Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme - Barbara Padilla - heartland festival orchestra

Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini. Guest soprano Barbara Padilla appears with the Heartland Festival Orchestra and Artistic Director David Commanday.

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Music

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• heartland
• festival
• orchestra;
• david
• commanday;
• barbara
• padilla;
• chamber
• music;
• soprano;
• singer;
• opera

[sacredlunatic]

people are seriously using the term popera as a legitimate musical category?

that's really depressing

[carrotjuse]

Forget Bocelli.  If she still has the stamina, I'll bet this woman will sing with the best, Bryn Terfel, Ruggero Raimondi or Dmitri Hvorostovsky, on the famous opera stages in the world. With her enormous voice I think she's going to be singing with the big boys.

[teddymoi47]

Outstanding ! !

[Sarex00]

@redsilver87 soooo... everybody who sings without a mice is an opera singer... that's a new one.

[Sarex00]

great voice indeed, but she doesn't quite get the song...

[ryodark]

my god the moment she opened her mouth I got chills.

[cariniukas]

What an amaizing soprano!!!

[jewelmarkess]

@redsilver87 I think in a some sense popera predates Bocelli. If one goes back in time and looks at the old movies of the 30s-50s that feature Deanna Durbin, Jeannette McDonald and Eddy Nelson, Jane Powell, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, etc. you could consider them the first "popera" performers. They were for the most part closer to opera than today's performers and with better vocal technique, but they still had the same combination of pop of the day with opera arias.

[jewelmarkess]

@redsilver87 Bocelli did sing in opera productions in secondary theaters, but a) the reason he got the roles were not his ability but his pop fame b) his performances weren't up to opera standards for these roles. Listen for example to Bocelli's singing the flower song from Carmen in Rome here, then listen to Kaufmann's singing the same aria in Covent Garden. The difference in phrasing, effortlessness, tone, expressiveness is striking. I agree that Bocelli is the king of "popera".

[jewelmarkess]

@Zarggg Look up "operatic pop" on wiki. Also look up "classical crossover". Basically, "popera", "pop opera", "operatic pop" is a sub-genre of pop music comprising pop songs written in quasi-classical style ("con te partiro") and classical melodies - art songs or lighter opera arias - sung in pop style or by pop singers (sometimes classically trained singers) in amplified concerts. Il Divo, Brightman, K. Jenkins, Potts etc. are all popera singers.

[7he7ru7hs]

Ottima presenza scenica accompagnata da una voce potente, con un'estensione di tutto rispetto...ma l'interpretazione è rovinata da in incedere urlato che poco si confà all'opera di Puccini ed in particolare alla Boheme; altri dovrebbero essere i modelli da perseguire (ma non imitare) per quest'aria: Moffo, Tebaldi, Freni.

[Zarggg]

@sacredlunatic WTF is "popera"?