Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma - Live 1977

Luciano Pavarotti sings Nessun Dorma from act III of Puccini's Turandot. This is among the very few he sang on the opera stage. During this production, Pavarotti was making his debut performance of Calaf and Caballe making her debut peformance of Turandot. A fantastic rendition here. For all of you who say that Pavarotti never sang it in an opera house, you are wrong... He hardly sang it as he complained that it really was not good for his voice... But he did sing it on stage several times.

1977 - Turandot - San Francisco opera orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly

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Music

Tags:

• Nessun
• Dorma
• Pavarotti
• Luciano
• Italian
• tenor
• music
• 1977
• Turandot
• puccini
• calaf
• san
• francisco
• debut

[hansquad]

This is from the opera stage? Weird.. the ending of it is like in a concert or something, as we know, the real nessun from opera will directly continued with melodies of the next scene.. there is no pause at all.

[Mooorhe]

The short passage of music after the tenor completes the aria is removed as well. I'm guessing that Pavarotti knew he wouldn't be able to sing above the orchestra, so he had it changed a bit. It also allows applause for him if they do it that way. I'm pretty sure this is from the opera stage, yes.

[LSlevin1]

PAVAROTTI IL NUMERO 1

[tena2]

Penso come lei. grazie

[atlatahuac]

beyond my poor powers to add or ... with all of his other gifts and talents, his voice's TIMBER, its strengthening with passion and conviction as his character urges his troops on to glory ... Love 'em all, Bjoerling, Corelli, Del Monaco, Carreras, Placido, Mario Lanza ... and then there's Luciano ... thanx Moorhe.

[Liditus138]

Amazing!!!



[Entertainer114]

@AdelioAltomar I don't think the 70s had anything to do with his wardrobe in the picture. I'm pretty sure that was just the costume that he wore for his role during the actual opera. In other words, it's his opera character's costume, not his own outfit he'd wear for recital concerts :) (That would explain why he's not in a tux.)

[eastsunrise]

@Andreone333 Just read the credits above. It is listed as that very performance. And your question was? These SF performances were his first live Calafs and Caballe's debut (live) in the title role. The MET was to bring them both to NY on Opening Night a season or two later.I had a tickets for several of these in NY! Sadly, a strike scuttled these plans and they never sang this opera together at the MET.

[nagone11]

Ridiculous!! Just plain Ridiculous!

[indgiu]

the most beautiful tenor voice ever

[FCBayern221553]

Brilliant version, brilliant tenor!

[mermew]

His voice was at its peak when the Maestro sang this. No tenor in the world could even come close..., not then, nor for many, many years thereafter. Even later in life, Pavarotti remained my favorite. Only when death silenced him did I look around for another to replace Pavarotti's great voice and presence, but alas, no one was there. Now the Maestro sings only unto God. And the angels weep with the joy that once wetted our tears as we listened.

[alghanimreem]

Best version I think !

[Ipausestuff]

i think this is other version of turandot, im not sure lol