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Thursday, September 06, 2007
Luciano Pavarotti, RIP
You may not be an opera fan, but take three minutes to listen to this, anyway. See if you don't have gooseflesh by the end.
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Thanks Cassie. I'm not a big opera fan at all and actually have actively disliked opera for years. BUT, Jesse's been studying voice the past two summers with a baritone who sings opera and I've been trying to get more of a taste for it. Rob is a huge opera fan. Anyway, Luciano did produce goosebumps for me and thanks for the nudge.
DO NOT MISS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgbN81zNG8&mode=related&search=
Pavarotti sings Perfect Day with Lou Reed, who completely phones it in. I'm not even sure Reed is singing, or that Pavarotti has ever heard the song before. He still nails it, though.
While you're there, there are also entertaining clips of Pavarotti dueting with James Brown, Barry White, Queen, and the Spice Girls. Yep, the Spice Girls.
I guess you guys are mad that I made fun of the blind guy. Not very PC, I know. I just think he isn't as good. He is pretty good though. And one time I saw him on TV and did not realize he was blind, so I just thought he was acting very strange.
I like Opera, when are we gonna go to Glimmerglass again? Crap, I should have taken that job there this summer and watched opera all day.
PC??!? You must be thinking of the wrong family. I had never heard of this guy before.
Grandma was up for a Glimmerglass trip with you while Liz and Ana were here, but there was nothing on the calendar that we thought Ana could sit through. Let's work on it for next summer.
9 comments:
Thanks Cassie. I'm not a big opera fan at all and actually have actively disliked opera for years. BUT, Jesse's been studying voice the past two summers with a baritone who sings opera and I've been trying to get more of a taste for it. Rob is a huge opera fan. Anyway, Luciano did produce goosebumps for me and thanks for the nudge.
I've got no job, but I'm an opera fan...,
AND YOU"RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!
Screw that blind guy. Pavarotti is effortless.
rip
Blind guy?
That DID give me gooseBUMPS.
DO NOT MISS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgbN81zNG8&mode=related&search=
Pavarotti sings Perfect Day with Lou Reed, who completely phones it in. I'm not even sure Reed is singing, or that Pavarotti has ever heard the song before. He still nails it, though.
While you're there, there are also entertaining clips of Pavarotti dueting with James Brown, Barry White, Queen, and the Spice Girls. Yep, the Spice Girls.
The Lou Reed/Pavarotti clip is surrealistic. I think LR decided that if he had to share a stage with That Guy, it wasn't even worth trying to sing.
As for GooseFLESH, just be glad I didn't write horripilation. Yes, that's another perfectly good word for the phenomenon.
Andrea Bocelli=Blind guy
I guess you guys are mad that I made fun of the blind guy. Not very PC, I know. I just think he isn't as good. He is pretty good though. And one time I saw him on TV and did not realize he was blind, so I just thought he was acting very strange.
I like Opera, when are we gonna go to Glimmerglass again? Crap, I should have taken that job there this summer and watched opera all day.
PC??!? You must be thinking of the wrong family. I had never heard of this guy before.
Grandma was up for a Glimmerglass trip with you while Liz and Ana were here, but there was nothing on the calendar that we thought Ana could sit through. Let's work on it for next summer.
Next summer is all Shakespeare at Glimmerglass!
This summer was all Orpheus -- the Gluck version we saw, to quote the New Yorker, "got everything wrong" despite an incredible male soprano.
I think this will identify me as Anonymous, but my name is Judi.
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