I would just like to say that Pavarotti is one of the most excellent opera singers ever. And, thank you for posting this on you tube. I love opera...and I always will.
rofl even with worse audio quality potts doesn´t stand a chance vs big p. Its just an embaressment needing to even compare the two. Btw, if potts keeps singing like this he won´t have a voice left in 3-4 years. He doesn´t breathe right.
If he´d have better technique he may be a decent singer though, but he needs training
@Noi2002 Well its 4 yrs from here and his voice has got much better, like other pros. I guess.
Paul is still doing the world tours, about 350 I heard some one say. This must be a world record, talking about Royal Albert Hall and such places not the mission. Pauls technique has now be trained, I expect as was all the others. Don't know if you had the luxury of a conservatory like most others, Paul didn't, but has learnt good technique now, and his range goes on for ever and ever and ever.
@lingam88 If you look at current stuff - yes, he´s a lot better than he was - but still overrated. Still nothing compared to a big p, domingo, caruso or whoever. Its nice for an amateur like him to get a chance, the depressing thing is just the tons of thousands of singers who DID study music, have got brilliant voices (way better than mr potts), and still live in poverty and never have the luck potts did. The problem is the lack of promotion on real arts, instead of just shows like BGT...
@Noi2002 Thank God for shows like BGT so such as Paul Potts can be discovered, because their are very talented people out there who don't have the chance as I suspect you have to go to Music Conservatory, you know it takes a lot of money to do so, and when Paul was of school age he would have had to have a lot of encouragement from home to do so. As regards Nessun Dorma and the classical in concert he sang 2 yrs ago with the best. We are not talking doing operas, that is a lifetime commitment.
@lingam88 so you think its okay that tons of singers have no success although they commit their life to music & are really good, compared to a few lucky people who get attention for a few years before they are forgotten forever, whithout any hard work (after they made their million)? Yes, I go to a conservatory, and I pay for it myself - I work WHILE I study. Its difficult but its possible. If potts didn´t do that then I guess he didn´t get through the ability test. So much for living for music!
@Noi2002 Paul didn't start singing amatuer until about 10yrs ago, I don't know what you mean by he didn't go to a conservatory because he failed the ability test, he sings better than most that have been there, and because of big improvement year by year he will have trained himself up. There are many on BGT from Royal College of Music . How many trained opera singers better than Bryn Terfel and others wait in wings for them to retire so to have a go. If opera was more popular fewer out of work.
@lingam88 no thats wrong, look it up on wikipedia: he started singing when he was a kid, sang in a choir, and sang for himself when he was depressed (apparently he was bullied). He just never had any interest to go pro - until he failed at doing what he actually studied - philosophy. Instead he was forced to - not only sell - but actually be a manager of a mobile phone store. He performed in an amateur opera 1999 - 2003. He is all but inexperienced. Just the joke that is bgt made him famous.
@Noi2002 sorry for the double post- but there is more. He didn´t fail because he lacked the ability, he didn´t even TRY because he lacked the interest AND the ability. He may be a decent amateur, but by no means whatsoever is he great. Yes he´s better than most who have been there, but hardly any better than any who actually passed. And - just so you know - opera (or classic rather) is the "mainstream" of 11% of the population. Hiphop 14, Rock 20%. The rest is mainstream. Its not too unpopular.
@Noi2002 Isn't it silly to compare a dramatic tenor with a lyric tenor? You are on several of Paul's videos trashing him. Jealousy is bad for your heart. Jose Carreras has invited Paul to sing, twice. Pavarotti asked Paul for an encore when Paul sang for him in a Master Class, the only one Pav asked to sing again. You are greatly distorting Paul's life, making Huge assumptions on his motivations for doing things the way he did. Why don't you go on his channel and ask him directly?
@Noi2002 "Paul Robert Potts was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Humanities Second Class Honours Division Two on 29th June 1993." Marjon College.(from a link on the wiki) He studied more than Philosophy. I just read the wiki article and you have greatly distorted it. Why? You twist everything into your own distorted jealous rant. Paul did not sing opera as a child...geez. He started listening to it at age 16. Stop distorting that facts! Your "analysis" says more about you than it does Paul.
@2Cats100 got any examples to back that statement up? - he started singing right at the start. Not opera til he was 16, but that makes no difference. I never said opera as a child. You twist everything into your own distorted rant. Jeez. Would quote but youtube doesn´t allow enough letters. Read it again, he did amateur opera years before bgt, and started singing as a child. Sorry to destroy your illusion. I´m not jeaulous, I think its unfair on good singers in general, potts isn´t that good!
Don't comment these days on Pauls videos, but still glance through, butI have to correct someone here. In 1940 Pavarotti was 5 yrs old. I heard Pavarotti sing live about 20yrs ago, I heard Paul Potts sing 4th Nov. 2009 at Royal Albert Hall. As regards Nessun Dorma aria both had equally powerful voices, I did prefer Paul, but if I was going to the opera I would want to hear Pavarotti, the opera is what he trained for. It is obvious the sound has been lowered on Pauls video, it does favour Pav.
@scarletrosemarie Yes I have noticed the same trolls over and over. I also notice that they do not go to Paul's channel and spout off there, where he'll answer them. Always easier to spout off behind someone's back, I guess.
They want us to believe that they speak for the entire opera world. They don't! Jose Carreras has publicly said that Paul has a beautiful voice. Gosh, he knows nothing about operatic voices. Some of the trolls here should go tell him he's wrong. LOL
I am sure that Paul Potts would recognise that he cannot even remotely compete with top operatic stars. His voice is not good enough. He does not have that ability. But he is popular and people want him to succeed and he is an entertainer.
@The99Gambo You are sure? Did you ask him, have a direct quote from him? Now you are a mind reader too?It's only opera trolls like you who say he Has to compete. Why are you on so many videos on the same day, spouting off? You DO have a problem with Paul Potts, get over it!!
@thornbirds26 I'd like to see someone take that Jeon Ju ND and put it with a Pavarotti ND, That would be a real comparison. Any takers, critics?? lol Thought not.
neal e boyd had a more powerful and passionate voice than paul potts - i am not hating on paul potts because i enjoyed his performances, but i putting things into perspective
hahahah I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO CAN COMPARE THIS TWO VOICES.. LISTEN PAVAROTTI, THEN GO TO PAUL.. HAHAHAHAH.. It's incomparable.. Pavarotti's frequency nobody can reach, and this is reality.. Any comparation is apsurdly..
SO SO SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare you link that Potts to Pavarotti! Im so sorry, but there NO comparison from Paul Potts tp Pavarotti and these two should never be mentioned in the same breath! Paul is getting better and has his style, but Never will he Ever be another pavarotti! Good luck Paul!
@MrPasqualinho The sound on Pauls vid has been turned down, this is not how Paul Potts sounds on concert tour. This is not even as good as the audition. I don't think the uploader is a Paul Potts fan.
Type in Paul Potts in Jeon S. Korea (Nessun Dorma) you will have a shock at how brilliant Pauls voice is. The audition was stunning, moved on though since then, and you won't want to admit as to how Pauls Potts voice is amazing. I do not see how it fades in to comparison now as regards Nessun Dorm
This is hopefully a joke. Potts has no squillo--the tenor cry. Pavarotti's voice is so powerful and effortless while Potts strains in the upper register (also a bit flat in pitch). Please tell me this is a satire.
Potts has a decent, but thin voice. He's good, but not great. If you want to hear great, listen to everything on YouTube done by Bjorling, Caruso, Corelli, Wunderlich, and Gigli, to name a few great tenors
zackgreer you are wright , when I was in audition on violin in school , stupid professors started bitchin' coz my students better then yours , but I knew I was the best , but I still dont underfuckingstand why everyone is so fucking mean in this world , I hate this shit , and because of this a LOT of people with talent have quited their job .
@kile9761: Listen to Caruso's 1904 "E lucevan le stelle" and his 1904 "Una furtiva lagrima." Listen to Bjorling's versions of these arias, especially Bjorling's more emotional 1959 live performance of "E lucevan le stelle." Also watch Corelli's performance of "E lucevan le stelle."
Pav was perhaps the greatest since Bjorling., but Bjorling and Caruso were a cut above and considered the two top tenors of the 20th century for different reasons. You'll discover those reasons upon listening.
For someone like me who doesn't listen to opera, I prefer Paul's voice. Pavarotti and other professional opera singers sing in too hard and sharp a voice which just doesn't sound soothing. Sounds too loud.
@addicted2050 That's because professional opera singers have to project over an orchestra of up to 100 in an a theater of up to 4000 with NO amplification. Something Potts can't do.
@asrarulhaq2002 Dude, I know Pavarotti is greater, but it's simple. I don't like these opera singers singing in that sharp voice as it's not soothing to the ears, that's why I prefer Potts more.
If they sang side by side fairer comparison. As others have noticed the video sound of Pauls has been lowered, compare this with his audition. I ask why the moderator did not choose the audition, why Pavarotti has been given the best parts.
@STOPTHEEU No. Pavarotti has the best audio, for Pauls singing it has been lowered, listen to the audition. Pavarotti also has been given the best parts.
Unless there singing side by side you can not give a fair comparison, also have you heard Paul sing now?
As quoted by someone below look up that video.
The world, one and half billion at world cup final heard Pavarotti sing this, he had been professional half his life.
@auntyflorrieunclesam Don't talk rubbish. The audio of Pavarotti is from his early days. Audio equipment has improved vastly since then not to mention the deterioration of film, vinyl etc.
Its even in the visual... Do you think audio quality was superior during the days of black and white television?
@STOPTHEEU Don't you talk rubbish and be so rude to folks either, this isn't olden days, Pavarotti had the best acoustics and several mikes when in the best concert halls, not like BGT auditions in a local place. Also like auntyflo I too think the sound has been lowered. How can you talk about fair trieswhen Paul who popped by from day job to perform here and Pavarotti a professional opera singer one of best on world stage. Pavarottis best on y.tube at this era, Bjorlings decades older, amazing
@walkonwildside How on earth can you possibly think that Pavarotti had better audios in the late 1930 and early 1940s? The best they had then was the magnetaphone. Today we have high definition audio....
Don't be rude? BE REASONABLE!!! you can tell from the video itself!
@Godzie, you're more than entitled to think so, both are brilliant singers. I happen to prefer Pavarotti, you prefer Potts. It's like apples and oranges, all depends on your preference. :) .
@lingam 88, yes, you are absolutely correct. Paul would benefit SO much more having a professional tutor, but probably Pavarotti was his hero and attending that 1 hr masterclass was probably a dream come true; especially since Pavarotti died probably not too much after. Now that Potts is famous he has the money for the best tutors available, and he can still put on his resume that he was trained by the master himself. I'm sure having Pavarotti's name on a document would get one quite far!
@harukalioncourt It doesn't work that way. Having a master class with someone does not allow you to say that you studied with that person. Singers almost never pay for a master class. You are invited to sing. If you have to pay to be in a master class, its a pretty bad sign.
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@harukalioncourt if you don't have the gift- hundreds of masterclass-hours won't help you and at least any document. Within a row of living tenors Paul alway will be (honourable)average . I think, people who pay to see him want also to see the "underdog who made it" i.e. the confimation of their own secret dreams and the objective quality of his performance may be secondary.......
The difference? Pavarotti sang the ENTIRE role of Calaf from Puccini's 3 hour long opera Turandot. No amplification. Orchestra of 75 pieces. Potts sings a 3 minute excerpt from Turandot over an orchestra of 25 with a mic.
Paul Potts is AMAZING... but Pavarotti's voice was stronger, with way more depth! No one can ever beat the master... before Paul was famous he saved a ton of money to attend a Pavarotti opera masterclass.
@harukalioncourt Yes, Paul is amazing, much better than here, this as I said is just one sided, the sound is lower and Pavarotti has got the best parts. but seeing him on his live tour last year I would like to see that recorded and posted here. I am amazed that Paul has spent a ton of money on one hour masterclass with Paul, thats how long he was with him, it would have been wiser to spend a ton of money on a good opera tutor as Pavarotti did, because Pav. is not a pro. teacher.
@harukalioncourt I'm sorry but Pott's voice puts Povarotti's to shame. I never even cared for opera until I heard Potts on Britain's got talent. (Gave me goosebumps) :)
Bravo Paul! You have brought to life a brilliant voice and have done Pavarotti proud. You also made me fall in love again with this beautiful music. Love expatriot UK and Wales
jajajaja no se puede comparar al mejor tenor de todos (Pavarotti) con otro tenor que solamente es bueno (paul), en el vincero final se nota que paul no alcanza ni a la mitad a pavarotti en agudos.
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Paul Potts will NEVER be an Italian Tenor...and never be anywhere near the ability of Pavarotti....he has no Sqillo....it's insulting to Pavarotti's name and all of the other "real" operatic tenors to put Pott's into the same discussion.
Paul has a much more powerful voice than Bocelli, seen Paul live but not Bocelli. Paul has a wonderful gift, but he lacks a proper music education, but he has improvedast with last few years, and this video needs updating. Even Pavarotti waited many years to sing this to world audience, even those who think Pavarotti the one and only need to know that he would have sounded not the same to start with. Both Paul Potts and Pavarotti are enjoyed with this aria, and I don't think Puccini would object
what you see in paul is more of a modern age opera. Pavarotti is someone who is a legend. the full on classical and opera show. paul is amazing too, but he has a "newer style" of singing opera. sorta like andrea bocelli
Nessun Dorma is made for Pavarotti - and vice versa. I haven't found a more impressing interpretation than his yet... This comparison is a very nice idea. Of course it can't be taken too seriously... Unfortunately the sound quality isn't satisfying.
@schokolade975 Nessun Dorma made for Pavarotti? Nessun Dorma is a completely different genre than than Pavarotti. In fact he is fully out of repertory when he sings it. Try the Corelli, Del Monaco or Björling versions they are in an other galaxy than Pavarotti. Of course Pav is great too but he should have stayed in his repertory.
No. this is Puccin that has a claim to this, not Pavarotti. Also Paul Potts in concert live á phenomenal. Pavarotti at his peak here, Paul 2 years forward would be a fair comparison, and even at the start Paul sang this much better than portrayed here. I noticed on Pavarotti site, anyone who said Paul Potts they liked better than Pavarotti got the thumbs down, why different. Just to let you know, I did not thumbs down Darthsala. even though he is a regular ctritic of Paul.
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This is so awful.A lyric tenor and a popstar singing an Aria made for a dramatic tenor.At least Pavarotti was ok in this kind of things because of his technique even if he should have stayed in his repertory. But Potts is really an insult to Opera.
Well done Paul, and a wonderful voice, it is a bit unfair to compare you with Luciano, well recognized for being the Master of the high Cs. Even greats like Placido Domingo who I think is the best of all the Opera singers of the modern era, agree that Nessun Dorma was claimed by Pavarotti as his own.
Not here because the video is very one side, not even the audition which is better was chosen, also the sound seems lower, Pavarotti better acoustics, so I am suspicious. It would have been fairer to put Paul here with a performance last yr on UK concert tour, amazing voice. Pauls Nessun Dorma I would choose. Pauls raw talent is something. what ever one sings, a good voice is a good voice even without a good music education, but Paul has as they say, lump of coal become a diamond.
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just to be clear: paul potts has terrible pitch and should not even be considered a singer. he is tight, which is clear from the way his head shakes on those high notes. pavarotti is king and it is a shame that paul potts is singing with him even virtually.
This video is very one sided, the Pavarotti one seems louder, he has the best parts. The audition is better than this. It would be fairer to put Paul sining this now, as I heard him in concert 2009, he was outstanding. Pavarotti was a seasoned years trained opera singer when his Nessun Dorma was recorded. Paul sang without a mike in a large cathedral recently which does not have amplification like Convent Garden, and his voice was heard loud and clear, Paul is now up there with yrs trained.
Paul Potts is great for an amateur, but compared to the great tenors who have sung this aria in the past he doesn't stack up. I would call him a professional singer. But in order to be a professional opera singer you must perform onstage in a full opera with a professional company! If he hasn't done this then please don't label him an opera singer just because he sang an aria from Turandot. I commend Potts for bringing attention to opera.
Both Pavarotti and Potts are singing in Italian, but the subtitles in the Pavorotti video are not Italian, they are most probably a Spanish translation.
@trauma6 Different opera singers have different voices. Their ability to achieve depth, hold as note, as well as hitting the required notes in a song are what is to be judged.
@cadrolls1 Pavarotti was an opera singer. Potts is not an opera singer, he is classical crossover or popera singer. Opera singer is by definition someone who sings roles in live operas in professional (not amateur) opera theaters. There are no microphones in opera, operas are long and lead singers sing most of the time, always perfect, without voice waivering even once, with great diction and high level of artistry. Listen to some tenors who actually sing in opera today.
@jewelmarkess I like the sound of Potts' voice non the less. You wrote that Potts is a "crossover" also. I was interested in purchasing a crossover vehicle once. If I had known it could sing, I would have bought it.....LOLOLOLOL.
In any case, I think they are both very good singers and I enjoy them both.
@cadrolls1 "crossover" comes from crossing from one genre to another. Pavarotti is one of the best opera singers of all times - he performed leading roles in top operas theaters for decades. Then at the end of his career, he crossed over to pop and started giving concerts in the arenas that included opera arias but also popular songs. But now "crossover" (also "popera") refers to pop singers who include a couple of opera arias in pop concerts, but who couldn't sing in opera.
@jewelmarkess Thank you for explaining that to me. I am not up on my opera terms. I do have Pavarotti on disc though. I became interested again when I heard Potts and that new girl, Jackie Evancho. Wow! What a voice on her...................for 10 year's old yet!
Well, thank you for taking the time out to clear it up for me. It was appreciated.
@cadrolls1 Yes, what a voice on little Jackie Evancho. just looked her up. Hope it continues. I think she sounds better than few famous adults singing this. Sounds a little like young Edith Piaff. A star has been born. Will keep watching her progress.
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This video is truly awful! Fuck me. No disrespect to Pol Pot or whoever the mass killer (of music) is, but he's nowhere near Pavarotti or any respected tenor and this video really doesn't work regardless of that fact.
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well ... if, the experiments with gas! paul potts the child comes to winning a contest is good, but that A compared to Pavarotti! it seems an exaggeration, it has no bell, power output, reverb of the voice, tone, quality, is that pavarotti ... gas medium undies all tenors today! I personally, I like Sunday theatricality but power ... pavarotti.
For the record I listened to a more recent televised recording of Pavarotti singing this song where i can here a better representation of the entirety of his voice and I admit I do prefer that to Pots.
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It is very unfair jewelmarkess has been spammed because he is totally right.Potts is nowhere near the league of ANY professional tenors singing in opera/choral music. This is seriously not a personal opinion. It wouuld be the opinion of any unbiased singing teacher who worked at a music college.His technique is clearly below what is expected at the current level of singing.
Any of the singers he names eg. Alagna,Heppner,Aragall are in a different category. And to compare to Pavarotti is just...
@blueyedboy84 Thanks. BTW, it's she not he, but it doesn't matter. Not sure if you've heard Michael Fabiano - another really promising young tenor, 2007 Met Council Auditions winner and one of three tenors featured in "The Audition" documentary. Also medici.tv still has Operalia Grand Final concert for many intersting new singers.
@Senzow1 You have absolutely no clue, how many excellent singers you've never heard of are out there. Not just Domingo or Carreras or greats of the past - Corelli, Bjorling, del Monaco, Tucker, Gigli, but today's singers too - Ben Heppner, Piotr Beczala, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan-Diego Florez, Lawrence Brownlee, Joseph Calleja, Frank Lopardo - and many many others. If you find time and check them out, you might actually enjoy it.
My personal opinion is I prefer the timbre of Paul Pots voice to Pavarotti. It almost sounds like to different songs by who is singing. Pavarotti's voice is so booming that it makes the song sound dark. Paul Potts to me is more uplifting with this song and sings with the soul of a man who's been a bit beat down by life and truly believes every word he's singing.
@LaughingOTI80 This aria is not sung by a man beat down by life, but by a prince who vows to win the love of a beautiful princess. This is an opera aria and not a pop song, the singer has to act the role, and also express the words he is singing. Also, everyone who performs in public for money is compared to professionals. If I go were to try to play Moonlight sonata on the piano in public, I will be judged by professional standards with no excuses for lack of training.
@jewelmarkess I'll start by saying I'm no opera aficionado but I am a musician and when I said Paul Pots sings like a guy who's been "been beat a bit down by life and believes every word he's singing" I wasn't referring to the lyrical content so much as the conviction with which he sings. If anything I think even more so that a tenor would be a little better to sell a love song. Nothing against Pavarotti. Microphones are also a factor.
@jewelmarkess Pavarotti has such a huge voice that the microphones of that time can't represent them properly in dynamic without distorting nor by timbre due to lack of spectrum. Besides we've all grown up hearing the name Pavarotti and knowing he was some great musician or vocalist but for most people in the realm of media music they would not have every connected with opera without hearing it first via medium of media music IE Brittan's Got Talent .
@LaughingOTI80 As a musician you must know that all real opera singers are trained to sing without microphones, opera relies on unamplilfied voices. Many people today aren't used to operatic voices and prefer pop sounding voices which is fine. But this is an opera aria, not a pop song, so there are certain requirements for technical perfection and expression. If only Paul Potts fans were willing to go and check out real opera, many opera fans would be delighted. But this doesn't happen...
@jewelmarkess I'll say it like this. I'm a legit musician as far as professional musicians go. It is my job. I can play jazz. I have played jazz and for a handful of people who get it it's awesome. For 90% of the rest of the population it's pretentious noise. The two reasons I don't play jazz publicly unless it's what I'm getting paid for is for two reasons. Country, Latin, Alt., R&B, Electronic, rock, etc, pay more (gotta pay bills) and two I get a bigger reaction from a bigger crowd.
@jewelmarkess My point is that theres different strokes for different folks and just because you have the audible and emotional attachment to the music that you do most people will not here what your hearing at least not right away it takes time like a song you didn't like till you heard it 3 or 4 times then out of nowhere you love it. Thats what opera is gonna be for most people in America. Capitalism makes money and the media in America pushes the sounds that make them the most money.
@jewelmarkess I have myself struggled with this fact for quite a while now. Do you know how hard it is to play your ass off in a band and make less money then a DJ? It blows! Therefore I wouldn't blame the individuals for being a product of their environment and I understand the point you make. At the very least Potts has for many people created a path and for that if someone in the mainstream could turn on the masses to what I'm all about, I would be happy.
@LaughingOTI80 You have a point - it's the state of things today, but it doesn't mean we all need to accept it and not to try to educate people. Some would still prefer a pop sounding voice, and it's fine, but many would've loved opera if they just try it. There are videos here of opera singers - not just stars, young singers as well with amazing talent and artistry and nobody cares. Yet every time someone public perceives as "operatic" appears on these shows, public goes wild. It's just sad.
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@LaughingOTI80 You forget that Pavarotti+the 3 Tenors was a massive global media phenomenon long before Paul Potts who is nowhere near professional standard.Microphones are irrelevant.Pavarotti is a top class of singing.It is silly to even compare Potts. It's like comparing an amateur tennis player with Federer.
@blueyedboy84 Microphones are relevant! Are you serious do you know what your talking about? This is a recording! Without microphones there would be NO SOUND! If you truly have a trained ear and are listening to a recording then the microphones that where made 50 years ago will not give the same representation of dynamic and timbre, two of the most important things in opera singing, that the microphones of today do! jewelmarkess was making a point.
@LaughingOTI80 You are being a pretentious Pavarotti fan boy by showing ignorance to my statement. I never said anything about one being better then the other. I spoke of personal preference and relevancy in todays market. Opera popularity in the USA has been in a steady decline since the 60's. For this reason you should praise Potts rather that make him a pariah.
@LaughingOTI80 About opera popularity - I think most of the decline happened during the last decade. In the 80s there was more opera on tv; Carmen and La Traviata movies were shown in every movie theater; public at least knew what opera was even if some people didn't like it. Today many Americans don't understand what opera is and confuse it with popera. I think many opera fans view these discussions as a way to let people know about the wealth of talent in opera, but it's not easy.
@jewelmarkess I agree. Commercially now days opera is not going to get a fair shake because you have to attach yourself to it to get it and the media today only wants to push the "McDonald's cheeseburger and fries" of music on consumers because pop music hits your ears fast, is easily digested IE short repetitive hooks and is gone as fast as it came leaving you wanting more.
@jewelmarkess They are using pop hooks instead of jingles to sell sprite. Nobody even remembers "I like the Sprite in you" that i grew up with now that they got Aubrey Drake Graham on their commercials.
@LaughingOTI80 I grew up in Russia so I don't remember that, but I heard that nowadays they even invited Kerry Underwood (if I am not mistaken) to sing Schubert Ave Maria on some event, when Renee Fleming would've been a whole lot more appropriate. Some opera theaters are taking the matters in their own hands - Met HD broadcasts, broadcasts to Times Square; recently a few theaters did "flash opera" in markets - not sure how effective this is though.
@blueyedboy84 Also of course a voice sounds better without a microphone, I never said it didn't. It will color the sound no matter what so for these purposes of this RECORDING Pavarotti does not have as fair of a representation.
Jeeze, are people STILL comparing artists like they are in some kind of race? "my singer is better than you singer" is getting SO old. Don't you SEE? people that do that don't "get" music and should be banned from owning any music.
@zackgreer It's not the issue of comparing artists, and you don't "get" opera or classical music if you think so. This aria and the opera it's from has been performed for almost 100 years by some of the best tenors that have ever lived, so the standards of tone, technical perfection, diction and expression are very high. Potts is a talented amateur, maybe a good pop entertainer, but he simply isn't an opera singer and can't sing it at that level.
@lebbing64 that's bullshit, there is never just a "One" there's always another, and I understand the sentiment I do, but it's unfair to push one man up on a pedestal that high. They're will always be a Jackson Pollock for every Van Gogh, a Hawkins for every Einstein, Different yes, lesser no.
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@AMVslowking Yes there is "another", there are actually many great tenors, far better than Potts. Listen to Corelli, Bjorling, del Monaco for greats of the past; listen to Domingo or Carreras or Araiza or Aragall for Pavarotti's contemporaries, but listen also to today's tenors - Piotr Beczala, Jonas Kaufmann, Roberto Alagna, Marcelo Alvarez, Joseph Calleja, Ben Heppner, many many others. You just don't know how many tenors there are who are better than Potts.
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paul potts no tiene voz para esta aria tan dificil, y como comparar a un tenor verdadero que cambio al mundo de la opera en mas de 30 años con alguien que tiene meses de 2 años de conocido?, paul potts no llega esas notas ni de relajo, no es tenor ni buen cantante. Pura publicidad y como que lo estan vendiendo los de BGT.
son muy estrictos con potts porque en este video no solo muestran que pavarotties un tenor con registro mucho mas bajo que el ingles sino un lirico con mas vibrato y jerarquia
I was the kind of guy who always made fun of Opera and would never be caught dead listening to it----------that is until Mr. Potts came along. Sometimes it takes someone of lesser fame to inspire people as was the case with me.
There will never be another Parvarotti but it was Paul Potts who finally made me a fan and respect the awesome talents of these trully gifted singers.
@WheelSlip8 This is great, and if this is indeed the case, I'd be grateful to Potts for introducing wider audience to opera. One question: since you became a fan, did you actually go to opera or watched a Met HD broadcast or Great Performances from the Met on public tv (PBS - next one next week)? Or watched scenes from live operas here, not just an aria or two from crossover concerts? This is an honest question, I am sincerely interested.
@timetolovetimetodie If only these tv shows made opera popular! But all they do is confuse you about what opera is and what it takes to sing in opera. You don't even understand the difference between singing an aria with a mike and singing in full opera and you REFUSE to learn. How many operas have you been to after you've seen these tv shows? How many opera singers (as in singers who actually sing IN opera theaters) have you listened to? How many full operas?
@timetolovetimetodie "Popstar to operstar" was tv entertainment with only one legitimate opera singer - Rolando Villazon and judges with no credibility in opera; contestants sang SIMPLIFIED and TRANSPOSED arias with MICROPHONE. it had nothing to do with opera. O2 may have "bigger audience" but it's not a legitimate opera theater. It'll be amplified while real operas are NOT. Many people can sing and aria with MICROPHONE.Very few can sing a FULL OPERA in an UNAMPLIFIED opera theater.
Truly amazing..1 day he will stand alongside Pavarotti as well as other great singers
thecolaratlady 5 days ago
pavarotti me gusta mas paul es bueno pero pavarotti es un poco mejor jejejeje
DieFensterreiniger 1 month ago
discustimg!!!!!!!!!!!
bogy1703 2 months ago
I just say : Epic!!
TheKaloron 2 months ago
Pavarotti, Paul potts very good.
tc030564 2 months ago
I would just like to say that Pavarotti is one of the most excellent opera singers ever. And, thank you for posting this on you tube. I love opera...and I always will.
shetaz905 3 months ago
I like Mr. Potts but its not even right to comepare him to the great Pavarotti.... maybe down line but he's there yet... not even close
25zelly 3 months ago
@25zelly Paul Potts Jeon Ju S.Korea Nessun Dorma.
Please look it up.
This isn't even as good as the audition of Paul, and the sound has been lowered for Paul.
Makes me wonder about the moderator.
thornbirds26 3 months ago
cant beat pavarotti's
ShitbagsGroup 4 months ago
thornbirds. Yes. Jeon Ju Sth. Korea Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma. The Paul Potts critics would not come on this site if that was here.
PAUL POTTS IN JEON JU STH. KOREA SINGS NESSUN DORMA
PAUL POTTS IN JEON JU STH.KOREA SINGS NESSUN DORMA
PAUL POTTS IN JEON JU STH KOREA SINGS NESSUN DORMA
PAUL POTTS IN JEON JU STH KOREA SINGS NESSUN DORMA
Come on please No.12oo2 and others who like to take away from the lovely voice of Paul Potts, PLEASE look in to that video, you might get a big shock
lingam88 4 months ago
rofl even with worse audio quality potts doesn´t stand a chance vs big p. Its just an embaressment needing to even compare the two. Btw, if potts keeps singing like this he won´t have a voice left in 3-4 years. He doesn´t breathe right.
If he´d have better technique he may be a decent singer though, but he needs training
Noi2002 4 months ago
@Noi2002 Well its 4 yrs from here and his voice has got much better, like other pros. I guess.
Paul is still doing the world tours, about 350 I heard some one say. This must be a world record, talking about Royal Albert Hall and such places not the mission. Pauls technique has now be trained, I expect as was all the others. Don't know if you had the luxury of a conservatory like most others, Paul didn't, but has learnt good technique now, and his range goes on for ever and ever and ever.
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@lingam88 If you look at current stuff - yes, he´s a lot better than he was - but still overrated. Still nothing compared to a big p, domingo, caruso or whoever. Its nice for an amateur like him to get a chance, the depressing thing is just the tons of thousands of singers who DID study music, have got brilliant voices (way better than mr potts), and still live in poverty and never have the luck potts did. The problem is the lack of promotion on real arts, instead of just shows like BGT...
Noi2002 4 months ago
@Noi2002 Thank God for shows like BGT so such as Paul Potts can be discovered, because their are very talented people out there who don't have the chance as I suspect you have to go to Music Conservatory, you know it takes a lot of money to do so, and when Paul was of school age he would have had to have a lot of encouragement from home to do so. As regards Nessun Dorma and the classical in concert he sang 2 yrs ago with the best. We are not talking doing operas, that is a lifetime commitment.
lingam88 4 months ago
@lingam88 so you think its okay that tons of singers have no success although they commit their life to music & are really good, compared to a few lucky people who get attention for a few years before they are forgotten forever, whithout any hard work (after they made their million)? Yes, I go to a conservatory, and I pay for it myself - I work WHILE I study. Its difficult but its possible. If potts didn´t do that then I guess he didn´t get through the ability test. So much for living for music!
Noi2002 4 months ago
@Noi2002 Paul didn't start singing amatuer until about 10yrs ago, I don't know what you mean by he didn't go to a conservatory because he failed the ability test, he sings better than most that have been there, and because of big improvement year by year he will have trained himself up. There are many on BGT from Royal College of Music . How many trained opera singers better than Bryn Terfel and others wait in wings for them to retire so to have a go. If opera was more popular fewer out of work.
lingam88 4 months ago
@lingam88 no thats wrong, look it up on wikipedia: he started singing when he was a kid, sang in a choir, and sang for himself when he was depressed (apparently he was bullied). He just never had any interest to go pro - until he failed at doing what he actually studied - philosophy. Instead he was forced to - not only sell - but actually be a manager of a mobile phone store. He performed in an amateur opera 1999 - 2003. He is all but inexperienced. Just the joke that is bgt made him famous.
Noi2002 4 months ago
@Noi2002 sorry for the double post- but there is more. He didn´t fail because he lacked the ability, he didn´t even TRY because he lacked the interest AND the ability. He may be a decent amateur, but by no means whatsoever is he great. Yes he´s better than most who have been there, but hardly any better than any who actually passed. And - just so you know - opera (or classic rather) is the "mainstream" of 11% of the population. Hiphop 14, Rock 20%. The rest is mainstream. Its not too unpopular.
Noi2002 4 months ago
@Noi2002 Isn't it silly to compare a dramatic tenor with a lyric tenor? You are on several of Paul's videos trashing him. Jealousy is bad for your heart. Jose Carreras has invited Paul to sing, twice. Pavarotti asked Paul for an encore when Paul sang for him in a Master Class, the only one Pav asked to sing again. You are greatly distorting Paul's life, making Huge assumptions on his motivations for doing things the way he did. Why don't you go on his channel and ask him directly?
