This is not a song, this is the aria Nessun dorma (from Italian - "Let no one sleep") - an aria from the last act of the opera "Turandot" by Giacomo Puccini, one of the most famous and difficult to perform arias of the tenor repertoire)

Those last couple of notes -- Pavarotti is singing the words "vincero," which means "I will win." That is why he has just a look of victory on his face. It's not just that he "nailed it" (which, of course, he DOES), it's that he's singing "I will win!"

This is for me ...."the" finest vocal performance by anyone,anytime, anywhere in history.everyone should hear this rendition before they depart this earth.

I honestly think this might be the greatest vocal performance of all time.

By 1994 He was considered way past his prime like 15 years past. One of the reasons that made this legendary was that fact.. He owned that aria and he was his signature piece! This is him saying nope I still have it and I'll sing till I die. He almost literally did this as he last sung this in 2006 and he died in 2007 from pancreatic cancer. He was doing a farewell tour and he had to have neck surgery to fix some vertebrae he had problems.

Glad to see you enjoyed it. What you should realize is that Pavarotti was the single greatest tenor of all time, equal to Enrico Caruso. There was nothing in this performance that was difficult for him and there was no question by anyone that he was going to kill this performance. He was also surrounded by one of the most prolific orchestras at that time.

Operatic perfection. Luciano was the greatest tenor of all time, you could say 'The GOAT'. His face at the end of this performance tells us everything about his level of perfection. He must have sung this beutiful aria hundreds of times and yet, just LOOK at his expression at the end! It almost brings tears to my eyes every time. 🙋‍♂

Perfect performance. In my opinion the greatest tenor of all time.

You don't have to be an opera fan to enjoy this. You just need ears :)

Okay! A little known fact: When Luciano (RIP) was approaching Heaven's Gate singing this aria, St Peter just bowed his head and opened the gate, thus welcoming our greatest tenor. Thank you for this reaction. TC

Un brano di tale bellezza va ascoltato senza interruzione, non è una canzonetta. I commenti fateli alla fine, è un consiglio per apprezzare questa musica immortale. Ciao!

This is from Puccini's Opera. It's the story of a princess who refuses to be married. To discourage men pursuing her she states that anyone wanting her must answer 3 riddles, but anyone that tries and fails is beheaded. She kills many many men until Pavarotti's character comes along. He's loved her for very long and he successfully answers the riddles anonymously. She's absolutely furious and announces that no one is allowed to sleep that night until he is found and brought to her so that she could kill him. This song is him somewhat mocking her "Nesun Dorma" = "none shall sleep" and announcing that he will win. The last two lines that were very powerful actually mean "I will win". Gorgeous opera and breathtaking song.

The world lost an incredible talent when the legendary Luciano Pavarotti left us in 2007. I was never a huge opera fan in my youth, but I've always loved his voice. He and Andrea Bocelli are my favorite tenors, both have such amazing talent & ethereal voices.

His performance of this song at the Winter Olympics in Italy is absolutely stunning!!! Opera will move your soul!! 💜💜🎵🎼🎶🥁🎤🎙🎸🎹🔥🔥🔥

The story behind the song is absolutely fascinating and wonderful

I have never been a fan of opera. However, I can appreciate the performance and I am in awe of the raw talent it takes to perform it well.

Magnificence, pure magnificence. At the end you can see Pavarotti listening to the orchestra and being fully in the story of the song.

After this, you need to see Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown sing "It's a Man's World".

My favorite aria! Doesn't get much better than this. Thank you.

Pavarotti was such a powerhouse. Bocelli is one you should look for, not as powerful but he has an amazing tone.

Italia 90 As an England fan who was over there for the semi final,this tune has always resonated with me and leaves me emotional. It was the theme tune used by one of the main channels showing the World Cup and it caught on like wildfire.

A true Masterpiece. Silly little fact. The performance is around 3 minutes long. The standing ovation Luciano got as just over 20 minutes! Much love to everyone from here in GB & hope everyone has an amazing week that just gets better

Oh My God in Heaven! My entire body melted and tears formed in my soul listening to him sing. It’s like the Fourth of July!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

you were watching...probably the greatest opera tenor in the world. Beautiful song...sung with his most powerful voice. No one sings more powerful than he....the greatest...and he was a BIG man....beautiful...

Probably the greatest tenor that has ever lived!

This was a Dodger Stadium , 1994 the THREE TENORS concert before the world cup soccer final. I was there. the entire grass was covered with chairs and there were 75,ooo people and the incredible set was built by the Hollywood set designers against the center field wall. Luciano was in his best voice I ever heard him sing

It's an amazing performance by an amazing vocalist with amazing skills. I agree - he makes it look effortless. He leaves me in awe. I get chills every time I hear this, followed by a strong desire to learn to sing. Bravo, Pavarotti!

Welcome to the world of opera, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras preformed together in the 1980s and 1990s as the three tenors. They did a lot to bring opera to the masses, here are some other tenors you may enjoy reacting to Enrico Caruso, Franco Correlli, Mario Lanza and Beniamino Gigli all great masters. Mario Lanza set a standard in vocal power, clarity and stage presence that has yet to be matched❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great performance! You should check out Andrea Bocelli sing "The Prayer" with Celine Dion. Andrea is a blind opera singer and obviously you know who Celine is. Love your reactions!👍🎵

I have heard many fine tenors sing this aria, but this particular performance is truly a classic. Thanks so much for reacting to it. It is sad that cancer shortened his career and his life. We are fortunate to have Paul Potts, too. His return performance on BGT was spectacular. Thanks again. 👍

Many people sing this, but #Luciano set the bar high a long time ago which I feel is yet to be reached.

For full appreciation of this Aria (None Shall Sleep in English) you need to read a synopsis of the Opera and where this fits in. A truly emotional experience. For me this is Puccini's greatest Opera (even though he died before he actually completed it). The performance with José Carreras at the Met is probably one of the best staging ever.

Pavarotti è il più grande,tra i grandi tenori della storia.

The song is literally a matter of Life & Death. At dawn the singer faces a challenge to try to win the hand of a princess. If he fails, he will be executed. At the. end of the song he is singing "I will win. I will win!" He is risking it all for Love, and you can see it in Pavarotti's face as he sings those words of Hope. Loved this one, you two! Thank you for sharing it . 😊

Brings back memories of my late father, this was his favourite performance and I remember him sitting listening with a tear running down his check as I am now remembering him ❤😢

I've always thought if you've never seen an opera, Turandot is a good first choice, it has everything opera is about. I never tire of listening to Pavarotti, there are not words, he is immortal.

This performance gives me goosebumps every single time. It’s so great to see people discovering Pavarotti for the first time!

Most beautiful aria so many wonderful performances online but none beats this one.

Pavarotti is one of the greatest opera singers of all time. I have been listening to him for over 30 years. 😊😊😊

I remember watching this with my parents on PBS. Was amazing to watch with my family all together

The greatest vocal performance ever.

If I were an actress and I had to cry or be truly moved in a scene I’d watch this before my scene. This makes me cry and moves me every time.

Luciano Pavarotti, known to be one of the great opera singers. He also had perfect pitch, so I'm sure that helped. .o

As noted in the comments, Nessun Dorma ( "no one sleeps") is an aria from Puccini's opera "Turandot", sung by all the great ( and near great ) opera stars (male and female)........this is probably the most moving rendition of all....R.I.P., Maestro Pavarotti......

He was incredible - a legend.

Grande, immenso Luciano, senza parole, solo brividi !

It’s beautiful, I got tears in my eyes ❤️❤️

Lots and Lots of hard work and the result is this masterpiece!

This IS Luciano's aria, I've listened to Caruso and Richard Tucker and many others, but Luciano owns this!

CARUSO PAVAROTTI

It is legendary.

Full respect to this hit,this was my fathers funeral song req by him,from the World Cup👍🇬🇧

When he performed this in Hyde Park London - the cries went up "Come on you Pav".

The reason why the song has such a big history behind it it's because Pavarotti sang it like nobody could

You pronounced the tenor's name and title correctly enough but this is not a song but an "aria" from Puccini's opera Turandot. Paul Potts vs Pavarotti is like spam vs kobe steak. Ciao from Italy

I love the way you guys will listen to all types of music and then react and comment on the genre you're listening to. Thank you! 🙂

he really was the greatest. Saw him several times at the Met

I absolutely believe that that is the greatest performance by anybody, of any song ever!

At least once in your life, everyone should see a fully staged Opera. It literally takes the combined talents of hundreds of people, who have spent a lifetime perfecting their skills. Not just great Singers and Musicians and the Conductor who brings them all together, but also Scenic Carpenters and Painters, Wardrobe Designers and those who sew the costumes, Wig Makers and Makeup Artists,Property Masters, Lighting Designers, Riggers Sound Engineers, and the Stagehands who move all the Scenery, Dress the Performers, run the Lights, etc There is a good reason it is called "Grand Opera"..

❤❤❤love Luciano.

I love Opera due to my Mothers influence. It was played in a lot in our house while I was growing up but I was also very influenced by Rock so when I found The East Village Opera Company I was thrilled because I got to experience both at once. They are not opera singers but their version of Nessum Dorma is so good. They do opera as it was originally written but arranged by a rock band. Their Carmen is also insane. I would love it if someone would react to their music.

Luciano patrimonio mondiale❤

Hi, I'm Italian, you need to know the story that this work tells to fully appreciate it, and the deeper meaning that history teaches, the legend tells of Princess Turandot, daughter of the Chinese emperor, and of Prince Calaf who is faced with enigmas , if he solves these enigmas he will be able to marry her otherwise he will die, in the song he expresses the hope of winning the test and of being able to kiss her and have her as his wife, the deepest meaning is that in general even when something seems impossible to achieve one must never lose sight of soul, it is a hymn to courage and determination and to believing in one's abilities, the song repeats "no sleep" as when it happens to all of us not to sleep because we know that the next day at dawn we will have to face an important test , and in fact the song ends with him shouting "at dawn I will win"

Him and James brown it's a man world is another great performance..great chemistry between the two

One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my entire life

No one transitions from one note to the next as smoothly as Pavarotti….his voice was like silk….

