Luciano Pavarotti "Nessun Dorma" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach/Opera Singer

[Music] welcome back to the charismatic voice and to my choice tuesday today is not going to be a first-time reaction instead i'm hoping that you'll enjoy sharing with me in just being amazed by tenor luciano pavarotti singing nessun durma many of you know that i love opera i studied and i performed it for over a decade internationally and often in my dressing room before i would go on stage i would listen to nessundorma because it is just so dang inspiring so i wanted to take today to look at ushana's performance in 1994 with the three tenors i wanted to take a look at his solo of nassundorma and talk a little bit about what makes it so dang awesome let's get to it [Music] uh [Music] i'm going to cut in right before pop actually starts to sing by the way pov is a shortened nickname for pavarotti that many series use referring to him and i want to tell you a little bit about the setting of this this is from the opera toronto it's by puccini it was actually the last opera that puccini wrote and he even died before totally completing it he'd written sketches for the very end but hadn't completely finished it before he died and sometimes the opera is pronounced turandot rather than toronto that ending t it has good arguments for both sides i'm going to say toronto because that's the way that i've learned and uh and that has a lot of scholarly backing as well so uh toronto is has a lot of really fantastic asian music themes in it it's a very fascinating opera doesn't always portray asian culture in a nice way so i just wanted to shout out uh i recognize that and i definitely think that it's something that needs to be uh addressed and in this opera at this point pavarotti is playing the the prince um who's trying to hide his name he's trying to essentially wed the princess tarando and if she can find out what his name is before dawn then i believe not only does she not have to marry him but i believe he will be killed so high stakes here and uh and there are people going throughout the city asking people um what his name is and there are only two people that know his name uh and uh that is trying to be very hidden at this point one of them ends up dying later so that the name's not revealed i know very dramatic opera anyhow nessundorma means that no one is sleeping and that's because the princess ordered that no one be allowed to sleep tonight so that they can find out what the name of pavarotti's character is so let's check out uh this beginning oh just wanted to point out there's like a little tremolo that's happening in the strings which i think is the feeling of tenseness in the city and you hear a chorus seeing nessundorma as well [Music] [Music] i love this transition into the aria proper [Music] [Music] foreign um immediately one of the most amazing things about paul's voice like it shakes me every time i hear it it's um it's really this timbre and this shimmer on his voice essentially it is so well produced and it has um this amazing ping this resonance that it's like it almost sounds like his face is gonna vibrate off with the sound of his voice if you put his voice inside of a spectrogram which essentially visualizes different sound waves you'll see that the fundamental so the root note that he's singing is not as vibrant often as the second or third harmonic so that's sort of a way to visualize how much additional reinforcing resonance is just kept inside of his vocal tract and it's what makes it feel so bright every now and then he also seems slightly sharp on a note like just slightly it makes it sound like it has more longing i i love that kind of expression in addition there when he starts you can hear him hook into his support system you'll notice that on the face there isn't a lot of tension it's just wide and it's open and the throat is like just it's really nice and open as well really good placement and instead he's using his body to create this sound that is almost more like a cry that is sustained over time um i'm going to go back to his entrance here listen for all those things especially listen to see if you can hear the shimmer of having those really really bright overtones [Music] that those two last vowels those ah vowels that is another reason and one reason i often feel very inspired by pavarotti it is how bright and pure those ah vowels are his italian is just incredible uh definitely the person that i'll often listen to for italian inspiration also uh mariella frainy i really love love her time of course um so the way that those vowels the tongue is really high a lot of times americans have these ah kind of um like a lower ah vowel that's maybe closer to aw but in italian the ah is really high and german are as high as well and that ah vowel um the way that the tongue placement is if you have pavarotti like placement you'll get those extra bright shimmery harmonics on the voice and so that was always one of the more difficult vowels i think to keep in line uh e vowels have always been my favorite and then i have to essentially angle my eye vowels to be a little bit closer to my e vowels which means that the middle of the tongue raises more and his ah vowels are the golden the golden goal that's the ah vowel that i want to have i feel like that is the ah vowel for every single opera singer to aspire to it's gorgeous okay just a little moment about what was [Music] here [Music] i i love the phrasing of this um that way that he is so clearly attached to his body for support it's not happening here um it is uh yeah very much in the body i feel like he's just