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COLGATE4

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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.

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