Nathan Pacheco and David Archuleta have the best tenor voices(at least in this decade) and together they bring heaven a little closer. Nathan makes my heart melt.
Well done and he has a fantastic voice.. There will never be another tenor that can sing with such power and conviction as Luciano Pavarotti did ! He is and will always be the greatest Tenor that has graced our world !! He was a kind man and sang with love and excitement !
Not many artists has a voice like little Nathan Pacheco. He has one of those voices that sounds like he's crying when he sings. If you listen with headphones/earphones, you will hear that he has a perfect voice. And I mean PERFECT! Listen to him sing Prendi I Mei with the MTC. Awesome! It will bring goosebumps to you. Promise!
Closest I have heard to Pavaroti. However he just didn't hold the last note long enough for me...but apart from that he was perfect. I'd pay to listen to him. Lovely voice.
I find he sung it very well however he doesn't posses the depth and richness of voice to really sing it to it's full potential. Don't get me wrong, he did well, however at parts it sounds very strained.
Nessun Dorma is one of two pieces of sung music that move me. The other is God Bless America. Otherwise I avoid anything that is sung. I did enjoy Mr Pacheco's inflections.
So much talent in a single person. Nice to see an American singing in other languages, especially Italian, one of my favorite languages! Nice to see a person wearing a suit in concert. Reminds me of the days when people had class.
I love that Nathan invited the audience to sing along! And I'm sure that's one reason for the standing ovation--the audience participated and felt invested in the performance. Then they could stand and clap, while thinking, "WE sounded awesome together!"
I love this Arias! This man has such an Awesome voice! Brought me to tears! Absolutely Beautiful! Amazing!! This man lacks nothing at all! God has Blessed him richly! Bravo!
Excellent performance by Mr. Pacheco and the Choir. BUT nothing tops the interpretation of this Puccini aria than the one and only late Luciano Pavarotti. Listen to both back to back and you'll see what I mean. Resonance!!
There was and will be one Pavarotti. And yes, his rendition should be called a rendition because he rends my heart as I listen to him sing this. There is Pavarotti and then there are all others.
Bill Lawton Pacheco is a pop opera singer (also known as a popera or classical crossover singer), while Luciano Pavarotti was an actual opera singer. There are other opera singers who sang this aria as well or in some cases better than Pavarotti did. He may have sung the role of Calaf in the opera Turandot (from which this aria comes), but it is not a role written with a lyric tenor voice like Pavarotti's in mind. You might want to listen to Franco Corelli or Mario del Monaco singing Nessun Dorma to hear it sung by a tenor of the type for which it was intended.
Tam Olyn And to think you were doing so well discussing the difference between pop opera singers like Pacheco, Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban and singers who sing in actual operas... But then you had to get ahead of yourself and claim there are other opera singers who sang this aria "as well or in some cases better than Pavarotti did." Such an obviously foolish and uninformed statement hardly deserves a response - yet I will give it one. Pavarotti's "Nessun Dorma" is in a class by itself - many would say it is definitive. Corelli's version is indeed steely & impressive. But better than Pavarotti? Foolishness. del Monaco's? Actually better phrasing than Corelli frankly, and a more masterful legato and tessitura. But better overall? Not really. And better than Pavarotti? Sorry. I'll even mention 2 you didn't: listen to Bergonzi! Goodness, go listen to Björling! For that matter, go listen to Jonas Kaufmann. But "better?" No.To suggest that anyone sang "better" than Pavarotti - the aria which, above all others, became his signature - just betrays more about you than it does about that singer. Or his work. Or that aria. You should learn to use "IMO."But even Plácido Domingo said a voice like Luciano's comes along "only once." He also said: "I always admired the God-given glory of his voice - that unmistakable special timbre from the bottom up to the very top of the tenor range." So I can listen to my ears. Or Domingo. Or the critics. Or the other singers. Or the adoring millions. Or I can listen to you. Care to guess?
