eva kovacs

For getting a sense of Pavarotti as a private man the film does decent work, and although there are gaps in the musical outline of his life, which leads many wanting to hear more, there is a clear sense of the greatness of his operatic singing. The voice, and the delivery, without parallel, suffuses the life of Pavarotti. His feeling, identifying with the music, and ability to impart the emotion, are totally heart-gripping. Opera is about primal emotion, and that is how the music and the sight touch people. The documentary seemed to try to please both those who are academic musicians, and might have disapproved of Pavarotti, and those who just listened to that amazing voice, which was a gift to the world.To those who share and understood the passion and love in the music, the so-called academic concerns did not and do not matter.Those who can't and won't grasp it, then it goes down to their own narrow- mindedness, and to a certain snobbishess.