Puccini
Listening to A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, we were treated to a rendition of Nessun Dorma - which prompted us to listen to several versions:
Mario Lanza. Not bad. Old school. Beautiful women, but I digress.
Paul Potts. "Embedding disabled by request." Isn't that interesting?
Pavarotti. Brilliant. (And such drama!)
Andrea Bocelli. Can I say? Meh.
Placido Domingo. Not bad.
Michael Bolton? We couldn't sit through the entire aria.
Finally,
The Three Tenors.
Our favorite?
Pavarotti.
Mario Lanza. Not bad. Old school. Beautiful women, but I digress.
Paul Potts. "Embedding disabled by request." Isn't that interesting?
Pavarotti. Brilliant. (And such drama!)
Andrea Bocelli. Can I say? Meh.
Placido Domingo. Not bad.
Michael Bolton? We couldn't sit through the entire aria.
Finally,
The Three Tenors.
Our favorite?
Pavarotti.
Comments
And I am a major opera fan, though Turandot isn't my fav. Love Carmen & anything by Mozart....
There is only one in a million.
sigh
Paola
I mean, really, there is no other like him.
Wow, I am Negative Nelly today.
jbhat
Watch a full opera DVD with Pavarotti and then watch one with Domingo, and see where that takes you. Or why Pavarotti is incredibly overrated.
Just goes to show you, good tenors are a dime a dozen.
I think placido domingo is a pompous ass. Does anybody remember when he told Diana Ross to be quiet at the world music awards?(seems the stage wasn't big enough for BOTH of their egos.)
I've never heard the michael bolton version before. WOW, that's really bad. I think my brain is bleeding.
I agree, I like the Pavarotti version but I also like Bocelli's version too. Not to mention Aretha Franklin's version.
I used to be a big fan of prarie home companion but after reading some of garrison keeler's editorials on Salon.com I can't stand him anymore. Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin have both said they would never work with him again and Tommy Lee Jones said he was a bit of a handful. Good enough for me.
As or Nessun Dorma, I thinl I'll wait for the john mayer version...:O)
I'm amused that Anonymous up there assumes you are an opera newbie.