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the face he has shows that hero climax - i think only tenors have this: all bones in the chest and head start to vibrate with the sound and the tenors tell that you do not want to end the note when this happens. so you hold it as long as you can (or the music allows it). this is also why heros in opera normally are tenors because this only happens with tenor voice. his version is incredible !!!
His eyes at the end of the piece, are one of the highlights of the aria. It's almost as if he's been singing from a higher plane, and only realises it when he comes back down after delivering the final note. This really is a work of art by the great genius.🙋♂
A few months ago, in our way to school, my 9 years old child told me they were going to talk about opera in school. He told me ‘daddy, what’s opera?’. I got my phone and told him I was going to show him. On the last ‘Vincero’ he started to shake and his mouth was wide open, tears falling through his eyes. When the video ended, I told him ‘that’s opera, I watched this when I was a child and I felt exactly how you feel right now. This is why I love opera’. He said nothing, but I could really see he was genuinely impressed and didn’t know how to express himself.
It's a wonderful gift to give any child. My parents were Italian and as blue collar as anyone and they grew up with opera. I am so grateful to them for the endless hours of great opera that was played in our house (along side other genres). The greatness of Pavarotti is universal.
Singing involves wringing all the emotion out of the words, but not actually feeling those emotions, which could hamper the performance and become wearing when repeated regularly. It's a performance, an act.
Pavarotti himself stated emphatically that while he always had a love for football his one and only passion and obsession in life was the Opera. He was a fierce believer that Opera belonged to the people and there is a reason he worked so hard to promote and bring the Opera to the masses. He also taught free classes to up and coming tenors, he was very supportive of his fellow colleagues and wanted to teach them better techniques to further their careers.
Yes, but how he could he claim Nessun Dorma?! FRANCO CORELI IS the best Calaf ever! On the whole, Pav. .made a name for himself, as a sĥowman .Corelli stood away from limelight, there was no need for him to attract audience, like Pavarotti did.😮
@@atizaries5512 For me it's about the emotion & passion that exudes from Pavarotti. Also I hear Corelli "dragging" out, or "lingering" on the words a hair's breath more (for lack of a better way to explain it).
Opera was for the working classes in Italy. I once sat in the Amphitheatre in Verona at the very top. The residents around the theatre all sat in their windows with a glass if wine enjoying the show.
I am a musician, a ROCK musician. I had a girlfriend who couldn't understand why I like opera. One day watching PBS -- I'm from Shetland, but I live in America -- Pavarotti was to be featured. It was a nice spring day in South Florida so I had the front door open. Him doing this "song". I never heard the screen door open and close, too focused on the dude. As I was clapping I head someone else clapping. It was my girlfriend who HATED OPERA, tears in her eyes: "Who is that?" she asked. I told her Pavarotti. She said "I love opera." Of course you do! He is amazing!
Rock and metal heads are the ones that like most types of music. We can enjoy almost every type of music... Do not know why! There is one type of music I completely hate though... Regeatton! disgusting to the core -.-
This aria is definitely one of the most powerful music ever written, and Pavarotti’s performance is perfection! It is impossible not to feel emotionally touched. And for amateur singers like myself, it is such an awesome experience to see and hear the maestro at his best. Thank you so much for your reaction and your knowledge!
As an Italian I can say that his perfect and clear pronunciation allows you to understand every single word. The Modena accent, sometimes slightly perceptible in the way he pronounces some words, seems to help him further. However, the freshness of his tone remains legendary, his true trademark.
Pour moi ce sont des frissons qui me parcoure tout le corps et de l'intérieur il y a une raisonance incroyable qui augmente au fur et à mesure que les notes montent... qui dure même après son chant. Et là je pleure. Seule la Callas me procure ses mêmes émotions ... Ecoutez la Callas chanter Norma et vous pleurez une piscine.
Just stumbled on ro you! You've let me in on a couple of things I didn't know! Singing excites me as it does you. I've had voice lessons, sang in a choir traveling from Tennessee to New York and loved every minute of it
I was 17 and a senior in high school. I made second chair in the all-city band playing tuba. I had never heard this song before. The first time we played it (no singing, mind you), I cried. I didn’t even know it was opera. When I heard this for the first time, my mind exploded. Such an amazing aria sung to perfection!
I experienced him in the 1980s in Stuttgart/ Germany. Really experienced him! It was a revelation for all senses. I will never forget this evening in my entire live.
I grew up listening to Punk, Post Punk, and New Wave. I love Metal (death and black metal are favorites), and Alternative. My whole musical life, is dark, hard-hitting - sometimes vulgar - lyrics, and loud, heavy sonics. And Pavarotti brings me to tears every time. Go figure.
By the time I was listening this one song I was like 18 years old (1989) and I also was listening medieval music and discovered Slayer and Metallica 😂 Also alternative and postpunk. We should start a club 😅 Regards from Chile!