2Cats100 4 months ago
@Noi2002 "Paul Robert Potts was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Humanities Second Class Honours Division Two on 29th June 1993." Marjon College.(from a link on the wiki) He studied more than Philosophy. I just read the wiki article and you have greatly distorted it. Why? You twist everything into your own distorted jealous rant. Paul did not sing opera as a child...geez. He started listening to it at age 16. Stop distorting that facts! Your "analysis" says more about you than it does Paul.
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@2Cats100 got any examples to back that statement up? - he started singing right at the start. Not opera til he was 16, but that makes no difference. I never said opera as a child. You twist everything into your own distorted rant. Jeez. Would quote but youtube doesn´t allow enough letters. Read it again, he did amateur opera years before bgt, and started singing as a child. Sorry to destroy your illusion. I´m not jeaulous, I think its unfair on good singers in general, potts isn´t that good!
Noi2002 4 months ago
Correction. At this time in 1940, Pavarotti was 4 yrs old. Pavarotti at his best world cup. No tenor has had the media attention because of that.
meeragrantham 4 months ago
Don't comment these days on Pauls videos, but still glance through, butI have to correct someone here. In 1940 Pavarotti was 5 yrs old. I heard Pavarotti sing live about 20yrs ago, I heard Paul Potts sing 4th Nov. 2009 at Royal Albert Hall. As regards Nessun Dorma aria both had equally powerful voices, I did prefer Paul, but if I was going to the opera I would want to hear Pavarotti, the opera is what he trained for. It is obvious the sound has been lowered on Pauls video, it does favour Pav.
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walkonwildside 4 months ago
@scarletrosemarie Yes I have noticed the same trolls over and over. I also notice that they do not go to Paul's channel and spout off there, where he'll answer them. Always easier to spout off behind someone's back, I guess.
They want us to believe that they speak for the entire opera world. They don't! Jose Carreras has publicly said that Paul has a beautiful voice. Gosh, he knows nothing about operatic voices. Some of the trolls here should go tell him he's wrong. LOL
2Cats100 5 months ago
I am sure that Paul Potts would recognise that he cannot even remotely compete with top operatic stars. His voice is not good enough. He does not have that ability. But he is popular and people want him to succeed and he is an entertainer.
The99Gambo 5 months ago
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walkonwildside 5 months ago
@walkonwildside
I have no problem with Paul. I simply disagree with you when you say he has a great voice, 'as good as top operatic stars'.
The99Gambo 5 months ago
@The99Gambo You are sure? Did you ask him, have a direct quote from him? Now you are a mind reader too?It's only opera trolls like you who say he Has to compete. Why are you on so many videos on the same day, spouting off? You DO have a problem with Paul Potts, get over it!!
2Cats100 5 months ago
@scarletrosemarie I give up.
MrPasqualinho 5 months ago
PAUL POTTS SINGS NESSUN DORMA IN JEON JU S.KOREA NESSUN DORMA.
Do not see the critics on there, they won't want to admit that Paul Potts can sing this aria up there with the top trained opera singers.
thornbirds26 6 months ago 6
@thornbirds26 I'd like to see someone take that Jeon Ju ND and put it with a Pavarotti ND, That would be a real comparison. Any takers, critics?? lol Thought not.
2Cats100 5 months ago 7
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neal e boyd had a more powerful and passionate voice than paul potts - i am not hating on paul potts because i enjoyed his performances, but i putting things into perspective
asrarulhaq2002 6 months ago
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potts sounds like a little mouse compared to pavarotti who roars like a lion
asrarulhaq2002 6 months ago
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how can you compare pavarotti with this paul potts !!! its an insult to pavarotti!!!!!
migueljaral 6 months ago
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ilike comparing Celine Dion with Barbara Streisand - both gifted but no one can touch Pavarotti anymore than they can touch Streisand
TheGambler666 6 months ago
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hahahah I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO CAN COMPARE THIS TWO VOICES.. LISTEN PAVAROTTI, THEN GO TO PAUL.. HAHAHAHAH.. It's incomparable.. Pavarotti's frequency nobody can reach, and this is reality.. Any comparation is apsurdly..
markopavlovic91 7 months ago
pavarotti
instrument : 10/10 interpretation 10/10 soul: 10/10
Potts
instrument : 8/10 interpretation 9/10 soul 10/10
HeatherKearns1 9 months ago
Pots<God<Pavarotti
Hlow1 9 months ago
great !
SteveCTZ 9 months ago
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SO SO SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare you link that Potts to Pavarotti! Im so sorry, but there NO comparison from Paul Potts tp Pavarotti and these two should never be mentioned in the same breath! Paul is getting better and has his style, but Never will he Ever be another pavarotti! Good luck Paul!
thorfin74 9 months ago
@thorfin74 Finally somebody says the truth that everyone knows but don't want admit...
MrPasqualinho 6 months ago
@MrPasqualinho The sound on Pauls vid has been turned down, this is not how Paul Potts sounds on concert tour. This is not even as good as the audition. I don't think the uploader is a Paul Potts fan.
Type in Paul Potts in Jeon S. Korea (Nessun Dorma) you will have a shock at how brilliant Pauls voice is. The audition was stunning, moved on though since then, and you won't want to admit as to how Pauls Potts voice is amazing. I do not see how it fades in to comparison now as regards Nessun Dorm
thornbirds26 6 months ago 2
@thornbirds26 He is good, but not good enough to compare with Pavarotti, stop this comparisons please..
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meeragrantham 10 months ago
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This is hopefully a joke. Potts has no squillo--the tenor cry. Pavarotti's voice is so powerful and effortless while Potts strains in the upper register (also a bit flat in pitch). Please tell me this is a satire.
djschlom 10 months ago
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Is this a joke? Il Maestro Luciano Pavarotti versus Potts? You've got to be joking.
robtul12 10 months ago
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It's disgraceful to put these two in the same video.. Pott's has a thin, weedy, throaty and downright mediocre voice.
He's not a real singer, just another simon cowell creation..
surfdude104 11 months ago
Pavarotti is the Master. Nobody is greater then him.
But Paul is good as well.............
Bistro73 1 year ago
@Bistro73 ,
Pavarotti was the IDOL of Paul Potts!!
cesaraugustothanos 10 months ago
i wonder who wins?
qwertyoop 1 year ago
Nobody compares Pavarotti. Pots is just a weak copy.
RomeoMaestro 1 year ago
Potts has a decent, but thin voice. He's good, but not great. If you want to hear great, listen to everything on YouTube done by Bjorling, Caruso, Corelli, Wunderlich, and Gigli, to name a few great tenors
wiseroldfart 1 year ago
Ein Würdiges Duett , mir stehn die Haare hoch ^^
wernerf1991 1 year ago
zackgreer you are wright , when I was in audition on violin in school , stupid professors started bitchin' coz my students better then yours , but I knew I was the best , but I still dont underfuckingstand why everyone is so fucking mean in this world , I hate this shit , and because of this a LOT of people with talent have quited their job .
TaviYamato 1 year ago 7
Pavarotti born 12th October. paul Potts born 13th October.
2 super Librans
bowespark3714 1 year ago 2
Pavarotti
atreiuspirit 1 year ago
are you guys fucking serious? you are comparing the "Maestro", the best tenor singer in 20th century, with an Amercian idol?
Do not compare artists? No, I would never compare Pavarotti with Pottis because that is certainly a big disgrace for Pavarotti's fame.
kile9761 1 year ago
@kile9761: Listen to Caruso's 1904 "E lucevan le stelle" and his 1904 "Una furtiva lagrima." Listen to Bjorling's versions of these arias, especially Bjorling's more emotional 1959 live performance of "E lucevan le stelle." Also watch Corelli's performance of "E lucevan le stelle."
Pav was perhaps the greatest since Bjorling., but Bjorling and Caruso were a cut above and considered the two top tenors of the 20th century for different reasons. You'll discover those reasons upon listening.
wiseroldfart 1 year ago
For someone like me who doesn't listen to opera, I prefer Paul's voice. Pavarotti and other professional opera singers sing in too hard and sharp a voice which just doesn't sound soothing. Sounds too loud.
addicted2050 1 year ago
@addicted2050 That's because professional opera singers have to project over an orchestra of up to 100 in an a theater of up to 4000 with NO amplification. Something Potts can't do.
goldenthroat86 1 year ago
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@addicted2050 your comment is a disgrace - you are comparing a roaring lion to a squeaking mouse, and you prefer the mouse.
asrarulhaq2002 6 months ago
@asrarulhaq2002 Dude, I know Pavarotti is greater, but it's simple. I don't like these opera singers singing in that sharp voice as it's not soothing to the ears, that's why I prefer Potts more.
addicted2050 5 months ago
@addicted2050 No. Paul holds his own now.
