Puccini: Nessun Dorma from 'Turandot' - BBC Proms 

Here is a performance, that extends your life by even 20 years : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BB-cpNtbVuo.html

His smile of vinecero

That is not a smile of victory but merely a smile of accomplishment. He will get it eventually.

I absolutely know, what you are talking about! His voice is so amazing and one of the best in history - and on top, he’s so damned sexy!

I've lost track on how many times I've watch this to see his wonderful face and smile at the end.

my take is that the look on his face is the perfect dramatic gesture to fit with the words he has just sung.

pronuncia patetica

He can only sing this song better than me, cause he has a wider vocal range, and can hit those high notes in his chest voice, I can't practice or use something I don't have.

Yikes, you guys all deaf?

@@operaenthusiast58 nope, we're not. The deaf and dumb one seems to be you instead

will melt in some sun expanding ...

Yeah, everyone's favourite shitty juvenile rock band will be dust in the wind, and the sooner the better.

Moot point. General opera singers don't appreciate the vocal placement of songs adored by "general public." Knock thee off thouest own high horse.

@@churchofgod4016 As an opera singer and vocal recital singer I can tell you this is BS. I can reach the 6th octave soprano high C on a good day, something no male pop singer in the current general lineup is capable of. The placement in pop music at its most extreme is nothing beyond the lowest of intermediate tenor opera repertoire. Any of the falsetto singing that male pop singers produce sounds horrible in comparison to male voices that actually train their falsetto. The best male voice type that currently works in that range is Sam Smith, and ole Sam had to have vocal surgery because of how poorly executed his falsetto range was, and even then he never went higher than a very thin sounding F5, which is where many Mozart tenor works reach to (look up William Matteuzzi to hear some of them performed). While I am an operatic singer, I am a rock tenor for the Murray State University Commercial Music Ensemble (the university's rock band that performs for all their big events such as homecoming etc.). Rock music is way harder to sing than pop is, and I do both for them. My operatic works are significantly harder, and take years of training to do properly. Moot point. Knock thee off thouest own high horse.

The only person i wish i had the chance to see is Puccini. I always wonder about what he was thinking about when he wrote those beautiful notes.

What's great about it? It's normal! :P

@@MusikPiratCH that would have been true, but sadly in most of the versions here on youtube especially those with Pavarotti, every damn time the audience applauses while the music is still in play. This is so sad, since the music it is the singing AND the music which make this Aria magnificent.

It's not BGT here.

Fr

More than applaud...more a kind of adulation that is his reward. Pavarotti used to openly throw his head back and drink in the almost primal cheers his performances brought out of the crowds.

🤠👏👏

Never I guess 😂

Yeah, but who scored the penalty?

Couldn't agree more. Absolutely flawless!

Madame Butterfield par Jonas kauffmann

this smile makes me crasy

MY man.

Great tenors all get that look after nailing the high B It's a combination of physical release after the intense effort and "Yeah, baby. Take that!" I love it!

The voice is not unique at all. His technique is unique and creative. And he's handsome and very good at acting.

Hi A

he has great technique, a baritone with a tenor reach of range.. that B at the end is so mad-a-fa-king glorious.. eargasms

jakie tags are you kidding me, i’m gonna be straight up with you, baritones can’t go up B4 with a full chest voice. Take your words back you silly kid. Learn off the male voices and sleep on it. Afterwards realize that tenors have a thick voice, it even might be as thick as baritones voice, but they have a different tessitura. Stop talking nonsense.

@@jonlondonskiy7699 This is not how you teach someone about the voice. Be less toxic.

Vincent, I really like your comment, tres bien!

Viva l'Europa! :)

Quest'aria ha una peculiarità la sentiamo sempre. La cantano sempre ma non ci stanca mai. Grazie gentile signora francese per avere notato questa chiamiamola riunione operistica Europea. Ora , in questo brutto momento per tutti noi cerchiamo di volerci più bene. E volersi bene attraverso l'arte è sempre bellissimo e consolante. Ciao.

Aquí un ruso comentando en castellano.

N’oubliez une directrice Américaine!! J’adore Marin Alsop. 💕

That's the word I was looking for - "timbre". Best voice for this song in my opinion. He makes the other tenors sound like sopranos. :-)

@@2008bruin2008 because he sings in the back of his throat

He sings with a full, open throat. Almost pure chest voice which is very hard to do, but once you become trained to do it it feels amazing. It's almost imagining drawing the sound up from the earth.

@@2008bruin2008 haven't you listened to Corelli, Lanza, Bjorling and Del Monaco?

@@2008bruin2008 Maybe other modern 'tenors' like Meli, Camarena and JDF, but in actual fact, he has a small voice. Nothing compared to Callas, Tebaldi, Caballe, etc., and certainly not compared to Corelli or MDM

He is just loveable! Thanks for this incredible voice.

I don't care what you have to say about him ether, while such sensitivity is in vogue.

My goodness what do people say about him or his voice? He is magnificent! I can't imagine anyone saying otherwise.

​@@angharadswansea9343Just listen to some of His Lied singing and you will quickly Change your mind

@@angharadswansea9343maybe the fact that he swallows his tongue to create artificial darkness and shoves sound out via musculature..?

se tu conoscessi la lingua italiana la pelle d'oca non ti verrebbe

_They all seem to use microphones now to prevent strokes._

Not high for a tenor. Just goes to an A. Child’s play.

