In 2007 Paul Potts won "Britian's Got Talent" with a performance of an aria from the final act of what Giacomo Puccini opera?
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Paul Potts Paul Robert Potts (born 13 October 1970) is a British tenor. In 2007, he won the first series of ITV's "Britain's Got Talent" with his performance of "Nessun dorma", an aria from Puccini's opera "Turandot". As a singer of operatic pop music, Potts recorded the album "One Chance", which topped sales charts in thirteen countries . Prior to winning "Britain's Got Talent", Potts was a manager at The Carphone Warehouse. He had served as a Bristol city councillor from 1996 until 2003, and also had performed in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003.
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Nessun dorma "Nessun dorma " (] ; English: "None shall sleep") is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera. It is sung by Calaf, "il principe ignoto " (the unknown prince), who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot. However, any man who wishes to wed Turandot must first answer her three riddles; if he fails, he will be beheaded. In the aria, Calaf expresses his triumphant assurance that he will win the princess.
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Alessandro (opera) Alessandro (HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story of Ortensio Mauro's "La superbia d'Alessandro". This was the first time the famous singers Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni appeared together in one of Handel's operas. The original cast also included Francesco Bernardi who was known as Senesino.
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Peter Grimes Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book "The Borough". The "borough" of the opera is a fictional village which shares some similarities with Crabbe's, and later Britten's, own home of Aldeburgh, a town on England's east coast.
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Tutti in maschera Tutti in maschera (Everyone in Disguise) is an opera (called a "commedia lirica") by Carlo Pedrotti. The libretto is by Marco Marcelliano Marcello, based on the 1759 comedy "L'impresario delle Smirne" by Carlo Goldoni. It was premiered at the Teatro Nuovo, Verona, on 4 November 1856.
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The Francis Bacon Opera The Francis Bacon Opera is a comic chamber opera in one act composed by Stephen Crowe. The libretto is based on Crowe's transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with the British artist Francis Bacon, filmed for "The South Bank Show" in 1985. The opera was first performed in its final version on 8 August 2012 in London, and went on to win the Hilton Edwards Award in May 2013.
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Daniel de Bourg Daniel de Bourg is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and model. In 2007, he was a finalist on the fourth UK series of "The X Factor".
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One Chance (album) One Chance is the debut album from British tenor Paul Potts. He won "Britain's Got Talent" on 17 June 2007, and the album was released on 16 July 2007 by Syco Music.
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Sacred Arias (Katherine Jenkins album) Sacred Arias is the sixth album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, released on 20 October 2008 in the UK. It is her final album with the Universal Music label.
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Opera Holland Park Opera Holland Park is a summer opera company which produces an annual season of opera performances, staged under a temporary canopy in front of the remains of Holland House, a Blitz-damaged building in Holland Park, west central London. The venue is fully covered but is open at the sides. The company's 2017 Season sees performances of Puccini's La rondine, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Janacek's Kat'a Kabanova, Leoncavallo's Zaza as well as Royal Ballet School Summer Performances, all taking place between 1 June and 29 July.
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John Pringle (baritone) John Pringle AM (born 17 October 1938) is a retired Australian operatic baritone. He sang leading and supporting roles with Opera Australia and its predecessors for 41 years (1967–2008), and with some overseas companies. He was strongly associated with roles by Mozart, such as Figaro and Count Almaviva in "The Marriage of Figaro"; the title role and Leporello in "Don Giovanni"; Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in "Così fan tutte"; and Papageno in "The Magic Flute".
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The English Cat The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on "Les peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise " ("The heartbreak of an English cat") by Honoré de Balzac. The opera was first performed in a German translation by the Stuttgart Opera at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the Schwetzingen Festival on 2 June 1983. The French premiere was at the Opéra-Comique, Paris in 1984. The first performance using the original English text was at Santa Fe on 13 July 1985. The UK premiere was at the Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, on 19 August 1987. A revised version was performed at Montepulciano in 1990 and this was given in London in 1991.
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The Christmas Album (Richard &amp; Adam album) The Christmas Album is the second studio album by Welsh operatic duo Richard & Adam, who first rose to fame on the seventh series of the ITV talent show "Britain's Got Talent" in 2013, on which they finished third. The album was released on 2 December 2013 through Sony Music as the second album of the two-album contract that they signed after the show. The album consists of cover of various Christmas songs, including "I Saw Three Ships", "Silent Night", "Once in Royal David's City".
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The Minotaur (opera) The Minotaur is an opera in two acts, with 13 scenes by English composer Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by poet David Harsent, commissioned by the Royal Opera House in London. The work, a retelling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, premiered at the Royal Opera House on 15 April 2008 and was shown on BBC2 television on 7 June 2008. The score is modernistic, and the scenes fall into three types: bullfights; scenes between Ariadne and Theseus; and dream sequences for the Minotaur, in which the creature has the gift of speech. The opera lasts about 140 minutes, not counting the interval.
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Popstar to Operastar (series 2) The second UK series of Popstar to Operastar began on 4 June 2011, with eight celebrities in competition to become an opera singer, after achieving success as a popstar. The judges were confirmed; with Rolando Villazón and Katherine Jenkins and two new judges Vanessa-Mae and Simon Callow, who took over the places of Meat Loaf and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Myleene Klass returned as the presenter taking on sole presenting duties as Alan Titchmarsh did not return.
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La canterina La canterina ("The Songstress" or "The Diva"), Hob. XXVIII/2, is a short, two-act opera buffa by Joseph Haydn, the first one he wrote for Prince Esterhazy. Based on the intermezzo from the third act of Niccolò Piccinni's opera L'Origille (1760), it lasts about 50 minutes. It was written in 1766, and was premiered in the fall of that year.
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La gazza ladra La gazza ladra (] , The Thieving Magpie) is a "melodramma" or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on "La pie voleuse" by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.
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Alice in Wonderland (opera) Alice in Wonderland is a 2007 operatic adaptation of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll. It is the first opera of Korean composer Unsuk Chin, who co-wrote the English libretto with the Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang. It had its world premiere on 30 June 2007.. However, the jacket and notice of the DVD of the World Premiere indicates that the recording was made on the 27th of June) at the Bavarian State Opera as part of the 2007 Munich Opera Festival. Conducted by Kent Nagano and featuring Sally Matthews in the title role and Dame Gwyneth Jones as the Queen of Hearts, the production was hailed as "World Premiere of the Year" by the German opera magazine "Opernwelt". A DVD was subsequently released by Euroarts.
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Tosca (film) Tosca is a 2001 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot based on the opera by Giacomo Puccini.
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William Tell (opera) Guillaume Tell (English: William Tell , Italian: Guglielmo Tell ) is a French opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis. Based on Friedrich Schiller's play "William Tell," which drew on the William Tell legend, the opera was Rossini's last, although he lived for nearly forty more years. Fabio Luisi said that Rossini planned for "William Tell" to be his last opera even as he composed it. The overture, in four sections and featuring a depiction of a storm as well as a vivacious finale, the "March of the Swiss Soldiers," is often played.
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Un bel dì vedremo "Un bel dì vedremo " ("One fine day we’ll see") is a soprano aria from the opera "Madama Butterfly" (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San/Madama Butterfly (on stage with Suzuki), when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon.
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Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (] ; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".