"Real men only cry for one reason" "What?" Luciano Pavarotti's Last Public Performance

That's how a real man says his last farewell

1:37 That face of satisfaction, of being singing his most powerful aria... so many memories, so many friends, a lifetime dedicated to music, and somehow, in that smile, he knew it would be his last Nessun Dorma. Rest in peace master

Quite frankly, I don’t care if this was prerecorded - it was still his voice, the one that brings me to my knees and gives comfort to my soul.

Tears in my eyes here. This was his last ever public performance. Just a few months after this he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and died less than a year later. The last bit where he is holding his arms up is almost like he is sacrificing himself. What a moment.

His last word on the scene was "VINCERO" - Victory from italian

His face of joy at 1:37 along with the long open-arm embrace at the end hit me quite hard, like he it was going to be his final performance. The most fitting ending nailing that incredible "Vincero" one final time to put an exclamation mark on the most extraordinary career. Maybe one day I will be able to attend a show in which there is a hologram of him, since I never got the chance to see him in person.

1:40 the eyes never lies

2:10 he sings this last "Vincerò!" like he knows it will be his last one, like it's his was of saying goodbye to the world. What a legend, i wish musicians these days would have a pinch of the emotion Pavaritti showed in this perfomance.

He finished his career with the same passion he had begun with..

I absolutely love how Pavarotti's face shows how he is just taking in the whole moment at 1:37. The music, his singing(prerecorded), the crowd, everything. I hope I can experience life like he did.

1:37から、間奏のとこの笑顔、ちょっと泣きそうになるパバロッティの笑顔がたまらなく好きだ。パバロッティが、生きることはなんて素晴らしいのだろうと笑っている。翌年、天に召された彼の、全身からみなぎる生きる喜びに魂がふるえる。

Watching the lion roar for the last time... Never to find music like this again! Anyone else 2023?

This performance still gives me chills and brings me to tears.

His voice did not fade. His smile did not fade. His soul did not fade, and in fact, is still alive today and with us through his beautiful art of singing. That torch up there - that's him. His spirit shall shine forever like flame.

A lot of people were saying he lip-synced this performance. I remember watching this on TV, and the absolute chills I got. I knew he was not well by looking at his stance here, shed tears knowing how proud and honored he must have felt being able to open for the Olympics in his home country. He was the best ever, and I get that "roller coaster" wave when he closes out this amazing song

“Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and ‘Pavarotti’ never died. They simply became music.” This was so emotional to watch... He is a legend. His legacy and records will live forever... RIP

1:37 Oh my god, just look at his face. If heaven exists, Pavarotti sings this aria there. :') ❤️ RIP

Heard that so many times, but the passion in his voice - you can copy it. Best voice of the world. Period.

Here in 2020... I hope everyone in that audience realizes how lucky they are to have heard one of the greatest voices of all time. There will never be another like him. A giant among men, with a voice that reminds us that not all is bad in this world.

On 10 February 2006, Pavarotti sang "Nessun dorma" at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy, at his final performance. In the last act of the opening ceremony, his performance received the longest and loudest ovation of the night from the international crowd. Leone Magiera, who directed the performance, revealed in his 2008 memoirs, Pavarotti Visto da Vicino, that the performance had been recorded weeks earlier.[25] "The orchestra pretended to play for the audience, I pretended to conduct and Luciano pretended to sing. The effect was wonderful," he wrote. Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, said that the tenor had turned the Winter Olympic Committee's invitation down several times because it would have been impossible to sing late at night in the subzero conditions of Turin in February. The committee eventually persuaded him to take part by prerecording the song. god, it looks so real..

I'm watching in 2019, a voice like that is timeless

Somehow....I believe Luciano knew this was it, like this was the last time he would be able to sing publicly. You can see the absolute passion in his eyes and voice during the climax.

Vincero Maestro....you did TRIUMPH. Repose in paco.

Not 'one of the World's greatest tenors' Luciano Pavarotti WAS the World' s greatest tenor at the time of his untimely death.

I'm really, not at all an opera guy of any sorts, but this piece is without a doubt perfection. No other way to say it.

