Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Dimash Qudaibergen, and HAUSER – My Way ...
Even with a minor error by Placido, this is a wonderful performance.
José Carreras, is a Catalan operatic tenor from Spain who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini. In 1987, he started working on a film version of La bohème directed by Luigi Comencini. It was during the filming of La bohème in Paris that he was found to be suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and given a 1 in 10 chance of survival. However, he recovered from the disease after undergoing a gruelling treatment involving chemotherapy, radiation therapy and an autologous bone marrow transplant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Following his recovery, he gradually returned to both the operatic and the concert stage, embarking on a tour of come-back recitals in 1988 and 1989 and singing with Montserrat Caballé in Medea (Mérida, Spain 1989) and in the world premiere of Balada's Cristóbal Colón (Barcelona, 1989).In 1990 the first Three Tenors concert took place in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup finals. It was originally conceived to raise money for Carreras's leukemia foundation and as a way for his colleagues, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, to welcome their "little brother" back to the world of opera. However, it and the subsequent Three Tenors concerts brought Carreras a fame that went far beyond the opera house. It is estimated that over a billion people around the world watched the television broadcast of the 1994 Three Tenors concert in Los Angeles.
By the 2000s Carreras's recording and live concert repertoire had moved largely to art song, Neapolitan songs, the light classical genre, and 'easy-listening'.[13] He has also increasingly performed and recorded with artists from outside the classical music world, such as Diana Ross, Edyta Górniak, Lluís Llach, Peter Maffay, Udo Jürgens, Klaus Meine, Charles Aznavour, Kim Styles, Sarah Brightman, Vicky Leandros, Jackie Evancho, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Debbie Harry, Majida El Roumi, and Giorgia Fumanti. Beginning in 2002, Carreras scaled back his live performances to recitals and orchestral concerts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carreras
José Plácido Domingo Embil is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world. Domingo has also achieved significant success as a crossover artist, especially in the genres of Latin and popular music. In addition to winning fourteen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, several of his records have gone silver, gold, platinum and multi-platinum. His first pop album, Perhaps Love (1981), spread his fame beyond the opera world. The title song, performed as a duet with country and folk singer John Denver, has sold almost four million copies[7] and helped lead to numerous television appearances for the tenor. He also starred in many cinematically released and televised opera movies, particularly under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli. In 1990, he began singing with fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras as part of The Three Tenors. The first Three Tenors recording became the best-selling classical album of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo
Dınmūhammed Qanatūly Qūdaibergen, known professionally as Dimash Qudaibergen and mononymously as Dimash, is a Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is university-trained in classical as well as contemporary music, and is known for his exceptionally wide vocal range. Although offered a position at the Astana Opera, he decided to carve out his career in contemporary music, mixing classical elements and traditional Kazakh music with pop music. From 2010 to 2013, Dimash participated in and won four major singing competitions, in Kazakhstan (Sonorous Voices of Baikonur, 2010, and Zhas Kanat, 2012), Ukraine (Oriental Bazaar, 2012), and Kyrgyzstan (Meikin Asia, 2013) In early 2017, Dimash appeared in the fifth season of Hunan Television's I Am a Singer (Chinese: 歌手2017),[53][9] under the recommendation of director Hong Tao, and signed a contract with Black Gold Talent in Beijing. At 22, he was the youngest participant in the history of the show, and competed against professional and top-selling Chinese singers as a 'wildcard' competitor. Dimash's mother later said that he hoped to reach at least the middle stage of the competition. He won Episodes 1, 2 and 6, with his performances of "S.O.S d'un terrien en détresse", "Opera 2", and "Adagio".[55] He made it to the finals, and finished as runner-up to Hong Kong singer Sandy Lam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimash_Qudaibergen
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Dimash Qudaibergen - Qarlygashym Uya Salganda (Official Music Video)
A beautiful song, written by the two brothers for their sister on her wedding day (sung by Dimash) English title 'When my swallow builds her nest". I could see this as a father/daughter dance song.
The traditional Kazak wedding is held over three days with a lot of ceremonial events. On the third day, the family of the bride escorts her to the groom's home (city) where the official wedding is conducted as the bride leaves one family and enters into a new family symblolicly. The three days are quite festive with different bridal attire matching the event.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Dimash - War and Peace 2021
"Will there at least someone who remembers about love and hate? Who will remember love?"
Powerful lyrics and such an emotional performance by Dimash.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
Dimash @World's Best Full Performance and Judge Scoring
The program was not one that Dears liked due to the judges' reaction to Dimash leaving the show. His performances received high praise from the judges, and the global panel. However Dimar made a dramatic. And controversial decision to withdraw from the show during the championship. His decision was based on the show calling for adults to compete against children, a format that he was not in agreement with so he announced that he would withdraw. He had been a clear favorite and a viewer drawing card for the show so this decision was met with some hostility from, not only the production staff, but the judges. Their lack of understanding and the rude manner shown to him upon the annoucement upset fans, Dears.
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