I'm a dude that only listens to metal yet I like opera like this and classic music. If you ask me, if a lot of the classic composers were born today they would probably have been metal artist
@Pharto_Stinkus Il tuo errore è cercare di capire,Pavarotti come Vivaldi o Albinoni non passano per il cervello,vanno diritti al cuore... Che poi siano tutti italiani è solo un caso...😉
I love Pavarotti, when I first heard him sing, I got chills. When the Three Tenors came around, double the chills and it broke my heart when he passed. There will never be another singer like him.
Teacher, the same voice. I saw a comparative video of him in 1977 at the age of 41 and at 70 years old it is impressive the quality of the voice being the same.
I see so many vocal coach reactions and analyses here on youtube but I came across your channel and your podcast first and I gotta say...Among the dussins of vocal coaches channels here you are the only one who proper analyze the singers and back it up with experience and theory. Thank you Beth!
Not only have I listened to many singers doing Nessum Dorma, I have also listened to many versions of Pavarotti singing Nessum Dorma, and for me, this one is still, by far, the best. Unbelievable how he could sing so quietly and so loud at the same time. He has a version Caruso (featuring Jeff Beck) in the album Ti Adoro which is phenomenal too.
This Is Pavarotti toward the end of his career and, although still impressive, this performance Is nowhere near his best. Try looking up the version of this Song with a video direction from Zeffirelli, you can see Pavarotti in the prime of his voice and it'll just blow you away.
Roughly translated from Genoese dialect: "I'm healthy enough, I'm wealthy enough, I got my nephews with me tonight and they're good boys, so I thank you Lord Jesus but, before anything else, I thank you for making me Italian" - My grandmother to me and my cousin, May 1999, cloakroom of the "Carlo Felice" Grand Theatre in Genoa, Italy, immediately after Pavarotti had the entire crowd applauding for 28 minutes, 15 standing ovations. This is my memory of this. Ciao from Italia.
OMG, thank you, Beth. I never listened to Pavarotti before and never knew what I was missing! This was like getting struck by lightning while on top of the highest mountain in the world and discovering you are immortal.
I have never been an opera singer but was a dj and my wife was a Jazz singer so I had a wide range of tastes. Till this day as a 50 year old man this song brings tears to my eyes every time.
Beth, I have just discovered your channel, and I love it! I was lucky enough to see Pavarotti in 1969 (I think) as a fortunate 8 year old, when my mother took me to see La Boheme at the Royal Opera House in London. I’ve been lucky enough to see many more operas since then, indeed, writing my university thesis on re- staging Rigoletto in turn of the century East End! Pavarotti is a phenomenon , and has brought me great joy for many years. Please keep posting!
When he was younger and performing in the Opera Turandot, he held those last two notes for 18 (yes 18) seconds, check it out. He was one of a kind, no question.
Wonderful piece of music! As an English male who loved this as the soundtrack to Italia ‘90, this always gives me goosebumps. Quite amusing that there will be 1000’s of Englishmen who can’t speak a word of Italian (me included) who will sing along to this!! I love to see the obvious joy you get from this. Lovely.
I'm a regular guy. But hearing and seeing that last note and especially the incredible expression on his face that had to come from an almost hyper-human effort had me in tears! He was like no other in my opinion.
@@guitargamesandliverpool Beth had compared the plots of operas to soap operas and used a scene from Eastenders as an example. So I was continuing her comparison.
I appreciate your love for his voice, his signature, and your pure exuberance of this performance. Listening to him is almost a metaphysical experience (I know that sounds so corny!) - the wonderful intersection of his voice, note, context, and energy of the moment with orchestra and audience. What does it mean to experience it again? I love that you clap for him, that you burst forth with joy! Thanks for the great remarks and educational content. It’s perfect!
I've seen this performace so many times and it never fails to impress or move me. It's the greatest performance of anything I have ever seen, you can see that Luciano is exhausted but ecstatic at the end. He knows he's just performed something that will never be matched. To hear someone breakdown opera and explain the various techniques makes the performance even more fascinating. Thank you!
Pavarotti was the greatest and best I knew. His voice was soft and clear. He will never be forgotten by those, like me, who admired him. Greetings from Brazil. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Dear Beth, I grew up with opera. I was born in 1967 and my father was a real opera lover. I can remember the records every Sunday filled with operas with Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, and later Pavarotie. He took me to Verona Arena and we went to Aida from Verdi! As a 10-year-old boy, after a high point, everyone stood up and clapped and shouted Bies, Bies! That leaves a mark. I got older and started to love Italo Disco in the 80s. But I still love to listen to opera. After he died, all the records were gone by mistake. And now, I have to be careful, what beautiful eyes and red hair you have.
Thank you very much for sharing what you know about opera, singing, and this opera. I love it how you can see Pavarotti taking in these huge breathes at the end because singing opera is hard work.
of all the videos I have about Pavarotti, the best is from teacher Beth. The techniques, the knowledge of the voice, the history of the music everything wonderful.
This is a nice exposition of Luciano Pavarotti playing the part in “Turnadot”. And ? Your sharing your experience to your channel’s continuing education shared is wonderful. Roar On, …!!! Semper Fidelis
People that know about Opera, the story is the thing that is important, and the "story teller" are the people that get famous... Pavarotti is one of the best "story" tellers of all time, always will be :)
This version is truly great. I came across this one here on TH-cam a long time ago, and I love it: The best Nessun dorma - Luciano Pavarotti - Turandot - Puccini. He's young in this one and really holds notes for a long time.
