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I thought this was going to be another thread about snoring.
It's an amazing piece of music, but I wonder if there's a football connection that makes it resonate with many? I'm going to play it to my kids and get their "ops"
Kate. That, sir, is magnificent 👍
Kato, I have that performance on CD single. You don’t get many classical performances released as a physical single, do you.
And sorrowful songs is probably the first classical CD album I bought… had cassettes before that.
[ the version with Dawn Upshaw ]
Tear jerkers? Our ensemble was rehearsing at one of the singer’s houses last winter. We were rehearsing Rutter’s Ukrainian Prayer for a forthcoming concert and were struggling with a couple of bits of pronunciation. Sue told us she had a Ukrainian refugee neighbour who could help and went to fetch her. We sang this to her in the hallway to the house which had amazing acoustics. Not a dry eye between us.
I tend to find it's music rather than song which gets to me. A Mahler symphony or Beethoven late quartet for example.
Also, one of the choirs I sing with wanted an English translation of Nessun Dorma, so I provided them with one. Now I haven’t seen Turandot all the way through but this guy is basically saying that he can’t wait for dawn to kiss her as his kiss will shatter the silence and make her his, and no one will ever know his name. I concluded that he may have been hiding under the bed.
I absolutely adore this particular aria. Possibly one of the very few classical pieces to have an entire film noir based around it.
I'm not really into opera but I think nessun dorma's just part of the cultural background- even if you don't care about football you couldn't avoid it in 1990, it ended up #2 in the charts. I always remember that 3 tenors version with them doing duelling banjos and jose carreras looking like he was going to fly into the air. My dad loved it too so I guess that ties into it with me as well, emotionally.
I didn't know it was prerecorded but, even now I do, Pavarotti's "last performance" in Turin pretty much destroys me. Maybe a bit more so now I know it was prerecorded, since all that emotion and response is when he was too ill to perform it again. It's not the best version but it hits harder.
I once heard an excellent version of Nessun Dorma sung live at a pub in Carluke. No irony intended and not that much beer drunk.
Not my thing, but I wouldn't switch it off if it came on the radio or when I randomise my music. It doesn't do anything to me, but I do think it is a fantastic song/performance. A very good tune and well worth a listen every now and again.
I wonder if there’s a football connection that makes it resonate with many?
There is a clip from MoTD highlights at the 1990 world cup where David Platt scores in the very last minute of extra time against Belgium and the crescendo from Nessun Dorma hits at just the right moment as the ball goes across the line. It's stirring stuff.
It's this for me. Used in the Redbull ad back in 2013. Gets me every single time. Closely followed by Nimrod, Elgar.
Aretha does Nessun dorma
Not a tear jerker but if you like a spot of Puccini how about this menacing, creepy performance by Bryn Terfel as Scarpia in Tosca.
Nessun dorma
My wife used to have one. Terrible car.
I read the OP and though "whats he on about...."
I then played the video of the guy in Leeds and actually had a tear in my eye! Not sure if its the voice, the music, because i've walked through through the shopping centre a million times or because the singer is now dead. But yeah I was wrong with my initial reaction and happy to admit it.
My thread, so I thought I'd sign it off with this. In this case however, it's Nanna who does it for me.
The greatest vocalist imo in the history of recording, singing live
From 1.45 for an example of the sheer power of her voice
Italia ‘90, innit. When Engerland did surprisingly well in The World Cup