pasfresh123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

She seems like she is wearing THREE wigs, one behind the other. What's the deal? Like a horizontal Marie-Antoinette.

vickersman (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Imagine these 2 and Rysanek and Vickers singing in the same concert....wow,what a powerpacked concert this must have been.WOW!The PAv looks great without the fuzz-should have kept it off!IMHO

vickersman (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

and the terror!!!!!

TheInquisitive4Ever (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

GermanOS-What also comes to my mind is this though. The high notes make the tenor really exciting. It a voice which is in utmost danger as compared to a baritone, for instance. The tenor voice is a the very edge of a cliff. You take off and you fly away, experience absolute nirvana. You fail to take off and you die. That is the beauty of it.

TheInquisitive4Ever (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

GermanOS-I suppose if a tenor chooses his repertoire carefully to accommodate his lack of range, but does anything else that pertains to superb singing well, he can still produce artistic excellence. Above all, if he is honest about it does not pretend to be something that he is not, I am inclined to think it would be acceptable. But what you're describing is a singular occurrence; well at least that is how I feel it.

GermanOperaSinger (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Ok, I respectfully disagree to a certain point. Not all top tenors can hit high C, take Richard Tauber for instance, literally had NO high C and had an extremely shaky B which he avoided most of the time...but anyone who considers him anything short of a magnificent tenor is beyond stupid...some people just don't 'have' the note in their voice...now, if you have the note but can't sing it most of the time due to flaws in the technique (as is Carreras), that's a complete different ballgame.

mdehkram (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Pavarotti sounds great here.

TheInquisitive4Ever (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Joeleole-Carreras never had a C, let alone a reliable B4 even in his good years which were very short (1970-78). Accidentally hitting a C is not considered operatic singing. Top tenors do it day in day out (figuratively speaking) for a good 20 years before they transpose a semitone. It's rather sad to see how 18 yo uninformed youngsters have the audacity to cluelessly comment without acquiring knowledge first.

TheInquisitive4Ever (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Joeleole-As a 18 yo clueless fiddlestick what do you know about Pava? His was didn't decline. It darkened gracefully, and he moved into spinto roles and sung in Il Trovatore, Aida, Tosca and such. All of which was an operatic gem. I'd suggest you get informed first! Some of us have seen him live well before you were conceived!

appledude35 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Pavarotti's voice is incredible, WOW! I don't think that there were tenors at that time who could compete with him.