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....it just came up in my rotation---and never am I able to continue working when this comes on---Pavarotti truly owns Nessun Dorma ---there is no equal:flower::bowdown:
I had the good fortune to see him in concert a number of times and I always marveled at the apparent ease with which he sang---in this video he is clearly working hard.
He is being accompanied by James Levine---director of the Met---who regrettably has been caught up in the Me Too revelations.
Not saying he was better but when Paul Potts did it it made you want to cry. Where he came, his story, touching.
Potts’ surprise was a pleasant show with his trip to the stage from his sales job somewhere, his workday appearance, fluffy body and crooked teeth, but he was and still is not near Pavarotti’s league. He hit the high note though. We all rooted for him to hit it, right?
Was it the next year that Susan Boyle had basically the same act, but she is more an enduring talent?
Pavarotti was a blessing for our age. I am not that versed in great opera singers, but one from my early youth stands out with an instrument to challenge Pavarotti’s — Mario Lanza. He too had an interesting story. I think he was pretty much untrained in the classical sense and was discovered while working as a barber in Philadelphia maybe. Too lazy to look it up. I saw him as a boy in one or two movies in the early fifties before his very untimely death. Here is a video from one of his movies. I think the musicality and power of his voice evident proof of what we missed had he lived.
https://youtu.be/kJZ2XA84MPI
Of course, Nessun Dorma is a sure goosebump bringer when anyone halfway competent sings it, at least for me. As a music first, lyrics far below kind of guy, I have relished Nessun Dorma (trans: Nobody Shall Sleep) for many years, but until today had no idea what the words meant or the libretto of the Puccini opera, Turandot, from which it came. Below is a website with the story and both Italian & English translation of the lyrics —
https://www.liveabout.com/nessun-dorma-lyrics-724333
Excellent reply Joe :clap: