Word: pavarotti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Luciano Pavarotti can often be found at Bel Canto, ballooning himself on the most interesting pizza in Cambridge-some say the best. Bel Canto offers weird toppings like broccoli and walnuts, thick white or whole- wheat crusts, and generous-through costly-servings...
...Metropolitan Opera gather this week in Hynes Auditorium to revel in their share of the Met's annual national tour, they will get their money's worth, even at $20 or $25 a seat. They will see and hear first rate singers like Jon Vickers, Regine Crespin, Luciano Pavarotti, Leonie Rysanek, and Sherrill Milnes. They will probably leave with high regard for the Met's artistic standards. They may even be a bit jealous of their New York acquaintances who can stroll down to Lincoln Center, spend astonishingly large amounts of money, and see a Met production anytime during...
...Bravo Pavarotti! (London, 2 LPs). Unabashed grandstanding, but who can resist the voice...
...Pavarotti sang impeccably and with authority, not an easy matter in a part that lies very high even for a tenor. But a week earlier he gave a recital at the Met, broadcast nationwide on PBS, which better presented both his musicianship and his personality. He is perhaps the best and certainly the most popular male singer now. His records dominate the classical charts...
...voice is bigger and less lyrical than it used to be. He has lost 85 lbs., and in doing so disproves the theory that a singer who loses much weight loses vocal beauty. The voice is in lustrous condition. Pavarotti gave a virile E lucevan le stelle from Tosca, an aria that is often more wept than sung. He took on Beethoven's In questa tomba oscura, an unyielding piece, though a war-horse of recital repertory. In the last two bitter words, ingrata, ingrata, he showed how a bold singer with operatic instincts can bring pathos to the whole...