operasanger I have always thought that the "IMO" is always implied when commenting on RU-vid. I notice that you didn't say "IMO" either. I guess that you think your opinions are so lofty and correct that you don't need to include IMO in anything you say. Nessun Dorma may have been considered by many to be Pavarotti's "signature" piece, but that doesn't mean that he was necessarily the tenor who sang it best. It also doesn't mean that Nessun Dorma is necessarily the end all and be all of tenor arias. Your rude, biased, and obsessive statement hardly deserves a response - yet I will give it one. I have heard all of the other versions of Nessun Dorma that you mentioned, but didn't feel the need to list all of them. I will say that I think Kaufmann is a terrible singer. He started out well, but now that he is trying to push his voice into heavier and heavier roles, his voice has lost a lot of the beauty it one had. Bergonzi and Bjorling? Perfectly wonderful singers. Since you seem to have gone, in your obsessed rantings, beyond just saying that Pavarotti sang Nessun Dorma the best and are insisting that he is the greatest tenor ever, you might want to Google "Greatest Tenors Ever". You could be in for a surprise. The BBC lists Pavarotti 3rd. Classic fm lists Pavarotti 2nd. Top Tens lists Pavarotti 2nd BEHIND JOANTHAN ANTOINE YET!...but then I think that's a site for the musically uneducated. Pavarotti comes in 6th on Ranker. The Bilerico blog lists Pavarotti 2nd. I couldn't even find a list that put Pavarotti in first place. When Talk Classical asked opera fans to name their top tenors, Pavarotti didn't even make the list for several fans who responded. These lists weren't all voted by the "critics" but then you listed "adoring millions" in your comment to me, so I think it's fair to mention all of these lists. You left out a lot of very fine tenors when you were ranting on in your comment to me, and I feel I should mention some of them as you are not only saying that Pavarotti sang the best Nessun Dorma, but was also the greatest tenor ever. How about Carreras, who IMO had, as a young man, a better voice than Pavarotti's. How about Carreras, who IMO had, as a young man, a better voice than Pavarotti's.? What about John Vickers? Or the impeccable Fritz Wunderlich? The great Rossini coloratura tenors Frank Lopardo, Francisco Araiza, and Juan Diego Florez? (Frankly, I'd rather listen to Lopardo singing an aria from Semiramide than listen to Pavarotti singing anything.) How about Stuart Burrows, whose voice had such clarity and whose technique approached perfection? How about Piotr Beczala, whose voice is so reminiscent of Wunderlich's? There are and have been quite a few fine tenors, but not everyone agrees on which one is the best. One of the big problems here is that you are lumping all types of tenors together and trying to compare them. That approach presents a lot of difficulties, not the least of which is that you are basically comparing apples and oranges. When all is said and done, the bottom line is that the "who is the greatest" argument is pretty subjective. You are obviously very biased toward Pavarotti. I must remind you, however, that just because you think he's the best and because Domingo admired him (I notice you didn't state that Domingo said Pavarotti was "the best", or even that Pavarotti sang Nessun Dorma the best.), that doesn't make him the best. You are just stating your opinion. Also, other tenors than Pavarotti have been praised just as highly by critics, other singers, and by millions of adoring fans. I don't think there has ever been just one tenor (or one soprano or mezzo or bass, etc.) who is absolutely the best in his vocal class or even the best at singing one particular aria. Each person listens with his or her own ears. Opinions vary, even among critics and musically educated opera fans, and just because you have a fanatical devotion to Pavarotti, you don't have the right to slam me because I don't agree with you. And that is what you are doing. Even if I had stated the implied IMO, you would have blasted me. Your comment to me is filled with so much venom, that I have to think that your obsession with Pavarotti really goes to extremes. I've come across obsessed fans before (I used to work for an actor but I've encountered them in other places too.), and in the final analysis, you're just another obsessed fan who can't stand the idea that someone disagrees with you. Frankly, you sound more like one of the obsessed fans of Katherine Jenkins, who mistakenly think she is not only an opera singer but one of the greatest opera singers ever, than you do an opera fan. By the way, who died and made you the arbiter of all things operatic? I can bow down to you or I can continue to have my own opinions. Care to guess?
operasanger Are you saying that Bjorling, Del Monaco, Corelli didn't sing this aria as well as Pavarotti did? I do love Pavarotti, I paid my last money as a student to listen to him live in operas, and of course, it's the matter of personal preference, but quite a lot of opera fans, especially those who were old enough to listen to those tenors who came before Pavarotti prefer them. Corelli and Del Monaco (and others e.g. Aragall) had dramatic tenor voices which many prefer in this aria. Incidentally, Tam Olyn's comment is not visible for some reason, so I don't know what she said, but if someone doesn't name a specific singers doesn't mean they don't know them. Also, as I am sure you know, singing an aria in concert is far easier than singing it at the end of the 2nd act of Turandot without a mic and after over 2 hours of very difficult singing. Most of Del Monaco and Corelli's recordings here are from live performances. Do you know that Pavarotti only sang a few Calafs and than refused to sing the role because he felt it hurt his lyric voice? In terms of his "signature", it became his signature in crossover concerts, but Calaf was never "his" role. Oh, and Pavarotti called Bjorling "God", and called Aragall the best tenor. As to adoring millions - and again, I do love Pavarotti - really, as an opera fan you should know that popularity and greatness are different things. And yes, I do believe Pavarotti was great, but as to "greatest ever" - I don't think any tenor is.
With such a wonderful choir behind him, it's too bad they didn't learn and sing the finale to the piece. I was pleasantly surprised by his voice - it's suggestive of Placido Domingo, whose interpretation is my favorite.
This was my favorite number of the entire concert. I tried to get tickets, but the demand was so great that I couldn't. So I watched it live on the website. That was a GREAT idea! So many more of us could enjoy it that way! Thank you for doing that for us!
Magnificent! THANK YOU Where's that 360 VR? You can get access free at RU-vid Spaces at your subscriber level and we really want it. Great production value and magnificent performance. God Bless! Great! (as always!)
