Remembering 2007

Remembering 2007

LIBERTY, December 23, 2007 - As we near the New Year I could not help but remember one of 2007’s most incredible performances performed on the show, Britain’s Got Talent by Paul Potts.

Paul Potts is the incredible story of a common man with an undiscovered and unrecognized talent.

Potts, performance in front of the audience at the show was one of the most uplifting performances I’ve ever seen and it changed his life forever.

Let’s recall one of the most uplifting stories of 2007. Enjoy the video from YouTube.com.

A little bit about ‘Nesssun dormo' by Puccini which Paul Potts sings in the video

Puccini spent the last four years of his life working on ‘Turandot'. During this time he was deeply depressed. By March 1924 he was suffering constantly from a throat condition, which was finally diagnosed as cancer.

At a Brussels clinic he underwent a grueling operation that brought on heart failure and on 29 November he died. Italy plunged into mourning, and at his funeral, Toscanini and the company of La Scala, performed the Requiem music from his opera, ‘Edgar'.

Puccini died leaving ‘Turandot' unfinished.

‘Nesssun dormo' from ‘Turandot' has been one of opera's best loved arias ever since Puccini composed it. In 1990 it became the theme tune for the World Cup finals in Italy, and sung by Luciano Pavarotti, was played on television before every game. This Global coverage resulted in a sale of over 10 million copies of the single.