帕瓦罗蒂

这部记录帕瓦罗蒂生平的纪录片于帕瓦罗蒂逝世十周年之际开拍，历时近两年拍摄而成的。纪录片包括了帕瓦罗蒂过去的录像影音，以及他的音乐好友们及家人的采访，在了解帕瓦罗蒂一生的同时，被他的灿烂纯真的笑容迷住。

说说我最喜欢的几个片段。

片段一，

1990年帕瓦罗蒂、多明戈和卡雷拉斯举办的“三大男高音”演唱会。

最精彩的一段是最后三人合唱《图兰朵》中的咏叹调《今夜无人入眠》。

片中多明戈回忆这段往事时说：原本《今夜无人入眠》是留给帕瓦罗蒂的Solo，多明戈和卡雷拉斯则站在台上等谢幕。但是，多明戈突然在帕瓦罗蒂即将唱时提议：为什么我们不三个人一起合唱呢？

赤裸裸的抢戏就此拉开帷幕。

帕瓦罗蒂先开口，作为他最经典的咏叹调，他唱得舒缓清亮，正待继续，多明戈开口抢戏。帕瓦罗蒂明显有点意外，看看多明戈，很可爱的做了个怪相，努努嘴，挑了个眉。

飙技的斗志随即被激起， 轮到他时，他故意拖长了音调，台下掌声雷动。

多明戈与卡雷拉斯此时暗戳戳的交头接耳，密谋着诡计。之后果然激起又一轮明抢暗斗，好不欢乐。

多明戈回忆：三人上到舞台，都默契地想着，刚刚你唱得可真棒，接下来看我的了。几个年过半百的老头，真是可爱至极。

结尾处，三人高音交汇，直冲云霄。现场观众起立鼓掌，久不停息。

片段二，U2和帕瓦罗蒂现场演奏的《萨拉热窝小姐》，之前并不知道有帕瓦罗蒂参与演唱的版本，台下是戴安娜王妃痴迷的眼神，之后帕瓦罗蒂与黛安娜王妃成为知己，联合做了不少公益慈善。

片段三，1986年，北京的长安街上，有个穿着红衣的胖子骑车骑得得飞快。满脸灿烂笑容，逍遥自在仿佛一个孩子。

正是1986年他第一次来中国，带来了后来家喻户晓的《我的太阳》，把高高在上的歌剧舞台带到了千家万户。

片段四，影片最后，帕瓦罗蒂对着镜头外的妻子录像，他说了一段话后沉吟片刻，继续说，还有我当然希望你永远爱我，如果你今天不爱我，永远还有明天。

在导演讲述帕瓦罗蒂起起落落的人生片段时，配的咏叹调也好契合。

在此之前，我对帕瓦罗蒂这位音乐家知之甚少。

只知道他是一位很伟大的音乐家，他所演唱的内容以歌剧为主，是个很厉害很多人喜欢的男高音...

好像就这么多了。

但，好在我有一天抱着好奇的心理，再加上我现在越来越对纪录片感兴趣，才和这部帕瓦罗蒂的人物传记结下了缘。

或者，换句话说，让我重新认识了这位平凡不过的普通人——帕瓦罗蒂。

It's 11/4/2020 and I'm stressed out waiting for an official offer from my new employer in Beijing after I just bought the ticket back to China from where I am now - the United States (Washington, DC, to be precise) - while a completely unexpected general election result is still pending.

Could not focus on my current job here working from home. Could not continue following the news anymore. Forced myself to sleep in the early evening after the work schedule, woke up after 2-3 hours, felt even worse and realized that it was time to distract myself from the anxious waiting, the politics or the business in shock. This was when I decided to look for a relaxing/healing movie.

I started with those on SHOWTIME because I just started free trial there. Since I felt like escaping the reality, I browsed all the movies by genres (except documentaries) and sadly, found nothing even bearable. Therefore I had to start over with all movies, and suddenly, saw Pavarotti, the documentary among all others. It didn't take me any hesitation to click on it.

I went to a lot of operas and concerts all through my earlier life (yes everything's gone since the start of covid-19), was an alto myself in my college chorus and even took a course on opera appreciation. Although I'm not a tenor person (in general, I prefer baritones), Pavarotti is obviously no stranger.

Like everyone, I was mostly familiar with O Sole Mio and Nessun Dorma. But you'd still be astounded every time listening to a man so gifted to sing the highs and lows and highers so well in his NATURAL voice. What more could I say. I was just thirsty for more of his singing and didn't have enough in the documentary. This is not necessarily a defect in this documentary, considering that I could be one of the few people who still relish operas in their entireties in addition to the arias, in the age of fractured fast-food information and entertainment. You can look up for these famous arias and even full operas online anyway.

So the documentary should be about just him - his personal life in addition to the professional one. I vaguely remember some of the romantic rumors around him and some of the controversies. This documentary walks us through all these in a concise manner, yet it feels personal. A good job done by the director. It could be easy and difficult when you have a great number of footages all through his life and availability of people to interview. BTW, I don't have a strong view on how well the interviews went - the cuts are just fine.

