Word: nessun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With flair like that, who needs Nessun dorma...
Three years ago, Michael Bolton had a fortunate epiphany. Sharing a stage with Luciano Pavarotti at an Italian benefit concert, Bolton heard the First Tenor sing Puccini's Nessun dorma. The experience left the pop balladeer "overwhelmed by the emotional depth of this great music." Now Bolton has recorded My Secret Passion: The Arias (Sony Classical), a collection of 10 popular arias and a duet from La Boheme on which he is joined by no less a luminary than soprano Renee Fleming...
...great 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...
...lazy greed. What was wonderful in Rome in 1990 was awful in L.A. as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sight-read their way through arias and show tunes on a set that included a waterfall. And no, the Brindisi from La Traviata -- the sequel's intended Nessun dorma -- did not fly to the top of the charts...
...spaghetti or a swear word." Commercials that ran during soccer matches on cable TV's ESPN started the hype. A music video that will air around the world shows the singers gleefully kicking around a soccer ball and singing what the backers hope will be the new Nessun dorma: the brindisi, or drinking song, from Verdi's La Traviata. (The promoters have not forgotten their prize song; Pavarotti will sing it just before the final medley...