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Carreras is NOT a fluke!!

12/04/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Carreras happens to have the perfect, the most accurate, by-the-book vocalization among all three tenors. If one listens carefully, s/he would find his choice of pieces profound and very difficult. I agree that he doesn't have the golden voice like Pavarotti's but it shouldn't be in any effect on placing him the 2nd rated singer. There is a reason that he is the 1st rated tenor. He tries and does excell regardless of the poor physical condition(everyone knows that he survived cancer!) and always studies his piece before he sings it. Carreras should be complemented and applaused for that! The reason why I'm subtracting one out of five stars is because Pavarotti seems to me that he doesn't really care about what he is going to perform(in front of thousands of people not including one's who will buy his CD!) or he could at least study the words of the songs that he is going to sing!"

Terrible Acoustics, Beautiful Music and Singing

Joe | Burbank, CAlifornia United States | 04/26/2002

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This is by far the worst CD I have ever bought of any CD or record. You could hear the audience coughing and making sounds better in many cases than you could hear the singers. It appears as if the microphones were in the audience and the singers were in the background. It was very annoying to hear all the coughing while trying to enjoy the music and singing. Some arias did not even end; the music just got softer and softer and finally stopped. There was no booklet enclosed and no indication to what opera the arias belonged. The track numbers did not match the CD. The cover showed aria "Recondita Armonia" but "E Lucevan Le Stelle" was actually sung. At least they got the opera correct, "Tosca". If not for the great and beautiful voices of all the singers male and female I wouldn't even give this CD a two-star rating."