LP destroyed his voice by dramatic roles... Carreras, pavaroti can't produce a dramatic repertoire! Even operatic music. And drankan lady is too mistake of human? 😁

@@Monnarchmonnarchy I heard a story, that she wasn't even drunk. Del Monako heard about death of somebody of her best friends and took too many pills .

I think they chose the roles, that may not be suitable to the.

Peg Chandler I feel your pain girlfriend say it loud I am not perfect! Repeat it over and over again till you go into a trance and start convulsing. LOL life isn't all about Opera. There's so much more things to do in this world look around enjoy yourself visit other worlds other cultures learn other languages help those in need. Understand what I'm saying that's what I did and continue to do my wife and I are very happy married for 45 years we are both 67 years old our life is very full we have a lot of friends they all know I could sing it's not a big deal I will perform for them once in awhile just for my pleasure and their pleasure because I love my friends I don't need anyone's approval adulation Etc take care love yourself

When Pav was booed at La Scala after Don Carlo, in an interview he said he deserved it because he didnt do a good job, basically.

Pavarotti tenía una voz maravillosa pero técnicamente era anárquico. En los 90 su carrera comenzó con un declive que se hizo cada vez más patente con el paso de los años.

@@jesusmunoz2400 He did decline as is natural with age, but his technique was excellent and without blemish. Anarchic? No, sorry, not true.

@@arnoldamaral7406 Exactly. Pavarotti knew that and that's why he didn't worry about "disasters".

Took some Pils, yes.

When it’s only one flat note, it’s okay. But it’s the whole line or the song, it’s a bit problematic !

Yah I'm guessing it's soulless garbage like everything else after 2007

Very much the case.

Matthew Brooks what you’re telling is incredibly interesting. I’d never imagine Pavarotti cracking in his debut at the Met.

@@BaritoneDeLaTorre This is true. Pavarotti had been singing Lucia in San Francisco leading up to his Met debut and he got Hong Kong Flu. Talk about horrible timing. He sang two or three Bohemes, cancelled his remaining 20-30 performances for the remainder of the 1968-69 Met season and went home to Modena to recover. He didn’t return to the Met until 1970.

If you can't deliver then yeah it's justified to get fired. They might not be drunk out of arrogance though, it's probably a sign of deeper personal issues.

There have been actors and singers who.have given their best performances while drunk.

@Jeff Andersen Dean Martin used to pretend to be drunk, it was better for his image in those days.

Matt Moves ahahahahhahaha xD

Matt Moves hahahahahahaahhahahaha im totally dead hahahahahahaha

But he won the Alpine yodelling contest hands down.

Thank you for saying that. It's true. How often have I seen it happen, that a singer is very indisposed and wants to cancel, but is put under pressure by the management of an opera house - or his/her own agent, who wants to collect the fee - to go on anyway.(And that happens a lot, believe me.) Besides anyone can have a bad day, for whatever reason, but to collect such moments and post them in youtube under the title Perle Nere is actually quite hateful.

Judging by the tone of the video, I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that the bit about Pavarotti's technique was a joke.

@assindia, agree. Just because it has the disclaimer that it isn't meant to be hateful, doesn't mean it isn't. Delighting in someone else's suffering is cruel and evil.

UppityG Livestockian and pathetic,my friend.

You can learn from their mistakes in some of the technique used in the video, as an opera singer myself, I can hear some of the misuse of the vocal techniques. Some fail due to them singing the wrong repertoire because their voices aren't suited for the arias, and some of the professionals here just had a bad night of course. Learn from it, and laugh at it, one of the greatest arias says laugh, and the audience will applaud you. I laugh and learn from my own voice breaks, and am still on the road to perfecting my own technique, but I don't see these videos as hateful, I know I'll steer clear of singing Celeste Aida because as a lyrical tenor, my voice isn't made to sing that aria, and I could damage my voice without flawless appogio support and an adequate amount of breath. Other Bel Canto singers can use this video as a guide much like I had, and sometimes it's reassuring to know that even the greats have their bad nights. Learn and laugh is what I say, I laugh because I've been there, and I've messed up just as bad as Jose Carreras in public. For those that don't understand the art of Bel Canto singing that are here laughing, let them, they may not see Opera the way we do, but at the very least we as performers entertained them, and in the end, that's our goal, to entertain the crowd. I once had to push through the aria Every Valley Shall Be Exalted in public, with a raspy voice and it wasn't pretty. I had children and adults dying of laughter while I was dying on stage, after the performance an old man and his grandson came up to me and thanked me, because "they hadn't laughed like that in a very long time." I took a bow and carried on, healed, and the next week performed that aria again in my prime. in the end I fulfilled my duty, and entertained, that 1st night, and the second time through, came back and fulfilled my duty to the composer. I got laughed at, laughed, learned, and came back and performed flawlessly. Laugh and Learn. This video is not hateful. :)

Perfection is what you paid to see. 😉

That s not Carreras for sure

On occasion of her 80ieth bd she sang a Schubert song - and it just takes your breath away. Such beautiful steady tone. I am not even sure whether this is Berger in that sequence. What an awkward video. To me Erna Berger was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century and one of its most outstanding voices!

Listen to the 1954 Salzburg Don Giovanni under Furtwängler. She is a sublime Zerlina - at 54 years of age

She had been singing 25 years when this was recorded; I think it sounds pretty remarkable!

That's true, and I've always liked Berger. It was just not a good idea to sing the Queen.

On occasion of her 80ieth bd she sang a Schubert song - and it just takes your breath away. Such beautiful steady tone. I am not even sure whether this is Berger in that sequence. What an awkward video. To me Erna Berger was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century and one of its most outstanding voices!

Yes, exactly.

