Why was Pavarotti booed at a concert at La Scala in 1992?
2007-09-08 04:06:14 · 8 answers · asked by purple_lily76 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
He was booed off stage at that concert because his voice cracked during his performance. This was the climax to mounting criticism that Luciano Pavarotti's performance had been in decline. Previously that year, it had been discovered that he lip-synced a concert put on by the BBC. A few years before that, he was banned from performing at an opera house in Chicago because he constantly canceled performances at the last minute.
2007-09-08 06:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by island_illusions80 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pavarotti like many singers who bank on their money notes (his high Cs) won't give them up when they age and can no longer hit them consistently .... his performance in Daughter of the Regiment at the Met worked well when he took the aria with 6-9 high Cs down but when he took it back up the audience didn't boo they cried because they believed they lost that incredible voice ... as for Chicago (I was there) he had cancelled 3 seasons in a row and the Lyric Opera of Chicago had changed their schedule to accommodate him .. one cancellation was announced as vocal difficulties but Pavarotti was singing at Madison Square Garden in New York City the last one was for the filming for his movie Yes Giorgio .... but Chicago got a great and pleasant surprise we had Carlo Bergonzi in terrific voice instead
2007-09-09 03:03:48 · answer #2 · answered by toutvas bien 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Italian audiences are ver-r-r-y picky about opera. They felt that Luciano was too commercial, had poor acting ability, and cancelled perormances much too often. (He was known as the "King of Cancelations")
You may not know that LP was banned from performing at the Chicago Lyric Opera because of these frequent cancellations -- that was in 1989, and he had been performing regularly there for some time.
2007-09-08 05:34:38 · answer #3 · answered by glinzek 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he messed up with the high C's he couldn't make them, he's done this a couple of times in his later concerts, I felt so bad for him, I think that he was just getting to old to do concerts any more but I guess that he loved it so much it was too hard for him to give it up, even though I know he knew that it was time, he was still enjoying it so..... much, and most of us were forgiving, but your real opera buff's don't tolerate this, no matter who it is !!!!!!!
2007-09-09 15:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by chessmaster1018 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently hit a bad note
2007-09-08 04:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Useless Knowledge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Sweetie, c'mere let me kiss that for you. SMmwa! There now, doesn't that feel better now?
2016-03-18 02:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was riding on his laurels and stopped working so hard.
2007-09-08 11:23:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
his does tenor song in sol mayor scala
2007-09-08 06:25:48 · answer #8 · answered by nosferatu 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That was such a long tome ago...who would remember?
2007-09-08 04:13:43 · answer #9 · answered by shorty 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