Tomotaka Okamoto: Nessun Dorma

[Arythmnmaker1]

Applause! I am very respectable of his talent and dedication to his art form.

However, I appologize for being very critical of any woman sounding voice singing this Male aria. It will never sound correct to me, with out the fat in the voice that is unique to the man's voice.

[sabbath7081]

how could this be?

[melloyellophone]

His pitch is prefect and obviously, the notes are incredibly solid in a way I didn't expect. But I'd really like him to try the role of Oberon instead of singing these roles up an octave. He would be quite good at that.

[cied2p]

Mon Dieu, c'est effarant, on dirait un mix de Bianca Castafiore et Arielle Dombasle ! Pourquoi ne pas se faire un répertoire sur mesure ? ça semblerait plus raisonnable. Et peut-être moins faux ?

[cutie6734]

Um.....a bit awkward;;;;why does his voice sound like this?....

[SrShadowNights]

Okamoto tiene una voz increible....pero no para esta aria, a mi modo de ver estropea la esencia que buscó puccini y no creo que le hubiera gustado tenerlo en esta opera :l

[tyty69tyty69]

joer con el mariquita, que le eche un poko de huevos para ver si sale mejor, que esto es un aria para tenor no para capaos

[JESUCRYSTO]

@tyty69tyty69 TOTALMENTE DE ACUERDO ESTE ARIA PARA MI GUSTO EL REY DE LA INTERPRETACION ES LUCIANO PAVAROTTI FUE LA HOSTIA Y LE DABA UN ENCANTO Y FUERZA ESPECIAL

[BERNARDOANUK]

@tyty69tyty69 jajajaja

[TheTema27]

Come sempre, c'è una sola domanda da porre: PERCHE'? E sono d'accordo su Bocelli. E su Josh Groban, Katherine Jenkins, i pupazzi animati de Il Divo. Cioè su tutto l'operatic pop ( o poop?)

[Maranedy]

wow. Superb. Powerful.

[LavittoriadiLuka]

Woah. He's cool. O.O Woah haha awesome! Quite a fantastic voice!

[lastofdmelocchians]

Sorry, but...this is BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!



[Chateaubriand26]

C'est une blague je présume... lorsque j'ai entendu sa première note j'ai éclaté de rire (je venais d'écouter Björling) !

[fopsx]

Strained... Sounds like he soiled his pants from the effort.

[iltenoredramatico]

what. the ****. this aint some freak show, nor is it repertoire appropriate. thanks. bye.

[doveign]

i got 4 words......what's going on here?

[michaelsong99]

@stravinskij91 That is harsh. Quello era molto duro

[hoodrockho88]

i'll admit i was a little scared, but im very impressed with his vocal abilities...he's awesome

[thegnomeidentity]

if he wants to be a falsettist, fair play to him. its an aesthetic choice. but why not sing music from the literature appropriate for this voice type? there is plenty of it, and beautiful, at that. this just shows poor taste and a desire to cash in.

[Chaosdude7111]

@thegnomeidentity He isn't a falsettist. He, Radu Marian, and Michael Maniaci are a rare breed in that they sing in soprano ranges using their natural chest/modal voice. Okamoto has said his voice is "like a contrabass with violin strings", meaning he is a big guy with huge lungs, but his vocal cords are very thin. Marian and Maniaci are similar cases, from what I understand.

[Chaosdude7111]

@thegnomeidentity If you want to hear a falsettist sing this piece, listen to Greg Pritchard sing it. Be warned, he is Welsh, and his Italian pronunciation is poor, from what I know.

watch?v=MuIX3JYq_Z4

[CEMILIOB]

He's amazing in so far as he's singing in the style of a castrato (spelling?) -- without the benefit of the operation. To stretch their range tenors will often vocalize way high into their head voice, so any tenor will tell you it's very difficult for a man to create the sounds he's hitting full voice. Viva la difference -- or however you say that.

[sawabebe]

Okay, Sarah Brightman singing this aria is...WRONG. Okamoto singing this aria is DOUBLE WRONG. 2 wrongs do not make a right, unfortunately.

[broodas]

Guy ran out from Cirque du soleil.

What a clown...

[Nikolass77xxx]

@stravinskij91  d'accordissimo...ma alla fien che male fanno?

[N1ckGamer]

just lovley

[AedeusLeonora]

He's very expressive! :) 

[graziethanks]

LOVE　THIS!



[3F93]

@stravinskij91 In più, chiamare sopranisti i controtenori che si cimentano nel barocco è impreciso e ancora più impreciso è paragonarli a Okamoto, che non è un controtenore vero e proprio ma un vero e proprio sopranista. Non potrebbe mai cantare musica barocca, sarebbe davvero come ha detto qualcuno nei commenti precedenti come mettere la Freni a cantare Vivaldi, ma con le arie veriste per soprani secondo me se la cava bene. Non capisco tutta questa mania del purismo.

