Pavarotti's final performance. So much feeling in it: Luciano Pavoratti recorded this performance about a year before his death. There was so much feeling in his singing that surely...

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

Luciano Pavoratti recorded this performance about a year before his death. There was so much feeling in his singing that surely most people realized it was his last one. I have said over and over that Mario Lanza was the best of the operatic tenors but am not sure he ever outdid this one.

http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=19122

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

So very true, a tremendous loss in his passing...Isn't also ironic that
Andrea Bocelli surfaced just about the same time~~~

I dont know if you know him, but suggest you take a listen at his fantastic voice as well~~~Gives me chills he does~~
A favorite~~

Canto Della Terra - Andrea Bocelli

http://youtu.be/kCrWxKoOhH8

Andrea Bocelli - Con te Partiro

http://youtu.be/E_0i7Arjep4

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

lindajoy wrote:

So very true, a tremendous loss in his passing...Isn't also ironic that
Andrea Bocelli surfaced just about the same time~~~

I dont know if you know him, but suggest you take a listen at his fantastic voice as well~~~Gives me chills he does~~
A favorite~~

Canto Della Terra - Andrea Bocelli

http://youtu.be/kCrWxKoOhH8

Andrea Bocelli - Con te Partiro

http://youtu.be/E_0i7Arjep4

Lets do some friendly comparing. Here is my boy, Mario Lanza, singing "Funiculi Funicula". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJd-SHzqUC4

Here is your boy, Bocelli, same song and language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4SbelgIFk

Here is another of mine, Pavarotti, doing same song, same language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSAZAHiOa8

Notice how easily they all three handle Italian. Could that be because it is their native language?

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

oldroy wrote:

Lets do some friendly comparing. Here is my boy, Mario Lanza, singing "Funiculi Funicula". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJd-SHzqUC4

Here is your boy, Bocelli, same song and language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4SbelgIFk

Here is another of mine, Pavarotti, doing same song, same language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSAZAHiOa8

Notice how easily they all three handle Italian. Could that be because it is their native language?

All spectacular and yes, the Italian language beautiful itself only adds to what comes so naturally to them~~ :thumbup: :thumbup:

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

lindajoy wrote:

All spectacular and yes, the Italian language beautiful itself only adds to what comes so naturally to them~~ :thumbup: :thumbup:

I tried really hard to learn that language when I was living there in the late 50s. I found it hard to learn and just gave up.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

oldroy wrote:

I tried really hard to learn that language when I was living there in the late 50s. I found it hard to learn and just gave up.

I love listening to it and French..Both sooooooo romantic....So beautiful to hear~~ :thumbup: :thumbup:

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

lindajoy wrote:

I love listening to it and French..Both sooooooo romantic....So beautiful to hear~~ :thumbup: :thumbup:

Here is a song that I could listen to all day any day. I will get it in Portuguese in its most beautiful sound from the movie Black Orpheus, one of my all time favorite movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZCpLplIx1I

I just can't shut off the original version of this one once it starts playing. It is one of the most beautiful songs I know of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVkDfnGobmI

Here is Astrud Gilberto and it sounds like she did the original. What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgo9av539gU

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

oldroy wrote:

Here is a song that I could listen to all day any day. I will get it in Portuguese in its most beautiful sound from the movie Black Orpheus, one of my all time favorite movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZCpLplIx1I

I just can't shut off the original version of this one once it starts playing. It is one of the most beautiful songs I know of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVkDfnGobmI

My gosh roy, how beautiful this truly is..I am listening to it again as it is just perfect....Love the opening too~~Outstanding.. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

For you roy~~~~Very nice~~~love the tenor~~~

Enjoy~~~

CAETANO VELOSO & LUCIANO PAVAROTTI....MANHA DE CARNAVAL

http://youtu.be/1bqDsN_t-JA

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

lindajoy wrote:

For you roy~~~~Very nice~~~love the tenor~~~

Enjoy~~~

CAETANO VELOSO & LUCIANO PAVAROTTI....MANHA DE CARNAVAL

http://youtu.be/1bqDsN_t-JA

I have to wonder how someone like Pavarotti got in on that. At least it proves that that piece of music is something that is really liked by those who know it. Thank you for the chance to hear it done that way.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

lindajoy wrote:

My gosh roy, how beautiful this truly is..I am listening to it again as it is just perfect....Love the opening too~~Outstanding.. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

The opening is something that I just can't get past. I did enjoy hearing the composer playing with Como.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Listen to her voice.....Beautifully done
From "Orfeu Negro," a Brazilian, French, Portuguese production, from many years ago. The singer here is actually the fabled brilliant Brasilian vocalist, Elizete Cardoso.

Manhã De Carnaval!

http://youtu.be/nVkDfnGobmI

Morning, such a beautiful morning,
gives life to a new song
and my voice goes to eternity.
On its way it will always sing.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

oldroy wrote:

The opening is something that I just can't get past. I did enjoy hearing the composer playing with Como.

I have spent quite a while this afternoon watching the movie just because I can't get away from it. Here it is from YouTube anyway. Whole darned thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwn4vYR_3Y4

I think I like the introductory part as much as any of the rest of it. Continuous music of the kind I like best.

I read today that that movie and the song we seem to like very much are considered as something special in the world of jazz.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

oldroy wrote:

Luciano Pavoratti recorded this performance about a year before his death. There was so much feeling in his singing that surely most people realized it was his last one. I have said over and over that Mario Lanza was the best of the operatic tenors but am not sure he ever outdid this one.

http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=19122

That particular operatic piece is probably the most beautiful E V E R written!

Several years ago I attended a local ballet company performance. They used that piece of music, with Sarah Brightman's recording, to perform their finale. It is an awesome sight to see ballet to that piece of operatic masterpiece. :!: :!: :!: :!:

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

oldroy wrote:

Luciano Pavoratti recorded this performance about a year before his death. There was so much feeling in his singing that surely most people realized it was his last one. I have said over and over that Mario Lanza was the best of the operatic tenors but am not sure he ever outdid this one.

http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=19122

Although I like Bocelli and each of 'The Three Tenors,' it would be hard to argue against Lanza being the most versatile of them all. His voice, IMO, also has a richer and fuller tone than either Bocelli or Pavarotti. Then again, I am not an expert on opera.

It was tragic having Lanza die at the young age of thirty-eight.