I dont understand it as you do. But to me, it is one of the most, unbelievable, emotional performances of all time. I have tears everytime i listen to this.
Wonderful reaction and explanation! One of the many qualities of Pavarotti's technique is his ability to make all the words perfectly intelligible. Wonderful voice. His famous "high Cs" in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment are still unparalled to this day: the apparent ease with which he could belt them out is impressive. Thank you for honoring his memory with this beautiful video.
In the mid-'70's I heard Pavarotti in recital, performing for an audience that included many trained singers. With a truly great artist on stage, many experts can turn from being critics to being blubbering fanboys and girls, carried away with emotion. After Pav hit a high C it was like a magnetic force dragged everyone to their feet, cheering wildly. Yes raw emotion is a valid part of operatic expression and we need it more than ever now when the art form, beset by cynical revisionism, is having a lot of trouble.
Every time I hear this I'm struck by the beauty of the bridge (?) - Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio che ti fa mia!. It's not just the dynamics, as you mentioned, but the melody, as well. It's a virtually haunting interlude.
I am so glad I came on this video. I saw that little clip you showed. I wanted to find it again but I'd forgotten what it was about. His face at the end has amazed amazed me to see his transition at the end where his eyebrows drop and he looks so intense and slowly lets all that intense emotion out and it's over. Thanks Beth.
Beth, I love this reaction! Your analysis and recounting of the story are great, but I most appreciate your own dramatic response to Pavarotti's transcendent performance! Brava, Beth! 😊❤️🇨🇦
Pavarotti was ever the consummate actor on stage. Even when singing outside of the opera, he acted. He builds this song up to a heroic end. I said on another platform that the orchestra is his chariot to the gates of heaven and on that last note they opened.
This is just a completely iconic performance. I feel like I saw that shot of him hitting that big note a hundred times back in the 90s, before I'd ever actually seen the performance itself. And his face after it is just amazing. He's like, "Oh my god, that was historic!"
Giacomo Puccini: A genius. How else should one best portray resounding triumph ("I will win; I will win") than building up tension -like a roller-coaster going up (forcing us to hold our breath)- and taking us to the highest almost unbearable point (the high B), to then release it with that final A, filling our souls with a sense of great victory, relieved, tears in our eyes, joyful, grateful to be alive...to have defeated evil and darkness...as we witness the dawn of a new, glorious day...still standing...
Well Jussi Björling is one to look into. He was kind of an idol for Pavarotti. Personally I believe that from a technical standpoint Jussi was the best of them all, but Pavarotti had de Mediterranean soul in his singing that gets you in the feels. I love them both.
Unfortunately, the recording quality back in Jussi Bjorling's days were not even close to the quality Pavarotti was able to record in. So hard to do 1 to 1 comparison.
I have to mention something he does that is epic. Just before the last of the last measure you can see him take on the character, and at the finish you can see him let go of the character. It is so amazing, as if he must go outside his mundane world and become someone else. Breathtaking! What you said about his ability as a story teller is so obvious here. Anytime you need inspiration just play this clip. You will win, YOU will win, YOU WILL WIN! Just AWSOME!!!
As often as I've heard Nessun dorma, by, Pavarotti and countless others, this was so helpful! The combination of your explanations and the camera's view up into Pavarotti's mouth really clarified things. Thank you! Now I need to run through all my other favorite tenors and check whether they start with that nasal consonant the same way.
That final Note touches the stars, and the heavens open,in my opinion. I have listened to this version so many times, but it never fails to touch my heart. Pavarotti truly was the master.
Very nicely reviewed Beth. I have been watching Pavarotti sing this version of Nessun dorma ever since I bought the DVD of this exact Three Tenors Performance long ago.
Great sopranos and contraltos appear often in bel canto, great tenors are rare; perhaps every hundred years we get a Caruso or Pavarotti. So we are fortunate to have experienced his level of artistry during our lifetime.
Love your site, Beth. Thank you. This is simply magnificent. A maestro in action. The gods wept when he launched into that final note. Might you consider reviewing this beautiful performance by Bocelli and Brightman please? 'Time to Say Goodbye'. It's a roaring performance. Cheers
The amazing thing is, he holds the note for a long time here - but in the feature film he was in where he sings this, he holds it for a heck of a lot longer.
He doesn't just sing it, he embodies the character like a professional and driven actor. He is a living part of history and literature in that moment and that's what makes him unique in my opinion, because most other opera singers never go that deep...
Peak, incredible performance - astonishingly this is quite a way from Pavarotti's peak voice which was much younger. Shows us that perfection is not "perfect".
R.I.P., Maestro....this aria, sung by all the great ( and near great ) operatic vocalists, both male and female, is from the opera "Turandot"......the synopsis is a tale of love that seems to be doomed......."Nessun Dorma " = ' no one is sleeping '.......Pav's delivery of the last line, "Vincero" ( I will win ) is among the most moving in operatic arias.......