Pavarotti and James Brown "It's a Man's World". Awesome!

This song always makes me tear up as he hits that final note

Gives me goosebumps every time I hear this. It's also used very effectively at the end of the Jack Ryan movie, "The Sum of All Fears" when the key bad guys were being assassinated for their part in trying to start a war between America and the Russians.

Legend.

THE best tenor of all time

Years and years of training. Pavarotti performed this aria for the last time at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turino, Italy. He passed away in 2007 from pancreatic cancer. A great loss. RIP Luciano.

Luciano IS italian opera.

When he sang, the Angels listened.

He didn't need Autotune, It was Autotune that needed him

My take on it is that he is filled with the holy ghost at the end....and comes back. RIP Maestro!

Many thought the man was way overweight. Not true. He carried an entire orchestra and choir in his body to deliver his presence. OUTSTANDING voice.

That voice was a gift from Heaven. God bless his soul. #GOAT

Check out Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman, Time to say goodbye!!!!!!!!! Stunning!!!

Luciano, The King! (of opera!)

This performance is the reason that the two Home Free tenors titled their version "Two Country Singers Try To Sing Opera." Pavarotti's other legendary performance came 17 February 1972 in Gaetano Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment" at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. The tenor solo, "Ah Mes Amis," includes nine high C's. Pavarotti sang it so well that he not only stopped the show, but received seventeen curtain calls at the opera's end.

Solo due parole: Unico e inimitabile.

That was at Dodger Stadium in LA for the “3 Tenors” World Tour..in which he ..Placido Domingo & Jose Carreras toured big cities in the USA & the world to sold out stadium shows..like a Rollng Stones Metallica or AC/DC concert in the 1990s..

I'm over here crying like a little baby amazing performance beautiful.

Ya can’t lose with Puccini’s music, passed through Luciano Pavarotti. Solid gold every time, even in an out-of-context thing like one of these festival appearances.

He sang this aria ms y ms y times before snd after. He was the best opera singer ever.

Pavarotti OWNED this aria! Everyone in the world knows he had the definitive performance of this. He was a legend.

Iconic and memorable moments. Always absolutely stunned 😯 even if I listened this aria many many years ago.

Jonathan Antoine sings this beautifully

You must listen that beautiful aria sung by the young Pavarotti in 1961. Search exactly "Puccini: La Bohème, SC 67, Act 1 - Che gelida manina" The first two entries found on the Luciano Pavarotti channel are from the same recording. Exquisite performance of that wonderful music, an abstract of La Bohème by Puccini!

Vincero! (I will win!). This is a tenor aria from the final act of Turandot by Puccini in the early 1900's. The character singing is Calaf, the unknown prince, who had fallen in love with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot. Any man who wants to wed her must answer three riddles. If he get's them wrong he'll be beheaded. Nessun Dorma means "Let no one sleep". Opera is extremely difficult to sing, and Luciano Pavarotti was one of the very greatest. That last passage took every scrap of breath he had to sing it that way. Opera singers don't use microphones normally, they have to project without them. The shape and articulation of the mouth are critical as is absolute breath control. An iteration of this aria by Rob Lundquist and Austin Brown of Home Free is one you might want to react to. Austin wanted to show off "opera Rob". Rob wouldn't do it unless Austin would sing with him so they made a duet of this (which no opera singer would even have thought of). It's not Pavarotti, but it's really good! Rob was trained in opera which his dad wanted him to sing, and Austin has a degree in Musical Theatre. Rob gave the CD to his dad who reportedly cried.

Anyone who does not get goosebumps from this is not human!

You hit the nail on the head with that comment!! Luciano did feel the weight of that performance. You had the other two mega tenors, José Carerras and Placido Domingo bearing down on him for the crown. Domingo was closest. This was THE signature passage song of Pavarotti. The last words in English were I will win, I will win and Luciano did indeed win!!!!!!

By far, the greatest tenor of all time.

I’ve only 2 words to describe this……”THE CHILLS” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Pavarotti, this song. and opera in general was given a great boost and brought into the public mainstream after the BBC in the UK used this as the theme music for their presentation of coverage of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. I think without that public exposure to millions of football fans Pavarotti would be globally far less known.

I'm no old guy, but to me it's more amazing that people haven't heard Pavarotti, then his voice in fact

You're ready for Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman singing TIME TO SAY GOODBYE.

It just looked so effortless and joyful. I guess that's the hallmark of someone with immense talent and a huge work ethic to get to that level in any discipline 🙇

I cry every time I listen to him