Posted down below as quoted.
Paul Potts Jeon Ju S. Korea Nessun Dorma
If they sang side by side fairer comparison. As others have noticed the video sound of Pauls has been lowered, compare this with his audition. I ask why the moderator did not choose the audition, why Pavarotti has been given the best parts.
walkonwildside 5 months ago
@addicted2050 The audio quality is significantly better on Potts. Give Pavarotti a fair try! /watch?v=RdTBml4oOZ8
STOPTHEEU 5 months ago
@STOPTHEEU No. Pavarotti has the best audio, for Pauls singing it has been lowered, listen to the audition. Pavarotti also has been given the best parts.
Unless there singing side by side you can not give a fair comparison, also have you heard Paul sing now?
As quoted by someone below look up that video.
The world, one and half billion at world cup final heard Pavarotti sing this, he had been professional half his life.
auntyflorrieunclesam 5 months ago
@auntyflorrieunclesam Don't talk rubbish. The audio of Pavarotti is from his early days. Audio equipment has improved vastly since then not to mention the deterioration of film, vinyl etc.
Its even in the visual... Do you think audio quality was superior during the days of black and white television?
STOPTHEEU 5 months ago
@STOPTHEEU Don't you talk rubbish and be so rude to folks either, this isn't olden days, Pavarotti had the best acoustics and several mikes when in the best concert halls, not like BGT auditions in a local place. Also like auntyflo I too think the sound has been lowered. How can you talk about fair trieswhen Paul who popped by from day job to perform here and Pavarotti a professional opera singer one of best on world stage. Pavarottis best on y.tube at this era, Bjorlings decades older, amazing
walkonwildside 4 months ago
@walkonwildside How on earth can you possibly think that Pavarotti had better audios in the late 1930 and early 1940s? The best they had then was the magnetaphone. Today we have high definition audio....
Don't be rude? BE REASONABLE!!! you can tell from the video itself!
STOPTHEEU 4 months ago
Pavarotti never made me cry. Paul did, though. Just saying...
classysasafrassy 1 year ago
@Godzie, you're more than entitled to think so, both are brilliant singers. I happen to prefer Pavarotti, you prefer Potts. It's like apples and oranges, all depends on your preference. :) .
harukalioncourt 1 year ago
@lingam 88, yes, you are absolutely correct. Paul would benefit SO much more having a professional tutor, but probably Pavarotti was his hero and attending that 1 hr masterclass was probably a dream come true; especially since Pavarotti died probably not too much after. Now that Potts is famous he has the money for the best tutors available, and he can still put on his resume that he was trained by the master himself. I'm sure having Pavarotti's name on a document would get one quite far!
harukalioncourt 1 year ago
@harukalioncourt It doesn't work that way. Having a master class with someone does not allow you to say that you studied with that person. Singers almost never pay for a master class. You are invited to sing. If you have to pay to be in a master class, its a pretty bad sign.
goldenthroat86 1 year ago
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@harukalioncourt if you don't have the gift- hundreds of masterclass-hours won't help you and at least any document. Within a row of living tenors Paul alway will be (honourable)average . I think, people who pay to see him want also to see the "underdog who made it" i.e. the confimation of their own secret dreams and the objective quality of his performance may be secondary.......
adamsontwo 1 year ago
The difference? Pavarotti sang the ENTIRE role of Calaf from Puccini's 3 hour long opera Turandot. No amplification. Orchestra of 75 pieces. Potts sings a 3 minute excerpt from Turandot over an orchestra of 25 with a mic.
goldenthroat86 1 year ago
@goldenthroat86 ...and it's ALL.
titopuenteee 9 months ago
Paul Potts is AMAZING... but Pavarotti's voice was stronger, with way more depth! No one can ever beat the master... before Paul was famous he saved a ton of money to attend a Pavarotti opera masterclass.
harukalioncourt 1 year ago
@harukalioncourt Yes, Paul is amazing, much better than here, this as I said is just one sided, the sound is lower and Pavarotti has got the best parts. but seeing him on his live tour last year I would like to see that recorded and posted here. I am amazed that Paul has spent a ton of money on one hour masterclass with Paul, thats how long he was with him, it would have been wiser to spend a ton of money on a good opera tutor as Pavarotti did, because Pav. is not a pro. teacher.
lingam88 1 year ago
@harukalioncourt I'm sorry but Pott's voice puts Povarotti's to shame. I never even cared for opera until I heard Potts on Britain's got talent. (Gave me goosebumps) :)
Godzie1 1 year ago
love your video man
JulioAlberto00 1 year ago
Bravo Paul! You have brought to life a brilliant voice and have done Pavarotti proud. You also made me fall in love again with this beautiful music. Love expatriot UK and Wales
TJAMMIN1959 1 year ago
Very good, man. thanks for the video
BinaryC0d3 1 year ago
jajajaja no se puede comparar al mejor tenor de todos (Pavarotti) con otro tenor que solamente es bueno (paul), en el vincero final se nota que paul no alcanza ni a la mitad a pavarotti en agudos.
walalisioO 1 year ago
Every song that Pavarotti sang, sounds so wide and so powerful. maybe it's because he had best voice and the body that made it even better..
monkhbat 1 year ago
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Paul Potts will NEVER be an Italian Tenor...and never be anywhere near the ability of Pavarotti....he has no Sqillo....it's insulting to Pavarotti's name and all of the other "real" operatic tenors to put Pott's into the same discussion.
spinto13 1 year ago
Type in Paul Potts singt La PrimaVolta fur Flashmob in Oberhausen. Look at the faces of the young men after he has done singing.
weepingearthroarings 1 year ago 3
Paul has a much more powerful voice than Bocelli, seen Paul live but not Bocelli. Paul has a wonderful gift, but he lacks a proper music education, but he has improvedast with last few years, and this video needs updating. Even Pavarotti waited many years to sing this to world audience, even those who think Pavarotti the one and only need to know that he would have sounded not the same to start with. Both Paul Potts and Pavarotti are enjoyed with this aria, and I don't think Puccini would object
lingam88 1 year ago
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@lingam88 I think Puccini wouldn't be amused that a stupid popsinger sings his beautiful opera. Turandot is art not a mobile phone commercial!
TheDarthsala 1 year ago
what you see in paul is more of a modern age opera. Pavarotti is someone who is a legend. the full on classical and opera show. paul is amazing too, but he has a "newer style" of singing opera. sorta like andrea bocelli
andreyka64 1 year ago
magnifique...
maria095 1 year ago
Nessun Dorma is made for Pavarotti - and vice versa. I haven't found a more impressing interpretation than his yet... This comparison is a very nice idea. Of course it can't be taken too seriously... Unfortunately the sound quality isn't satisfying.
schokolade975 1 year ago
@schokolade975 Try Corelli's version... Its probably my favorite (nothing against Pavarotti).
Vivaldicellist 1 year ago
@schokolade975 Nessun Dorma made for Pavarotti? Nessun Dorma is a completely different genre than than Pavarotti. In fact he is fully out of repertory when he sings it. Try the Corelli, Del Monaco or Björling versions they are in an other galaxy than Pavarotti. Of course Pav is great too but he should have stayed in his repertory.
TheDarthsala 1 year ago
to be honest i like paul potts voice better
calo516 1 year ago
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@calo516 you must be tone deaf or be retarded or both
asrarulhaq2002 6 months ago
@asrarulhaq2002 i think the same of you.. but is just my opinion vs yours so no one wins XD
calo516 6 months ago
No. this is Puccin that has a claim to this, not Pavarotti. Also Paul Potts in concert live á phenomenal. Pavarotti at his peak here, Paul 2 years forward would be a fair comparison, and even at the start Paul sang this much better than portrayed here. I noticed on Pavarotti site, anyone who said Paul Potts they liked better than Pavarotti got the thumbs down, why different. Just to let you know, I did not thumbs down Darthsala. even though he is a regular ctritic of Paul.
thornbirds26 1 year ago
I must say
Pavorotti Fans getting thums down just for stating the obvious?
Funny
WhitneyElizabethH 1 year ago
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This is so awful.A lyric tenor and a popstar singing an Aria made for a dramatic tenor.At least Pavarotti was ok in this kind of things because of his technique even if he should have stayed in his repertory. But Potts is really an insult to Opera.
