FIRST TIME Hearing Opera Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma | REACTION 

Nobody is messing up in that orchestra. They are all on point. The conductor keeps all the players in sync. He sets the time and tempo.

The conductor keeps everyone in time. When you have 10 violins playing together, you want them to all come in together. Pavarotti is one of the most famous opera singers.

I'm 75 and I love to see young people broaden their musical interests. For that reason alone I enjoyed this reaction. The young lady asked a very important question, "Why do they need a conductor?" ( You said composer, but I know you meant conductor.) The thing is, you brilliantly answered your own question earlier when you wondered how they get all those instruments to make anything but noise. Guess who brings them all together to create beautiful music. Yup. That's the conductor's job. Just like a football coach brings together a bunch of clumsy boys to form a winning football team. It takes skill from the coach, and a lot of rigorous practice with the team to come up with a winning game...or in this case a beautiful concert. The conductor, like the coach, directs the action from the sidelines. Thanks for your great question.

The best tenor of the world. Nobody like him. Rip big LUCIANO 💔

There are no flaws, this is just a different level, keep learning.

You just heard probably the greatest tenor of all time.

With the greatest respect. Please listen to this song uninterrupted. Every football fan knows this song from Italia 90. Respect

He’s singing about a woman he loves. At the end he basically sings, “I will win; I will win; I will win!”

Guys, as a 1st timer....watch his eyes....as he close the piece....he truly goes out of body to another place on earth........a master performance of a masterpiece.........

You can not simply pause while he is singing! Just take a deep breath, relax and then listen. Without playing to be conductor, without talking and of course without pausing that video!

I love to see peoples reaction to hearing Pavarotti sing Nessun Dorma (from Puccini's opera Turandot) for the 1st time. I don't understand how anyone can pause the music EVER to listen to their own voice & opinions...I am speechless!

I used to teach HS (and college). I love teaching young people about music. Thank you for listening to this. The “song” from an opera is called an “aria”. This aria is from the opera called Turandot. Operas are plays, but the characters sing their lines, rather than saying them. So, there would be sets and costumes in an opera. Here, Luciano Pavarotti is singing the aria “Nessun Dorma” (No One Sleeps), in concert, which, in the opera, is sung by Prince Calaf. The prince is trying to win the royal Turandot’s hand in marriage. But he must answer three riddles correctly, or she will have him beheaded. (what???) He’s basically saying “I’ll be victorious and she’ll be mine”.

Thanks for reacting to this, hope it was my suggestion. So good that young people like you are willing to listen to all types of music. I like the way you ask questions and are willing to learn and grow. Well done

This is one of my favorite opera pieces thanks for reacting to it : ) I’ve heard this song plenty of times but everytime it bring chills and tear to my eyes it’s beautiful😁

The composer is the one who writes the music in the first place :) The conductor uses the baton to set the time and rhythm/feel of the piece and bring in the sections of the orchestra at the right time.

stop interupting and listen to the Master...FGS....!!!!!

Stop pausing so much. It's irritating. Let your facial reactions do some of the work. No need to clown.

That bright sound even on low tones takes years of training, plus the natural vocal quality of the singer.

It's great to see you guys react to this. You're very open-minded. I'm a punk rocker but still, this is my favorite song of all time, and Luciano sings it better than anyone else I've heard. And he's actually done it better than this! Don't listen to the haterz -- girlfriend is cool with me. Hope to see her again soon. :)

My Noni (grandmother) loved Pavarotti. "O Sole Mio" is a must of his. He also did a series of duets with more contemporary singers (James Brown, Bono, Stevie Wonder, etc).

Maybe y'all didn't notice, but the musicians all have sheet music -- in the violins, etc., two players share one music stand (one has to turn the pages, usually the right one). Some ensembles [trios, quartets, quintets, etc.] and small orchestras ("chamber orchestras", as in Mozart's time) can play without a conductor -- you listen to each other & watch each others body language, breathing...(it's pretty awesome when you all work well as one!). Conductors have a HUGE score (complete collection of sheet music with every single part in the orchestra). They direct the orchestra (like a police officer directing traffic) -- tempo (speed), dynamics (volume: how loud or soft one plays one's part), duration (especially when the notes are "stretched", like you said), etc. There are VERY FEW "flaws" (mistakes or wrong notes) in a professional orchestra (that's why they're pros). If y'all want to hear THOSE, listen to any school band or orchestra concert. Beginners usually start in primary school and play through at least high school. University & even some high school concerts are quite good. Parents of band & orchestra kids should get medals for attending many, many almost-but-not-quite-in-tune concerts over the years! 🎖 Y'all keep up the musical exploration! 💕 😊👍 🎻 from a former viola player (the one bigger than a violin but smaller than a cello 🤓)

That’s why his particular voice is called a tenor Glad you liked it

The musicians at that level don't mess up. Also the conductor works for hours and hours with each section of the orchestra getting the right sound from them. Then at the performance he basically plays the orchestra. That is his instrument.

Pavarotti sounds that way because he’s projecting his squillo. - Projection is the acoustical phenomenon that occurs when you produce your tone with an efficient balance of air and muscle. - Squillo is the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voices of opera singers. Squillo enables an essentially lyric tone to be heard over thick orchestrations and is recognizable by a distinctive brilliant, ringing quality in the timbre of the voice. This perception is caused by the presence of a peak in the 2 - 5 kHz frequency range, to which the human ear is particularly sensitive and where the orchestral accompaniment provides less competition because an orchestra is typically loudest around 500 Hz, with the sound level dropping off quickly at higher frequencies. The amplification of these particular harmonics is believed to be a result of a narrowing of the Aryepiglottic fold just above the larynx.

He was the world's best tenor ... He was succeeded by Peruvian Juan Diego Flores. You should check him out as well. This is quality presentation and music. Sometimes just close your eyes and listen to it and it takes you somewhere else. The same goes with classical. I know y'all are younger but if you ever get a chance, once ethos corona shits over, grab some tickets to a local symphony where they play a set. $60-80 per ticket and dress formal for the most part. The vibrations the instruments have as they go through the arena and hit your body complement the melody. It's definitely something y'all should try out if only once.

Lovely to see two young people enjoying and being emotionally affected by such powerful, passionate, beauty!!! Here's to the two of you...cheers!!!❤🤗💐

What I find amazing in these reaction videos is that there seems to be so many people who do not know Pavarotti's "Nessun Dorma". Astonishing.

OK guys a few things here. First of all, congrats for venturing into this world. You barely scratched the surface of the surface of the surface but it's a beginning! Now about the conductor and the orchestra. What you see in a concert is really just the tip of the iceberg. The sheet music may say things like "soft" or loud", "fast" or "slow" but if you leave that to the individual musicians in the orchestra everyone is going to do it differently. The conductor's job is to decide upon those questions and really drill them through the rehearsals until everything sounds just like he wants it and they all sound together like one orchestra, not just separate musicians each playing his own thing. Also, since each musician has only the sheet music for his own part, the conductor gives them the signs so they know when they should come in. He can also make minor adjustments during a concert, like signal a musician to play a bit louder for example. He will use a baton to make his movements more visible, because if you are a trombonist for example and you sit far back in the orchestra, you'll find it difficult to see his hands, especially while also looking at your sheet music and watching the conductor only from the corner of your eyes. When the orchestra is really small, or when there's just a choir, conductors don't need a baton, everyone can see their hands clearly. The conductor in this concert is Zubin Mehta, he's from Israel and he's one of the best. Regarding the voice. I can't teach you how to do it in a comment, but I can give you a hint. Put your hand on your throat and try yawning. You will notice that your larynx goes down. Not try to keep your larynx down there and sing. Also, try to notice the shape of his mouth while he sings. You'll see that most of the time he is opening it vertically, like when you say "oh". There's a lot more than that, there's breathing technique and many other details. The idea is that when these masterpieces were written there were no microphones but singers still had to sing to huge audiences in big concert halls. So they had to develop enormous volume and stamina. Basically they use their skulls as a resonator box. If a guitar was just strings on a piece of wood, it would be very quiet. But it has the hollow body which resonates and hugely amplifies the sound. Singers need to learn how to do that with their skulls.

I like you two Guys but now listen to this in its entirety WITHOUT pausing to begin to appreciate this masterpiece by the greatest Tenor the World has known.... You can always ask about the role of a Conductor at THE END after you have heard this. Unnecessary to cut this up by asking midway thru'....:) Good Luck...

Love your open reaction. Keep it up!!

More to life than popular music. You have just listened to a master

Great to see the Maestro connect with the younger generation. That is the power of true music- you don't need to know who, how or a Quaver from a wotsit-it transcends genre, age, race, language etc. It hits the soul and RESPECT is due!

The conductor is the most important one there lol everyone else already answered the question but I’m just re-affirming the importance of the conductor...he keeps everyone together

When you talk about the low notes sounding high, it's also the case that some of the notes he's singing are a lot higher than they sound, but they have a lot of fullness and resonance to them, so they sound lower than they really are.

The conductor is guiding all the elements of the orchestra, interpreting it to his vision of the music.

The conductor keeps time and leads the orchestra. They read all the parts, keep track of the score and interpret it. It is beautiful. I love music. Pavarotti is a tenor. I love him most.

There is a whole world out there! Explore!

Conductor knows every single instrument and every note it's really some amazing stuff and every instrument in that symphony is being played by an amazing artist

Only for trying opera, you have my like and my admiration. This is just a whole new world if you didn`listen to this kind of music before. I really enjoyed watching your enjoying the music and discovering the feeling of this masterpiece. Maybe you would like to listen to Barcelona, by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, it's sort of opera and rock all together

"How do all of these people play together so flawlessly? And why is there a conductor?" You answered you own questions there. That's exactly what his job is.

hi bros at the Opera school there is a specific technical term called DO DI PETTO i am italian ,Pavarotti was nicknamed THE KING OF DO DI PETTO💪AMAZING ......AWESOME💪👏👏👏👏👏 BIG LUCIANO....NEXT LEVEL

BRUH! That's that tenor life! The lowness with the brightness! Focused all up in your FACE!

All those people coming together like that is the job of the conducter. As a musician you learn to follow his lead. He practices with the orchestra, gives everyone feedback so they all sound good as one peace. Which is why a great conductor has so much respect and is in high demand everywhere.

They actually have 40k followers Wow How sad is this world Absolute tragic

This is one if my favorites, bring tears to my eyes.

One tiny advice, and this is just coming from an opera lover: Next time you do a reaction to opera, DON’T press the pause button, just listen from start to finish, and do the commenting afterwards - Pausing ruins the whole experience, and the emotions being invoked in the process 🙂

I know it doesn't necessarily sound as high a note as you spoke about the other singer singing, but Pavarotti hits a high C at the end (that's really high). It's the richness and fulness of his world class voice that makes it sound like it's lower than the other guy.

Who told these guys that they can say all these stuff about conducter and tenor and everything?

I am glad you Listen, nor just hear what is in front of you ... if you want to have your heart elevated again, I gift you with this aria, sung by one of the most beautiful sopranos, in the French crime-thriller DIVA ... Love and Peace @

God has given pavarotti a magnificent voice. To see peoples reactions. Truly amazing.

Enjoy your reactions! The orchestra practices with that conductor, and they practice, practice, practice. Conductor's hand movements keeps everyone on the beat. By the night of the performance, they may not need the conductor there any longer, but he's the leader and has to be there to get recognition, I guess.

The conductor sets the pace, interprets changes in tempo and dynamics as well maintaining the group’s blend. Many times the player or singers have no indication if they are in balance with the others, the conductor handles this as well. Also he is responsible for preparation of the ensemble, assignment of parts. It’s a big job, and requires years of preparation to do it well. Some conductors just wave their arms and make funny faces, but the good ones extract the music and brings it to life. There are only a handful of truly gifted world class conductors that worthy of standing in front of the best groups around.

It's the joy Pavarotti had for his ability. Pavarotti always said "If you think I can sing, you should have heard my father" Anyway, it's lovely seeing two beautiful young people enjoying the music. ♥️♥️

The Conductor. His job is not just to keep time. He is half a beat in front of the orchestra at all times, he cues the orchestra, the choir and the lead as to when to come in. His left hand is directing the dynamics of the performance (volume and intensity), his right hand is keeping time. To top it all off, he has the music score in front of him that shows what every instrument should be playing and he will manually turn the pages as the piece progresses. It's most definitely not someone just waving their arms around.

You got the TV playing in the background while you’re doing a reaction video to music 😂 dam

He's not the master of the lows… he's a tenor, that's the male high voice. React to a bass for a fair comparison : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SPZJEzxZrRk.html . Dimash is not "in the highs", he's in the "female very highs". Dimash is not a reference for normality he's a reference for a goal.

I realize that this is an older video now but I just wanted to say that I really appreciate you guys taking the time to listen to some classical music, that's absolutely wonderful! All the elitism in the comments is disturbing, honestly. I'm lucky enough to work as a professional classical musician and the gatekeeping and snobbery around the art is one of the biggest obstacles that it faces in today's world. Classical music is for everyone and can be appreciated in whatever way they want. It's incredibly refreshing to see people new to it diving in with a fresh and honest perspective. There's an incredibly rich world to be explored here and I truly hope that we can all encourage as many people as possible to listen to this music, regardless of background. Cheers!

Hi sugars! The conductor actually guides and controls the Entire orchestra... while each section of instruments has their own unique part of the song... there are sections within sections..of the same instruments that play different parts and layers of the music... as well as then all of the various parts that all of the instruments are playing at the same time... the conductor keeps time... while the musicians play their individual parts...they each also watch the conductor at the same time to stay On time and together as the music shifts in tempo or changes key...and also speed and volume... all musicians learn to watch the conductor to keep the interpretation and progression of the musical piece true to the Conductor's interpretation. By the way... The conductor has to read and know each instrument's part in a piece. A composer is a person who composed or wrote/writes the entire piece of music.

Music like this is truly transcendent.

Everybody making that noise sound so good.......... LOL You kids are cute.

The guy waiving with the stick is the conductor. Conductors act as guides to the orchestras or choirs they conduct. Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties of the conductor are to interpret the score in a way which reflects the specific indications in that score, set the tempo, ensure correct entries by ensemble members, and "shape" the phrasing where appropriate. Conductors communicate with their musicians primarily through hand gestures, usually with the aid of a baton, and may use other gestures or signals such as eye contact. The conductor typically stands on a raised podium with a large music stand for the full score, which contains the musical notation for all the instruments or voices.

The Composer is the person, who wrote the piece. If you mean the Conductor, then he is the person who makes sure every member of the Orchestra, every member of the choir and the soloist knows when to come in and basically pulls it all together and gets their timing right.

Just like a musician interprets a piece and plays it in his own "voice," the conductor interprets the piece of music using the orchestra as their "instrument"

Just recently I have been learning the art of Nessun Dorma. It is very difficult to maintain some key notes but ultimately its the pronunciation that I find difficult not the high notes. People seem to think the ending of the song is the hardest but in actual fact it appears to be the "nitty gritty" bits so to speak.

The conductor (, not composer) directs & controls tempo , pace, etc & really enjoyed your Opera reaction, thanks 🌈🌻

Rip big Luciano! Best tenor of all the time!!

Just listen to luciano pavrotti singing the whole song.. Andearn to appreciate fantastic voices you guys

Here's another song from Pavarotti. The Nessun Dorma clip was from a concert. This suggested song is from an actual Opera which is like a musical play. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8A3zetSuYRg.html The Conductor is there to make sure everyone in the orchestra is playing at the same speed. He can also direct different groups of instruments to play louder or softer.

5:00 His basically hears all of the instrument separately and in case some of the orchestrants does not hear themselves they will continue orienting by his moves.

Chills and my my neck hair had chills

The consort wrote every note in that locker in the conductor knows exactly what those

A Maestro is what you see in the video waving and directing. A composer is who put together all the words and musical lines to make the video you are reacting to.

My deepest respect to you beautiful people...now you heard the greatest voice of the 20th century...the song title means Let us sleep

The man with the stick prepare all the music with the singer before the show and he must have a very good ears to lovage how the must show goes

You mean a conductor. He is their guide he is the director.., he pulls it all together...

Although musicians know when to come in because they can read the music, the conductor helps them come in or who has to play and at the same time, the conductor keeps timing.

So painful to watch somebody with no dept enough to appreciate this godly music performed by a god. Just bow to this beauty and avoid talking your nonsense

You are both very open. Opera can be hard to like sometimes. I liked your attitudes and your openhearted conversations.

There's a difference between listening and actually hearing

He is not shocked!!! He is the master!!!! And that is how it is supposed to be done!!!!

The composer writes the music. The conductor directs the orchestras performance. What you don't see is the years of training of each of these musician undertakes to reach this level of excellence.

Kids..... try this without the chat. Without stopping . Close your eyes. It's like being made love to. The conductor is a qualified musician. He keeps them together and controls the sound levels. He is the greatest human voice that ever lived.

Adding to what Jim said, each conductor puts his own spin on how the opera is conducted. Now, when virtuoso's such as Pavarotti is singing the conductor will let the singer perform they way he or she wants to sing. To illustrate the point, I have seen the Wagner Ring Cycle performed by a dozen different conductors and no two performances were the same. Some were close, some not so close but the music is almost always the same. Glad to see young people like yourself excited to hear this.

there is a video on RU-vid where he sang this in a movie from 1982 and he held that last note for 20 seconds.

Luciano Pavorati does not have any flaws! Ever. He was the best!

The song is from an Opera, which is a stage play with music and song. Luciano is Michael Jordan of song.

The song is in Italian. The lyrics of it is in English is : No sleep No sleep You too, o Princess In your cold room Look at the stars Who tremble with love and hope But my mystery is closed in me No one will know my name No, no, I'll say it on your mouth When the light shines And my kiss will break the silence That makes you mine (No one will know his name And we must, alas, die, die) Vanish, o night Set, stars Set, stars I'll win at dawn I will win I will win

He is something else!

Listening to an orchestra and or opera is an ASMR experience. They aren't usually individually miked, it's supposed to be heard all around. Also he is an actor acting out a scene as he is singing, so usually there would be a story behind this.

You guys keep interrupting one of the greatest songs ever written OMG.

Love these reactions! Keep it coming. Our generation misses these singers and musicians who brightened our world with their talent. Seeing your reaction reminds me how I felt back when we could see them LIVE. 😊

Yip first time you here him it's awesome 🥀🥀🥀🥀

He was not shocked. He was very emotional.

The Composer is the person who wrote the music. The Conductor is the person in front of the band, they help everyone keep in time.

A conductor needs to know all the instruments and when they are playing. Big job. Good question.

I give you both credit for exploring this music. I would though strongly urge you, like some of the other people have, to listen to the entire piece uninterrupted. You’re losing a lot when you interrupt this masterpiece. Keep exploring the great music that’s out there. This piece was actually written in the 1800s by an Italian composer named Giacomo Puccini.

The range of an operatic tenor is measured in octaves. Most operatic tenors have a range of three or four octaves within the tenor voice. Higher ranges are things like falsetto and the lower ranges more in keeping with operatic baritones. Pavarotti was known as the "King of the High Cs" because his range was pretty vast for a tenor. He was older when this one was recorded. Find something from the 70s or 80s to hear him in his prime. He still hits it out of the park here!

Operas were originally written before the days of microphones. These singers had to train for years to get enough volume to sing solo with a full orchestra and be heard.

The conductor sets and keeps, or changes the tempo. When you are playing or singing you can see the movement of the conductor's arms even when you are watching the music.

He's come all the way from hog warts with his wand to add that extra magic! ❤️