being a conduit of message and expression he doesn't need to plaster it all across his face or something he doesn't have to overact it because you just hear it pouring out in his voice and i feel like a person can't help but be moved it's ironic because this arya to me it's essentially about how he is going to win he is going to win the princess and yes the guards might be going through this entire village at night no one is allowed to sleep for fear of death but he is going to win and i think that uh it's interesting it's a victory aria and it talks about how beautiful she is but how he's going to keep his secret and nobody's gonna know his name and so i think there's some longing for the princess in this but i think that the musical line and the way pop sings it is like even more beautiful than the lyrics are it's just incredible like this song it could be i mean pov could sing about peanut butter on pickles and he would make me love and delight in it so anyhow it's super super gorgeous um and i wanted to go back a little bit and look at this spot where he does something like he adds a little more cover you can hear the sound almost get a little bit hoody at one point in this really beautiful operatic expressive way right there [Music] so he puts a little a little cover on it's almost like a feeling of having like a little cotton in front of the face it just has to do with where you're placing the vibrations and right there you hear the shimmer that like really bright shimmer that's often on his voice you hear it go away for a bit and then he moves it forward towards the end he's playing with the resonance by the way um splendero i believe is the name or splendera which is essentially it will shine uh he's talking about the daylight will shine essentially it'll be dawn and nobody will know his name and he'll win [Music] i'm going to cover this one uh one word that sung splendero um over and over um because he i love the crescendo i love the vibrato fluctuation in it i love this portamento so that's where it slides down it's like almost like a bubbling over of emotion that happens at that point and i even love the way he essentially does a hard offset at the end he goes oh and then cuts it off at the end and i believe that that is like the moment of like yes i will be victorious it's it is determined and then there's also the way he accents the rhythm within it so the way the music slows down and then he has a portamento that kind of expands the time and then the d and the flipped r suddenly add a bunch of rhythm in there that's like ha ha i'm still victorious the night might stretch on but it will arrive and i will be victorious okay [Music] one more time [Music] [Music] this hushed tone is so beautiful and grabbing and the way he began that phrase as well um or the phrase before it it just sounded like it was taken from inside of his gut like it was being like drawn forth from his soul just like almost like pulled out of the entire being i love that connection into the sound let's go back a little bit [Music] that this hover shimmer is so gorgeous in the way he adds the air there and the contrast of it before with this phrase that had essentially more compression and more um a more powerful sound is really impressive by the way uh pavarotti did not always have great technique this wasn't natural um sure there's some natural talent and genetics they're gonna be at play in a voice but he struggled with nodules he quit singing at one point and you know i think it was in his early 20s he quit and then took some time off and came back to it stronger so i just wanted to put out there uh i know some people get discouraged singing but just look at pov and know that he's a wonderful success story and he's struggled through all the things that many of other people have struggled through as well so uh okay we're gonna go back to this uh moment one more time uh listen to this line the way it almost sounds like he's just weeping the whole time listen to the continuity of the vibrato and listen to the change in the two different timbres [Music] liquid cold [Music] okay gonna pause this is like one of the best moments coming up but i just have to tell you the choir in the background a little translation of what they're saying basically saying uh and no one's going to discover his name uh and no one uh or and we will have to die essentially so they're saying uh they by they're not going to reveal the name but if nobody reveals the name the princess is going to kill somebody which she eventually does later spoiler um you should all uh go listen to this operates so gorgeous just song after song is really really gorgeous i believe this one is the best but uh i all uh yeah this song is or this opera is full of amazing arias arya by the way an arya is a song and an opera like a solo song you would have like a duet which is two people arya would be the solo version of it so anyhow the choir at that point is essentially the towns people that are not allowed to sleep right now [Music] um again that turtle that part i love the um the conviction in those consonants i love the way that he goes a little sharp sometimes often he'll go a little sharp just to give it a little more energy and a little more of this enthusiasm and a determination he you know some singers think oh i need to be perfect at pitch my friend of mine once uh recently put it um being perfectly tuned does not mean that you're perfect uh i would much rather have somebody who isn't perfectly tuned all the time and can go a little sharp on the pitch to express that excitement the way he does right here it's gorgeous i'll show the exact moment