RIP Pavarotti

[elite_hunter_sh3]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6981032.stm


:cry::cry:

never liked opera much.. but that voice of his made me like it :D

respects to him:rock::rock::rock:

[Jimbuna]

Who will ever forget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

RIP Sir.

[The Avon Lady]

While we love classical music, we're an opera allergic family.

The closest I can allow myself is to appropriately link to Time to Say Goodbye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmS41_JdVLg).

[Heibges]

I know he had been sick for a long time, but it is still very sad. A great loss for the Italian people also.

[Oberon]

The public face of Opera, with a lovely voice, thanks for the Nessun Dorma link, a beautiful piece. RIP Pav.

[Mikey_Wolf]

This was definately a loss not just to opera, but to singing in whole. Many singers go up then come down, they are in the charts then not, Luciano Pavarotti never came down the man went up and stayed up, in the music industry of any branch that is an accomplishment not to be sniffed at.

[samniTe]

NO


wtf, i've been waiting for his final tour forever.

unbelievably sad to hear this wow

[ReallyDedPoet]

R.i.p.


Rdp

[Tchocky]

Argh, very sad. BBC broadcast his Central Park concert last night, it was great.
I used to like Nessun Dorma, playing a series of concerts with a conductor who insisted on destroying a nice piece of music has ruined it for me :(
He'll be missed.

*disclaimer*

This (http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/jpg/deathstenner.jpg) made me laugh an awful lot, but it is in very poor taste. Just like a lot of things from b3ta :)
Click away if ye like.

[Huskalar]

Very sad news indeed. R.I.P.

[Dmitry Markov]

R.I.P.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

One of the true greats. Making heaven that much more wonderful :rock:

[STEED]

I will say this, he did indeed had a great singing voice and in the world of opera he left his mark.

[Skybird]

I would like opera much better if it would be purely instrumental.

[VipertheSniper]

You mean like silent movies?

How about ballet? Great music, no singing, just dancing.

[Skybird]

You mean like silent movies?

How about ballet? Great music, no singing, just dancing.

There is some wonderful ballet music which I like to listen to, as long as I must not watching the dancers, at least the male ones.

There is wonderful opera music from preludes, for example, but as soon as they start sending the singers on stage it's show over for me. That's true for some pieces from Wagner (Lohengrin for example, I think it is the introduction, this piece of most fragile beauty that Chaplin used when dancing with the globe in Great Dictator) as well as for Puccini, for example, of whom I especially like this collection that includes preludes and intermezzi from La Villi, Edgar and Manon Lescaut.

http://www.amazon.de/Puccini-Orchestral-Works-Riccardo-Chailly/dp/B00000IP62/ref=sr_1_1/028-0050133-9422147?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1189204810&sr=8-1

My father participated in that recording, from 1983. Do cooking in the kitchen, have a glass of good red wine, and this CD on headphones - unbeatable Italian combo! :up:

Opera may or may not feature beautiful voices. It't just that I do not like the way in which voices are used for singing in classical music. Too artificial.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

You mean like silent movies?

How about ballet? Great music, no singing, just dancing.
There is some wonderful ballet music which I like to listen to, as long as I must not watching the dancers, at least the male ones.


:rotfl: