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WillyT

(72,631 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 01:58 AM Mar 2014

Nessun Dorma... Puccini... Version With Choir... The Best..

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Nessun Dorma... Puccini... Version With Choir... The Best.. (Original Post) WillyT Mar 2014 OP

Nobody did Nessun Dorma better than COLGATE4 Mar 2014 #1

I personally love Aretha Franklin's version. Skidmore Mar 2014 #2

Not to say that other singers can't do a COLGATE4 Mar 2014 #3

I was JUST going to post this. Le Taz Hot Mar 2014 #4

Taking nothing away from the great Pavrotti Danascot Mar 2014 #5

Jussi Bjoerling's is the best version DavidDvorkin Mar 2014 #6

Yes, this is the definitive version... Ron Obvious Mar 2014 #7

Another Pavarotti classic pipi_k Mar 2014 #8

COLGATE4

(14,886 posts)

1. Nobody did Nessun Dorma better than

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:08 AM

Mar 2014

Pavarotti.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)

2. I personally love Aretha Franklin's version.

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:12 AM

Mar 2014

COLGATE4

(14,886 posts)

3. Not to say that other singers can't do a

Reply to Skidmore (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:14 AM

Mar 2014

fine job singing it. But Pavarotti made Nessun Dorma his identifying piece and, at least IMO he performed it as it was intended to be sung in the opera better than his contemporaries.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)

4. I was JUST going to post this.

Reply to Skidmore (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 11:09 AM

Mar 2014

Glad I checked downthread. 'Retha was nothing short of magnificent with that LAST-MINUTE performance.

Danascot

(5,292 posts)

5. Taking nothing away from the great Pavrotti

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 09:55 PM

Mar 2014

I'm kind of partial to Beck's version

DavidDvorkin

(20,683 posts)

6. Jussi Bjoerling's is the best version

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:21 PM

Mar 2014

Which is generally true of Bjoerling's version of anything.

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

7. Yes, this is the definitive version...

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:26 PM

Mar 2014

I'm sorry but it just is....

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)

8. Another Pavarotti classic

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 10:46 PM

Mar 2014

I love...

Although this guy does a pretty good job with that song too...

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