The Best Version of Nessun Dorma (Turandot) - Pavarotti (1972) 

For years my dad tried to get me to appreciate him but I resisted. Only recently have I understood

yes to this

Your right Pavarotti was and remains the best. All these Pavarotti haters are just jealous.

There's one dude who overshadowed Pavarotti. His name is Corelli whom Pavarotti admired in his young age when he was starting.

Me neither.

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Man, if you trust your homies, they can handle you listening to this utterly baller singing.

I heard him sing this live.

Get you some new homies

im a rocker with pink floyd and procol harem, genesis , and the moody blues and their great but ralph listen to some arias in opera will make your back hair stand . you got to understand opera is not a song but stories of crime , sadness, and comedie. arias are emotions done in a song which i love.

NO ONE

Franco corelli. But pavarotti is great!

@@1francosvizzero LIKE HELL HE IS!!! PAVAROTTI IS THE GREATEST TENOR WHO EVER LIVED. FRANCO CORELLI IS CRAP.

@@sevtaptincer8194 jussi björling nessun dorma stockholm 1944 actually pavarotti was asked to whom he would of like to be compared to he answered björling ''I'm only human'' he styled himself after björling

Corelli, Bonisolli-they are the Best. Pavarotti is a Very good singer, but in Lyric repertoire.

Franco corelli .

@@cato5553 IS CRAP THROUGH AND THROUGH.

@@cato5553 PAVAROTTI IS KING NOT FRANCO CORELLI YOU MUST BE DEAF.

m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q_hLh4qCqpg.html Best version is this one. Go to the end with 45 seconds left.

Corelli was 3x bigger voice than Pav. The ring he had especially for a Calaf is out of this world. Pavarotti was greatness, but with Calaf and Nessun Dorma, nobody comes iven close to the power and timbre of Corelli.

@@adeeo I agree. Corelli was greater with voice. Pavarotti was greater as singer himself with a great voice and power either. If you think to "Nessun dorma!" can immediately figure Pavarotti even if you ain't an operaholic.

@@alleborgo5481 Corelli,Corelli,..Pavarotyti extraordinary in other opera...remeber that big Luciano..is a tenor.."microfonato"...

@@guidogreco341 maybe in the last years of his career... '70s, and '80s he didn' t deserve to use mikes..

@@adeeo I actually agree with you. Corelli was in my opinion too the best Calaf in History.

Indeed

A critic said once that God must have kissed his vocal cords. I never forgot that compliment.

Leave God out of this….

were singing, not was singing.

@Magno Louzada emperor roca is just another bitter atheist cynic. Too many broken people these days, better to leave them to themselves.

yes, it's as though saw the face of God

Your Right Pavarotti was the greatest and always will be.

Listen Better. Corelli, Del Monaco were 3x bigger voices and best Calafs ever, especially Corelli. Doubt there was and is a better Calaf out there. I love Pav and this rendition, but in real the voice is small to the others mentioned.

La Ópera no es algo aparte, forma parte del entorno en la Música Académica, al final estas composiciones fueron creadas por hombres geniales e imperfectos (artistas) quienes fueron los verdaderos MAESTROS en darle a la Música un lenguaje, gracias a las partituras y escritura de notas para así traducir sus ideas, y que estas fueran expresadas por personas que entendieran ese lenguaje, ya en el Siglo XX, con los aparatos necesarios para grabar el sonido, muchos grandes intérpretes accedieron a interpretar y preservar las Más Grandes Obras de la Música, para que ahora, en este gran mar de información e historia llamado Internet, estén para quedarse y sean apreciadas por las siguientes generaciones, solo así el pasado no es tan lejano.

¿Mejor que Franco CORELLI, Mario del Monaco? Franco CORELLI considerado el Calaf por excelencia. Calaf= CORELLI CORELLI = Calaf. Turandot cantada por Birgit Nilsson y Franco CORELLI inigualable.

@@concepcionrebosa3027 en mj opinion pavarotti es el mejor pero bueno ahi que respetar gustos

@@concepcionrebosa3027 esatto,perfetto

Yes me too ❤️!

Me three...

