This performance by Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker is magical to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mzz5jxfPn4

His opening monologue in that film is also a sight to behold.

Linda Ronstadt does a great job with this song, but Bonnie Raitt does even better.

And though I'm not an opera buff, this by Placido Domingo is pretty amazing.

It's the overdone aria but this version is special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PQ7qPkluM

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Damian, I liked the scene. It's quintessential technicolor over-acting, which I find theatrically pleasing. Burt Lancaster was a very good man.

It's nice to see this thread take a tangent into operatic theatre. Here's one that is a real jewel in the crown that opera wears. Great stage set, great costuming, exquisite singing. It appears to be the opera Turandot set within a movie with a love story that comes to a head in this performance of Nessun Dorma by Pavarotti.

https://youtu.be/Q_hLh4qCqpg?si=0V4biLwz1cQGIP2F


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Well, I did say "perhaps"... But I still think the musical genius of Leonard Berstein and the lyric genius of Stephen Sondheim are a hard to beat. (Berstein said that he had carried around the tune for "Somewhere" for years before he finally found a place to use it.)

Anyway, here is another song that belongs in the discussion, for it's existential, haunting lyrics and dreamy melody.

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Julie's link to Adele appears not to work in UK.

But while we're searching for an alternative address, here is Sheila Atim singing Dylan's "Tight connection to my heart" in the stage musical built on a bunch of Dylan things "Girl from the North Country".

Well it brings a lump to my throat

I'll kick off with a Nobel Peace Prize concert performance by a Brit.

https://youtu.be/o2JJoP91WfY?si=tfFm9_reAzhBloft

And for my US entry, I was somewhat affected by this back in the day:

https://youtu.be/fregObNcHC8?si=hFmPTz0ukKFz1Tp0

Sorry. Better luck with this one, from the BBC instead of BBC America this time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXj...ab_channel=BBC
(The subtitles are absolute crap. Not that anyone can really tell what Adele is saying sometimes (hilarious misheard lyrics video here), but come on....)

Emma Kok


https://youtu.be/KdIhq1tb8Co?si=wnud7j-TPeANIbiY