She handles it very well knows she's not going to make it so withdraws no cracking or squealing

Once you're too old to sing, retire. It's that simple.

No singer does justice to a role if they cant sing the notes.

Péssimo comentário. O cantor tem que saber a hora de parar.

This is why Franco Corelli was so nervous before every performance. He was a decent man. a perfectionist and didn't want to disappoint the audience, but it costs him a lot.

It's from the final scene of Carmen. A very serious part of the opera turned into a comedy.

Steven Davies I totally agree with you it's not easy when you are an artist and everyone expects you to be spot on every single performance. This is so unrealistic to expect someone with a great voice to give a great performance every time he sings an opera or in concert Etc. What we must endure to please the masses having a beautiful great voice does not mean you do not get nervous when I'm stage Corelli is a great example Aragal at times also suffered from nerves. It is really not natural to perform and these large Opera Houses and everyone expects you to be perfect and there is a great outdoor Opera performances Arena di Verona Orange Etc. Steven I totally agree with you! People that do not sing or have no Talent or don't have a voice it's very easy for them to criticize a great opera singer. Another words walk a mile in my shoes! No need to reply to my comment Steven understands. Arnold Bourbon Amaral I too had a beautiful tenor voice in high school my concert teacher and the boys choir teacher as well wanted me to pursue a career in Opera they said you can easily get a scholarship to study voice at the University. And from there you can go to Juilliard. I've told them very quickly I am not a performer I sing for my own pleasure they could not relate to it because they could not sing very well themselves. and they would repeatedly say to me you have such a beautiful quality to your voice it would be such a waste for you not to sing Etc. They like the other people that criticize did not understand but having a beautiful voice doesn't automatically gives you the desire to sing in front of thousands of people it is not normal. There I said it Steven understands I hope the rest of you will in a certain way.

A mí también. No podia parar de reir.

Thank you for those interesting comments.

AfroPoli Rather I should thank you.

+cooloox You don't seem to have read what I wrote. Pavarotti did say that he was the first 'singer with a voice' to sing Tonio. Or at least that was the quotation that was in the press. It was a quiet well known statement at the time and there was some truth to it. He had a good sized instrument except at the very top where it got thin and wiry. Sutherland thought of The Daughter as an showpiece for her. The tenor part was typically sung by a small voiced high voiced tenor. It was a specialty part. When the young Pavarotti sang it with a much bigger voice than was common it was a sensation. But Pavarotti was never a real 'high note tenor' like Fillipeschi or Bonisolli. He became captured by his own publicity,

+Patrick Boyle Thanks for the clarification. I did misinterpret you first time around - I should have read your post properly without skimming over it. I apologise for that.

Alexa Vasile Yet another expert with yet another theory about Pavarotti. There is nothing mysterious about Pavarotti. He had a lovely sound and excellent technique. He was too fat but why would anyone think that that killed his high notes? He sang very well for a very long time. Most tenors begin to have trouble with their highest notes after fifty. Pavarotti kept his top longer than most. Domingo never lost his High C - because he never really had one. He admitted that in public many times. But Domingo like many big tenors had originally been a baritone. He reverted to being a baritone when he got into his seventies. Also a very natural development. But Pavarotti was never a baritone. He was always a tenor and when he got late in life he just became a slightly lower tenor than he had been when he was younger.

It sounds like he's been thrown off a cliff :'D

+Giovanni Formisano - THIS PERSON DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT - HE IS FUCKING JERK!!!! hE DOE'SNT EVEN WORHT TO WASH LUCIANO PAVOROTTI'S FEET!!!!

+Emin Guliyev I'm just saying that these are human beings and they make mistakes. And, if he wants to show these clips to remind us that even the greats can have a bad day, that's okay but, one cannot discount an entire career for a bad day on the job!!

YES!!! BUT YOU AND ME, WE KNOW ABOUT THIS PHENOMENA - MOST PEOPLE LIKE TO TRY AND FIND THE "BAD DAYS (AS YOU SAID)" OF THESE FAMOUS PEOPLE ONLY TO PROVE THEMSELVES THAT THOSE GREAT AND FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE NO GOOD TO THEM!!!!!!!!!! PSYCHOLOGY!!!!

+Emin Guliyev of course, some people are sciacalli! they take any opportunity to kick someone when they are down. I know exactly what you mean!

By the way I wish you a happy Christmas!!!!

Diva7Va Brava for your comment! I cannot BELIEVE I wasted my time listening to all THREE of this man's posts. I am too tired to comment directly to him, but one day, IF I feel it is worthwhile, I will tell him why he is a frustrated pseudo NYT critic, hiding behind a keyboard, who was most likely a huge fail in his OWN career....if he even ever sang ONE. NOTE. of operatic repertoire. Did you see Pts 1, (i initially found a bit amusing) but then part 2...and finally Part 3. He truly revealed himself to me. Er ist ein Esel......bien sûr! ....and if he sees this before you do, I am quite certain, he will delete this comment. quel idiot et hypocrite !

bravaLiz :) Yaaaaawn.

AfroPoli I apologize to you for my "rant"... as per the yaaaaawn, you obviously SO don't care. Perhaps you will post up some of YOUR "stuff".... goofs....whatever.... or teach US all about the rudiments of vocal technique? Sorry for being snarky. Hey..... In the end, it's a HUGE.....whatever. I sincerely do apologize.

bravaLiz OK, cara. 1. Try using arguments instead of personal attacs; 2. what does my singing have to do with the subject matter? 3. If you say that someone who judges singers has to be able to sing (an idiotic fallacy, hence the yawn), please post some videos of you singing, because also your opinion, no matter if negative or positive, is a judgement. So, if you believe that pt 3 is valid, please post your singing. Otherwise be quiet. Thanks.