I have heard it.

I’m trying to get ready to listen to Amira singing Nessun Dorma by Puccini- normally a song for a large-voiced middle-aged tenor!!

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Pretty sure it's > 1 million not 1 billion & a 50,000 standing ovation at HGT is hyperbole also. i mean i agree she is really that good and i wish she was even known by 1 billion people, then she'd have the funding to do a worldwide tour; let's keep hoping and praying for her.

She's almost 14 in this version. This was recorder on March 2, 2018 and she turned 14 on March 27.

Hi Sabine, I thought it was important to highlight the phrasing and not breathing in the middle of words. The video quality isn’t great but the tempo is super. I didn’t worry about the wrong words (chiaro/ guisto?). I used to sing this song a lot and because it’s strophic it’s easy to confuse the words. Schubert is even worse with 7 or 8 verses!!! 🎶😜

i am not a music person per se, but i think that 2016 performance (age 12) was a slower tempo, so not sure what William would think about it, although i believe it was much more emotional than this 2018 version. Again, i am a nobody, just an old guy who absolutely adores the divine Amira. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMWHrM12z5uoh2w.html

She does breathe before the last two notes but I think that's totally acceptable, as you point out, preparing for the high C. I didn't spot her mother playing the violin!

Amira sang OMBC in Polen with a young serious classical conductor in the making and in the rehearsal he immediately pointed out Amira paused where the notes in the sheet told him something else. Amira later in an interview commented that she always prioritize how she sound and is not a slave to the script as classical trained musicians in general are. Rieu on the other hand is very skilled and just, with hearing, listen how Amira(and other singers) can sing to the best effect and adopts the orchestra to the performer, not the opposite. Most classical trained musicians are very static and lacks musicality to do the same.

Her mother does not play the violin on the level for such an orchestra, just forget it.

I thought that was Amira's mother too, but was told by one in the know that I was mistaken.

I’m not sure it’s Amira’s mother either. Can she really play violin at that level?

@@BangkokVoiceCoach I know that Amira's mother was NOT playing in that orchestra. She was in the audience along with Amira's manager at the time, Mike Fuller. This performance took place on March 2nd, 2018, 3 1/2 weeks before Amira's 14th birthday. On this day Amira also announced the release of her third album entitled "With all my heart".

Joe - Which one? There was the NWU performance in Potchefstroom, South Africa - 23 Nov 2016 & the 'Afrikaans is Groot' concert staged in South Africa in November 11-13, 2016.

@@cmlarose50 . The one listed as five years ago with 6.9m views.

@@joepollard9476 - yes, that has had lots more attention - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMWHrM12z5uoh2w.html

Their mission was to share the Gospel, the Good News. (Matthew 28: 16-20)

@@cmlarose50 Exactly my point! Impose their Euro-centric superstitions upon the indigenous people as if the cultural superstitions of the natives are somehow inferior.

@@richardlambe - Guess you haven't been evangelized, sad future for you.

@@cmlarose50 Cultural anthropologists and historians have collected an overwhelming amount of data on the ubiquitous presence of religious fantasies throughout the history of the human species. These fantasies provide explanations for natural phenomena: Atlas carries the earth through the heavens; Neptune roils the seas; Pele causes the volcanos to erupt; et cetera. Creation myths are common yet widely varied in their in their agents and mechanisms. These fantasies arise through the universal human behavior of anthropomorphism, defined by Mirrian-Webster as: an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics. Attempting to talk a putt into the cup, or Pudge Fisk yelling and waiving at the fly ball to remain fair are common examples. Once we acknowledge the behavior, it is evident that we imagine an agent who will hear our entreaty. Since this behavior is universal it is no great leap to realize that there will be those who capitalize on the insecurity of others by advancing the claim to have an “in” with those mythical agents. This is the origin of the “Medicine Man,” shaman or priest. It is imperative that we acknowledge the natural, rather than supernatural, origins of religious fantasy because those fantasies are the primer for all subsequent gullibility. Stolen elections, Democrats as cannibalistic pedophiles, deep state, With god on our side, q-anon and on and on, big lie after big lie.

@@cmlarose50 No, I escaped that in high school due to quality education. My 83 years have been joyous and productive although, as in every life, there has been some sadness.