Luciano Pavarotti's Last Public Performance - Torino 2006 Opening Ceremony | Music Monday
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On February 10, 2006; one of the world's greatest tenors, Luciano Pavarotti made his final public performance at the Opening Ceremony of the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games in his home country of Italy. The emotional interpretation of "Nessun Dorma" - from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot - will be forever in the hall of Classic Olympic Moments.
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That's how a real man says his last farewell
Yup....by lip synching,
Rob Young well you’re just a dumbass aren’t you?
*_Rob Young _**_1:46_**_ he was about to say ”all’alba” when he meant to say ”Dilegua” so it became a mix: ”All’-iegua”. I think if they lip sinked they wouldn’t have let such a mistake slip into the reccording you fuckwit_*
@@robyoung4925 Like you will for the rest of your life, since there's not synch between your lips and brains.
Yes lip synched
"Real men only cry for one reason"
"What?"
Luciano Pavarotti's Last Public Performance
I think many other great men had a finale like this. Nureyev for example, when he came at the premiere of his version of La Bayadère : he was so tired but it seemed that eeven his death was near, he wanted to live more than ever this evening.
real reason just reason
And self control by frank ocean, but really any frank song tbh
1:37 That face of satisfaction, of being singing his most powerful aria... so many memories, so many friends, a lifetime dedicated to music, and somehow, in that smile, he knew it would be his last Nessun Dorma. Rest in peace master
His most powerful aria, which actually made him famous in first place, used to be "Ah mes amis... Pour mon ame" with the subsequent 9 do di petto. However, "Nessun dorma" is much more popular due to the melody and climax.
I would honestly say it's Che Gelida Manina
❤ go away darkness, fade out stars, Art is immortal, Art ever wins.
@@michaelkkrastingFINALLY SOMEBODY REMEMBERS!!! Ffs he’s the reason I pushed to take his tone above the “normal” high-range for a tenor and took it up to near alto range
❤ never forgotten
Quite frankly, I don’t care if this was prerecorded - it was still his voice, the one that brings me to my knees and gives comfort to my soul.
Yeah, and that he also prerecorded it for this event. it would probably have sounded the same if you had sung it there live.
And at that age. He wasn't using a recording from 20 years ago.
@@Ihdc1 So true.
How do you know it’s prerecorded and why would he prerecord it for this performance?
@@operabybahar1130 He was in poor health and it was outdoors in the freezing cold.
Tears in my eyes here. This was his last ever public performance. Just a few months after this he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and died less than a year later. The last bit where he is holding his arms up is almost like he is sacrificing himself. What a moment.
tears bro
Rip
wide of being dumb. It has already been proven that he dubbed it, as he himself said he was unsure of not reaching the notes. This was all voiced.
@@laiogamer7076 Who cares? It was pre-recorded, but only a few weeks before. This master was able to sing this piece even though he was almost 70 years old and sick, plus it wasn't edited. It was a mere measure of precaution because of the illness and the cold. And you can tell by looking at his mouth that even though we don't hear him, he is singing.
Michael Hope rip to the greatest voice on earth
His last word on the scene was "VINCERO" - Victory from italian
Мади Балжанов the actual translation of "vincerò" is "I will win"
Vincerò = vencerei!
Actually, _vittòria_ means _victory_ . _Vincerò_ means _I'll win_ .
_All'alba vincerò_ = _At daybreak I'll win_
Grazie
@@pedrorehm its at dawn ill winn, there is a slight difference
His face of joy at 1:37 along with the long open-arm embrace at the end hit me quite hard, like he it was going to be his final performance. The most fitting ending nailing that incredible "Vincero" one final time to put an exclamation mark on the most extraordinary career. Maybe one day I will be able to attend a show in which there is a hologram of him, since I never got the chance to see him in person.
In my opinion, it's almost like he's s
'soaking it all in' a most humble legend who can slyly but most graciously appreciate the rewards of his own greateness for the first and final time and actually expose his own gratification from the art he's managed master finally.
Agree❤i wanna see him perform too.
@@shanejay9539 i wouldve soaked it all in too lol an gave it my all being my last performance. I prolly wouldve cried an never wanted to leave the stage
Oh yeah i was about to answer @Mathieu Gosselin Desautels the exact same answer, i totally agree.
Except he didn't hit that note during this "performance"... It was pre-recorded, along with the orchestra.
I absolutely love how Pavarotti's face shows how he is just taking in the whole moment at 1:37. The music, his singing(prerecorded), the crowd, everything. I hope I can experience life like he did.