Thank you! That was very interesting, and a great reaction. Your explanations though,, I've watched a lot of reactions to this. And probably at least 4 vocal coaches, but you explained some things that no one had mentioned in just the right amount of detail. Without over explaining, which is massively appreciated 😁😎🤣 P S. I'm half Italian, and always liked opera. I know this from the 1990 world cup like you said, lol. It worked sooo well
Pavarotti was hands down the best to ever do it. There's just something about his vocal quality that triggers the emotions. Dunno what it is. As far as his facial expression goes at the end of this particular performance. My pet theory has always been that going into this performance he wasn't 100% sure he could pull that B4 at the end off and his face at the end is just absolute relief that he still had it. This was toward the end of his career after all and at this point he'd been experiencing a lot of health problems
I love watching videos of Pavaratti (though his performance of Vesti la Guibba from I Pagliacci is my favorite of his) because he isn't just a phenomenal singer, but he's the total package of a performer. He's so in-character with his facial expressions, even in a setting like this one.
An opera piece is nothing if not dramatic. And must be one the most specialized styles of singing of all. As he cuts off the final note, his face is stark with amazement. And then relief washes over him as the power of his own performance has brought the hall to rapture.
Opera does often have klutzy storylines...but the music is absolutely stunning...taking your breathe away when a master sings the aria of a masterpiece. This is an example...proof perfect.
Also love the man as a person he has so much jokes and so humble. My fav. clip of him is where he signs "O solo mio" with Bryan Adams. A singer you wouldn't combien with him but in that clip you can see the respect he has for Bryan and you can even see him joke around and at random moments point at Bryan to sign at moments that wheren't rehearsed just to mess with him :D
It's curious that Bocelli was also a goalie. That's how he lost his sight, and then decided to be a singer. You are the first woman I see that is able to understand and enjoy what passionates me: Belcanto. By the way, I find natural red heads specially beautiful 😍.
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an even better performance...Calaf...is a much younger Luciano in 1978 in his movie Yes Georgio...try to do the same analysis...
No no, your talking during the master's singing is really ugly
the face he has shows that hero climax - i think only tenors have this: all bones in the chest and head start to vibrate with the sound and the tenors tell that you do not want to end the note when this happens. so you hold it as long as you can (or the music allows it). this is also why heros in opera normally are tenors because this only happens with tenor voice. his version is incredible !!!
here is a comparison of a lot of tenors singing the climax - not one comes close: th-cam.com/video/6R5-FXVHruQ/w-d-xo.html
*When he hit that last note, I was expecting the heavens to open and beams of light fill the earth.*
No such luck,wink.
His eyes at the end of the piece, are one of the highlights of the aria. It's almost as if he's been singing from a higher plane, and only realises it when he comes back down after delivering the final note. This really is a work of art by the great genius.🙋♂
oh, they did. That's exactly what happened, can't you see?
Perfect comment. I could not agree more.
It didn't happen where you were?
A few months ago, in our way to school, my 9 years old child told me they were going to talk about opera in school. He told me ‘daddy, what’s opera?’. I got my phone and told him I was going to show him. On the last ‘Vincero’ he started to shake and his mouth was wide open, tears falling through his eyes. When the video ended, I told him ‘that’s opera, I watched this when I was a child and I felt exactly how you feel right now. This is why I love opera’. He said nothing, but I could really see he was genuinely impressed and didn’t know how to express himself.
opera is a browser.
Ópera é a linguagem da emoção!
Apenas corações sensíveis conseguem compreender.
75 yrs from now your kid will remember this as a seminal and life-expanding moment from you. That's what families are for -- cheers!
It's a wonderful gift to give any child. My parents were Italian and as blue collar as anyone and they grew up with opera. I am so grateful to them for the endless hours of great opera that was played in our house (along side other genres). The greatness of Pavarotti is universal.
Love this experience.
He didn't even sing this. He LIVED it. Just his facial expressions after the grand finale alone. Absolutely stunning performance.
Pa što vi uopće radite već 50 godina kad ništa niste vidjeli?
Singing involves wringing all the emotion out of the words, but not actually feeling those emotions, which could hamper the performance and become wearing when repeated regularly. It's a performance, an act.
@@deaddoll1361 You must be fun at parties.
@@mambutuomalley2260nice pfp...RIP Cowchop
Pavarotti himself stated emphatically that while he always had a love for football his one and only passion and obsession in life was the Opera. He was a fierce believer that Opera belonged to the people and there is a reason he worked so hard to promote and bring the Opera to the masses. He also taught free classes to up and coming tenors, he was very supportive of his fellow colleagues and wanted to teach them better techniques to further their careers.
That is ambitious, I love it
Yes, but how he could he claim Nessun Dorma?! FRANCO CORELI IS the best Calaf ever! On the whole, Pav. .made a name for himself, as a sĥowman .Corelli stood away from limelight, there was no need for him to attract audience, like Pavarotti did.😮
@@atizaries5512 For me it's about the emotion & passion that exudes from Pavarotti. Also I hear Corelli "dragging" out, or "lingering" on the words a hair's breath more (for lack of a better way to explain it).
