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Pavarotti - The Event (The World Cup Celebration Concert)

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This is a really good DVD. It was taped during the 1990 World Cup, and in my view it is far superior to the Three Tenors Concert taped a couple of months later in Rome. Those who have read my previous reviews will probably realise that I am a complete unashamedly Pavarotti addict - and this will please all his millions of fans around the globe.

All his standard repertoire pieces are here, including an excellent "Pourquoi me reveiller" and a quite electrifying "Vesti la guibba". The encores are outstanding, and the whole programme has been put together thoughtfully. It is a shame that he couldn't have been persauded to sing "Ch'ella mi creda" or "Che gelida manina", or dare I say, a little bit more Verdi?

Anyway, this is Big Lucy at his best - and the audience love it, as will you if you invest in this DVD. When it arrived, we all settled down to watch it with a glass of wine after dinner one Saturday night. You know, my mother in law insisted that I order her a copy from amazon.com immediately. Which I duly did. Is there a better recommendation that that?

An excellent selection of arias; Wonderfully performed by the great Pavarotti. This is a must-have for any Pavarotti fan, and any fan of opera and wonderful singing.

This was taped the same year as the Three Tenors performed, also celebarting the same occassion. Luciano sounds fresh and healthy.

Here he sings Puccini, Donizetti, and Neapolotan songs. Dare I say, I have some complaining to do. Could Pavarotti survive if he sung much more Verdi? (Di quella pira, Quest o quella, or La donna e mobile) And also, perhaps, some Rossini? (Ecco rident in cielo, or something from William Tell) The conductor, Leone Magiera, was not the greatest choice ever made. Why not Zubin Mehta or James Levine?

Anyhow, here is La Grande Tenor at his best. Enjoy!

The man sings like an angel. A beautiful wonderful voice. This dvd was wonderful.

The Event is THE Event of a millenium. Never again a tenor like Big P.

This concert is pretty good, but it's not as good as perhaps Pavarotti's performaces alongside Domingo and Carreras. Perhaps I expected too much and so I was disappointed more than I should have been.
I felt very little emotion emanating from Pavorotti, I suppose after singing them for so many years its hard to give energy every single time, but still it wasn't really satisfying. However E Lucevan le stelle and the Vesti la giubba were the stand outs of this particular DVD. The other well known stuff like O sole mio, nessun dorma and torna surriento were enjoyable but not particularly moving.
Overall his voice seemed a little tired(which is to be expected at that age, and after 5 encores), but the fact that he stands there with he arms out-stretched soaking in the attention after EVERY-SINGLE-ARIA does get on my nerves.
It was good to watch anyway.

I enjoyed the concert very much. Any Pavarotti fan would. I think the Barcelona performance as a whole was better simply because the audience was so engaged and enthralled. Performing in a large stadium as opposed to a concert house has to be quite different for both performer and audience. I find it interesting that even though Pavarotti did not sing Mozart at this concert, he did manage to slip in his Flute Concerto, so great was his love of Mozart. I too, share with him that emotion.