Word: dorma
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...Universal's new star Russell Watson, a British soccer fan who was first noticed singing Nessun dorma before a Manchester United football match, has no significant professional operatic experience. As in the case of Bocelli, hardly anyone knows what his voice sounds like outside a recording studio or an amplified sports stadium. Yet Kevin Gore, president of Universal Classics, sees him as the latest key to the cash tills. "Russell is a phenomenal communicator," says Gore, "and that ability to communicate with an audience unfamiliar with your music is what makes stars of all of these big-selling artists...
...search for the next supertenors accents fears within the classical record industry that its efforts to ape the pop world might bring disasters of operatic proportions. For record bosses the result could be, as the famous aria from Puccini's Turandot has it, Nessun dorma: nobody sleeps...
...Imagine - John Lennon 2. Yesterday - Beatles 3. It's a Good Life - Tony Bennett 4. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin 5. La Vie en rose - Edith Piaf 6. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson 7. A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker 8. Respect - Aretha Franklin 9. Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti 10. New York, New York - Liza Minnelli
With flair like that, who needs Nessun dorma...
...arias, the ultimate means of expression for a tenor, have changed my perception of music, indeed my whole life, profoundly and permanently," he explains in his earnest liner notes. They've certainly changed the course of his career, at least temporarily. In recent months he has been singing Nessun dorma everywhere from The Nanny to Live with Regis & Kathie Lee. The album shot to the top of the Billboard classical chart on its release in January (it was still at No. 2 last week), an unprecedented achievement for a pop star...