Opera was for the working classes in Italy. I once sat in the Amphitheatre in Verona at the very top. The residents around the theatre all sat in their windows with a glass if wine enjoying the show.
amazing
Art in general should be like that.
if you think the people living around the arena in Verona are "working class", your'e sorely mistaken...
I am a musician, a ROCK musician. I had a girlfriend who couldn't understand why I like opera. One day watching PBS -- I'm from Shetland, but I live in America -- Pavarotti was to be featured. It was a nice spring day in South Florida so I had the front door open. Him doing this "song". I never heard the screen door open and close, too focused on the dude. As I was clapping I head someone else clapping. It was my girlfriend who HATED OPERA, tears in her eyes: "Who is that?" she asked. I told her Pavarotti. She said "I love opera." Of course you do! He is amazing!
Only deaf or insane not to like Pavarotti. 😊
Now you mention deaf people, it breaks my heart think all what they can't enjoy... I don't know what I would do if I couldn't.
He was... 💔 People like #LucianoPavarotti should be eternal in all the ways. 🙏🏼
Me too. I play drums and I love Heavy Metal but I like classical music and opera. Im Italian and Puccini is in the deep of my heart.
Rock and metal heads are the ones that like most types of music. We can enjoy almost every type of music... Do not know why! There is one type of music I completely hate though... Regeatton! disgusting to the core -.-
Doesn’t matter how many times I hear this, never fails to give me goosebumps.
Yes, 100% yes. I don't get goosembumps easily. But this performance does it every single time.
This aria is definitely one of the most powerful music ever written, and Pavarotti’s performance is perfection! It is impossible not to feel emotionally touched. And for amateur singers like myself, it is such an awesome experience to see and hear the maestro at his best. Thank you so much for your reaction and your knowledge!
This is simply the apogee of singing. There's no more glorious line or note in sang art than this version of "vincero". Bravo, Luciano, bravo!
As an Italian I can say that his perfect and clear pronunciation allows you to understand every single word. The Modena accent, sometimes slightly perceptible in the way he pronounces some words, seems to help him further. However, the freshness of his tone remains legendary, his true trademark.
When I was little my grandma showed me a VHS recording of this and brings me to tears almost
Pavarotti hits my cry button every single time
Pour moi ce sont des frissons qui me parcoure tout le corps et de l'intérieur il y a une raisonance incroyable qui augmente au fur et à mesure que les notes montent... qui dure même après son chant. Et là je pleure. Seule la Callas me procure ses mêmes émotions ... Ecoutez la Callas chanter Norma et vous pleurez une piscine.
This is olympic gold medal winning performance .
Just stumbled on ro you! You've let me in on a couple of things I didn't know! Singing excites me as it does you. I've had voice lessons, sang in a choir traveling from Tennessee to New York and loved every minute of it
I was 17 and a senior in high school. I made second chair in the all-city band playing tuba. I had never heard this song before. The first time we played it (no singing, mind you), I cried. I didn’t even know it was opera.
When I heard this for the first time, my mind exploded.
Such an amazing aria sung to perfection!
I experienced him in the 1980s in Stuttgart/ Germany. Really experienced him! It was a revelation for all senses. I will never forget this evening in my entire live.
I grew up listening to Punk, Post Punk, and New Wave. I love Metal (death and black metal are favorites), and Alternative. My whole musical life, is dark, hard-hitting - sometimes vulgar - lyrics, and loud, heavy sonics. And Pavarotti brings me to tears every time. Go figure.
By the time I was listening this one song I was like 18 years old (1989) and I also was listening medieval music and discovered Slayer and Metallica 😂 Also alternative and postpunk. We should start a club 😅 Regards from Chile!
Metal and opera have much in common. The emotion and drama!
I'm a dude that only listens to metal yet I like opera like this and classic music. If you ask me, if a lot of the classic composers were born today they would probably have been metal artist
@Pharto_Stinkus
Il tuo errore è cercare di capire,Pavarotti come Vivaldi o Albinoni non passano per il cervello,vanno diritti al cuore...
Che poi siano tutti italiani è solo un caso...😉
I love Pavarotti, when I first heard him sing, I got chills. When the Three Tenors came around, double the chills and it broke my heart when he passed. There will never be another singer like him.
Teacher, the same voice. I saw a comparative video of him in 1977 at the age of 41 and at 70 years old it is impressive the quality of the voice being the same.
Il a gagné en émotion, il est moins dans la performance avec la maturité.
his facial expressions after the last note: i always thought: that is the artist who looked down from deepest hell to the very heart of life. shiver.
I see so many vocal coach reactions and analyses here on youtube but I came across your channel and your podcast first and I gotta say...Among the dussins of vocal coaches channels here you are the only one who proper analyze the singers and back it up with experience and theory. Thank you Beth!
Thank you so much! Although I would check out Fairy Voice Mother, she is fantastic!
True!
