Here is Pavarotti’s [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4&feature=related ]version[/url]. Really makes one appreciate Pavarotti all the more. A much richer and vibrant voice.
That was a wonderful reminder; thanks to the blog-host. (I checked out Aretha’s version, #5 – well, sorry but I couldn’t get past “Tu pure o Principessa’, which comes right after ‘Nessun’ dorma’….when one knows this is a secretive love song addressed to an ice-hearted Chinese princess Aretha’s version just doesn’t work…..).
I would agree with #s 3 and 4 that Potts’ is not a phenomenal voice, but it is a warm, willing and trained voice, more so now than in mid-2007 when he won Britain’s Got Talent. Thinking in that vein I popped open the video in the sidebar about Potts in Mexico, and enjoyed watching the 5 minutes’ worth of comments by talk-show hosts and random Mexicans, between clips of Potts singing mainly Bocelli’s ‘Con te partiro’. They each said how successfully Potts’ singing had touched their emotions. I noticed that Potts’ delivery of Italian is remarkably fluent for an Englishman. This clip reveals the far larger audiences than the English-speaking world for the cultural edu-tainment that Potts can deliver.
Later in the day somewhat randomly I learned that the evening of Feb. 3 in Caracas, the marvelous Rossini tenor, Peruvian Juan Diego Florez, teamed with Gustavo Dudamel, the young Venezuelan who now conducts the LA Symphony, for a concert of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and the like – which must have been fabulous, would have given anything to have TV access or be there! – and it occurred to me that the survival of some features of Western culture may depend far more on the cultural maturing of Latin American populations [i]including those in major US cities[/i] than on Anglo-Teutonic North America (unless one idolizes Wagner particularly). Placido Domingo has really started a movement that will shape musical cultural for generations.
What a great story his is. Thanks for that, Dr. Harmon.
I have his CD. Well worth the money and them some!
Here is Pavarotti’s [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4&feature=related ]version[/url]. Really makes one appreciate Pavarotti all the more. A much richer and vibrant voice.
Paul Potts is no Pavarotti, but then again, who is?
And of course Aretha’s version at the Grammys, on 22 minutes notice (after Pavarotti called in sick), without a key change ….
That was a wonderful reminder; thanks to the blog-host. (I checked out Aretha’s version, #5 – well, sorry but I couldn’t get past “Tu pure o Principessa’, which comes right after ‘Nessun’ dorma’….when one knows this is a secretive love song addressed to an ice-hearted Chinese princess Aretha’s version just doesn’t work…..).
I would agree with #s 3 and 4 that Potts’ is not a phenomenal voice, but it is a warm, willing and trained voice, more so now than in mid-2007 when he won Britain’s Got Talent. Thinking in that vein I popped open the video in the sidebar about Potts in Mexico, and enjoyed watching the 5 minutes’ worth of comments by talk-show hosts and random Mexicans, between clips of Potts singing mainly Bocelli’s ‘Con te partiro’. They each said how successfully Potts’ singing had touched their emotions. I noticed that Potts’ delivery of Italian is remarkably fluent for an Englishman. This clip reveals the far larger audiences than the English-speaking world for the cultural edu-tainment that Potts can deliver.
Later in the day somewhat randomly I learned that the evening of Feb. 3 in Caracas, the marvelous Rossini tenor, Peruvian Juan Diego Florez, teamed with Gustavo Dudamel, the young Venezuelan who now conducts the LA Symphony, for a concert of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and the like – which must have been fabulous, would have given anything to have TV access or be there! – and it occurred to me that the survival of some features of Western culture may depend far more on the cultural maturing of Latin American populations [i]including those in major US cities[/i] than on Anglo-Teutonic North America (unless one idolizes Wagner particularly). Placido Domingo has really started a movement that will shape musical cultural for generations.