[3F93]

@stravinskij91 Dovremmo tornare al coup de glotte stile Deutekom per la coloratura quando si canta Rossini e il falsettone dei tenori contraltini? Ma su, un po' di elasticità! La musica e i gusti musicali si evolvono, rimanere ancorati saldamente alle tradizioni e agli standard secondo me non è mai buona cosa. I falsettisti sicuramente non reggerebbero il confronto con i castrati e danno un'interpretazione diversa dei ruoli scritti per loro, ma alcuni svolgono comunque un buon lavoro.

[3F93]

@stravinskij91 Perciò dovremmo smettere di mettere in atto Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor e gran parte delle prime donne di Donizetti e Bellini perché sono state musicate per soprani sfogati come la Pasta e la Malibràn, che oggi praticamente non si trovano neanche a pagarle oro? Dovremmo smettere di inscenare il Flauto Magico perché essendosi alzata l'intonazione delle note non ci sono quasi più soprani drammatici d'agilità che arrivino a quei dannati fa sovracuti?

[musicissofly]

LOL at 2:50

[opricnik]

@stravinskij91 ... quando un basso profondo avrà i fa sovracuti :-)

[opricnik]

@stravinskij91 (...) una voce del genere cantare il repertorio barocco? Sarebbe come se la Millo o la Freni cantassero Vivaldi. Se lui canta le arie di Tosca o Rosina non lo fa di sicuro, come molti mi hanno scritto, perché spera di interpretarle in teatro... Chiamalo pure sfoggio di virtuosismo: e che male c'è?

Confrontalo (anche se non ti piacciono) con altri sopranisti e nota la facilità con cui canta e la spontaneità dell'emissione. E poi nota un'altra cosa: lui sorride. :-) Stefano.

[opricnik]

@stravinskij91 Ciao Marco, ho letto e ti rispondo.

Ritengo che Tomotaka sia "mostruoso" nel senso più antico del termine: dalla voce, al modo di presentarsi in pubblico; e anche alla scelta del repertorio. "Nessun dorma" ormai (ahimé) è diventato un po' come una canzonetta, e tutti la cantano, soprani compresi, ed immagino che lui lo abbia fatto per lo stesso motivo.

La sua voce è prodigiosa: dopo il fa-fa# diventa potente, squillante e luminosa come quella di un vero soprano: come potrebbe

[kikerotti]

Io solo puo dire BRAVO!!!!!!

[kikerotti]

Io solo puo dire BRAVO!!!!!!

[teatroliricodimilano]

ridicolo

[anbaqui]

vravo exelente 

[Sandrobulow]

Simply an ugly voice! I can't believe people paid to listen to this.

[opricnik]

@Sandrobulow C'è tanta gente che butta i propri soldi: c'è anche chi paga per ascoltare Bocelli...

[RemzofFrance]

@opricnik Non parro italiano ma sono certo che tu ha ragione!

[Sorrentodellesirene]

@Sandrobulow Voce brutta??? Uno dei pochi sopranisti che ha un ottimo volume vocale e un ottima tecnica. La gente ascolta ben di peggiodi bocelli

[DARKmirror70]

@Sandrobulow UGLY VOICE!!!... idiocy.... he's one of the worlds best countertenors. Idiotic... this person

[superarona]

@Sandrobulow you are American, no one cares about your opinion in opera.

[allthenamesrtook]

@Sandrobulow what is ugly about his voice???? his voice is perfect

[FleursMale]

Excelente voz, buena ejecución, terrible interpretación, no siente la melodía, ni entiende la letra, si fuera mujer sería una diva gorda y fea también con aires de hermosa... Solo escuchen no vean, y no por su físico sino por esa interpretación terrible!

[Cactuar0371]

he's so great!!! can somebody tell me where to download some of his albums?? I am so poor xD(lie, but I don't have enough money to buy)

Que alguien porfavor me diga donde bajar alguno de sus discos n.n

[gordiam]

@Cactuar0371 go to w w w . vidtomp3. com and you can have the audio of this video for free in your pc and also can get in on a cd

[neris322]

espectacular!!

[jatnooo]

he's so gaaay! lol nasty

[Calaf120]

betther than sarah brightman,,,,,bravisimo sensei!!! sei piu belle la sua voce!!!

[MisterPapageno]

@Calaf120 I'm Italian and your Italian sentence sounds Greek to me...

[Calaf120]

@MisterPapageno pero que dice, por que griego? no entendí?...expliqueme y expongame su comentario...

