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Thursday, April 8, 1982The Daily Tar Heel5 Pavarotti's 'Luciano 9 a, good investment By JEFF GROVE AssisUnl Arts Editor Pavarotti. Even people who would never think of set ting foot in an opera house know the name and have probably heard the voice. His first film, Yes, Giorgio, will be released this summer. His autobiography was a best seller. Lat week, ABC gave him a television special. Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, the epitome of opera to the general public, is a marketable item. Capitalizing on his success, London Records has just released Luciano, an album of the music Pavarotti performed on his TV show. All in all, the album is a creditable achievement. Pavarotti's voice has not been at its best lately. In an at tempt to compete with the more versatile Placido Dom ingo, Pavarotti has taken on operatic roles which de mand too much of him, and his voice has suffered. But this recording gives us the old Pavarotti. All the selections are re-releases from various London record ings of the mid-1970s. His youthful exuberance, still ex ists in these recordings. The first side features the tenor in six of the most sure-fire arias in all opera, while the se cond side consists of seven songs and a hymn. The album opens with the famous "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. Immediately a feel ing of genuine heartbreak emerges even if the listener doesn't know that the aria is sung by an actor who must perform a comedy despite the knowledge that his wife and best friend, his co-stars in the play, are lovers. Pavarotti's laughter and sobs may be unrealistic, but his singing is convincing. From Donizetti's comic opera The Daughter of the Regiment comes "O mes amis ... Pour mon ame," in which the great Luciano tosses off nine count 'em, nine high C's. A couple of them are slightly pinched, but who doesn't get chills on hearing a C, whatever its quality? The best performed aria is "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca. An erotic vision of a woman, this is an impassioned farewell to live by a man who will be exe cuted within the hour. Pavarotti invests the piece with a feeling of resignation to death and contentment with memories. The final cut on the first side is "Di quella pira" from Verdi's Trovatore. The hero, learning that his mother is about to be burned at the stake as a witch, resolves to save her life. The chorus, supplied by the Vienna Opera, is exciting, and Pavarottis is too at first. But the end ing is strained, and his desperation high B-flat almost cracks. Other cuts on the first side, competent but not strik ing, are "Celeste Aida" from Aida and "Che gelida manina' from La Boheme. Side two presents a more mellow Pavarotti. Standouts are the beautiful "A Vucchella" with its ceaseless ebb and flow, the seamless line of "Vanne, o rosa fortunata," and the martial rendition of "Marechiare." But the real achievement of this side is the album finale: Franck's "Panis Angelicus." Pavarotti's singing here is nothing short of heavenly, and a boys' choir is used well. Nine conductors direct seven different orchestras in the course of the album, so the listener gets a variety of interpretive quirks. But Luciano Pavarotti's voice, so consistently even and glowing, unifies the album far more effectively than the most powerful conductor could. The only deficiency the album has is its lack of texts and translations. This will immediately turn off John Q. Public; and even Pavarotti's regular fan, the opera lover, will be lost after the first side. Still, the album is a good investment if you don't already own the albums from which the selections were snipped. As a sampler of some of Pavarotti's better work, Luciano is important and certainly welcome. Lauded film based on Betts ' story "Violet," a half-hour film based on a short story by Doris Betts, Alumni distinguished professor of English, received an Academy Award for best short feature at the recent Oscar cere mony. Based on Betts' story The Ugliest Pilgrim, the film was adapted and di rected by Shelley Levinson at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The story was originally pub lished in Betts' 1973 story collection, Beasts of the Southern Wild, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. : The story and film both tell of the pilgrimage of a scarred North Carolina girl who leaves Spruce Pine, North Carolina to take her facial disfigura tion to a charismatic faith healer in Tulsa, Okla. 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