@@BethRoars you both are fantastic, saw both ur reactions. greetings from Rome, italy
Not only have I listened to many singers doing Nessum Dorma, I have also listened to many versions of Pavarotti singing Nessum Dorma, and for me, this one is still, by far, the best. Unbelievable how he could sing so quietly and so loud at the same time. He has a version Caruso (featuring Jeff Beck) in the album Ti Adoro which is phenomenal too.
It's the second best for me. Nobody beats Jussi Björling
WHO is Jussi Björling? My favorite Pavarotti aria is „ e lucevan le stelle“ by far..
@@michaeldr.thalwitzer5580 Jussi Björling is the Swedish tenor that was Pavarotti's idol and that he always studied before tackling a new role
Hearing Jeff Beck play this on guitar was mesmerizing for me;)
This Is Pavarotti toward the end of his career and, although still impressive, this performance Is nowhere near his best. Try looking up the version of this Song with a video direction from Zeffirelli, you can see Pavarotti in the prime of his voice and it'll just blow you away.
Roughly translated from Genoese dialect:
"I'm healthy enough, I'm wealthy enough, I got my nephews with me tonight and they're good boys, so I thank you Lord Jesus but, before anything else, I thank you for making me Italian"
- My grandmother to me and my cousin, May 1999, cloakroom of the "Carlo Felice" Grand Theatre in Genoa, Italy, immediately after Pavarotti had the entire crowd applauding for 28 minutes, 15 standing ovations.
This is my memory of this.
Ciao from Italia.
very very very cool.
Insuperable, inigualable, irrepetible,unico y eterno Pavarotti ❤❤❤
The way Pavarotti sings this is Opera Perfection, especially at the end (...and I'm a Classic Hard Rock/Metal/Outlaw Country guy)
OMG, thank you, Beth. I never listened to Pavarotti before and never knew what I was missing! This was like getting struck by lightning while on top of the highest mountain in the world and discovering you are immortal.
Well said!
That was the best technical explanation I've ever heard about one of the best tenors in the world! You are simply amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was fortunate to see him perform in Turandot, Tosca, and Aida. I don't know if we will ever see another talent like him again
I have never been an opera singer but was a dj and my wife was a Jazz singer so I had a wide range of tastes. Till this day as a 50 year old man this song brings tears to my eyes every time.
Beth, I have just discovered your channel, and I love it! I was lucky enough to see Pavarotti in 1969 (I think) as a fortunate 8 year old, when my mother took me to see La Boheme at the Royal Opera House in London. I’ve been lucky enough to see many more operas since then, indeed, writing my university thesis on re- staging Rigoletto in turn of the century East End! Pavarotti is a phenomenon , and has brought me great joy for many years. Please keep posting!
Thank you!
When he was younger and performing in the Opera Turandot, he held those last two notes for 18 (yes 18) seconds, check it out. He was one of a kind, no question.
Wonderful piece of music! As an English male who loved this as the soundtrack to Italia ‘90, this always gives me goosebumps. Quite amusing that there will be 1000’s of Englishmen who can’t speak a word of Italian (me included) who will sing along to this!! I love to see the obvious joy you get from this. Lovely.
That's the face of a man awakening from a deep trance realizing that he just gave his everything and has achieved perfection. A musical orgasm.
I'm a regular guy. But hearing and seeing that last note and especially the incredible expression on his face that had to come from an almost hyper-human effort had me in tears! He was like no other in my opinion.
"Don't get relationship advice from operas."
Truer words have never been spoken. 😂
Nor from Eastenders
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Not even Marriage of Figaro? :)
@@guitargamesandliverpool Beth had compared the plots of operas to soap operas and used a scene from Eastenders as an example. So I was continuing her comparison.
I started to choke I was laughing so hard. Someone needs to put that line in a movie. "Don't take relationship advice from opera."
The choirs always give me goosebumps!
Allora te ne consiglio uno, non molto famoso, ma per me straordinario, Donizetti, Maria Stuarda, "Vedeste? Vedemmo".
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Il coro del "Va pensiero" dell'opera Nabucco è meraviglioso
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I appreciate your love for his voice, his signature, and your pure exuberance of this performance. Listening to him is almost a metaphysical experience (I know that sounds so corny!) - the wonderful intersection of his voice, note, context, and energy of the moment with orchestra and audience. What does it mean to experience it again? I love that you clap for him, that you burst forth with joy! Thanks for the great remarks and educational content. It’s perfect!
You're the first vocal coach that explained the context of "Nessun Dorma" in Puccini's Turandot.
"Just before daylight, draw your blades"
"This is a perfect setting for an opera!"
I've seen this performace so many times and it never fails to impress or move me. It's the greatest performance of anything I have ever seen, you can see that Luciano is exhausted but ecstatic at the end. He knows he's just performed something that will never be matched.
To hear someone breakdown opera and explain the various techniques makes the performance even more fascinating. Thank you!
The look in his eyes after he hits that peak. Almost like he could hardly believe the sound that he produced.
Pavarotti was the greatest and best I knew.
His voice was soft and clear. He will never be forgotten by those, like me, who admired him.
Greetings from Brazil.