TheDarthsala 1 year ago
Well done Paul, and a wonderful voice, it is a bit unfair to compare you with Luciano, well recognized for being the Master of the high Cs. Even greats like Placido Domingo who I think is the best of all the Opera singers of the modern era, agree that Nessun Dorma was claimed by Pavarotti as his own.
kanmantoo117 1 year ago
You cannot compare Pavarotti with Paul Potts. Pavarotti was a rare gifted voice, we see one in a century.
coshigould 1 year ago
Not here because the video is very one side, not even the audition which is better was chosen, also the sound seems lower, Pavarotti better acoustics, so I am suspicious. It would have been fairer to put Paul here with a performance last yr on UK concert tour, amazing voice. Pauls Nessun Dorma I would choose. Pauls raw talent is something. what ever one sings, a good voice is a good voice even without a good music education, but Paul has as they say, lump of coal become a diamond.
lingam88 1 year ago
Potts better than pavarotti ,,
Potts make me Love Opera soo much ,,
SAWQTR 1 year ago
nel a pavarotti nadie le gana
rovaor93 1 year ago
qe Loooco xD
skateololo 1 year ago
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just to be clear: paul potts has terrible pitch and should not even be considered a singer. he is tight, which is clear from the way his head shakes on those high notes. pavarotti is king and it is a shame that paul potts is singing with him even virtually.
jimwaters207yt 1 year ago
Wonderful!
Hans021220 1 year ago
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Haahaha at the end you couldn't even hear Paul Potts voice. Pavarotti over powered him like no ones business! lol.
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monsoonseasonaugust 1 year ago
You can hear the extra power from Pavarotti and i think his final note is longer.
xxfm12xx 1 year ago
This video is very one sided, the Pavarotti one seems louder, he has the best parts. The audition is better than this. It would be fairer to put Paul sining this now, as I heard him in concert 2009, he was outstanding. Pavarotti was a seasoned years trained opera singer when his Nessun Dorma was recorded. Paul sang without a mike in a large cathedral recently which does not have amplification like Convent Garden, and his voice was heard loud and clear, Paul is now up there with yrs trained.
lingam88 1 year ago
Paul Potts is great for an amateur, but compared to the great tenors who have sung this aria in the past he doesn't stack up. I would call him a professional singer. But in order to be a professional opera singer you must perform onstage in a full opera with a professional company! If he hasn't done this then please don't label him an opera singer just because he sang an aria from Turandot. I commend Potts for bringing attention to opera.
generalboy30 1 year ago
Pavarotti > Potts
burslemnative 1 year ago
Both Pavarotti and Potts are singing in Italian, but the subtitles in the Pavorotti video are not Italian, they are most probably a Spanish translation.
saintpine 1 year ago
Pavorotis voice is so much richer, but all the best to Paul
trauma6 1 year ago
@trauma6 Different opera singers have different voices. Their ability to achieve depth, hold as note, as well as hitting the required notes in a song are what is to be judged.
cadrolls1 1 year ago
@cadrolls1 Pavarotti was an opera singer. Potts is not an opera singer, he is classical crossover or popera singer. Opera singer is by definition someone who sings roles in live operas in professional (not amateur) opera theaters. There are no microphones in opera, operas are long and lead singers sing most of the time, always perfect, without voice waivering even once, with great diction and high level of artistry. Listen to some tenors who actually sing in opera today.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess I like the sound of Potts' voice non the less. You wrote that Potts is a "crossover" also. I was interested in purchasing a crossover vehicle once. If I had known it could sing, I would have bought it.....LOLOLOLOL.
In any case, I think they are both very good singers and I enjoy them both.
cadrolls1 1 year ago 8
@cadrolls1 "crossover" comes from crossing from one genre to another. Pavarotti is one of the best opera singers of all times - he performed leading roles in top operas theaters for decades. Then at the end of his career, he crossed over to pop and started giving concerts in the arenas that included opera arias but also popular songs. But now "crossover" (also "popera") refers to pop singers who include a couple of opera arias in pop concerts, but who couldn't sing in opera.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess Thank you for explaining that to me. I am not up on my opera terms. I do have Pavarotti on disc though. I became interested again when I heard Potts and that new girl, Jackie Evancho. Wow! What a voice on her...................for 10 year's old yet!
Well, thank you for taking the time out to clear it up for me. It was appreciated.
cadrolls1 1 year ago 2
@cadrolls1 Yes, what a voice on little Jackie Evancho. just looked her up. Hope it continues. I think she sounds better than few famous adults singing this. Sounds a little like young Edith Piaff. A star has been born. Will keep watching her progress.
monsoonseasonaugust 1 year ago
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This video is truly awful! Fuck me. No disrespect to Pol Pot or whoever the mass killer (of music) is, but he's nowhere near Pavarotti or any respected tenor and this video really doesn't work regardless of that fact.
MattTheOak 1 year ago
well done son, well done. very enjoyable :)
Dragonspartymac 1 year ago
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well ... if, the experiments with gas! paul potts the child comes to winning a contest is good, but that A compared to Pavarotti! it seems an exaggeration, it has no bell, power output, reverb of the voice, tone, quality, is that pavarotti ... gas medium undies all tenors today! I personally, I like Sunday theatricality but power ... pavarotti.
gokku101 1 year ago
potts sounded better when his teeth were all fucked up
1986mvp 1 year ago
For the record I listened to a more recent televised recording of Pavarotti singing this song where i can here a better representation of the entirety of his voice and I admit I do prefer that to Pots.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
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It is very unfair jewelmarkess has been spammed because he is totally right.Potts is nowhere near the league of ANY professional tenors singing in opera/choral music. This is seriously not a personal opinion. It wouuld be the opinion of any unbiased singing teacher who worked at a music college.His technique is clearly below what is expected at the current level of singing.
Any of the singers he names eg. Alagna,Heppner,Aragall are in a different category. And to compare to Pavarotti is just...
blueyedboy84 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 Thanks. BTW, it's she not he, but it doesn't matter. Not sure if you've heard Michael Fabiano - another really promising young tenor, 2007 Met Council Auditions winner and one of three tenors featured in "The Audition" documentary. Also medici.tv still has Operalia Grand Final concert for many intersting new singers.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
Pavarotti + Potts = the best sing
Senzow1 1 year ago
@Senzow1 You have absolutely no clue, how many excellent singers you've never heard of are out there. Not just Domingo or Carreras or greats of the past - Corelli, Bjorling, del Monaco, Tucker, Gigli, but today's singers too - Ben Heppner, Piotr Beczala, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan-Diego Florez, Lawrence Brownlee, Joseph Calleja, Frank Lopardo - and many many others. If you find time and check them out, you might actually enjoy it.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
No doubt that Pavarotti the best,but he is professional and Paul is not.
VitoTML 1 year ago
My personal opinion is I prefer the timbre of Paul Pots voice to Pavarotti. It almost sounds like to different songs by who is singing. Pavarotti's voice is so booming that it makes the song sound dark. Paul Potts to me is more uplifting with this song and sings with the soul of a man who's been a bit beat down by life and truly believes every word he's singing.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago 2
@LaughingOTI80 This aria is not sung by a man beat down by life, but by a prince who vows to win the love of a beautiful princess. This is an opera aria and not a pop song, the singer has to act the role, and also express the words he is singing. Also, everyone who performs in public for money is compared to professionals. If I go were to try to play Moonlight sonata on the piano in public, I will be judged by professional standards with no excuses for lack of training.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess I'll start by saying I'm no opera aficionado but I am a musician and when I said Paul Pots sings like a guy who's been "been beat a bit down by life and believes every word he's singing" I wasn't referring to the lyrical content so much as the conviction with which he sings. If anything I think even more so that a tenor would be a little better to sell a love song. Nothing against Pavarotti. Microphones are also a factor.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess Pavarotti has such a huge voice that the microphones of that time can't represent them properly in dynamic without distorting nor by timbre due to lack of spectrum. Besides we've all grown up hearing the name Pavarotti and knowing he was some great musician or vocalist but for most people in the realm of media music they would not have every connected with opera without hearing it first via medium of media music IE Brittan's Got Talent .
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@LaughingOTI80 As a musician you must know that all real opera singers are trained to sing without microphones, opera relies on unamplilfied voices. Many people today aren't used to operatic voices and prefer pop sounding voices which is fine. But this is an opera aria, not a pop song, so there are certain requirements for technical perfection and expression. If only Paul Potts fans were willing to go and check out real opera, many opera fans would be delighted. But this doesn't happen...
