Nessun dorma
Nessun dorma ( Italian for 'Nobody sleeps') is the aria of Prince Kalaf at the beginning of the third act of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot , which was premiered in Milan in 1926.
In the opera, the action of which is set in the Chinese Empire 3000 years ago, the strange prince Kalaf solves the riddle of Princess Turandot and wins her as a wife. However, he promises the princess to release her from her promise of marriage if she finds out his name by sunrise.
Turandot then orders that no one should sleep in Beijing, everyone should search for the name of the unknown prince. The subjects are threatened with the death penalty if they fail to find out the name.
Messenger proclaim: Questa notte nessun dorma in Pechino - 'Nobody should sleep this night in Beijing'. The choir then repeats the words Nessun dorma . Kalaf also takes up these words at the beginning of the aria and shows himself steadfast and certain that the princess will not solve the mystery of his name.
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Italian original Calaf Chorus Calaf |
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German translation Calaf Chorus Calaf |
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German sung text Calaf Chorus Calaf Let |
reception
Performers
Since the opera's premiere on April 25, 1926 by Arturo Toscanini at La Scala in Milan , the aria has been part of the standard repertoire of all great tenors. The calaf of the premiere was the Spanish tenor Miguel Fleta . The lyrical tenor Fritz Wunderlich sang the aria in 1958 under the German title Keiner Schlafe .
Luciano Pavarotti achieved great popularity beyond the operatic stage with Puccini's aria. It became the climax of many of his concerts and led to an identification of the singer with this work.
The aria Nessun dorma was also part of the program of the Three Tenors on the occasion of the 1990 Soccer World Cup , which reached a worldwide audience of one billion. The recording of this concert is considered the most successful classic DVD of all time.
The until then largely unknown British tenor Paul Potts won the casting show Britain's Got Talent in 2007 with a version of Nessun dorma , which also hit the singles charts. The adoption of this inclusion in a Deutsche Telekom commercial led to further popularization.
In 2012, nine-year-old Amira Willighagen sang the aria on the TV show Holland's Got Talent .
The aria in the film
Nessun dorma was featured in the films Hereafter , Love Has Two Faces , The Witches of Eastwick , Beloved Giorgio , The Attack , Hannibal , American Princess , The Killing Fields - Schreiendes Land , Kick it like Beckham , Boxing Helena , The sea in me , Philadelphia , Destiny - once standing at the top , recipe to fall in love with and also briefly in Man on Fire , The Island , Toys , The Fearless Four and in the episodes of the TV series Dr. House ( autopsy ), Six Feet Under ( Nobody Sleeps ), Malcolm in the middle ( Dewey's opera ) and the crime scene episodes Pechmarie (2006) and The Chinese Princess (2013) and Marvel's Daredevil ( Nelson and Murdock ). In Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), the motif appears in several key scenes in the film music. A recurring background is the aria in the filmed autobiography of Enzo Ferrari , in which the main actor Sergio Castellitto sings an interpretation of Nessun dorma . Ken Russell shot an episode based on this aria for the episode film Aria . An arrangement for guitar can be found in the series Shaun the Sheep in the episode entitled Vegetable Football . In the film, To Rome With Love from Woody Allen 's aria also plays a central role.
Arrangements in popular and folk music
The numerous adaptations of the piece include an adaptation of the true metal band Manowar on the 2002 album Warriors of the World , a version by Albano Carrisi , who is also known from the Italian duo Al Bano & Romina Power , and a rap from Mobb Deep (1997). There are also versions by Michael Bolton , Sarah Brightman , Lester Bowie , Jeff Beck , Turin Brakes , Aretha Franklin and the True Symphonic Rockestra . When she won the Olympic Games in Turin in 2006, the Japanese figure skater Shizuka Arakawa ran in the freestyle to a violin fantasy of this music. In the dance scene, a version sampled by Lacrima achieved greater notoriety.
The German songwriter Konstantin Wecker created his own version of Nessun dorma with the piece For my father .
The original Vogtlandecho produced a popular version in 2011. The classic version was retained, but supplemented with sequences from folk music .
Former Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth adapted the 1998 song Bridge to Heaven from the album Prologue to the Symphonic Legends .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at amazon.de
- ↑ Media Control press release
- ↑ youtube.com: Amira Willighagen - Nessun Dorma
- ↑ Sky of Avalon - Uli Jon Roth | Songs, reviews, credits. Retrieved January 14, 2020 (American English).