Finally, finally. All us PAV fans have been asking for this and you are the first one to do it!! He stood on the stage for a 17 minute ovation for this performance. I have subscribed!!
Listen to all the overtones in his voice. It's not just about hitting the high notes, its the quality of the voice the body in the voice and that can only be heard in a theater without any microphones to amplify like he is singing here. Just a straight voice, No effects. Just a beautiful voice.
OH, you have made me so happy reacting to this song, I've been waiting for all the reactors to hear it, and you are the first! The woman he loves is a single, mature woman. At her age, she would be considered a spinster. She is watching young girls dancing and flirting with their boyfriends, and she cries a single tear because she can not join them. But her secret admirer is overjoyed to see her tear, he knows now that he can win her heart and make her happy again.
You know… these operas where so internationally famous back when they were written (I´m talking about roughly 19th century), that many rich people would learn Italian just to be able to understand them properly without needing translations. And of course every opera singer still has to learn at least a bit of Italian to sing it well. A bit of lore here! L'elisir d'amore is a nice, funny Opera, which ends on a positive note (instead of a tragic or sad one like many others) and it speaks of thematics that are so much important today as well. The guy Pavarotti is here impersonating is Nemorino, a young and simpleminded farmer, who is sincerely in love with a rich and beautiful woman (also older than him, btw), Aldina, that doesn't seem to care about him one bit. He gets scammed by a charlatan, that makes him believe that a bottle of wine is a love potion (hence the title of the opera, elisir d'amore= potion of love). Long story short(because in the meanwhile a bit of funny/angsty things happen), he gets scammed a second time, but this time in the meanwhile his uncle has died leaving him rich (he doesn't know though) and suddenly all the young girls want to marry him. Aldina gets jealous (Nemorino notices and here comes the song "una furtiva lacrima", because he's happy!) and the scammer tries to sell her the same "love potion" (who the scammer himself now thinks is actually working, since he doesn't know about the heredity too), but she's not fooled and so gets to know that Nemorino has sold himself as a recruit to the regiment to pay for the second love potion. She's deeply moved by his sincere and deep feelings and decides to admit she returns his feelings and marry him. They then are informed that Nemorino is now rich, so that everyone is happy (included the scammer who now thinks the "potion" works for bringing riches too（⊙ｏ⊙) ), except the rival of Nemorino, but he's a good sport and doesn't try to ruin the happiness, just curses the scammer.
The best tenor of all time. He elicited explosions of applause and shouts of euphoria from the audience in every place where he sang. May God have him in his holy glory. Thank you for appreciating his art.
So right, Pavarotti needs no effects. His expression comes from his heart, his voice and his eyes. I like youre reaction. Every time amazing how Pavarotti makes people cry in 3 minutes... In this opera Pavarotti plays Nemorino, a simple and naive farmer. He loves Adina but she loves a rich man. Nemoriono believes that a magic elixir will help him. Of course it doesn't work. Despite of this in the further process of the story he wins her heart. When he discovers a furtive tear on her face, he is happy. Now he knows, Adina loves him. In his dreams there is nothing better for him than to be near her. If this comes true he could die for love. In a romantic sense and also real sense. He signed a contract as a soldier in order to be able to buy more elixir. So he could really die. But it's one of a few operas with a happy end. One reason why Pavarotti loved this role.
As italian and familiar with opera, my personal reaction to your reactions, is that you deeply love this genre. I can understand you, it's like a sort of "revelation"...🙂 Enjoy It. Try listen also to the female GREAT interpreters as Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballè...😉
Very nice reaction. Good choice of music. You asked, so I suppose somebody already told you about the background of this aria. But just in case... He's been madly in love with the girl, Adina, since the very beginning of the opera. She sees him as timid and a little buffoonish and poor (she's rich). He gets it into his head to buy a love potion with money he gets from enlisting in the army (hence the title of the opera L'Elixir d'Amor - the Elixir of Love or the Love Potion). Later the women of the town find out (without his knowing) that his uncle has died and left him a fortune. So they are all crowding round him and flirting, trying to get his attention. He thinks it's the Love Potion... Adina notices this and gets jealous until she finds out the lengths he's gone to to win her over. He thinks he sees a hidden tear (furtiva lagrima) in her eye and then we hear this aria. You might like to see the lead-in to the aria. Here is a recording of the full opera with subtitles. If you skip to 1 hour 26 minutes, you can pick it up from where the town girls are finding out he's a millionaire. 😃 (By the way, it's a comedy) ruclips.net/video/iJPsrFjrzEw/видео.html If you were to go to any major opera house in the world, you probably see a tenor just as good or better than this but the soprano would likely not be quite as good. But you'd have fun anyway. By the way, a song in an opera is called an aria. There are other great singers besides Pavarotti. You might listen to Fritz Wunderlich in Granada. And Kathleen Battle in Bachianas number 5. Both are shortish songs.
No she does not die. This is actually one of Donizetti s comic love stories. They actually come together in the final scene. It has an upbeat happy ending. Watch the complete opera it’s great and fun.
Hi Gracie, I see you posted this a year ago,. so you may not see this. But to explain this aria, his beloved is not dead but she has him convinced she doesn't love him at all. This is moment when he realises that actually - yes, she does love him really. A single tear on her cheek when she saw him with another woman has confirmed it to him and he's so happy he feels he could die. Of course, he doesn't and, of course, they get their happily ever after. Hope that clarifies things for you.
Love your reaction and seeing you feel the music and words! Try the song Caruso too with the words translated.. it is Dalla's imagining what is going on in Caruso's mind as he he lays dying, leaving his young wife in life but going on in the music, dying yet still in the music. Awesome pice performed from the soul...
At you local cinema you may be able to enjoy operas from The Metropolitan opera in NY. They show them on Saturdays for the price of a ticket you get to see it live from the Met
No, it's actually a comedy with this serious moment ... furtive means that you are trying to act normally while hiding your real feelings ... something hidden away.
Gracie It Is normale that you didnt undestand too much, beacuse the lyrics arent precise. More accurate lyrics: A single secret tear from her eye did spring: as if she envied all the youths that laughingly passed her by. What more searching need I do? What more searching need I do? She loves me! Yes, she loves me, I see it. I see it. For just an instant the beating of her beautiful heart I could feel! As if my sighs were hers, and her sighs were mine! The beating, the beating of her heart I could feel, to merge my sighs with hers... Heavens! Yes, I could die! I could ask for nothing more, nothing more. Oh, heavens! Yes, I could, I could die! I could ask for nothing more, nothing more. Yes, I could die! Yes, I could die of love. However i really appreciate you reaction. Your next reaction of a Pavarotti's song should be "che gelida manina". There isn't English subtitles but he sings with hert and make to feel to everyone his emotions. I hope that as early as possible you can react this masterpiece. Here the link: ruclips.net/video/pR2W37WFUnE/видео.html
Hi Gracie . Do you get goosebumps when you hear music like this . I would like to know if you are a student of music or drama . If not you should look into it . Also , go to the library and ask for a book on opera librettos . It’s a huge book full of the stories of the operas
gracie, if you want the greatest vocal emotions, look at "franco corelli sings Nessun Dorma" (for Pavarotti the greatest voice of music of century), claudio villa, the nicest voice of popular song in "Granada" (4 mln of views), mario del monaco "vesti la giubba at the bolshoi russia", the most powerful voice of century (minute 2:00), for example, without to forget "Beniamino Gigli - O sole mio" (703.870 of views), even if the sound is mono (incredible).
Gracie, I really hope you will put these 2 songs by Ataia on your reaction list. Please! She has a really nice voice and the songs are great! Thanks you! "FINE - ATAIA" ruclips.net/video/vuF25HWnBGM/видео.html "It's Strange / Closer - Chainsmokers & Louis The Child (MASHUP)" ruclips.net/video/a9KwkpTRnlY/видео.html
A very hard aria to master. The long lines, the breath control. Wonderful.
The greatest tenor of all time.
Finally, finally. All us PAV fans have been asking for this and you are the first one to do it!! He stood on the stage for a 17 minute ovation for this performance. I have subscribed!!
17minutes 😳 wowwwwww
Thank you for joining my family 😘...
Yes, she is the first one of all RUclips I can confirm that
@@GracieReacts He deserved every minute of that ovation.
Listen to all the overtones in his voice. It's not just about hitting the high notes, its the quality of the voice the body in the voice and that can only be heard in a theater without any microphones to amplify like he is singing here. Just a straight voice, No effects. Just a beautiful voice.
The warmest, brightest and most powerful lyrical tenor of all time. And this opera aria is one of my favorites. Thank you and regards.
OH, you have made me so happy reacting to this song, I've been waiting for all the reactors to hear it, and you are the first! The woman he loves is a single, mature woman. At her age, she would be considered a spinster. She is watching young girls dancing and flirting with their boyfriends, and she cries a single tear because she can not join them. But her secret admirer is overjoyed to see her tear, he knows now that he can win her heart and make her happy again.
🥺🥺🥺
So sweet
Thank you
Credo so puo` morir d •amor. So much passion .
Love, Love, Love your reactions. Subbed.❤❤❤
Yay! Thank you!
You know… these operas where so internationally famous back when they were written (I´m talking about roughly 19th century), that many rich people would learn Italian just to be able to understand them properly without needing translations. And of course every opera singer still has to learn at least a bit of Italian to sing it well.
A bit of lore here!
L'elisir d'amore is a nice, funny Opera, which ends on a positive note (instead of a tragic or sad one like many others) and it speaks of thematics that are so much important today as well. The guy Pavarotti is here impersonating is Nemorino, a young and simpleminded farmer, who is sincerely in love with a rich and beautiful woman (also older than him, btw), Aldina, that doesn't seem to care about him one bit. He gets scammed by a charlatan, that makes him believe that a bottle of wine is a love potion (hence the title of the opera, elisir d'amore= potion of love). Long story short(because in the meanwhile a bit of funny/angsty things happen), he gets scammed a second time, but this time in the meanwhile his uncle has died leaving him rich (he doesn't know though) and suddenly all the young girls want to marry him. Aldina gets jealous (Nemorino notices and here comes the song "una furtiva lacrima", because he's happy!) and the scammer tries to sell her the same "love potion" (who the scammer himself now thinks is actually working, since he doesn't know about the heredity too), but she's not fooled and so gets to know that Nemorino has sold himself as a recruit to the regiment to pay for the second love potion.
She's deeply moved by his sincere and deep feelings and decides to admit she returns his feelings and marry him.
They then are informed that Nemorino is now rich, so that everyone is happy (included the scammer who now thinks the "potion" works for bringing riches too（⊙ｏ⊙) ), except the rival of Nemorino, but he's a good sport and doesn't try to ruin the happiness, just curses the scammer.
I have never seen this before either. He is outstanding! You are right, his singing is so emotive!
He did what he wanted with his voice
A gorgeous version of this aria
It's so pure it makes me cry! D:
this is actually a charming, somewhat funny opera with a happy ending. He gets the girl in the end.
Just going to post the same thing. No one dies, no one is shot, or stabbed or goes mad. In the end they fall in love. 😊
Hope to see many more reactions to this masterpiece! This is a STUNNER!
The best tenor of all time. He elicited explosions of applause and shouts of euphoria from the audience in every place where he sang. May God have him in his holy glory. Thank you for appreciating his art.
He got a 17 minute standing ovation
So right, Pavarotti needs no effects. His expression comes from his heart, his voice and his eyes. I like youre reaction. Every time amazing how Pavarotti makes people cry in 3 minutes... In this opera Pavarotti plays Nemorino, a simple and naive farmer. He loves Adina but she loves a rich man. Nemoriono believes that a magic elixir will help him. Of course it doesn't work. Despite of this in the further process of the story he wins her heart. When he discovers a furtive tear on her face, he is happy. Now he knows, Adina loves him. In his dreams there is nothing better for him than to be near her. If this comes true he could die for love. In a romantic sense and also real sense. He signed a contract as a soldier in order to be able to buy more elixir. So he could really die. But it's one of a few operas with a happy end. One reason why Pavarotti loved this role.
Wow that is so sweet 🥺
Loved it beyond anything
As italian and familiar with opera, my personal reaction to your reactions, is that you deeply love this genre.
I can understand you, it's like a sort of "revelation"...🙂 Enjoy It.
Try listen also to the female GREAT interpreters as Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballè...😉
Only a word!! "BELLE CANTO"
💯💯💯
You mean Bel Canto.
Bel canto.
Boy, Pavarotti made sure he rolled that letter r in the end. That's perfection.
Very nice reaction. Good choice of music.
You asked, so I suppose somebody already told you about the background of this aria.
But just in case...
He's been madly in love with the girl, Adina, since the very beginning of the opera.
She sees him as timid and a little buffoonish and poor (she's rich).
He gets it into his head to buy a love potion with money he gets from enlisting in the army (hence the title of the opera L'Elixir d'Amor - the Elixir of Love or the Love Potion).
Later the women of the town find out (without his knowing) that his uncle has died and left him a fortune.
So they are all crowding round him and flirting, trying to get his attention.
He thinks it's the Love Potion...
Adina notices this and gets jealous until she finds out the lengths he's gone to to win her over. He thinks he sees a hidden tear (furtiva lagrima) in her eye and then we hear this aria.
You might like to see the lead-in to the aria. Here is a recording of the full opera with subtitles. If you skip to 1 hour 26 minutes, you can pick it up from where the town girls are finding out he's a millionaire. 😃
(By the way, it's a comedy)
ruclips.net/video/iJPsrFjrzEw/видео.html
If you were to go to any major opera house in the world, you probably see a tenor just as good or better than this but the soprano would likely not be quite as good.
But you'd have fun anyway.
By the way, a song in an opera is called an aria.
There are other great singers besides Pavarotti.