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess I'll say it like this. I'm a legit musician as far as professional musicians go. It is my job. I can play jazz. I have played jazz and for a handful of people who get it it's awesome. For 90% of the rest of the population it's pretentious noise. The two reasons I don't play jazz publicly unless it's what I'm getting paid for is for two reasons. Country, Latin, Alt., R&B, Electronic, rock, etc, pay more (gotta pay bills) and two I get a bigger reaction from a bigger crowd.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess My point is that theres different strokes for different folks and just because you have the audible and emotional attachment to the music that you do most people will not here what your hearing at least not right away it takes time like a song you didn't like till you heard it 3 or 4 times then out of nowhere you love it. Thats what opera is gonna be for most people in America. Capitalism makes money and the media in America pushes the sounds that make them the most money.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess I have myself struggled with this fact for quite a while now. Do you know how hard it is to play your ass off in a band and make less money then a DJ? It blows! Therefore I wouldn't blame the individuals for being a product of their environment and I understand the point you make. At the very least Potts has for many people created a path and for that if someone in the mainstream could turn on the masses to what I'm all about, I would be happy.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@LaughingOTI80 You have a point - it's the state of things today, but it doesn't mean we all need to accept it and not to try to educate people. Some would still prefer a pop sounding voice, and it's fine, but many would've loved opera if they just try it. There are videos here of opera singers - not just stars, young singers as well with amazing talent and artistry and nobody cares. Yet every time someone public perceives as "operatic" appears on these shows, public goes wild. It's just sad.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
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@LaughingOTI80 You forget that Pavarotti+the 3 Tenors was a massive global media phenomenon long before Paul Potts who is nowhere near professional standard.Microphones are irrelevant.Pavarotti is a top class of singing.It is silly to even compare Potts. It's like comparing an amateur tennis player with Federer.
blueyedboy84 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 Microphones are relevant! Are you serious do you know what your talking about? This is a recording! Without microphones there would be NO SOUND! If you truly have a trained ear and are listening to a recording then the microphones that where made 50 years ago will not give the same representation of dynamic and timbre, two of the most important things in opera singing, that the microphones of today do! jewelmarkess was making a point.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@LaughingOTI80 You are being a pretentious Pavarotti fan boy by showing ignorance to my statement. I never said anything about one being better then the other. I spoke of personal preference and relevancy in todays market. Opera popularity in the USA has been in a steady decline since the 60's. For this reason you should praise Potts rather that make him a pariah.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@LaughingOTI80 About opera popularity - I think most of the decline happened during the last decade. In the 80s there was more opera on tv; Carmen and La Traviata movies were shown in every movie theater; public at least knew what opera was even if some people didn't like it. Today many Americans don't understand what opera is and confuse it with popera. I think many opera fans view these discussions as a way to let people know about the wealth of talent in opera, but it's not easy.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess I agree. Commercially now days opera is not going to get a fair shake because you have to attach yourself to it to get it and the media today only wants to push the "McDonald's cheeseburger and fries" of music on consumers because pop music hits your ears fast, is easily digested IE short repetitive hooks and is gone as fast as it came leaving you wanting more.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess They are using pop hooks instead of jingles to sell sprite. Nobody even remembers "I like the Sprite in you" that i grew up with now that they got Aubrey Drake Graham on their commercials.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
@LaughingOTI80 I grew up in Russia so I don't remember that, but I heard that nowadays they even invited Kerry Underwood (if I am not mistaken) to sing Schubert Ave Maria on some event, when Renee Fleming would've been a whole lot more appropriate. Some opera theaters are taking the matters in their own hands - Met HD broadcasts, broadcasts to Times Square; recently a few theaters did "flash opera" in markets - not sure how effective this is though.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 Also of course a voice sounds better without a microphone, I never said it didn't. It will color the sound no matter what so for these purposes of this RECORDING Pavarotti does not have as fair of a representation.
LaughingOTI80 1 year ago
Jeeze, are people STILL comparing artists like they are in some kind of race? "my singer is better than you singer" is getting SO old. Don't you SEE? people that do that don't "get" music and should be banned from owning any music.
zackgreer 1 year ago 11
@zackgreer It's not the issue of comparing artists, and you don't "get" opera or classical music if you think so. This aria and the opera it's from has been performed for almost 100 years by some of the best tenors that have ever lived, so the standards of tone, technical perfection, diction and expression are very high. Potts is a talented amateur, maybe a good pop entertainer, but he simply isn't an opera singer and can't sing it at that level.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
Potts is great , but he will never be a Pavarotti.
There can be only one.
lebbing64 1 year ago
@lebbing64 that's bullshit, there is never just a "One" there's always another, and I understand the sentiment I do, but it's unfair to push one man up on a pedestal that high. They're will always be a Jackson Pollock for every Van Gogh, a Hawkins for every Einstein, Different yes, lesser no.
AMVslowking 1 year ago 10
@AMVslowking ...it`s just my opinion....you just can have 200 best tenors....for me it`s just Pavarotti or Bruce Sledge.
Just listen and compare.
Nothing wrong with Potts though.
Just an opinion....period.
lebbing64 1 year ago
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@AMVslowking Yes there is "another", there are actually many great tenors, far better than Potts. Listen to Corelli, Bjorling, del Monaco for greats of the past; listen to Domingo or Carreras or Araiza or Aragall for Pavarotti's contemporaries, but listen also to today's tenors - Piotr Beczala, Jonas Kaufmann, Roberto Alagna, Marcelo Alvarez, Joseph Calleja, Ben Heppner, many many others. You just don't know how many tenors there are who are better than Potts.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@jewelmarkess Good comment.
blueyedboy84 1 year ago
@AMVslowking How can you compare Pollock to van Gogh? I have graffiti on my fence that is as "good" as anything Pollock produced.
Einstein's only contribution to science was the term "special relativity." Everything else was plagiarised from Lorenz and Poincare, amongst others.
bugisami 1 year ago
nada que ver
arroyodoma 1 year ago
beautifull
mickey00769 1 year ago
un genio
solcitogaby 1 year ago
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paul potts no tiene voz para esta aria tan dificil, y como comparar a un tenor verdadero que cambio al mundo de la opera en mas de 30 años con alguien que tiene meses de 2 años de conocido?, paul potts no llega esas notas ni de relajo, no es tenor ni buen cantante. Pura publicidad y como que lo estan vendiendo los de BGT.
mauriciomille 1 year ago
please please dont not ever ever, conpar ne 1 to the great pavarotti..... i sing very well , but would never go up against him
crplll 1 year ago
se nota de lejos que pavarotti tiene mayor registro bajo ,mas vibrato y jerarquia que potts
chuekoable 1 year ago
son muy estrictos con potts porque en este video no solo muestran que pavarotties un tenor con registro mucho mas bajo que el ingles sino un lirico con mas vibrato y jerarquia
chuekoable 1 year ago
I was the kind of guy who always made fun of Opera and would never be caught dead listening to it----------that is until Mr. Potts came along. Sometimes it takes someone of lesser fame to inspire people as was the case with me.
There will never be another Parvarotti but it was Paul Potts who finally made me a fan and respect the awesome talents of these trully gifted singers.
WheelSlip8 1 year ago 57
@WheelSlip8 This is great, and if this is indeed the case, I'd be grateful to Potts for introducing wider audience to opera. One question: since you became a fan, did you actually go to opera or watched a Met HD broadcast or Great Performances from the Met on public tv (PBS - next one next week)? Or watched scenes from live operas here, not just an aria or two from crossover concerts? This is an honest question, I am sincerely interested.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
Same here! Paul Potts FTW!
thesunofodin 1 year ago
@WheelSlip8 I agree 100%
xxfm12xx 1 year ago
@timetolovetimetodie If only these tv shows made opera popular! But all they do is confuse you about what opera is and what it takes to sing in opera. You don't even understand the difference between singing an aria with a mike and singing in full opera and you REFUSE to learn. How many operas have you been to after you've seen these tv shows? How many opera singers (as in singers who actually sing IN opera theaters) have you listened to? How many full operas?
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
@timetolovetimetodie "Popstar to operstar" was tv entertainment with only one legitimate opera singer - Rolando Villazon and judges with no credibility in opera; contestants sang SIMPLIFIED and TRANSPOSED arias with MICROPHONE. it had nothing to do with opera. O2 may have "bigger audience" but it's not a legitimate opera theater. It'll be amplified while real operas are NOT. Many people can sing and aria with MICROPHONE.Very few can sing a FULL OPERA in an UNAMPLIFIED opera theater.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago