Luciano Pavarotti - A te o cara - Live at the Met 1976

Luciano Pavarotti sings A te o cara from act I of Bellini's I Puritani. Joan Sutherland is singing Elvira.
This is a sensational performance, beautifully sung.
Live 1976 - I Puritani - The Metropolitan opera orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge

[@megaton6023]

The Human race is privileged to have the technology to record and keep this musical miracle for the next generations

[@MrChrya]

We are all PRIVILEGED to have heard this recording ...

[@debbiewoodburn6786]

The incomparable Joan Sutherland.

[@lancelotskryabin5457]

I saw them right here at the Met in 1976. While Pavarotti is one of my heroes, I must admit that Sutherland's stage presence and power was even more then. One of the highlights of my life!

[@LC-ig2jm]

Bravi! Lucky you. I too, was in awe of Sutherland. They were meant for each other.

[@ellenlyons7413]

Oh tell us what it was like, those of us who never saw him sing in person, we would love to hear any information you would like to share.

[@MiguelArcangel-zi7xd]

No olvidemos que fue Joan, quien buscó a Luciano, para que le acompañe en diversas óperas, porque ella necesitaba un buen cantante tan alto de estatura como ella🤗 ella le dio la oportunidad en muchos momentos. Y Luciano lo reconoce y agradece.. él afirmó más de una vez, que no ha encontrado mejor técnica en Soprano alguna que Joan, y que él ha aprendido mucho de ella. Considero que es la pareja de cantantes líricos más importantes del siglo .

[@Milordvega]

RIP to two tremendous singers

[@KarstenKriwat]

Pavarotti was the best tenor ever!

[@luismarianoesquivelherrera8569]

Resumir está obra de arte en una palabra es bien difícil,sin embargo se puede intentar: desde el punto de vista de técnica,dulzura,proyección, armonía, dominio, depuración de Krauz y Caballe en esta área !!! EXQUICITO !!!

[@albanvic]

The finest voice ever in his prime....

[@MiguelArcangel-zi7xd]

El más bello timbre de tenor lírico que haya existido Luciano Pavarotti. RIP Maestro!!!

[@RainerLeiss]

The most beautiful tenor voice of operatic history!!!

[@mujeresisla]

+Rainer Leiss absolutely agree with your opinion.

[@therealistjim]

+Rainer Leiss Jussi Bjoerling says hello !

[@marcela21884]

There will never be anothe Pavarotti, that's for sure...

[@RainerLeiss]

D’accord Marcela!

[@marcela21884]

Facing a new anniversary of the passing of the great Luciano this is a joy to listen to his recordings

[@highbaritone]

Isn’t it interesting how we pick apart the greatest singers who ever lived.

[@PBXVIILY]

Magnificent Pavarotti.

[@ILBARONE45]

HE ACTUALLY SINGS BOTH. "Si raddoppia il mio contendo follows Se rammato Il mio tormento." Stating after his torment he is now Double content.. Greatest DUO in MUSIC EVER. His Legatto & La Diva high SUSTAINED TRILL at the end.trill

[@LazlosPlane]

I was there.

[@marcela21884]

Ohhhh ! I envy you

[@lastupendaboy]

God bless Luciano,such thrills he gave us.Here Joan Sutherland is stunning,that rich,steely sound....his aria,she steals he scene..

[@cliffgaither]

She only has a few lines.

[@tonyventura4605]

Brava, Prima Donna Assoluta!

[@oakroom48]

And look at that beautiful young Joan Sutherland. MY goodness - what a treat this is (:

[@louisjordaan8266]

King of the high C's.

[@giovannimedini2091]

Meraviglioso.....!!!

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

Pavarotti, the greatest. RIP

[@tenorschofield]

BRAVISSIME!!!

[@marcela21884]

They were my most beloved singing couple when I was younger. Today Luciano is my dearest memory. I Puritani is one of my favourite operas. Thanks for sharing !!

[@johnpickford4222]

And Joan, have you forgotten about her now that you’re older and only have “The Big P” on your mind?? Never fear, but I will remember Joan for you, for me, FOREVERMORE!!!