I'm not sure if I would have given this a 5-star if it wasn't because of the personal relief it brought me for this exact moment. In my opinion, one could potentially present something better with this plenty of footages, access to his family members and celebrity friends and most importantly, such a legendary life story. A 4/4.5 (just as the current 8.3 suggested) may be more accurate.

I didn't mean to write a comment for a documentary on a legendary man. Otherwise, I wouldn't have started in English on Douban if I meant for anyone else to look at it. I just wanted to document this toxic moment for myself at a place where some relief was given - something positive just for myself. However, and unsurprisingly, English literature takes more bytes and it easily exceeded the word limit for short comments. So here I am, and I wish no one be offended by the language used.

两个小时，勤勤恳恳（美化）还原了小帕进化成老帕的全过程。除了最美妙的歌声记录外，有几个好玩的地方印象特别深：原来帕瓦罗蒂上台前也会紧张到和同伴念念叨叨，“我觉得我要死了”；在芝加哥演出时在NBC的节目上做过招牌（黑暗料理）意大利面；在小女儿面前彩排，小朋友被明亮充沛的歌声吓得扁扁嘴掉头就走；1986年的北京，在长安街骑自行车那段是真的太可爱啦（以及那个被老帕现场指导唱歌唱劈了的中央音乐学院的男高学生是谁？心疼他一秒哈哈）；在罗马三个人临时起意，最后又一起唱了一遍Nessun Dorma，歌声直冲云霄听得人头皮发麻。

导演最棒的是讲述帕瓦罗蒂起起落落的人生片段时，配的咏叹调都好契合。昂扬得意时是Rigoletto里伯爵开场的美女如云，不被世人理解时是噙着泪在台上唱Pagliacci的粉墨登场，得病之后的舞台放了特别悲悯的Pietà Signore......

His voice makes my ears and heart vibrate at the same beat. 虽然很多专业人士看不上他的“大白嗓”，作为普通听众的我，却觉得帕瓦罗蒂的声音是地球曾经收到过的，最好的一件礼物。

(本来只是想发短评啦没想到字数超过了那就放这里吧哈哈)

最喜欢都灵冬奥会版本的《今夜无人入眠》！ 提到意大利，脑子中有这些词浮现，完美的曲线设计，自行车，法拉利，托纳多雷回家三部曲，教父，黑手党，歌剧，帕瓦罗蒂……对！帕瓦罗蒂！ 九个高音C，让你的耳膜能与其一起振动，感受他的情绪传递！感受男高音，歌剧，咏叹调的魅力！ 特别喜欢他的微笑，总是能给人传递一种非常好的情绪，一种美好的阳光感！ 整个纪录片比较喜欢他在伦敦义演之后的时光，开始把美声唱法和流行音乐结合在一起，更喜欢他对慈善的热诚！听过这么多遍《萨拉热窝小姐》，才知道了背后的故事！ 这个纪录片，整体有些流水账，侧重点一般化！算是一个比较中立的采访记录传记这样吧。引用的一些帕瓦罗蒂的肖像照真不错，很有学习的价值！ PS：只是喜欢古典音乐。歌剧.交响乐这些也是喜欢一些片段而已，没有什么研究！日常喜好之一罢了！ 分享一个比较喜爱的《今夜无人入眠》版本: http://music.163.com/song/20948039/?userid=439899294(来自@网易云音乐)

还有两张肖像照，完美的光比！

相对喜欢的肖像照之一

相对喜欢的肖像照之二

八卦的气息扑面而来。我不太清楚究竟帕瓦罗蒂的八卦对于他整一段生命而言，有多么地重要。但人们似乎相信着，这些八卦具备着强而有力的证据，证明帕瓦罗蒂曾经活过。

诚然，绯闻八卦十分吸引人，也是帕瓦罗蒂生活的一部分，也是展开他性格描述的好途径。但就私生活角度而言，绯闻八卦反而占据了一个过重的地位。尽管我们看到所有与他相关的女人们都出镜了，但我们对于他的另外一个身份几乎一无所知，作为父亲作为一家之长，帕瓦罗蒂到底经历了什么。我们只能从三位女儿的只言片语间去猜测帕瓦罗蒂在家庭到底是怎样的存在。

尤其是绯闻八卦与帕瓦罗蒂本身的成就本没有过多挂钩，只是用来丰满人物形象的情况下，过重的八卦还不如破碎家庭的“哭诉”。如何在工作中抽身陪同孩子的成长，与原配妻子是如何恶化的等等。假如并非客观因素掣肘，而是主观引导，我会比较失望。

除此之外，比较奇怪的是，采访的几乎是同僚，几乎少有作为朋友、同学这种身份的采访者。算是很大的一个遗憾，离塑造一个完整的人物还是缺失了那么点。 所以至少，我并不认为该纪录片较完整呈现了谁是“帕瓦罗蒂”。