1:39 he knew 💔

This performance is immortal! Will be remembered by history!

i remember watching this live. everyone was on the edge of their seats. we literally had this feeling that he was about to die. that he was singing so hard he would die right there on the stage. and he sacrificed everything to sing a beautiful tone. not one note is off...not one slip...not one bit of poor intonation. and if you know the aria, you know it's going to go high. and the people watching started to sweat. and it was so beautiful. and then he hit the high note...and he stayed alive. and then people had to help him off the stage like they had to help him onto the stage. i will never forget that moment, and i am eternally grateful to Pavarotti's great soul for singing with such heart, magnitude, and beauty for so so so long, and for teaching us, so very much. Thank you Luciano, thank you!

1:38 😭 su rostro lo dice todo. Él sabía que no volvería a pisar un escenario.

I attended the opening in Torino in 2006. He wasn't announced, but as soon as we heard his first "Nessun Dorma", he didn't have to be introduced. Pavarotti! Of course we never would have known at the time that we were witnesses to his final public performance. Thank you for sharing your music and talent with us one last time.

Today, hundreds of people died for the coronavirus in Italy and here I am... listening this and pray for Italy... pray for the world. Stay in house. Take care. Io ti Amo Italy. From Argentina.

1:37 He must have enjoyed singing so much that he made that face knowing it was his last performance ;-;

thats why you need big Events like Olympic-games in your Country. What Amazing People this Italians are, thanks too the Olympic-Games i recognized it.

He didn’t die God just needed a new singer to listen to :)

he was 70 years old at that time. amazing skills and beautiful voice.

i am crying

Still gives me chills every time. He put everything into that.

The Greatest Tenor in the History Luciano Pavarotti ❤️❤️❤️

I never considered myself much of a Pavarotti fan, but this performance was really something special. Arguably the most famous opera singer of all time, giving his heart to the audience as he always did. RIP Maestro

His body may have perished, but his voice will always echoe through the eternity.

Master peace Legend r.i.p

da diecimila miglia di distanza, ma non è solo un tesoro dell'Italia, ma un grande tesoro dell'intera umanità!

Pavarotti resisted the invitation of singing Nessun Dorma. Finally it was agreed the performance would be pre-recorded and played at the opening ceremonies with both the orchestra and Pavarotti lip syncing. This was due to the cold temperatures, well below freezing.

I remember watching the opening ceremonies in 2006. I hadn't seen Pav anywhere on TV for probably a year and I was shocked at how unwell he looked. I think the cancer was already there and he knew it....watch him clutch his left side at :50, as though he was in pain. His voice had darkened at this point in his life but it was still more beautiful than any other voice I've heard. Per sempre I'll più grande tenore!!!

I was so blessed as a child to watch this live. I was blown away but had no idea how iconic a performance I was witnessing. My mother was also watching and was in tears. This man’s voice was absolutely life changing.

It is said that every great perfomer has one last magnificent performance left in them. Pavarotti proved that.

Fuerza italia latinoamerica está con ustedes 🇲🇽 🇮🇹

Puccini was pure genius. Pavarotti brings his music to a higher level. He is sorely missed.

A performance for eternity, in the middle of 2023 I watch him and feel all the emotion, a true singer who managed to put feeling, emotion in every note, I wish I had the pleasure of watching him, but a tenor like him will always be eternal, his work and his unique voice will live forever in our hearts and I hope that future generations can appreciate it, I would say that watching this performance is the true apotheosis of a singer. Grazie Luciano!!

Goosebumps everytime

The emotion in his face at 1:36..

You can hear in his voice how every note is causing him pain. He knew this was his last one, he pushed through tremendous pain to do this - flaming out like a phoenix.

Not as a singer but as a musician, whenever I listen to this I almost feel like he’s putting all his energy into this performance and despite the struggles, he’s still putting all his might into his voice as if the world was about to end and it just makes me cry that we’ve lost such a talented singer and now all we have to look back on is this last public performance.😢

Every note is beautiful. I don't speak Italian, but he still moves me to tears. He looks like this is goodbye and like it hurt him. It is perfection.

Favourite Olympic moment ever

Not gonna lie, I'm a bit jealous of God that he's got Pavarotti back in his heavenly choir.

we miss you maestro!!!!

