Placido Domingo - Turandot - Nessun Dorma

Placido Domingo sings nessun dorma from Puccini's Turandot. A different version to the one posted several times already.

La Scala, 1983. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.

For a free English translation, please see the following:

operainenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/nessun-dorma-turandot.html

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• Domingo
• Plácido
• Turandot
• Puccini
• nessun
• dorma
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• tenor
• aria

[David45NV1]

sounds stressed and strangled

[David45NV1]

@vivadomingo1 unfortunately no, not at all! far far far away from beeing great singing!. Just listen to Corelli, Aragall and Pavarotti and you will notice how this aria sounds like when sung by tenors singing with an open throat. Domingo sings with an open mouth but not with an open throat.

[gerry4339]

absolutely awful live just like his non piangere lui god knows how he is mentioned with the greats without a micro phone he is weak an awfully strained

[David45NV1]

@eghissoni I don’t care about how Domingo sings as long as nobody in a public place like this, say that is great or perfect Opera singing. I love Opera and at the top of the hierarchy is the Composer with his work. Musicians are supposed to express and transmit what the composer wrote. There is a difference between appreciating and consuming Art. Art is to be appreciated rather than to be consumed. Making sombody cry is important but is not all. Paul Potts made lots of people cry too.

[eghissoni]

@David45NV1 Thank you David! It was a great pleasure to discuss with you! I will follow your recomendations to improve my singing. But promise me you will stop to hit Placido. Few singers like him made me cry on his best performances. He knows very well how to touch my soul.

[David45NV1]

@eghissoni wow! I am impressed! congratulations!!!. You have a first class, excellent lyric tenor voice (neither spinto nor dramatic), beautiful timbre and a good technique. However you stil have to work on the tone support and control of the fiatto. Such flaws are noticeable in the "Una furtiva lacrima" which I think it can become one of your best roles. Please don't ever try to imitate Domingo, believe me, your technique is far better. Congratulations to your teacher too!.

[eghissoni]

@David45NV1 Domingo as a lyric tenor?? That was to much for me. Hey, I'm a singer also, on the begining of my carrier could you please evaluate my voice? I would be eternally greatfull if you classified me like a spinto or dramatic but I assume I'm lyric also. Just type my name on youtube: Eduardo Ghissoni. Thanks in advance!

[David45NV1]

@eghissoni the beginning of my comment wasclearly an invitation to listen to Corelli, Pavarotti and Aragall to realize how this aria sounds when sung with open throat instead of with strangled throat. The rest were just deviation attemts from your side trying to justify Domingo.

[eghissoni]

@David45NV1 You missed the point since the begining of your comment saying that Pavarotti and Aragall were better than Placido in Turandot. Regarding Karajan, it was up to him to call Carreras. Chance to Abbado, Solti, Kleiber, Levine and many others who had a incredible oportunity to give to the audience fantastic recordings(audio and video and movies).

[David45NV1]

@eghissoni it is up to you to believe Domingo is a great singer, Millions of people believe Paul Potts is too. Most of them have never attended an Opera in their lifes. In your comment you are missing the point which is the fact Karajan replaced Domingo with Carreras for further recordings such as Aida, Tosca, Carmen, Don Carlo, Requiem. I don't consider Domingo to be a bad singer, (he is just average) and I don't have to make him bad, he takes care of that himself.