2:10 he sings this last "Vincerò!" like he knows it will be his last one, like it's his was of saying goodbye to the world. What a legend, i wish musicians these days would have a pinch of the emotion Pavaritti showed in this perfomance.
The greatest of the greatest.Voice from God.May his memory be eternal.
Why did you have to comment? I mean, I was holding my tears so bad, but you made it all come out....
He know it was his last, he ended his carreer!
The last roar of the lion. What an honor for the athletes in Torino listening to the master
😭😭
Watching the lion roar for the last time... Never to find music like this again!
Anyone else 2023?
Calvin Gonsalves 2020!
Like from 2020
OK boomer
@@aaraspensor Forever
CORONAAAAA
1:40 the eyes never lies
True. They never lie. In that second what we see is a life of fulfillment.
A lot of people were saying he lip-synced this performance. I remember watching this on TV, and the absolute chills I got. I knew he was not well by looking at his stance here, shed tears knowing how proud and honored he must have felt being able to open for the Olympics in his home country. He was the best ever, and I get that "roller coaster" wave when he closes out this amazing song
I believe he was not. Artists like Pavarotti do not show that much emotion in their face unless they are truly singing and expressing the words, and you can also see the vapour as it leaves his mouth.
@@kirkygirlUnfortunately he lip sync . You can read this in his biography book or an article Lip sync Torino Pavarotti .
He finished his career with the same passion he had begun with..
This performance still gives me chills and brings me to tears.
It was a beautiful homage to one of the greatest tenors ever!
it was lip synced lol
Olympic hi
It was lip synchronization
@@user-cb1db2pm4r How?
Here in 2020...
I hope everyone in that audience realizes how lucky they are to have heard one of the greatest voices of all time. There will never be another like him. A giant among men, with a voice that reminds us that not all is bad in this world.
And here in 2023 still 🙂I loved this song and Pavarotti from the moment I first saw it in 1990. I am admittedly ignorant of his previous work which I’m sure is equally fantastic. However, this is probably the best performance I can remember. The way the orchestra gels, and Pavarotti - fragile yet giving it all, just encompasses how amazing and emotional this performance is
thats why you need big Events like Olympic-games in your Country. What Amazing People this Italians are, thanks too the Olympic-Games i recognized it.
1:37 Oh my god, just look at his face. If heaven exists, Pavarotti sings this aria there. :') ❤️
RIP
Oh, it does. And he does....over and over
It doesnt, it was made up for slavery. Telling slaves not to worry and serve their master cause heaven awaits them. Still a beautiful thought though.
@@bontronblock are you insane?
@@lucaszera2940 Religions were created by men for control of populations, mainly slaves and woman. The Egyptians had the closest one to actually believing in real Gods. Christianity is a copycat, updated version of what they believed in for mass control. I dare you to spend some time comparing the two... buckle up though, if you are a strong believer you are in for a rude awakening.
@@bontronblock Obviously this is not the place for this conversation, but if what you say is true, then why is it that people believe every promise a filthy politician spews? Religion destroys people's hearts and minds. Freedom is not free. There was a cost to pay for it. Darkness has a way of trying to destroy what is good and true. It's up to you to find the truth and if you're only wandering around insulting those who've decided there is a better way, you're wasting time on finding what truth you can live with. You'll/We'll die with our faith in something. PS: Greatest Tenor and greatest loss. And now we have Andrea Bocelli!
On 10 February 2006, Pavarotti sang "Nessun dorma" at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy, at his final performance. In the last act of the opening ceremony, his performance received the longest and loudest ovation of the night from the international crowd. Leone Magiera, who directed the performance, revealed in his 2008 memoirs, Pavarotti Visto da Vicino, that the performance had been recorded weeks earlier.[25] "The orchestra pretended to play for the audience, I pretended to conduct and Luciano pretended to sing. The effect was wonderful," he wrote. Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, said that the tenor had turned the Winter Olympic Committee's invitation down several times because it would have been impossible to sing late at night in the subzero conditions of Turin in February. The committee eventually persuaded him to take part by prerecording the song.
god, it looks so real..
how do they have shots of the stage with him on it and people in the stadium?
@@jamalnasir5648 lol, it's a voice over... Lipsync...
@@jamalnasir5648 I would assume because they have cameras.
Thats why the note sheets has only one page and mic is farther away from him,, 😕
@@mcastillo830 The distance of the mic is likely proper and allows an audio engineer to have more options for fixing audio then if it was right up to him. Luciano had a lot of punch to his voice so you'd have to counter that.