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Dear Beth, I grew up with opera. I was born in 1967 and my father was a real opera lover. I can remember the records every Sunday filled with operas with Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, and later Pavarotie. He took me to Verona Arena and we went to Aida from Verdi! As a 10-year-old boy, after a high point, everyone stood up and clapped and shouted Bies, Bies! That leaves a mark.
I got older and started to love Italo Disco in the 80s. But I still love to listen to opera. After he died, all the records were gone by mistake.
And now, I have to be careful, what beautiful eyes and red hair you have.
incomparable ❤ RIP Luciano
His interpretation is moving, every time I listen to it I have the same emotion. Congratulations on the video!
Thank you very much for sharing what you know about opera, singing, and this opera. I love it how you can see Pavarotti taking in these huge breathes at the end because singing opera is hard work.
of all the videos I have about Pavarotti, the best is from teacher Beth.
The techniques, the knowledge of the voice, the history of the music everything wonderful.
The look on his face at the end.....just ethereal
This is a nice exposition of Luciano Pavarotti playing the part in “Turnadot”.
And ? Your sharing your experience to your channel’s continuing education shared is wonderful. Roar On, …!!!
Semper Fidelis
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It's not about Rock, Opera, Soul or anything else. It's about the beautiful voices behind it.
Liquid gold for my ears.
People that know about Opera, the story is the thing that is important, and the "story teller" are the people that get famous... Pavarotti is one of the best "story" tellers of all time, always will be :)
This version is truly great. I came across this one here on TH-cam a long time ago, and I love it: The best Nessun dorma - Luciano Pavarotti - Turandot - Puccini. He's young in this one and really holds notes for a long time.
His face when the final note hit seemed like he touched the absolute
I always felt it was like he was coming back from an out of body experience.
Love Pavarotti and Mario Lanza. Both give so much emotion in their singing. Pure artistry.
I dont understand it as you do. But to me, it is one of the most, unbelievable, emotional performances of all time. I have tears everytime i listen to this.
Wonderful reaction and explanation! One of the many qualities of Pavarotti's technique is his ability to make all the words perfectly intelligible. Wonderful voice. His famous "high Cs" in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment are still unparalled to this day: the apparent ease with which he could belt them out is impressive. Thank you for honoring his memory with this beautiful video.
In the mid-'70's I heard Pavarotti in recital, performing for an audience that included many trained singers. With a truly great artist on stage, many experts can turn from being critics to being blubbering fanboys and girls, carried away with emotion. After Pav hit a high C it was like a magnetic force dragged everyone to their feet, cheering wildly. Yes raw emotion is a valid part of operatic expression and we need it more than ever now when the art form, beset by cynical revisionism, is having a lot of trouble.
Every time I hear this I'm struck by the beauty of the bridge (?) - Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
che ti fa mia!. It's not just the dynamics, as you mentioned, but the melody, as well. It's a virtually haunting interlude.
I am so glad I came on this video. I saw that little clip you showed. I wanted to find it again but I'd forgotten what it was about. His face at the end has amazed amazed me to see his transition at the end where his eyebrows drop and he looks so intense and slowly lets all that intense emotion out and it's over. Thanks Beth.
It's very easy after 20 years, of course, this man is the best!
Beth, I love this reaction! Your analysis and recounting of the story are great, but I most appreciate your own dramatic response to Pavarotti's transcendent performance! Brava, Beth! 😊❤️🇨🇦
Pavarotti was ever the consummate actor on stage. Even when singing outside of the opera, he acted. He builds this song up to a heroic end. I said on another platform that the orchestra is his chariot to the gates of heaven and on that last note they opened.
Your reaction to Pavarotti is what I feel when I listen to him.
Liquid velvet voice full of emotion.
This makes me proud of my country 🥹🇮🇹
This is just a completely iconic performance. I feel like I saw that shot of him hitting that big note a hundred times back in the 90s, before I'd ever actually seen the performance itself. And his face after it is just amazing. He's like, "Oh my god, that was historic!"
I live near the Puccini's House on the lakeside and i cry everytime I hear this masterpiece.
Giacomo Puccini: A genius. How else should one best portray resounding triumph ("I will win; I will win") than building up tension -like a roller-coaster going up (forcing us to hold our breath)- and taking us to the highest almost unbearable point (the high B), to then release it with that final A, filling our souls with a sense of great victory, relieved, tears in our eyes, joyful, grateful to be alive...to have defeated evil and darkness...as we witness the dawn of a new, glorious day...still standing...
Well Jussi Björling is one to look into. He was kind of an idol for Pavarotti. Personally I believe that from a technical standpoint Jussi was the best of them all, but Pavarotti had de Mediterranean soul in his singing that gets you in the feels. I love them both.
Unfortunately, the recording quality back in Jussi Bjorling's days were not even close to the quality Pavarotti was able to record in. So hard to do 1 to 1 comparison.
Yes. Jussi was/is incredible.
Jussi Björling O'helga natt might be the best use of a tenor voice ever❤
@@VoxTone2009 And the same is true for Caruso. But I don't like to compare, I like to enjoy them all :)
Right there with you. That climax flattens me every time.
