pasfresh123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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

vickersman (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

and the terror!!!!!

TheInquisitive4Ever (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Pavarotti sounds great here.

TheInquisitive4Ever (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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