Anonymous ID: 54eadf March 12, 2023, 5:11 a.m. No.18491496   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1500

>>18491463

He does it beautifully, better than Pavarotti.

Clip from Sum of All Fears.

Meaning:

In the opera, this song is sung by Prince Calaf, who wanted to marry Princess Turandot. The princess’s father sets three riddles, and if anybody solves them, the princess will marry them. Calaf solves the three riddles but the princess doesn’t want to marry him. Calaf says if the princess can guess his name by the next morning, then she can kill him, but if not, she must marry him.

The princess then sets out on a mission to find out Calaf’s name, and she declares that none of her subjects can sleep until they find out his name, and if they don’t discover his name, she will kill them all. Calaf then starts singing, “Nessun dorma”, which means “Nobody shall sleep.”

 

Nobody shall sleep! Nobody shall sleep! Even you, oh Princess, in your cold room. Look at the stars that tremble with love, and with hope

 

But my secret is shut away inside me; my name nobody will know! No, no! On your mouth, I will say it when the light glistens!

And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!

 

Then, in the distance, you can hear people singing this next line:

His name nobody will know, and we will have to, alas, die, die!

 

Then Calaf starts singing again:

Vanish, oh night! Fade, stars! Fade, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!