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What The Irish Times said then.

What The Irish Times said then.

"Luciano Pavarotti seemed to me to have a hard, unsympathetic voice of very little variety, but with a Rigoletto, Gilda, Sparafucile and chorus of last night's quality, an uninspiring Duke can be accepted."

- Charles Acton, Irish Timesmusic critic, on the tenor's performance as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigolettowith the Dublin Grand Opera Society, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. - May 28th, 1963

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