[MisterPapageno]

@MisterPapageno "sei piu belle la sua voce!!!" es "eres mas bonitas su voz".

esto es como suena en espanol! No parece muy correcto :P

[gordiam]

@MisterPapageno i'm italian, he says: nessun dorma, tu pure o principessa, nella tua fredda stanza guardi le stelle che tremano d'amore e di speranza, ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me, il nome mio nessuno mai, sapràà, solo quando la luce splenderà, sulla tua bocca lo dirò fremente, ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio che ti fa mia

[rickchristman60]

orrore

[geekbaritone]

this piece is not for a soprano voice try singing in questa reggia

[Jaikodragon]

He looks like a character out of a Final Fantasy game...

[justdobbs]

@Jaikodragon I'll go with Syndrome, but I get your point

[Jaikodragon]

@justdobbs Syndrome?

[justdobbs]

@Jaikodragon From The Incredibles

[angryjalapeno]

Just because you can sing soprano doesn't mean you should dress like one.

[tomcane8]

it's because you don't understand it. countertenors and male sopranos are quite popular but there are people that think they're weird because they simply dont understand them.

[MisterPapageno]

@tomcane8 Sorry to correct you, but modern male sopranos and countertenors are a total anachronism. They try to replace castrati but they don't even go near to what they were thought to be.

[tomcane8]

@MisterPapageno again, it's your opinion. it's quite simply saying one voice type is better than another. At the end of the day, countertenor/male soprano is a voice type and it's a popular voice type that has worked. Castrati may have the same range but the tones are different. there's no correcting any1, it's opinion. everything i've sed here is factual, yours is just opinion.

[MisterPapageno]

@tomcane8 First of all, I am not talking about personal taste. So if you personally like castrati, it's a matter of yours and I can't say anything; it's your taste! But saying it is correct that male sopranos and countertenors sing castrati (and in this video different repertoire) parts its a total lack of musical culture!

just a question... Do you know any critical study about castrati?

From your answers I would say you don't. I do advice you to read Babier's "The World of the Castrati"

[MisterPapageno]

@MisterPapageno  *So if you personally like countertenors*

[tomcane8]

@MisterPapageno you're getting both defensive and offensive. all i sed was that castrati is a different voice type to countertenor/male soprano. The ranges are similar but the tones are different. You were critisizing the countertenor voice type because you believe that castrati is better. you don't need to get smart or confrontational.

[MisterPapageno]

@tomcane8 I am only defending a historical issue against the mistification that countertenors do and from the public that wants them. Then, taste is totally personal and subjective.

I would be honest: I've never heard an operatic castrato (Moreschi was a church cantore) so my supposition is only based on what ancient witnesses report.

[tomcane8]

@MisterPapageno at the end of the day, they're both just voice types. nowadays, it's about the tone and quality of voice. Some people may prefer the tone of a countertenor to castrati or the other way around. No voice type is better than another, it's opinion. For example, I'd rather listen to a mezzo over a soprano or a baritone over a tenor because I think they have richer voices.

[MisterPapageno]

@tomcane8 they surely are voice type but I truly think there is something you haven't really focused on: that is correctness! Historically modern countertenors are totally incorrect. Than (as I have repeated it 1000 times) if you prefer them to other voices, it's your personal opinion and taste. But if you mind, for me the historical issue is absolutely more correct and relevant than your irrelevant taste

[tomcane8]

@MisterPapageno you're doing it again, you're getting offensive and confrontational and it comes across as arrogant. Wot are u talking about anyway, why are countertenors incorrect? you spent all this time saying how im wrong but you haven't actually explained yourself. im all ears.

[MisterPapageno]

@tomcane8 Well, I am not supposed to explain it given that it is history of music you have to know for the assertion you do. I kindly advice you to read Wikipedia's "Countertenors" which is overall interesting

[GucciBoy37]

Quel sublime interpretation c est troublant de voir et d entendre ce bel homme BRAVO

[adja203]

first time hearing Tomotaka. Incredible.

[sunridermark]

Wow :)

I am a male tenor however I think I have these male soprano high's (but I am not an opera singer). If you have time check out my version of this :)

watch?v=e8Tywg3yy8w

I never learned this or anything.

[Mr19841504]

damn,is good but hi is scary man, brrrr..

[sondano]

the voice is good but he is scary

[Mikesmoreno]

@sondano hahahaha XD...you´re right!!!

[jetta101]

Astoundingly beautiful

[helendonath]

un uomo che canta con tessitura sopranile ma un aria da tenore????

Strana scelta!!!

[SergeyGn]

Very funny :-)

[osiarap]

That 2:46-2:48 was priceless. Very funny.

[catwalk22222]

His eccentric costumes is inspired from Japanese video game Dragon Quest.

[Littledragonlee]

Loving the voice and smile ^^

[Boldenona]

Fantastic, i want more videos of this master... thanks beutiful