Whenever the great man sang, it was perfectly OK not to understand what he was saying, because he had the voice of an angel and the emotion he put into all his music was enough to keep everyone enthralled and emotional. His voice is timeless and perfect. Luciano's legacy will always be with us and will always be how other great tenors are judged. God rest his dear soul. 💔 🙋♂
Thank you for your lovely reaction. Truly there was and only ever be one Pavarotti. Puccini's wonderful aria combined with arguably the finest tenor of the 20th century is an irresistible combination. Thank you again ❤
To see her back it up a bit to experience the end one more time was golden! Anyone that doesn't have tear in their eye after that is missing something in their life...
The first time I heard HIM do this song I found myself crying and laughing at the same time. I saw the film, Yes! Georgeio or something like it. He sang this song. First time I heard it and even though HE couldn't hear us, but the entire cinema was clapping as the last notes left his body. It was glorious! I'm a ROCK musician. It doesn't mater the form, when someone is as gifted as that man is you just have to give him his props and everyone in the cinema that night did just that.
During my life I heard about Carusso as the best ever. Then came Mario Lanza, they even put him in a couple of movies in the fifties. And next came Pavarotti. All three of these gentlemen were known world-wide. You know you have made it big in the Opera world, when non Opera listeners know your name.
Everyone should hear and see this performance at least once in their life. Say something about touching the soul. It's incredible how he smash the last part out in the world, as if it should echo around the earth and possibly has. 😳 What a beautiful, emotional and powerful voice this man had. 🖤🖤
Funnily enough, this was actually a faded Pavarotti. If you hear him earlier in his career, he can hold the final note far longer. All the way to the end of the music. However, even though he is older and he doesn't have the ability to power through the last note like he did in his youth, he had had years longer to master his craft by this stage and I still prefer it.
@@joematthews4952 I can well imagine. I'll take a look at some recordings. In general I really like his voice. I don't know much about the world of classical music, but I still hear something every now and then. Then I look at a few videos here and wherever I like it, I stay. 😊 Thanks for the tip.
Andrea and Dominika you can't imagine how much more you'll love this once you read the lyrics in Italian and also in English.😅 His interpretation is flawless
my mum loved this guy I have Pavarotti cd s everywhere due to mum . 🙂mum died 12 months ago but listening to him does not make me upset just good memories x
I have 22 DVDs and 10 CDs for my car. I have left instruction to my kids that if i end up in hospital or elsewhere, I want Pavarotti to be last thing I hear. ❤❤
Pavarotti came to Boston when I was younger and he walked through the streets of the city into the Italian neighborhood, he was treated as a god. The old and young came out to wave to him. It was a amazing sight usually reserved for sports teams
Pavarotti has sung so many beautiful arias, among them "Una furtiva lagrima", "Che gelida manina", "E lucevan le stelle", "Vesti la giubba", "L'Arlesiana", "Lucia di Lammermoor"... If you want to see a version of this aria where he holds the last "Vincero" for ever, check the video from a film called "Yes, Giorgio". I highly recommend delving into opera and especially this or any other of the giants of opera like Jussi Björling, Franco Corelli, Caruso, and on the female side Maria Callas is an absolute must (Casta diva, O mio babbino caro, Vissi d'arte...).
You two are such beautiful people! The lyrics... Nobody sleeps Nessun dorma Nobody sleeps Nessun dorma You too, oh Princess Tu pure, oh Principessa In your cold room Nella tua fredda stanza You look at the stars that tremble Guardi le stelle che tremano Of love and hope D'amore e di speranza But my mystery is closed within me Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me No one will know my name Il nome mio nessun saprà No, no, in your mouth I will say it No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò When the light shines Quando la luce splenderà And my kiss will melt Ed il mio bacio scioglierà The silence that makes you mine Il silenzio che ti fa mia Disappear, oh night Dilegua, oh notte Set, stars Tramontate, stelle Set, stars Tramontate, stelle I'll win at dawn All'alba vincerò I will win Vincerò I will win Vincerò
The tears in your eyes are so sweet, this song and Luciano singing, reminds me of my father. He loved his opera singers and the three tenors you mentioned, we're his favourites. It makes me watery eyed every time I stumble across this performance, thanks for covering it in such a beautiful way x
Another great reaction to a true Master of his art. The Great Luciano was just beyond anyone else. A bit of geekdom about this performance. Luciano sings for less than 3 minutes. The entire piece here is about 3 minutes & 20 seconds. That standing ovation you see starting at the end. That lasted over 20 minutes! Yep. The whole performance was stopped for 20 minutes so the crowd could applaud. That to me is just insane! I hope everyone is having an amazing week & much love to everyone from here in the UK
@@MerchantOfAlba Oooh no. For the WOW! stories hunt out a couple of the stories from people who lived in the same town as Luciano. They say that when he practiced in his office, he could be heard clearly & beautifully across the entire town! The man is looked upon so highly for good reason
What makes a singer/singing artist great, who is loved & appreciated is the emotion & passion they put into what they are singing. While other tenors have marvelous voices, for me no one had that emotion & passion more than Pavarotti & that I believe is what still makes him so great & loved to this day & will continue to go on. It is that passion & emotion from the soul & gut that Elvis also had in every song he sang. Singers like that will never die.
I love your faces and physical reactions. ❤ I'm a metal head, but my aunt sang opera and made me listen to it. Ooooh, the power! ❤ Metal and opera can shake you to the core.
I love Puccini. I have a London CD called Puccini Weekend with all his best pieces from his operas. Bruno Prevedi does this piece spectacularly. My dad played, 'Au fond du temple saint' from Bizet's Pearl Fishers and I fell in love with it immediately. I have the very album that he played for me. Thank you for this great upload.
Loved where you skipped a few seconds back, looked at each other for a few seconds, nodded and played the last bit again. I always tear-up when listening to this.
Pavarotti, Bowie, Lemmy, Prince, Lennon, George Michael, Marc Bolan, Joe Strummer and the list goes on. People we've lost who I feel privileged to have seen live and who I shared the Earth with for a little while. I also cry a little when I hear or see them. I think I'm kind of at an age (57) where the people who made who I am are slowly disappearing
nous avons les mêmes goûts éclectiques musicaux. Je vous ai découvert au travers de vos réactions sur Rammstein. Qui comme Dominica, j'ai apprécié petit à petit. Et j'apprécie tout autant le classique et bien entendu les grands noms comme Pararotti. Dans ses dernières notes, il donne tout comme un funambule sans filet. Il perd tout contrôle pour tenir cette note inhumaine et si forte. Merci pour votre partage d'émotions.
There were great tenors before Luciano. The first I knew was Beniamo Gigli, someone my father discovered during his time in Italy with the New Zealand army. My mother was a musician and a singer of light opera thus I received a broader musical education than most. Mario Lanza was another tenor who gained mainstream popularity during the 50s and 60s but definitely opera and its tenor peaked with the Three Tenors. Luciano was the best. The tragedy is that there is no successor.
First heard this on the BBC's live coverage of the 1990 football World Cup held in Italy. It was their theme tune during that competition. Pavarotti became very popular as a result. "Nessun Dorma" made No.2 in the UK charts.
This song is from the opera "Turandot" which Pavarotti is most famous for, out of all the operas he starred in. An opera is like a play without words, every word is a song instead. At this concert in LA, he is literally performing that role in a tuxedo instead of the regalia he would normally be wearing. At the end when he sings "I will win, I will win, I will win", his expressions are all part of the act. When the music ends, he comes back to reality. I hope you get to watch an entire opera, there are many on RU-vid, some with English subtitles. I recommend starting with fun ones like The Barber of Seville (Rossini), The Marriage of Figaro or The Magic Flute (Mozart), everyone loves Carmen, Madame Butterfly, Aida and LaTraviata. Check them out. Better yet, go see an opera live. There's nothing like it.
There is a marvelous video of Billy Joel’s guitarist Mike DelGuidice singing this during a Billy Joel concert at Wembley with Billy playing the piano (of course!). I saw this last time I saw him in concert and it absolutely stopped the show & brought the crowd to tears. I had never heard opera live before, much less at a rock show. It was stunning. It should be illegal to give one person SO much talent. I mean, he’s freakin’ Billy Joel’s GUITARIST & he can sing like that! Before everyone lines up here & points out “Yeah, but he’s no Pavarotti!”, sure. Both can be good. It’s not a contest. However, I am sure Luciano can’t shred “Big Shot” on a Les Paul either!
OMG, I love him. I love this performance. I remember seeing it here in the USA on public television in the 1990’s. I was as an X-ray technologist at the time. I was at work and walked into the Radiology waiting room and our Radiologist was there too and we were in awe, just in awe. Work waited for a few minutes.
Turandot is most definitely NOT “unfinished”. 😂 It’s been performed regularly, start to finish as always, by every great opera company since Puccini wrote (and finished) it.
4:19 - one of the lovely things about music of all types is that it is - these days - accessible to everyone with an internet connection, whatever their experience to date and whatever they like. We all have loads to learn about other musical genres, and there are beautiful sounds to be heard all over the place.
You re-wound this the same way all of us did. Utterly amazing. I was a young man the first time I watched this on PBS during its initial broadcast, and it laid the foundation for my love of opera.
When I was a poor college student with a music scholarship, I got to watch performances in the box seats because people did not show up. I got in for $5 for a $50 seat! Back in 1974.
This song is played in many movies specially in mob flicks as someone is getting whacked. Great song to listen to before dying. Great performer one of my favorites is with James Brown it’s a mans world (wow) fantastic.
I thought you were Italian initially because you pronounce his name perfectly, lovely video and lovely couple. I wish to be in a relationship like yours.
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o Principessa Nella tua fredda stanza Guardi le stelle che tremano D'amore e di speranza! Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me Il nome mio nessun saprà! No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò Quando la luce splenderà! Ed il mio bacio scioglierà Il silenzio che ti fa mia! (ll nome suo nessun saprà E noi dovrem, ahimè! Morir! Morir!) coro Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò! The translation Let no one sleep, Let no one sleep! Even you, oh Princess, In your cold room, Watch the stars, That tremble with love And with hope. But my mistery is hidden within me, My name no one shall know, No... no... On your mouth, I will tell it, When the light will shine. And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine! (No one will know his name and we must, alas, die,die.) chorus Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!
Pavarotti, the master of emotions. And Franco Corelli, the master of powerful voice, the man with lungs of steel (in Pavarotti own words, of course). The best two renditions of "Nessun dorma" you could ever experience, in my humble opinion. Just try! 😁
First of all, hello, to both of you. Why do we all get goosebumps listening to this? I speak no Italian, or any other language apart from English. It is universal, the feeling of emotion that we all get, as adults, to this. Any thoughts?
Jussi Björling, swedish tenor, was Pavarottis inspiration sort of. When doing a role he always listen to Jussi version first. Before the big three there was Jussi😁
