Andrea Bocelli Carmen

Andrea Bocelli - Don Jose, Rome 20.06.2008

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Music

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• Classical

[baritonosloman]

he should study the score while singing

[antitenor]

very true, he cannot read a score

[btsg]

hey rustysliver, you are a funny little operaboy. and I am so impressed with your classical voice knowledge that i am going to go stand in line to buy your book or stay up late to watch your infomercial, bc i wanna be like you and love the greatest president and the best tenor ever!

i can hear bocelli tonight too, on PBS for the billionth time, and hear Foster call him, " the greatest voice of forever, genius, Mozart, heir to Caruso, Pavarotti...

come on people....wake up

[arpeggio1358]

@GermanOperaSinger May I quote that "3 goons" line,, as long as I give you credit for it? LOL! That's wonderful! I'd always wondered what they should be called.

[arpeggio1358]

@87redsilver I'm a classically trained singer and I can tell you that Bocelli lacks the voice, volume, technique, breath control and interpretation to be an opera singer. As for holding notes for long periods of time, have you ever heard operatic bass, Samuel Ramey? He's got the best breath control of any singer I've ever heard. He can float very long passages on one breath and not run out of air. He can also sustain one note for a seemingly impossible length of time.

[arpeggio1358]

@87redsilver If Pavarotti really liked Bocelli's voice so much, why didn't he ever help Bocelli get a role in an actual opera and why didn't he have Bocelli sing in one of his Pavarotti Plus concerts which, unlike the Pavarotti and Friends concerts, only featured classical and opera performers?

[87redsilver]

@serenaluce Serena , l'unica persona che puo' cantare tutt'e due i generi decentemente per me e' Andrea . Opera tenors can't sound pop enough and pop singers REALLY don't have technique . I can't hear his presumed lack of technique , but I will defer to you only IF you are a professional opera singer . His breath control though is better than every other tenor I ever heard . I haven't heard anybody in the history of singing who can hold notes that long and I have studied voice ,too .

[87redsilver]

@GermanOperaSinger See , i like his sound better than Lanza's and sorry , even Caruso ((oh , you're gonna kill me now!) and truth is Pavarotti and Corelli SINCERELY liked it too . Whether he doesn't have enough tecnique for "real" opera , I can't quite hear it , but who knows the volume thing may be true , although I can't hear it in the videos , and it DOES NOT sound like he's miked ....

[GermanOperaSinger]

You'd be like Lanza and throw away all his potential and become a sellout. At least Lanza had a great voice. No serious opera singer becomes a sellout because they remain true to their art. Your logic makes no sense. Caruso did sing popular music on occasion but he was NEVER a sellout - he remained the principle tenor at the Met until his death. I never did mind Pav or Carreras (always hated Domingo) when they actually sang primarily OPERA and only did popular music on occasion and for fun.

[serenaluce]

@87redsilver Yes, some opera singers can successfully perform pop songs too if they don't mix genres and do it in the pop style! If they try to sing light music in the serious classical manner like opera it sounds absurd. But if a POP SINGER without proper CLASSICAL TRAINING, proper TECHNIQUE to sing classical stuff, without proper BREATH CONTROL ventures to sing OPERA he should be judged by OPERA STANDARDS as arpeggio says! What here is presented as a REAL OPERA SINGER is just a FAKE, FRAUD!

[87redsilver]

Well , if he's not a REAL opera singer , then he's not a sellout ...ha-ha . What what you do if in the middle of your opera studies you get a deal to sing some pop tunes that will make you FAMOUS (forget rich ) ? The three "goons" were all real critically acclaimed operatic tenors and did it ...even Caruso sang pop songs . I did hear some "real'"tenors , live in theaters , with no mike . Which ones would you suggest for me to hear -TODAY ?

[arpeggio1358]

@serenaluce Well said, serenaluce.