I'm really, not at all an opera guy of any sorts, but this piece is without a doubt perfection. No other way to say it.
Heard that so many times, but the passion in his voice - you can copy it. Best voice of the world. Period.
I'm watching in 2019, a voice like that is timeless
Forever THE BEST!!!
And he's Italian like me... losers😂
The sad thing is that this was actually in playback
@@marialucreziainnocenti2486 Only in your dreams
@@lorenzofantozzi3190 sadly he had already lost his voice so he had to sing in playback... Go and check It yourself...
“Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and ‘Pavarotti’ never died. They simply became music.”
This was so emotional to watch...
He is a legend. His legacy and records will live forever... RIP
don't forget the Bach's
@@N8iveSoccerBum March 21 1685 in music is the Zero years... Before Bach and after Bach.
His voice did not fade. His smile did not fade. His soul did not fade, and in fact, is still alive today and with us through his beautiful art of singing.
That torch up there - that's him. His spirit shall shine forever like flame.
we miss you maestro!!!!
Somehow....I believe Luciano knew this was it, like this was the last time he would be able to sing publicly.
You can see the absolute passion in his eyes and voice during the climax.
He did know this was it! This was part of his retirement.
This performance is immortal! Will be remembered by history!
It was prerecorded.
@@samuelskogqvist5565 we know that. Infact he had no choice !
Still gives me chills every time. He put everything into that.
The performance was pre-recorded, however he did sing it himself when he was strong enough to do so and used that as the track.
i remember watching this live. everyone was on the edge of their seats. we literally had this feeling that he was about to die. that he was singing so hard he would die right there on the stage. and he sacrificed everything to sing a beautiful tone. not one note is off...not one slip...not one bit of poor intonation. and if you know the aria, you know it's going to go high. and the people watching started to sweat. and it was so beautiful. and then he hit the high note...and he stayed alive. and then people had to help him off the stage like they had to help him onto the stage.
i will never forget that moment, and i am eternally grateful to Pavarotti's great soul for singing with such heart, magnitude, and beauty for so so so long, and for teaching us, so very much.
Thank you Luciano, thank you!
he gave it his all with every performance. In his David Letterman interview - he said he's taken to a place when he's on stage.
@Greg Yuan Yes, that's what I have read....it's also recorded in a lower key.
@@jeromejackson3752 Only a semitone lower.
@Greg Yuan I dont think he lip synched.
what a wonderful moment in time
Not 'one of the World's greatest tenors' Luciano Pavarotti WAS the World' s greatest tenor at the time of his untimely death.
They probably just didn’t want to be controversial.
It wouldn't have been at all controversial though, the tenors alive today all worship the memory of Pavarotti. There's no reason for any of them to disagree.
It was Pavarotti that set the standard for every other tenor.
He was the best by miles.......
PERIOD.
We miss you!
😢
@@thevmanvj Pavarotti himself always said that he was just a mere mortal in comparison to Jussi Bjorling... I guess that just shows the humility of the late, great, legend.
Best singer in the history of mankind
1:37から、間奏のとこの笑顔、ちょっと泣きそうになるパバロッティの笑顔がたまらなく好きだ。パバロッティが、生きることはなんて素晴らしいのだろうと笑っている。翌年、天に召された彼の、全身からみなぎる生きる喜びに魂がふるえる。
I was so blessed as a child to watch this live. I was blown away but had no idea how iconic a performance I was witnessing. My mother was also watching and was in tears. This man’s voice was absolutely life changing.
i am crying
nicht weinen alles ist gut,
yes. just beautiful.
I just finished crying.
Me too
he was 70 years old at that time. amazing skills and beautiful voice.
You were victorious Pavarotti! 😢
Goosebumps everytime
Favourite Olympic moment ever
His body may have perished, but his voice will always echoe through the eternity.
Puccini was pure genius. Pavarotti brings his music to a higher level. He is sorely missed.
How lucky are the people who had the chance to watch this LEGEND perform live!
rest in peace luciano Pavarotti.
you were a legend and you still are.
we miss you
I remember watching the opening ceremonies in 2006. I hadn't seen Pav anywhere on TV for probably a year and I was shocked at how unwell he looked. I think the cancer was already there and he knew it....watch him clutch his left side at :50, as though he was in pain. His voice had darkened at this point in his life but it was still more beautiful than any other voice I've heard. Per sempre I'll più grande tenore!!!
