This was filmed at La Scala in 1967 and how astonishingly beautiful Pavarotti sounded in those days amazes me every time I listen to this.

It's 1967. The full performance was at La Scala, with the amazing Leontyne Price. (Amazing is an understatement). Karajan is inspired. Pavarotti is gleaming perfection.

It's hard to imagine anything more beautiful than this.

It wasn't just his celestial voice, it was his mighty spirit.

La perfezione metrica musicale di Karajan con lo splendore vocale di Luciano.Il SUBLIME!! INARRIVABILI!!

Absolute perfection! Pavarotti is at his best ever.

Glorious, love young Pavarotti's voice, what a great tenor!!!

He is the greatest for ever in italian classical music literature.

Verdis Musik mit Pavarottis Stimme ist höchste Beglückung; einfach himmlisch! Nach meinem Empfinden gibt es keinen Tenor, der ihm in dieser Partie das Wasser reichen kann. Diese Aufnahme ist eine Perle!

The voice! The voice! A gift from God.

Beautiful Karajan... His love of music shows on his face.

Ptice na nebu zacute...slavuji kad se zacuje bozanstveni ...nebeski glas velicanstvenog Maestra Luciana Pavarottia!!!🕊️🌏🌞✨🌷🌷🦜🌿

Nobody sang this better than a young Pavarotti! Bravo!

Karajan, Pavarotti y Guirov juntos, legendaria interpretación.

Omg I miss him so much. The purest instrument ever.

Sencillamente maravilloso, Karajan y Pavarotti, dos de las personalidades artististicas más importantes del siglo XX.

Unbelievably beautiful.

Grandissimo Artista...Voce bellissima...Viva Luciano Pavarotti

May 2016... Listening to young Pavarotti gives me the shivers! His voice was so rich and full of emotion for one so young! Funny I never noticed his body size only his voice!!!

The best version ever...

Magnificent interpretation of that great tenor luciano pavarotti in his youth during the 1960s. Awesome.

This is the best version of Pavarotti. How clean! Wow

This clip is a blessing. Unbelievable voice control and production. Wonderful!

Ciao Pavarotti, we miss you so.

Amazing vocal performance, simply beautiful! Probably the best version to date.

Tante volte dovremmo ascoltare e fare nostra questa supplica...specialmente di questi tempi nei quali l'umanità non basta a sé stessa...

Karajan lays down the perfect tapestry for Luciano's thrilling young voice to float on here - this is as close to musical perfection as it gets on stage. Still, some find a way to give thumbs down. May excellence live on and hover untouched by the Philistines!

Divino Pavarotti linda voz tocante e única sempre o melhor de todos os tempos!

Used to be, Jussi Bjoerling was the Tenor's Tenor. He now shares that glory with Pavarotti. Two incomparable artists with gorgeous sound, wonderful artistry and vocal technique to burn.

So pure. He has always been my hero. He always will be.

Senza dubbio, bela voce naturale e grande tecnica vocale. Bravo, Pavarotti!

His voice brings me to tears, over and over again... I was so blessed to hear him like 3times in the Met; and 4 times in concerts... Every time I go to the opera I miss this fabulous artist more and more again... RIP Maestro.

Luciano.God bless you.you made me cry! WOW!

How young he and Karajan are. A lifetime has passed and for me it feel like only a few years. That world is gone. There are always competent singers, musicians, artists but now they are mostly tools of marketing for profit. Then it was about perfection, genius and artistry. There were true Divas and Maestros. Now just performers and mass production. .

Ich kenne keinen Tenor auf diesem Planeten, der dieses Stück so himmlisch singt wie Pavarotti. Immer und immer wieder kann ich es mir anhören, und jedesmal gibt er einem kurz das Gefühl, im Paradies zu sein. Danke!

What a great singer he was . He could bring tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat. To hear him live gave his voice an extra dimension. When I saw him in Boheme I sent a letter to say that the 16 of us who went to the ROH enjoyed the performance. A few days later 16 autographed photos arrived with a nice letter. We were all taken aback that LP had taken the time to do this. This was in 1975. Henry Webb

Anyone else watch this and the Jonas Kaufman back to back? Both are hauntingly beautiful so no need to pick favorites…We are so blessed to have this. What an inspiration in dark times.

One of the very best 3.44 minutes of human singing !

It's like he has to hold back on the power of his voice, and he does it so well. Can't imagine the control that must take. Not a singer here, just happy to have heard this.

Wow! My life changed when I first heard Pavarotti, I want this sung at my funeral!

No cabe duda que el canto más impresionante que me ha tocado es la voz de este hombre, nadie se le compara!! Impresionante!! se me enchina la piel! Bravo Luciano Pavarotti!!

Wow!!! This is pure perfection!!! Even Karajan is just enjoying the beautiful music and voice! I can see, even he is amazed by this man, THE MAN! Thank you Luciano! :-)

He has that voice when he hits a high note it sound like coming from somewhere. It was so Unique. Thank God we have videos like this that shows who he is in the music industry. SALUTE!!!

Cast stellare, direzione stellare, orchestra stellare. Perfetto

Wonderful voice...so missed

....uno dei momenti piu' alti della lirica mondiale............immenso

When he was singing in Philadelphia, I had an opportunity to play this early "Ingemisco" for him. He tended to be critical of his own performances, but he seemed pleased with this until the 3:12 timing mark, when he muttered "No! I make diminuendo for 'dextra' but I close 'ah' and sounds like 'oh.'" Only when he heard the final "in parte dextra" did he say, "See? Dex-TRAH. Is correct there."

Magnificent. How long will we have to wait for another voice like his? R.i.p. maestro.

Just pure voice! Magnificent

His natural vibrato is just perfect. Some go over the top with theirs, but LP's is natural, never contrived or overblown for operatic effect. A lot of other tenors also sound like they're in a box while trying to make their voice opera-ish...but LP was a natural, like he was riding a bicycle. Had the fortune to see him live in 1998. He came out for five encores. Every jaw was dropped....no one wanted the evening to end.

Mai nessuno a questo livello!!!!! Eterno Grazie a Pavarotti !!!!!

Listen to this recording and tell me he wasn't the greatest singer who ever lived, and I would call the man a liar. Simply stupendous singing, an artist in his prime doing what he does best.

That is some beautiful tone going on right there.

Tears. Mille grazie, Luciano.

il momento più alto di Pavarotti...superbo sotto la direzione di Karajan,ma inarrivabile sotto quella di Abbado alla Minerva....

Due immensi GENI delle loro rispettive arti! Mai più potranno esistere due "assoluti" simili....

The absolute best...

Sometimes I forget just how magnificent Luciano Pavarotti was and is. His pure majestic voice is Heavenly, for he was surly touched by the Gods.

Vera voce italiana quella di Pavarotti,alla sequela delle grandi voci tenorili del nostro bellissimo paese

By far my favourite video on KZfaq. This is perfection...

Bravo! Eternamente tocando nossa alma... Grazie Pavarotti!

What a babe he was..and what a voice - a one off.

pavarotti was like caruso a great tenor.they are now part of the ages.they gave joy where ever they went.They were angels in an operatic person.!

His voice so beautiful beyond words to Express the emotional power his gift emotes.

if the sound of a tenor rang out in the celestial courts, it would have to be his.

My brain once again exploded while watching this. I got excited again and inspired to sing. His a WOW even when he was not as we know him and even got better. Who else has this vocal power. This is BEYOND expectation. Beyond imagination. GODS OF GODS OF TENORS. This world would surely not experience another. Even if we search the parallel universes we shall not find one. THERE'S NO WORD TO EXPRESS HIM.

The best tenor

You people keep arguing and I keep listening to this and weeping . . . Von Karajan waving his swan's arms like a dancer to Luciano's blissful, sacred voice. Wake up! This is music for the dead, an opera to end all suffering and discord, by the greatest operatic composer who ever lived!

Невероятен млад,красив и овладян до съвършенство глас!Благодаря!

Como le extrañamos, la mejor voz del mundo, nunca podrá ser igualado. Entre más lo escucho más me asombra. Desde Cartago,Costa Rica 23/10/22

Extraordinaria interpretación, difícil de superar con la voz de Pavarotti.

Wow, bravo! It must have been so impressive to be there and listen to this in person, if it sounds impressive in a simple smart phone today.

Pure magic - surely a gift from God

Glorious perfection!

And for those below spewing filth about size: while it's true that having the belly helps, it should be noted that in Pavarotti's early days, audiences expected him to sound terrible because he was "too thin to be a tenor." Find one of his 1963-66 recordings and tell me he sounds weak, or too quiet. The man could blow the doors out in a concert hall even then.

Sublime Pavarotti !

Una voce possente e molto espressiva.

Невероятно !!! Bravi!

So good! Here you can really hear how influenced he was by Jussi Bjoerling, his main idol!

Pavarotti en el mejor momento vocal y con un director que sabía sacar lo mejor de él.

Wundervoll. Danke fürs hoch laden 👍👍👍

Bravo Luciano!!!

Awesome, very refined tone.

Очень выразительно и красиво

저 빠사지오구간 지나고 성대가 쨍하게 붙는 부분 진짜 개좋다 카타르시스 캬

Se me eriza la piel...increíble!

Amazing. Simply amazing.

Even years later when time and age took its tole on him. He could still sing this better than most others. His level was so high that even when diminished his sound was amazing. Just listen to his Met performance of Aida in 2001 at 66 years old amazing.

When coming to the high notes, you can see the endeavor in the face of many tenors. When watching Pavarotti, there is nothing - he just opened his mouth a litte mit more. You recognize the easiness of his perfomance, the notes just coming out of his mouth naturaly. That´s the difference.

So beautiful - the way he flows through the passagio is astonishing.

SUBLIME ...in tutto per tutto . Grazie MAESTRO:.

la voce di un angelo

Pavarotti at its beginnings, in full respect of the traditional Italian technique that feeds his interpretation.

I can't find better version than it

Hm, looking at Karajan and Paverotti here, there's not very much doubt which one of 'em raided the opera house kitchen and ate all the pies :-D (Just kidding! Pav was a magnificently talented man - even if not exactly a diet guru!)

I'm into heavy metal and hard rock, but this is absolutely magical!!!!

Utter perfection. Not a note in this that can be improved upon.

Una voce cristallina e mai cosi misurata.Dovrebbero ascoltare l'Ingemisco prima di giudicare Pavarotti...

Happy birthday to Luciano Pavarotti his birth verse is Hosea 10:12 rest in peace Blessings and hugs 🤗💞🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏!

the greatest !!!!!!!