2021 Still the greatest performer who ever lived.

A great loss to the whole world...but I was comforted by the fact that God needs Angel's and voices like Luciano's to fill heaven.

I want to highlight the last seconds of this video where he closes his palms together. That is genuinely from the heart, thanking someone for letting him take another stage for this last performance. He is geniune, all coming from the heart.

How lucky are the people who had the chance to watch this LEGEND perform live!

The best singer of all time

rest in peace luciano Pavarotti. you were a legend and you still are. we miss you

Bocelli, Terfel, Potts, Domingo, Carreras, Safina and Kaufmann are great opera singers, but Pavarotti was and still is by far the best. He has put so much emotion and passion in his performances. There will never be someone else quite like him. He’s the embodiment of opera.

You were victorious Pavarotti! 😢

"No one sings like you anymore"

En el minuto 1:37 literalmente sus ojos dejan ver que disfruta por última vez de un escenario.

This World never deserved Luciano. He still gave us everything.

I carry you in my heart eternally

These fading times need these type of people…we can’t endear this enough, he was a giant and knew it, enjoy it…period.

For now on....when you wanna know what a MAN is.......watch this and what can one say but, Luciano!

I cry rivers when ever I watch and listen to this. It’s like he knows he’s going to die and this is his last priceless gift to the world. The amount of suffering and passion in his voice, his eyes, is unreal. May he rest in peace forever ❤️

Grande Luciano, non c'è nessuno come lui

The fact he can cry and still keep his voice steady is amazing.

Vincerooo, vincerooo, Italy will be victorious against coronavirus! Hang in there, Bosnia and Herzegovina is with you!

The last "Nessun Dorma", I miss you Pavarotti :(

This song will never been mastered like this again

I don't know what it is about this particular Nessun Dorma performance, perhaps the different key, the event, the circumstance. This performance...it just holds so much more emotional weight. Even if it was prerecorded, what a poetic sendoff, the piece that he is famous for.

Pavarotti was and still is a legend, he now takes his place in the stars, the choir of heaven

I´m crying. no matter how many times i see this

i can feel his feeling!!! rest in peace master Luciano!

Performances like these make life worth living

The one and only Luciano Pavarotti.

I love the emotion he displays. You can tell every moment he cherishes deeply.

One final "Vincero!" for the great maestro. May the world always remember Luciano Pavarotti, one of the greatest tenors of his or any era.

Luciano is still for me and will be forever the greatest Voice !!!❤❤❤ Klaus S. Blechner, Detmold, Germany🏵🌟👍🎻❤️

What a lucky audience to see this incredible performance. 😭

I love his song "Apple Bottom Jeans"

That’s how a King says goodbye!!

2006 was our golden year. No question about it.

Italian are the best😍

Joy and sadness. Tremendous joy and infinite sadness. At this special moment, I just realised that even him was only a human, suffering, dying but giving his last gift to humanity. The best side of humanity. Thank you for ever.

The year is 2024, contemplating the biggest tenor of all time.

I've watched this performance and cryed with it a thousand times ... such an incredible voice. Much love from Iran

Pavarotti *sings* in this video! Even though it is a Lip Sync with a record, it is clear by the immense emotion and power he put into his performance that he makes the effort to sing it all with the remaining strength he could muster. It is taking a toll, Luciano was a weakened shell of his former self and the strain pains upon him and yet he still does it to get the absolute best he could possibly be and then some beyond that. *This* is why I love Opera, especially from Pavarotti, it is the Drive to push oneself above the limits of a mortal body, grasp the Divine and bring it down to share with the earth. With the last of his strength now entirely spent, Luciano Pavarotti spreads wide his arms and smiles to entire world in a symbol of ultimate farewell, gives his final bow and allows the curtains of history to close upon him - elevating him up to the heavens to return that voice he borrowed from so long ago. Truly there is no better way to go but this one.

I'm watching this in 2020. Joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. Bravo. Timeless.

Am crying, love you Luciano Pavarotti, love from Kerala, India ❤️

Wow! One of the biggest masterpieces in the history of music…

Spectacular....and so symbolic, with the last curtain falling on the Great Tenor. The look of happiness and amazement in his eyes is just priceless. Unforgettable moment, one of the most beautiful in all ceremonies I know.