He was on pitch. A stickler for it. Name me a note he sang sharp? Apart from the live recording of the Three Tenors.

@@henrigaziel2002 Pitch is a slippery concept. The orchestra (and, by extension, everyone else on stage) tunes A to something from ... well, it's arbitrary. It used to be a lower frequency (I read somewhere, so it must be true, right?) so high Cs weren't such a gargantuan struggle. I vaguely remember a story that Pav got the orchestra to tune a half tone lower so he could hit the "high C" in Che Gelida Manina (presumably without anyone noticing). God knows how people who claim pitch-perfectness justify their claim against a provably-changing definition of pitch. Maybe I'm just being my usual Grumpy Old Man. And, when I'm mis-remembering or just Plain Wrong, let me know in the comments below (as they say).

@@davidgould9431 Pitch isn’t a concept, slippery or otherwise. All singers transpose and Pavarotti certainly transposed ‘Che Gelida Manina’, but he also sang it in the original pitch, with the high C gloriously in place. Ironically it was Pavarotti who correctly pointed out to Karajan that the harp introduction was flat! You hear a C sharp and D in Rigoletto, even a beautiful E flat in Spirto gentil in Favorita. I had perfect pitch, it’s changing with the passing years, and I think it’s very noticeable when it’s transposed. I believe it changes the music’s character. We have a pretty uniform pitch concept now, the Stuttgart, corresponding to an audio frequency of 440 Hz. Scheibler recommended it as standard in 1834 after inventing the "tonometer" to measure pitch. The French and Austrians tried to lower this, but to no effect or use.

@@henrigaziel2002 I've obviously mis-remembered something: I thought it was lower than 440Hz sometime before the early 20th century. My memory seems to be shredding itself as I get older. Possibly also mis-remembered: Tito Schipa habitually tuned lower and his entourage would tour with ready-transcribed scores. Happy to be wrong about that, too :-)

I tend to agree. Age plays a part in this concept. Every great singer loses a step as they age, similarly to a championship athlete. Our vocal chords cannot sustain. It is a fact of the aging process.

Dopo FRANCO CORELLI...

exactly. I was trying to say that! CORELLI owned it til Pav took it in the early 90s. He owned it til someone comes on, but it won't be soon

Its not true so belt up, I`ve heard Corelli and he isn`t as good as Pavarotti. If you prefer Corelli go listen to him yourself!!!

I am getting really tired of comments that do not comprehend the difference between Full Lyric Tenor voice & a Full Spinto tenor voice. In regards Pavarotti & Corelli EACH were in NESSUN DORMA equally superb WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE TYPE OF TENOR This is what I was getting at in my comment regarding NESSUN DORMA. My preference for a SPINTO tenor for the CALAF & NESSUN DORMA a is just my personal opinion & does not intend to denigrate Pavarotti although I FEEL his instrument was better suited to more lyric repertoire. An example of this is his recording of L’AMICO FRITZ with Freni which is hopefully still available & in my opinion is some of the greatest lyric tenor singing I have yet to experience.

@@margaretsmith8337 what does" belt up" mean? Ok last time: Corelli was the best in this aria UNTIL Pavarotti made it his signature aria during the 80s and 90s. There are numerous recordings from that time which I find better , more refines,, more powerful,, more mature than this one. Pretty much what you said. Right tenor, wrong performance to present as THE BEST.

@@jefolson6989 maybe it means GIRD YOUR LOINS?

Franco Corelli’s Calaf is the best: His voice was made for the rôle, being a natural tenor dramatico. Pavarotti’s is good, though, but I have a feeling there’s a lot of sentimentality that comes attached with it. A similar style of tenor to Pavarotti was Jussi Björling, and I think his version of Nessun Dorma is also better than Pavarotti’s.

Shut your Big Gob if you prefer these other singers go listen to them. Pavarotti was the greatest.

Pescador de Sandalias, lástima que no existen grabaciones con Miguel Fleta cantando Calaf.

Puccini quería a Lauri Volpi para el rol de Calaf en su estreno de Turandot.

Just keep your opinions to yourself we don`t give a toss what any of you say. Pavarotti is an will always be Magnificent and if you don`t like that TOUGH.

Don’t forget Bocelli