να έχετε σε όλο αυτό που ζούμε.
Impressionante performance! Pavarotti novinho em folha emitindo aquela voz belíssima e potente. Um respeitável tenor. Um privilegio do nosso tempo sua existência. Obrigado ao editor.
Thank you so much for uploading the very valuable testimony of the young Pavarotti! You can clearly hear the god given mega talent, singing tjis aria absolutely effortless.
Beautiful! I heard Pavarotti for the first time at the Met with Joan Sutherland as The Daughter of the Regiment. A delightful production that played the comic implications of the piece to the hilt. Pavarotti, who was relatively new to the New York opera scene at the time, was, of course, spectacular, His aria with it's NINE high-C's became the talk of the town for weeks. It's so too bad that he became so grotesquely overweight. I didn't know it bfore now, but THIS video shows him to have been a rather beautiful young man, His inability to control his weight must certainly have cntributed to his too-early demise in 2007 at age 71. He still remains a larger-than-life charsmatic figure thirteen years after his death.
If you search on RU-vid you should be able to find audio (and video?) of at least one performance of his from that early run at the Met with Joan Sutherland in Daughter of the Regiment.
Stylistically, Pavarotti sang Mozart all the time perhaps without realizing it. His purity of phrasing and constant legato and his crystal clear and clean, always even-sounding vocal execution says it all. And, of course, to top it all off, his incredibly beautiful voice! What a gift from God to all of us he was!
One of the BIG disappointments of my life. I was stationed with the Navy at Puerto Rico. Pavarotti was scheduled for a concert in 1982. He cancelled just days before the show....
Only have to listen for a few seconds to feel better, happier, more positive. Wonderful singer, performer, entertainer. Lucky to have heard him in Met in 83 again in 89 and 90. And later in London. So special.
i was fortunate so to see him in the 70s, and later with the 3 Tenors, his control, interpretation and skill put the amazing Placido in the dust. Carreras was a pale nothing, technically great, but simply could not stand up to anything Pavarotti did. Pavarotti in the 70s was mind blowing, and changed my life. I thank my mother, eternally for bringing opera into my life.
This is absolutly brilliant opera altogether ,this is really rare footage im so privilaged to be watching this on U tube thank you so much , wasent he great even all those years ago as a young man , what raw talent , this will be famous for decades to come , my husband will really enjoy this as he is out walking our two west highland dogs before it gets too late ,thank you
I don’t care what anyone says, Maestro Pavarotti had the greatest Tenor voice of all time. He may not have been the greatest operatic tenor in as far as repertoire but his voice and technique will never be matched again. There will be many star tenors to come but never will there be a voice like,that of the late Maestro.
A segment of this performance was uploaded here many years ago and I've eagerly awaited the surfacing of a complete video. Thank you! This certainly captures Pavarotti at the height of his powers.
Thank you for giving us new generations 2021, a chance to see this see and hear such a GOD given voice! He is so expressive, and perfect !!! BEST EVER !!!
Sigh what an instrument and well he trained it...i think one of the best technical singers out there...his top is always so free and flows out. No constriction or harshness in his sound, no matter how forward his voice seems to be.
Oh, I love the music of LaBoheme.💜 The warmth of his voice, the power and the warm, warm smile. Sleep well sir, you have so much to sing about in the future. Thank you for uploading this.😘
Wonderful video, Pavarotti at his 30 displaying his unmatched beautiful tenor. No handkerchief yet, and as he later confessed, he didn't know what to do with his hands :-)
hans oberhaus - Ein lyrischer Tenor, kann nicht der Größte sein, eventuell der Größte lyrische Tenor. Pavarotti‘s Ausflug, zum schweren Verdi ( Otello) zeigte seine stimmlichen Grenzen auf.
@@Felipe.Taboada. Yes of Course and not to forget Tito Scipa and so many other great Tenors but overall as Artist was Pavarotti the greatest just listen to Pavarotti and James Brown its a man's world and you will understand why i'm saying he was the greatest of them all.
This was far from his peak. He peaked in the mid 70s thru the 80s. He was a youngin’ here! If you listen to some later recordings, there’s so much more nuance there. This is raw and while still beautiful and absolutely Pav, had a little growing to do.
Can the gelida manina be sung better than this? I couldn't imagine. To me, this is perfection and to watch and listen is pure joy. You are dearly missed Maestro Pavarotti!
Two years later (1967) I heard him sing Rodolfo at his Metropolitan Opera debut. He was not touted then as the greatest tenor since Caruso or Gigli or Björling; it was a Saturday matinee and he was suffering from a cold or maybe the flu....but he gave a magnificent performance! And we all knew we had heard something very special. We expected great things to follow and were not disappointed.