I love the emotion he displays. You can tell every moment he cherishes deeply.
Every note is beautiful. I don't speak Italian, but he still moves me to tears. He looks like this is goodbye and like it hurt him. It is perfection.
Today, hundreds of people died for the coronavirus in Italy and here I am... listening this and pray for Italy... pray for the world. Stay in house. Take care. Io ti Amo Italy.
From Argentina.
Sending much Love, Care & Prayers from Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA. You are in my prayers.
1:37 He must have enjoyed singing so much that he made that face knowing it was his last performance ;-;
I want to highlight the last seconds of this video where he closes his palms together. That is genuinely from the heart, thanking someone for letting him take another stage for this last performance.
He is geniune, all coming from the heart.
You can hear in his voice how every note is causing him pain. He knew this was his last one, he pushed through tremendous pain to do this - flaming out like a phoenix.
Pavarotti resisted the invitation of singing Nessun Dorma. Finally it was agreed the performance would be pre-recorded and played at the opening ceremonies with both the orchestra and Pavarotti lip syncing. This was due to the cold temperatures, well below freezing.
it doesnt look like he was lip syncing tho
Even though it was a lip sync he pre-recorded with his real voice no effects
@@phonemyatthu1364 just one week before. So... He had 71 at time of recording, he died a year later, incredible
@@caligal1090 he is probably saying the lyrics as the recording plays, a lot of people why lip sync do this to me it look and feel more natural
He was also suffering from severe pain, and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only months later. This, combined with the cold air in the stadium, would’ve made a live performance very dangerous for him.
This World never deserved Luciano. He still gave us everything.
2021
Still the greatest performer who ever lived.
yeah
Stevie Wonder Fragile it’s better.
It is said that every great perfomer has one last magnificent performance left in them. Pavarotti proved that.
I´m crying. no matter how many times i see this
I never considered myself much of a Pavarotti fan, but this performance was really something special. Arguably the most famous opera singer of all time, giving his heart to the audience as he always did. RIP Maestro
How can one not be a Pavarotti fan? This is a serious inquiry
@@tanieshasimmons5212 People have different tastes when it comes to music and therefore we must respect their choices
@@thomass7466 Taste isn't a choice
A performance for eternity, in the middle of 2023 I watch him and feel all the emotion, a true singer who managed to put feeling, emotion in every note, I wish I had the pleasure of watching him, but a tenor like him will always be eternal, his work and his unique voice will live forever in our hearts and I hope that future generations can appreciate it, I would say that watching this performance is the true apotheosis of a singer.
Grazie Luciano!!
I attended the opening in Torino in 2006. He wasn't announced, but as soon as we heard his first "Nessun Dorma", he didn't have to be introduced. Pavarotti!
Of course we never would have known at the time that we were witnesses to his final public performance. Thank you for sharing your music and talent with us one last time.
Not as a singer but as a musician, whenever I listen to this I almost feel like he’s putting all his energy into this performance and despite the struggles, he’s still putting all his might into his voice as if the world was about to end and it just makes me cry that we’ve lost such a talented singer and now all we have to look back on is this last public performance.😢
The Greatest Tenor in the History Luciano Pavarotti ❤️❤️❤️
I'm watching this in 2020. Joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. Bravo. Timeless.
Pavarotti was and still is a legend, he now takes his place in the stars, the choir of heaven
Pavarotti *sings* in this video!
Even though it is a Lip Sync with a record, it is clear by the immense emotion and power he put into his performance that he makes the effort to sing it all with the remaining strength he could muster. It is taking a toll, Luciano was a weakened shell of his former self and the strain pains upon him and yet he still does it to get the absolute best he could possibly be and then some beyond that.
*This* is why I love Opera, especially from Pavarotti, it is the Drive to push oneself above the limits of a mortal body, grasp the Divine and bring it down to share with the earth.
With the last of his strength now entirely spent, Luciano Pavarotti spreads wide his arms and smiles to entire world in a symbol of ultimate farewell, gives his final bow and allows the curtains of history to close upon him - elevating him up to the heavens to return that voice he borrowed from so long ago. Truly there is no better way to go but this one.
Probably the best comment I have ever read in youtube. Kudos for you!
this was lip synced?
@@mcrettable , no it isn't. Opera singers generally do a horrendous job of lip synching, and it's quite easy to tell if they are doing it. Here there are subtle clues Pavarotti is singing live, including his breathing, facial muscles, etc.