[@tonyventura4605]

Favorite tenor: Pavarotti, Corelli, Lanza. Favorite soprano: Sutherland, Sutherland, Sutherland.

[@oksanalewyckyj]

Luciano ou la perfection faite homme ! Bravo aussi à Joan Sutherland!

[@paularowe7651]

After hearing beauty such as this my life is fulfilled!

[@giorgiomisseri9655]

Sublime, la più bella voce di sempre.....un canto pieno, legato, suono coperto squillante e qualità insuperabile. Luciano sarai sempre nel nostro cuore

[@nicholasbaltatzis4001]

ἄκουσε καὶ τὸν Lauri Volpi!!!

[@TenorDmitry]

His voice here is much darcker then usually. I like it very much!

[@babachlovari4782]

Perfection

[@bettycovi9889]

Voce splendida e dizione perfetta

[@federic017]

Una delle più grandi interpretazioni di "A te o cara"...saluti

[@edejan]

Just unbelievable. Their like will not been seen (or heard) again!

[@LC-ig2jm]

Never ever! Impossible!

[@QUESTANOTTE88]

Nessuno per cantarla come Pava ,mai

[@paolopecchioli9793]

Incomparabile voce Donizzettiana!

[@johnschmid2453]

This is a throw back to the real-deal. I can only guess that S and P -etc, are the closest we can imagine to the original. Thank-God it is recorded. May they sing for ever in heaven. I cannot help but have tears> Maestro di Coro -Indpls Opera.

[@lhotellierdominique409]

Straordinarip!

[@debbiewoodburn6786]

Wonderful.

[@pablottalonso7878]

The most Beautiful tenor Voice!!! Love you Pav...lov you

[@susanacabrero293]

No hay palabras para expresar lo que era la voz y la interpretación de Pavarotti!!! Un máster en todo sentido!!!

[@pegchandler2527]

What a beautiful melody! And they sang beautifully together!

[@bellini7verdi]

lo mejor de lo mejor ...........imposible de superar...............vivan mis dioses del canto...........pavarotti y sutherland.......y esos maravilosos coros.........y bonynge............una pasada de estudio del canto...........la gloria del siglo y de todos los siglos...........de momento hasta que alguien demuestre lo contrario........

[@jesusmunoz2400]

bellini verdi Escucha a kraus y verás q lo supera de sobra. En estilo, matización, elegancia además pavarotti la canta medio tono bajo.

[@paolobiavati7090]

Prima di scrivere che Pavarotti canta quest'aria un semitono sotto faresti bene ad accordare le tue orecchie presso un buon accordatore. Per quanto riguarda la voce di Kraus rispetto a quella di Pavarotti è come paragonare una barchetta a vela ad una portaerei. A questo riguardo, in teatro, il confronto era impietoso. Alla Scala i loggionisti a Kraus avevano affibbiato l'epiteto di "zanzara". Da come ti esprimi non credo che tu li abbia ascoltati dal vivo. Io ho apprezzato ed apprezzo tutt'ora Kraus per la sua linea di canto, per la lunghezza della sua piccola voce, per il legato e per il senso dell'interpretazione ma se il focus della discussione sono la qualità e la forza vocale, quando leggo un commento come il tuo insorgo.

[@cathybuffo6236]

Un plaisir d’écouter , merci de le permettre !!

[@tatianakrevel5470]

Bravo, maestro!

[@edejan]

When gods walked the earth.....

[@arcot9]

Bella voce!

[@andreaprandi9960]

È il vero BIG LUCIANO

[@krystynadybowska6151]

Beatiful opera. Thans

[@giovannimedini2091]

Meravigliosa interpretazione come quella del 1968 al Bellini di Catania.....stupenda voce! Mai nessuno come Pavarotti!

[@gracenalow6726]

No comes close to the great Pavarotti. He was the greatest. Grace

[@gaetanche]

The best of the best!

[@VenusLover17]

Master!!!

[@kolymalony4086]

Grazie💗

[@alexeyizmirliev64]

Divino!