I have to mention something he does that is epic. Just before the last of the last measure you can see him take on the character, and at the finish you can see him let go of the character. It is so amazing, as if he must go outside his mundane world and become someone else. Breathtaking! What you said about his ability as a story teller is so obvious here. Anytime you need inspiration just play this clip. You will win, YOU will win, YOU WILL WIN! Just AWSOME!!!
You've really upped the quality of these reaction videos! Love it!
Glad you like them!
As often as I've heard Nessun dorma, by, Pavarotti and countless others, this was so helpful! The combination of your explanations and the camera's view up into Pavarotti's mouth really clarified things. Thank you! Now I need to run through all my other favorite tenors and check whether they start with that nasal consonant the same way.
That final Note touches the stars, and the heavens open,in my opinion. I have listened to this version so many times, but it never fails to touch my heart. Pavarotti truly was the master.
His voice echoes now in eternity. Requiescat in pace Luciano. Love from France
Very nicely reviewed Beth. I have been watching Pavarotti sing this version of Nessun dorma ever since I bought the DVD of this exact Three Tenors Performance long ago.
Unbeatable, he's a true legend.
Loved to see your enthusiasm. I always get teared up when I hear Pavarotti sing this.
Great sopranos and contraltos appear often in bel canto, great tenors are rare; perhaps every hundred years we get a Caruso or Pavarotti. So we are fortunate to have experienced his level of artistry during our lifetime.
Love your site, Beth. Thank you.
This is simply magnificent. A maestro in action. The gods wept when he launched into that final note.
Might you consider reviewing this beautiful performance by Bocelli and Brightman please? 'Time to Say Goodbye'. It's a roaring performance.
Cheers
The amazing thing is, he holds the note for a long time here - but in the feature film he was in where he sings this, he holds it for a heck of a lot longer.
I did my training in gym listening him❤❤❤orgoglio italiano Italian proud
Avrai distrutto la palestra, galvanizzato da una colonna sonora di tale, supremo, livello.
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The fact that the chosen version was from when he was 59 years old says everything
He doesn't just sing it, he embodies the character like a professional and driven actor. He is a living part of history and literature in that moment and that's what makes him unique in my opinion, because most other opera singers never go that deep...
Goosebumps - every single time I hear this .....
Peak, incredible performance - astonishingly this is quite a way from Pavarotti's peak voice which was much younger. Shows us that perfection is not "perfect".
R.I.P., Maestro....this aria, sung by all the great ( and near great ) operatic vocalists, both male and female, is from the opera "Turandot"......the synopsis is a tale of love that seems to be doomed......."Nessun Dorma " = ' no one is sleeping '.......Pav's delivery of the last line, "Vincero" ( I will win ) is among the most moving in operatic arias.......
Thank you! That was very interesting, and a great reaction. Your explanations though,, I've watched a lot of reactions to this. And probably at least 4 vocal coaches, but you explained some things that no one had mentioned in just the right amount of detail. Without over explaining, which is massively appreciated 😁😎🤣
P S. I'm half Italian, and always liked opera. I know this from the 1990 world cup like you said, lol. It worked sooo well
Pavarotti was hands down the best to ever do it. There's just something about his vocal quality that triggers the emotions. Dunno what it is. As far as his facial expression goes at the end of this particular performance. My pet theory has always been that going into this performance he wasn't 100% sure he could pull that B4 at the end off and his face at the end is just absolute relief that he still had it. This was toward the end of his career after all and at this point he'd been experiencing a lot of health problems
Pavarotti was uniquely talented by the real genius here is Giacomo Puccini, the arias from his operas are music from heaven
His voice makes women swoon and men empowered!
I love watching videos of Pavaratti (though his performance of Vesti la Guibba from I Pagliacci is my favorite of his) because he isn't just a phenomenal singer, but he's the total package of a performer. He's so in-character with his facial expressions, even in a setting like this one.
An opera piece is nothing if not dramatic. And must be one the most specialized styles of singing of all. As he cuts off the final note, his face is stark with amazement. And then relief washes over him as the power of his own performance has brought the hall to rapture.
He has given all his blood in this aria.
Really!
Pavarotti’s duet with Tracy Chapman of her song ‘Baby can I hold you tonight’ is absolutely stunning
Tracy❤
Opera does often have klutzy storylines...but the music is absolutely stunning...taking your breathe away when a master sings the aria of a masterpiece. This is an example...proof perfect.
Also love the man as a person he has so much jokes and so humble. My fav. clip of him is where he signs "O solo mio" with Bryan Adams. A singer you wouldn't combien with him but in that clip you can see the respect he has for Bryan and you can even see him joke around and at random moments point at Bryan to sign at moments that wheren't rehearsed just to mess with him :D
It's curious that Bocelli was also a goalie. That's how he lost his sight, and then decided to be a singer. You are the first woman I see that is able to understand and enjoy what passionates me: Belcanto.
By the way, I find natural red heads specially beautiful 😍.
this song takes me back to the best times in my life, powerful and tearful every time