@@tristanhnl He recorded it earlier, then sang along, so what you hear isn't what is coming out of his mouth. Pretty commonly known. Compare to earlier performances and you can hear certain weaknesses in even the pre-recorded versions. The reason for this is that he thought it would be too cold at night to actually do it properly.
@@jamisonr , and Pavarotti actually said this? If so he did a fantastic job of miming, including the breaths and the movement of his soft palate, which he was awful at in the past. That's why I'm inclined to believe he's actually singing. Whether there are supposed "weaknesses" is completely irrelevant. These are singers, not machines.
Performances like these make life worth living
1:38 😭 su rostro lo dice todo. Él sabía que no volvería a pisar un escenario.
What a lucky audience to see this incredible performance. 😭
Spectacular....and so symbolic, with the last curtain falling on the Great Tenor. The look of happiness and amazement in his eyes is just priceless. Unforgettable moment, one of the most beautiful in all ceremonies I know.
I cry rivers when ever I watch and listen to this. It’s like he knows he’s going to die and this is his last priceless gift to the world. The amount of suffering and passion in his voice, his eyes, is unreal. May he rest in peace forever ❤️
He didn’t die
God just needed a new singer to listen to :)
I've watched this performance and cryed with it a thousand times ... such an incredible voice. Much love from Iran
this performance always brings me to tears everytime when I watch it
I saw it live, same tears that day, today and every time I'm watching it!
FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS ❤️❤️❤️
No matter how many times I watch tears always roll down my face.
A great loss to the whole world...but I was comforted by the fact that God needs Angel's and voices like Luciano's to fill heaven.
It´s amazing seeing it in HD after all this years!
i can feel his feeling!!! rest in peace master Luciano!
I have listened to Him and his music since I was a kid . And still do to this day. A great voice 👌
beautiful only beautiful
Absolutely beautiful.
His voice was so powerful and you can see the emotion in his eyes as he sang.
This song never fails to bring a tear to my eye❤️
Perfection. How else can one describe this amazing artist!
Thanks for uploading Luciano Pavarotti's final performance. Luciano would be proud of you.
Man every time I've seen this video it overwhelms me with emotion , this is just absolutely beautiful. A fantastic venue and event for the grandmaster to have held his last performance.
His voice still moves me deep in my heart and soul. Always so beautiful.
Love this video, gives me chills every time
You can see the passion he had for the music. You can also see that he knew it would be the last time and how glad he is that his body gave him the opportunity to do this one last time without failing him during the most straining parts of this song. This was a man who lived for this art and got to perform right up until the very end and you can see in his face and his eyes how happy he was for still being able to do what he could do best. At which he is still the best and nobody can compare.
da diecimila miglia di distanza, ma non è solo un tesoro dell'Italia, ma un grande tesoro dell'intera umanità!
He was such an extraordinary singer, I don´t know how many times I listend to this song and it still give me chills. How someone could keep this strong voice to the end it´s unbelievable
Beautiful, and a tear! He was a gift from heaven!
You can watch the full Torino 2006 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony here: www.olympicchannel.com/en/playback/torino-2006-opening-ceremony/
Olympic channel, when will the winter olympics start at Pyonchang ?
It's not there anymore. What happened to it?
Not gonna lie, I'm a bit jealous of God that he's got Pavarotti back in his heavenly choir.
Made me cry 😭 Thank you very much for your amazing performance!
I've watched this maybe a hundred times, and i can't just watch it once. Four, five, six times in a row. Brings me to tears every single time.
Am crying, love you Luciano Pavarotti, love from Kerala, India ❤️
Joy and sadness. Tremendous joy and infinite sadness. At this special moment, I just realised that even him was only a human, suffering, dying but giving his last gift to humanity. The best side of humanity.
Thank you for ever.
It's like he knew this was going to be his final performance. Not an opera fan but this is goosebump inducing.
Brilliant. Love, love, love! His soul and heart were in his performance. Still cry every time I watch! Master!
in hindsight it feels even more amazing, when you know the winner of the Gold Torino medal used this particular part of the Turandot in her Free Program, changing it just few months before the Olympics...
Women’s Figure Skating, right?
I was just thinking of that.
The one and only Luciano Pavarotti.
The legends live forever ❤
Although I don't understand the words, chills going through my body, this is just so beautiful. May he rest in peace 🙏.
Vincerooo, vincerooo, Italy will be victorious against coronavirus! Hang in there, Bosnia and Herzegovina is with you!
Yes, even India is with you !
Also. Siam is with you