[@donallally4892]

This was certainly magnificent stuff with the great man at his best, when Grand Opera was really Grand Ooera,,fantastic

[@jenni4claire]

I really enjoyed thi s very much, thank you for posting it.

[@sellaholding9205]

May 2016.... Just wondering , Luciano Pavarotti gave do many outstanding performances at the MET, Why has there not been anything honoring this great and wonderful man?? Shameful I would say!!

[@downfromkentuckeh]

Sella Holding there have good Lord

[@user-ix1ng5nu3l]

Это просто бальзам на душу и связки! Несравненные Лучано и Джоанн! 🥰🥰🥰 Вечная память и слава богу, что они были на этой земле! Низкий поклон великим мастерам!🙏

[@matteomotroni4436]

Una esecuzione bellissima. Andrebbe fatta ascoltare a tutti i giovani musicisti per apprendere l'importanza del legato e della tensione emotiva nell'esecuzione dei brani musicali

[@telmopereiradosreis7199]

Simplesmente magistral essa performance!

[@ellenlyons7413]

sensational is right, just thrilling, you cant help but be amazed at the voice, and the things he encourages it to do. WOW

[@Mooorhe]

Well, the Met broadcast this performance occasionally and that's how I picked up my copy. However, the Metropolitan opera recently launched the 'Met Player' which is a service that offers a selection of broadcasts from past performances on the Met's stage. This performance is among the selection and you can have a listen to it that way. The quality is much better than this one. No video of this performance has ever been broadcast and I don't think it was visually recorded unfortunately.

[@VenusLover17]

Happy to be alive! Fantastic! And happy I heard this great tenor live o couple of times. He was fantastic

[@giovannimedini2091]

Fernando Henriquez You are Wright : fantastic!

[@sellaholding9205]

feb 2016 How wonderful to see the MAistro In an operatic role Wish I could have seen him!! Thank You!!

[@marcela21884]

I saw him in Bogotá, but many years later. Always in my heart!

[@renatomautino7378]

Voce stupenda che in questa sublime romanza raggiunge vertici altissimi. Solo corelli può reggere un confronto con luciano immortale. Renato mautino s.mauro torinese in casa di riposo.

[@ILBARONE45]

I purchased both cd & video on ebay several yrs. ago. Check Pioneer 'GOLD EDITION' Plus DECCA LONDON. The two greatest duo in all MUSIC. Listen to PAVS' LEGATTO AND LA DIVA'S HIGH TRILL AT END. She stated although never having difficulty reaching that note she always felt easier when singing with LUCIANO. BRAVO MOORHE

[@fanaledka]

You are a happy man!!!

[@suzegiljer3206]

Oh God ,only 66 k views of this magnificent aria,where is the world going.It should be compulsory subject at schools.

[@666dadko]

beutiful aria :)

[@assindiastignani]

This was his best role ever. Nobody could touch him in it. Nobody! Kraus was also good, but with half of the voice.

[@aidacabrera572]

Eres la otra mitad de mi alma y por eso ahora estas junto a mi ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@biolaloucosmeceuticibioeve4846]

Luciano è uno dei pochi tenori che non sistema gli acuti nel naso bensì sono sempre rotondi e pieni, con gola aperta e appoggio del fiato perfetti. In più ha dei pianissimi stupendi che galleggiano nell'aria. Grande che io paragono all'immenso Tito Schipa, non lo supera ma ha lo stesso modo di sostenere il canto.

[@massimoliaci5926]

Disamina perfetta! Però sul colore vince Luciano. E io amo Schipa alla follia e sono leccese come lui!

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

Grazie!

[@nescionomen241]

A te, o cara, amore talora Mi guidò furtivo e in pianto; Or mi guida a te d'accanto fra la gioia e l'esultar. Al brillar di sì bell'ora, Se rammento il mio tormento Si raddoppia il mio contento, M'è più caro il palpitar.

[@GermanOperaSinger]

Heard a little 'gulp' around 1:23 but that was the only little mistake in it, he was in very good voice that evening. All the C#'s in this performance you posted are as perfect as they can possibly get.

