Nessun Dorma

Nessun Dorma (in Italian) is a table of the final act of the opera Turandot of Giacomo Puccini. Nessum Dorma can be translated into French by That nobody sleeps .

This table follows the declaration of the Turandot princess as what nobody must sleep before to have found the name of the unknown prince, Calaf, which launched this challenge to him. As for him, Calaf sings thus showing its certainty that their effort will be vain.

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Interpretations

Traditional

Placido DOMINGO, 1982, Philharmonic orchestra of Vienna, Herbert von Karajan, to dir. (DG 4238552)
Luciano PAVAROTTI, 2006, opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics of Turin

Others

1998 : Sarah Brightman, in the album Eden
2002: Manowar, in the album Warriors off the World
Paul Potts, incredible interpretation as an amateur during the emission britain' S got talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA. It is about one of the vidéos most looked of all times on youtube.
VIDEO NESSUN DORMA - Last Luciano Pavarotti' S performance - Torino 2006
See version sung by Mario Lanza in 1956 and especially versions sung by Pavarotti at the end of the XX century.

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