Pavarotti Verdi Legacy

In Verdi's anniversary year Decca sets again gradually opens, after the successful 75-CD edition of the complete works, the curtain alone for Luciano Pavarotti and its relationship with the Maestro. Verdi fans will spread in its archives have, but here comes Pavarotti, so to speak not only clenched hand in hand, but George Hall wants to clean up in his introductory essay also prejudiced.
From our travel to the Emilia Romagna know my wife and I that there are indeed regional and even local peculiarities in the assessment of large Verdi interpreters. In Modena and around one loves just his Pavarotti in Verdi's birth and places of residence Roncole and Busseto still holds you against Carlo Bergonzi loyalty. Pavarotti is too often mentioned in connection with Puccini and Donizetti, but now George Hall writes: Pavarotti often said that it all other opera composers prefer Verdi He sang more works by Verdi than any other composer. Pavarotti was a real Verdi specialist. But Bergonzi once complained that the composer with tenors not very friendly Bypass: He gave us roles that you can achieve great success. But by Verdi are just as many tenors ruined as was made. That also played a role in Pavarotti's career, the only very late zoom dared to the title role in Othello, Caruso saved them. To Pavarotti's favorite roles, however Riccardo counted in masked ball. For this he was repeatedly celebrated, and the singer gushed: The whole opera belongs to the tenor. However, he should once sing in La forza del destino 1997 at the Met, but he refused because of respiratory problems.
On 3 CDs listener experiences the new set (with an elaborate, two, partly trilingual Bookset) Pavarotti in eleven operas, the Requiem and Verdi composed for the World Exhibition in London in 1862 Hymn of the Nations. In his readable Verdi biography complained the former chief dramaturg of the Cologne Opera, Christoph Schwandt, many historical and legendary Verdi recordings suffered that there was next to the great art of individual performers a lot of reprehensible, often had the rest of cast deficient. The same applies to Pavarotti performances. Who experienced Pavarotti here on the side of Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, Montserrat Caballé and Leo Nucci, this judgment is perhaps revise something.
An important addition to this set now appeared again after ten years at Warner Classics with Giuseppe Verdi Rarities. Together with Claudio Abbado interpret Pavarotti and La Scala here arias Verdi wrote an alternative. Recorded they were in 1978 and 1980 in Milan.