Saw this in Brussels. Quite disappointing. After Vickers and Domingo, Lawton was a trial.
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"In his first attempt on the greatest role in Italian opera, Jeffrey Lawton , the WNO's home-grown tenore di forza, succeeded beyond most people's wildest hopes. He had obviously listened hard to Toscanini's recording; for many of his most affecting inflections suggested the suitability of Ramon Vinay as his model, in that both voices, the recorded and the 'live', disclose unwieldiness and rough-hewn technique, artistically confronted. On this occasion he lacked trumpet tone but not force, and never sensitivity; the scale of all his gifts-dramatic as well as musical-was accommodated by the production with wonderful tact, and the result was honest and very moving. His ltalian was crude but heartfelt , and, like many other features of the performance, promised to grow more malleable with practice." Max Loppert review from Opera magazine, 1986