[@galinamarutova1726]

Любимый, чудесный, восхитительный, неповторимый Лучано!!!!

[@user-gi4wh6eb2i]

Я с Вами согласен. Вторая половина 20 века - он лучший тенор в мире!

[@Labienus]

I don't know if I was at this particular one I was at the prima for the production I laugh at the comments that he was too old to sing it-this is vintage Pav-the 70's were the great yrs.for this repertoire-if his voice sounds a bit smaller that's not the case just consider who he's singing next to Florez is an elegant singer stylistically faultless in this kind of music but his voice is about half the size of Pavsand its tone not as succulent -for size, beauty and taste Pav was beyond compare

[@valasina2015]

I don't care for Florez. I agree with everything you said about Pavarotti. The recording is not the best. Pavarotti's voice seems to go distant towards the conclusion of the aria.

[@ellenlyons7413]

@@valasina2015 FLOREZ is a shabby second to Pavarotti, he is one shrill voice.

[@Nater389]

He still sounds great here. Nice for him to be trying this in 1976. He was almost too old to be singing this aria.

[@willen2416]

Too old? He was 41 and at the absolute height of his vocal powers.

[@Nater389]

@@willen2416 Could be argued. Maybe a few years earlier I would agree.

[@absdyna]

He's 41 here. I don't think I'll ever be able to accept that!

[@jmccracken1963]

@Mooorhe And, as you probably know if you've read Schuyler G. Chapin's MUSICAL STAGES, it almost didn't happen then. Chapin, not knowing that Sutherland and Bonynge had been fighting with Mr. Bing for a PURITANI production for years, offered the opera to Beverly Sills for her Met debut. At which point Sutherland and Bonynge threatened to withdraw from their current and future Met commitments if that came to pass. Well, fortunately this production got done, and this really IS great!!! TYVM!

[@Mooorhe]

He was very hesitant. He committed to do this opera with Sutherland and Bonynge, with the new production, around 1972-3, when he sang Arturo with no problems at all. Three years later he'd sung his first Manrico and Rodolfo (Luisa Miller) and didn't have the same command of the higher passages and extreme high notes.

[@VenusLover17]

Henry Moore but still glorious man

[@jesusmunoz2400]

Esta a años luz de kraus en esta ópera. En línea de canto, matización, elegancia . Además de estar medio tono bajo.

[@juancruzgamarra5259]

Jesus Muñoz Está a tono

[@giovannimedini2091]

provate a criticare questa interpretazione. ....se ne avete il coraggio!

[@marcela21884]

No one can EVER criticize Pavarotti! He was the closest thing to perfection...

[@giovannimedini2091]

+Marcela castaño You are Wright!

[@666dadko]

giovanni medini non é possibile criticarlo :) lui é quasi perfetto :)

[@giovannimedini2091]

David Savlik ..grazie sono d'accordo!

[@fonzejacobs6988]

giovanni medini now is the time to worship

[@user-pr1zj9dg3j]

❤❤❤致敬，柏華落帝❤❤❤Pavarotti ❤❤❤

[@peterbierwirth8016]

Of course, Pavrotti's version with Sutherland is 'brilliant vocal production'. But I also like the more 'intimate' rendition of Jesus Leon with a smaller orchestra without soprano and choir accompaniment.

[@Colorastina]

I'm looking for the 1973 met performance with boyngne, sutherland, and pavarotti... anyone have this recording?

[@laddboris4116]

of what opera? Not this. Maybe Fille Du Regiment?

[@wotan10950]

Christina Rivera The Met production with Pavarotti and Sutherland was premiered in 1976.

[@joaoteixeira4980]

Christina Rivera as far as I know there is no DVD from this opera. However, there is a DECCA cd recording from 1973 for I Puritani with a fantastic quartet, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Piero Cappucilli and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Many critics consider the best recording of this opera. You may buy it at Amazon, I bought my several years ago at Amazon.uk. Hope this helps.

[@tdeane34]

His voice is substantially more weighty than earlier renditions still sings it well though!

