Tag: Turandot

  • Italy Keeps Rising to the Occasion

    In quarantined Italy, tenor Maurizio Marchini belts out “Nessun dorma,” from Puccini’s “Turandot” to the city of Florence from his Balcony. “Nessun Dorma”and concludes: All’alba, vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win! —————————— And it was no coincidence that the Italian Air Force chose the very same aria…

  • Flashopera Moment

    The arrival on stage, last June, of Paul Potts, a mobile phone salesman from Cardiff, to compete on the British version of American Idol (Britain’s Got Talent) did not, at first glance, elicit a very enthusiastic welcome from the program’s studio audience or the judges. But when he proceeded to sing the aria Nessun Dorma…