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MILANESE FANS BOO PAVAROTTI
AP
Published: March 17, 1983
MILAN, Italy, March 16— Luciano Pavarotti, making his first appearance at La Scala in three years, was booed and whistled at by some fans in the last act of Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' Tuesday night.
Tickets for Mr. Pavarotti's appearance had been sold out several weeks in advance.
The tenor received rousing applause from a capacity audience in the first act. But some fans, especially those in the less-expensive gallery seats who were opera regulars, were furious over what was later described by critics as a sudden weakening of his voice in the final aria of the opera, ''Bell' Alma Innamorata.'' Conductor Also Booed
At the end of the performance, the fans also booed the Swiss conductor Peter Maag and costume designers Rosita and Ottavio Missoni, the celebrated Italian masters of knitted ready-to-wear fashion. The soprano Luciana Serra, making her debut in Italy's most prestigious theater, was the only artist warmly applauded on the opening-night performance.
Many of the Italian critics did not share the negative response of the fans. Milan's Il Giornale Nuovo said: ''The superstar fell from the high altars into a dust bin in a matter of a few hours. This was the pitiless and absurd response of loggionisti who turned crazy over a slight weakening of his voice in the final moment of the opera.'' The loggionistri are those who sit in the gallery.
Milan's Corriere della Sera said the protests against Pavarotti represented a ''brutal thumbs down for the great tenor who was awaited like a god and looked a bit worn out at the end.''
''Fans.'' it said, ''did not pardon him.''