[@juancruzgamarra5259]

1:22 ¿Gallo o error de la grabación?

[@Un_Gordo_De_Derecha]

gallo

[@vully70]

Both sound great in this performance. My only problem is the rhythm - Pavarotti takes to many liberties for my personal taste. And the microphones seem to be a little overdriven.

[@peterbierwirth8016]

Sorry folks, forgot to give you the link to the version of Jesus Leon which I like. Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3rWe5qjist4eKs

[@therealistjim]

31 years old

[@tdeane34]

+James Frazier 41

[@therealistjim]

+Terry Deane correct ! sorry b 1935

[@VenusLover17]

James Frazier 41

[@Oetti]

true, lol

[@elreydeldo]

He oido mucho a Pavarotti y lo cierto es que muchas de sus actuaciones se salvan por su voz pero suele fallar algo, el director en algunos casos los compañeros en otras.... Quizá es que yo soy muy exigente pero siendo fan de pavarotti cuando lo oigo espero siempre la perfección y a veces siento que falta algo. Cuando algún cantante acorta una nota, la baja, se salta palabras o frases etc me siento decepcionado. Hay un tenor que me parece perfecto, Fritz Wunderlich, aunque soy de Luciano.

[@VenusLover17]

elreydeldo cantar opera es muy dificil amigo. Párate a cantar eso para que veas. O los pollitos en escena. Me quito el sombrero por este señor. Soy tenor en proceso de desarrollo y te digo que es un extraordinario este señor. Los nervios de acero etc.

[@1rogel]

Nunca me ha gustado Pavarotti y escuchandolo en este rol reafirmo mis motivos.

[@damianvelazquez468]

Si no te gusta Pavarotti, realmente tenes que reafirmar no solo tus motivos, también tu gusto, Pavarotti es la opera.

[@vicentelopez00]

The best interpretation of this aria despite the poor technical resources: MIGUEL FLETA. Listen to him.

[@fedecastaldi]

bravo, bravo ma 'rammento' è quello di kraus, di corelli, di di stefano non il suo

[@fabriziomariagarzi5534]

Caro Medini...un po' carrettiete...un tanto al chilo...quel che viene viene..pero' va bene cosi.

[@jesusmunoz2400]

Tengo mis dudas. De todas formas su voz era espectacular y hermosa. Pero le falta el toque de elegancia de kraus.

[@pablottalonso7878]

En esta no elegancia ni melodiosidad.. busca otra version...la otra es mejor que la de Krauss aún...incluyendo La de Corelli.

[@jesusmunoz2400]

@@pablottalonso7878 Nunca ha sido la mejor p q no se si sabrás que no hace las indicaciones musicales correctas que viene en la partitura. Para empezar el comienzo no es forte y él lo hace así.

[@jesusmunoz2400]

@@pablottalonso7878 No sabes ni lo que hablas. Precisamente Corelli el mejor Spinto que he escuchado cantaba esta pieza totalmente fuera de estilo y no a tono.

[@isyborensztajn]

Great voice. great tenor, indeed. Maradona was also a great footballer but Pele' was the greatest. Bjoerling is the Pele' among tenors.

[@ezayi]

tuo orecchio e disastroso!

[@MrDiabo76]

disastroso è il tuo commento

[@Monnarchmonnarchy]

Pop dilettante mosquito with his squeaks

[@alexj.denton7453]

Could you tell me your top 3 best tenors?

[@Monnarchmonnarchy]

@@alexj.denton7453 iam not mad on names, like fancy do. Opera is overall, its not only a singers, if singer is ok it doesnt mean that he can turn around an earth. Its a methodic, they are producing a singers. But if singer is good its not only about him, but vocal coachers, methodic. Singer must sing in OPERATIC way in other he is not a singer. Thats why we have a tons of singers in past, but with era of crooks, a mosquito dilettantes like trio band we have a bad singers

[@santisramos5832]

​@@alexj.denton7453 don't listen to him. He is a mad crazy poor man

[@giovanniarioli2971]

Per fortuna esistono le registrazioni

[@heigei1]

simply the best.