@@HymnworksInc highest note is high B and its definitely not easy lol.

Mihailo Milosevic you’re right, I missed that.

Sometimes I think I will have a stroke just listening. Great way to go.

Little Bear ...and he looks soooooooo good!

There bare plenty of vids of him singing nessum Dorma - in all of them he ends with a big smile.

+cavey davey kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

+cavey davey Me too!!

+cavey davey Me too and I love his face at 3:14 also. I want to look at him forever.

+cavey davey yep he is thinking 'Nailed It'

me too :)

Remove the 0

And scream and hoot.

I guess it's not just musicians

@Sohrob Rouhani woah you listen to Opera too?

They won’t perform in AGT

Listening to unknown and surrender yourself to what you hear ... it is effortless. It is said by greek composer Yanni and it is very true.

Genius

because, geniuses of their own arts, they are. They hear what we cant, conpose what we cant and see what we, the common, cant

He really was so far and away the greatest composer of Opera I have ever heard

@@RonWylie-gk5lc Don't forget Giuseppe Verdi...

He is singing throaty, that is not his true voice. No tenor voice sounds like this. Kaufmann's voice is dull, there is no ring to it.

@@xxsaruman82xx87you know what they say about opinions…

There is no “á” in his name, it’s just Jonas Kaufmann and Kaufmann is spelled with 2 n at the end.

+EmmalovesDarcy He could barely contain himself at the end; waiting to burst open that smile.

+Dennis Tedder omg yea I loved that he looked so cute

+EmmalovesDarcy me too!!!

Barbara Northwood You read me wrong; he does, he did. His composure maintaining after the cutoff was brilliant!

I was at this concert , the applause for him lifted the roof

+singi dunum Lucky you!

+singi dunum Intense jealousy has overwhelmed me LOL hahahaha!!!

I am new to this....which language is this sung in.....n r there songs in these?

italian, my friend, italian, puccini is the composer...

singi dunum i

We could ask for Pavarotti who did it miles better and with more emotive connection, Kaufmann is good but his voice is too dark and Helden for Puccini arias in my opinion. He should stick to Verdi or Wagner

I'm imagining a bunch of geese mooning me. Your typo just made my night thank you xD

Yes, he was certainly pleased with how his voice performed .....just like any "on form athlete" he was victorious . He has an astonishing voice.

Listen to Pavarotti then

​@@francescocassandra6758 ...and second that with; Jonathan Antoine, Freddie De Tommaso, Guiseppe Di Stefano, Jussi Bjorling, Mario Lanza, Enrico Caruso etc etc....

But it's not though is it?..Its a good version but there's been better not least Pavarotti's of course which is by some yardstick the greatest Nessun Dorma ever, I'd also argue that despite lacking the power Bocelli's version is more beautiful then this and Jonathan Antoine's too.

Sorry but not many people agree with you. This is almost awful. He has a weak, choked sound. His high notes have neither bloom nor beauty. Listen to Giancomini

Damn I mean we are entitled to our opinions but I find this to be a totally crazy thing to say. I would put Pavarotti and Domingo far ahead of this, despite it being very good.

@@thesnackbandit yyep a very great performance but Pavarotti is a bit more powerfull and cleaner

@@obeybosss Kauffman just isn't clear at all. I don't think he's even remotely close to Pavarotti, forget about the likes of Domingo or Bjorling. Still good of course.

whity72

almost 9 seconds, not 11 ;) at 46 years of age Pavarotti kept the note a little bit more at 59... but 9 sec is world-class anyway!

He held the B natural for almost 4 seconds. An average hold. The note is actually written to be merely touched upon before descending, but tenors with easy tops over the last 60 years have made it almost traditional to hold it longer. It fits with the piece to hold it, because it is a bravura aria of triumph, & any tenor who sings it as written today would be wrongly accused of being frightened of the note. Kaufmann made a reasonable effort here.

Jean-Baptiste Grillon ,but I think Andrea bocelli kept it longer

Andrea Bocelli kept the note for 12 seconds. The longest I've heard is the great Pavarotti for 18 seconds

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No, Wunderlich is infinitely better than Kaufmann. Kaufmann has no technique.

No, his voice is small.

mayito jl after Pavarotti, Plácido, Carreras, Salvatore, piero Capuccilli, carusso, etc

@@kyungkoohan6683 Corelli and Del Monaco beat all of them, and Turandot was composed after Caruso's death. He died in 1921, Puccini didn't compose Nessun Dorma until 1923/4

On Nessun Dorma number 1 will always be Franco Corelli

Well.there are many superior versions of this area to.the most famous and popular one by Pavarotti.Pavarotti had a beautiful Lyric Tenor voice which suited the Bel Canto roles in operas composed by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini.Turandot is an opera best suited to Spinto Tenor voices, there are some excellent recordings of Nessun Dorma by Corelli, Bjorling, Domingo, Cura, Kaufmann.Nevertheless you have every right to your opinion, which I respect.

@@peterholwill1170 Finally someone with knowledge

For me, Mario del Monaco and Franco Corelli are made for the role of Prince Calaf. They have much larger and heroic voices than both Kauffmann and Pavarotti, not to mention, packed with killer looks.

check out Andrea Bocelli singing this song