You might listen to Fritz Wunderlich in Granada. And Kathleen Battle in Bachianas number 5. Both are shortish songs.
Celestial
Tu también eres preciosa
My friends find it funny I listen to Opera music even though I listen to Death metal music constantly.
absolute MASTERS!
Awesome, try listening to some sopranos, Vissi d arte and many more
No she does not die. This is actually one of Donizetti s comic love stories. They actually come together in the final scene. It has an upbeat happy ending. Watch the complete opera it’s great and fun.
Hi Gracie, I see you posted this a year ago,. so you may not see this. But to explain this aria, his beloved is not dead but she has him convinced she doesn't love him at all. This is moment when he realises that actually - yes, she does love him really. A single tear on her cheek when she saw him with another woman has confirmed it to him and he's so happy he feels he could die. Of course, he doesn't and, of course, they get their happily ever after. Hope that clarifies things for you.
like a forbidden love vibe ❤️
Love your reaction and seeing you feel the music and words! Try the song Caruso too with the words translated.. it is Dalla's imagining what is going on in Caruso's mind as he he lays dying, leaving his young wife in life but going on in the music, dying yet still in the music. Awesome pice performed from the soul...
look for a tenor like Jan Kiepura, he is Pavarotti's ancestor
Do u know that our black opera singer Lawrence Brownlee also marvelously sings d same aria?
At you local cinema you may be able to enjoy operas from The Metropolitan opera in NY. They show them on Saturdays for the price of a ticket you get to see it live from the Met
No, it's actually a comedy with this serious moment ... furtive means that you are trying to act normally while hiding your real feelings ... something hidden away.
Utterly magnificent. Try O Mio Babbino Caro (Montserrat Caballé), Che Gelida Manina (Jussi Bjorling)
Gracie It Is normale that you didnt undestand too much, beacuse the lyrics arent precise.
More accurate lyrics:
A single secret tear
from her eye did spring:
as if she envied all the youths
that laughingly passed her by.
What more searching need I do?
What more searching need I do?
She loves me! Yes, she loves me, I see it. I see it.
For just an instant the beating
of her beautiful heart I could feel!
As if my sighs were hers,
and her sighs were mine!
The beating, the beating of her heart I could feel,
to merge my sighs with hers...
Heavens! Yes, I could die!
I could ask for nothing more, nothing more.
Oh, heavens! Yes, I could, I could die!
I could ask for nothing more, nothing more.
Yes, I could die! Yes, I could die of love.
However i really appreciate you reaction.
Your next reaction of a Pavarotti's song should be "che gelida manina". There isn't English subtitles but he sings with hert and make to feel to everyone his emotions. I hope that as early as possible you can react this masterpiece.
Here the link:
ruclips.net/video/pR2W37WFUnE/видео.html
Thank you for this lyric 🥺
@@GracieReacts youre welcome
Also , I just bought a book second hand on amazon . “ 100 great operas and their stories “
Try his Che Gelida Manina from La Boheme
Now you need to do "Caruso" - has english subs.
Hi Gracie . Do you get goosebumps when you hear music like this . I would like to know if you are a student of music or drama . If not you should look into it . Also , go to the library and ask for a book on opera librettos . It’s a huge book full of the stories of the operas
Dall'opera "l'elisir d'amore" di Gaetano Donizetti.
She doesn't die, the translation is wrong. He says that by knowing he is loved he can die because he has what he longs for, his love.
Millions of Italian women wished he was their son so he could sing this song to them.
Do listen to Caruso
I´d like to see your video on: Miliza Korjus : WARUM?.
Can you listen react to chris cornell billie jean acoustic version micheal jacksons song
Ill add it to my to react list 😁
@@GracieReacts thanks
gracie, if you want the greatest vocal emotions, look at "franco corelli sings Nessun Dorma" (for Pavarotti the greatest voice of music of century), claudio villa, the nicest voice of popular song in "Granada" (4 mln of views), mario del monaco "vesti la giubba at the bolshoi russia", the most powerful voice of century (minute 2:00), for example, without to forget "Beniamino Gigli - O sole mio" (703.870 of views), even if the sound is mono (incredible).
You changed the back drop, you should paint some art there 🎸
😁😁😁
I would love to but I'm not allowed to paint that's why I used stickers
That's too bad, you can get a temporary plaster board sheet., you can take it down any time
Gracie, I really hope you will put these 2 songs by Ataia on your reaction list. Please! She has a really nice voice and the songs are great! Thanks you!
"FINE - ATAIA"
ruclips.net/video/vuF25HWnBGM/видео.html
"It's Strange / Closer - Chainsmokers & Louis The Child (MASHUP)"
ruclips.net/video/a9KwkpTRnlY/видео.html