when it just it just boils over in my heart uh let's yeah there [Music] right right there right there that phrase the repeated note that was just a little bit sharp and i guarantee you that when he first goes up to that top note oh my goodness those harmonics the ones that are above the fundamental the ones that are like really ringing at about an octave and then a fifth above there those are so present you hear that bright shimmer it just shakes me every time it makes my eyes water i love it [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] i love the look in his eyes right now like that look at the termination i am conquering it's amazing that you can pour that much expression into less than three minutes definitely he does this thing as he goes up to the top note it's called hooking so he'll actually hook into a lower note and then go higher it is intentionally taking weight and quality from a lower note and bringing it higher so you get more power you have to be careful when you do that often taking up too much weight can really can disturb tuning it can disturb the quality of the voice if a person doesn't essentially adjust a few additional things he hooks into that lower sound as a way of keeping that quality and it's like almost like a push where it hooks into lower support as well to help carry this incredibly powerful sound in the right way and it is it i think it just makes me melt i think it makes everyone melt so this is a this is an actual technique it's called hooking and it's very common for tenors to do this for like big grand moments like this especially in poutine it's stylistically 100 correct um and yeah okay we're gonna go back and listen to that again uh let's listen to the whole build up [Music] okay check out his tongue check out his tongue i know you guys are like why it really seriously the tongue but look at this tongue the tongue um it doesn't have a divot in it it's it's high it's arched in the mouth this is great tongue position for opera i know really can we geek out about this anymore i love love love love being able to see this camera view where you can see that tongue position you saw him drop for the top so that means that his jaw dropped when he went up to a high note uh one of the common mistakes for high notes is that people will clench um because they're scared of it he drops it he is fearless he's incredibly generous with his sound here i love that and even inside there's more room there and he has what's called sometimes the sense of an inner smile so it's not necessarily right here if you pull too much on the cheeks for opera it tends to lose some of the roundness of the dominus that we really like um but there's like an inner smile that's behind like kind of backed by his molars almost that's keeping that soft palate up giving it extra dome extra ringiness as well let's go back and listen to this again often lower notes will have a mouth that's more like this a little bit more [Music] closed i love the cut-off as well like it's so victorious and makes sense because vince means i will win i am going to win okay we're going to go back to this crier moment again um and watch right when he starts in here oh yeah it's interesting he does he does nose breaths some people like nose breasts for singing some people don't um often if people breathe in through their nose they might not drop the soft palate or you have to drop the soft palate you're breathing through your nose and it might not raise back again when you start singing it is important to have control of that soft palate and be aware of it so he likes the breath of the nose one of the great things it can do is actually slow the breathing down a little bit so that way it drops down to a lower point of support i personally will often do like a whistle breath in kind of to the side of my microphone if it needs to be done that way but uh nose breaths in are a similar way of controlling and slowing down that air in so that stays really low and centered [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] every single time it's like i don't know what it is but my goodness those tears just they fill my eyes it's like tears of joy with how amazing this arya and pov are together uh that victorious ending is gorgeous he actually i uh aurora i guess reminds me of him or he reminded me a bit of aurora the way at the end he almost seems like he's realizes that everyone is around him he's like being drawn out of the place where he was and singing that message and then you hear this huge brass and orchestra ending that puccini has written and it's just purely glorious what an amazing aria and what an amazing amazing singer so uh thank you very much for going with me through this reaction alice's really truly just analysis of why pavarotti is so incredible if you guys want to hear uh more analysis or takes on why opera arias or specific singers are super incredible please post those recommendations down below or just recommend another singer or band you'd really love for me to listen to in the youtube comments you can find me here every monday tuesday and friday at 8 a.m arizona time if you want to learn how to sing it can be any style i love opera i love all styles though and i love singing if you want to learn more about how to sing or learn more about how to appreciate music check out my courses at thecharismaticvoice.com or if you just want to play video games together or get to know each other better check out our patreon it's awesome thank [Music] you

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Length: 27min 1sec (1621 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 23 2021