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Michael Bolton - My Secret Passion / Donizetti, Puccini, Massenet, Verdi

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Micheal Bolton is an excellent operatic singer in addition to his success as a pop singer. Of course " Excellent " is my opinion, and I know very little about opera but I was impressed.

I only recently "found" the beautiful voice of Michael Bolton. I now own most of his cd's and a few dvd's. He does sing Opera beautfully. If you love his voice then you will be pleasantly suprised at his ability for Opera.

While not I did not think this was his best work. He Performed these arias with as much love and Passion as he puts in all his work. the Dedication is clearly evident. if you enjoy this work as I do you will love the work he has written even more. Michael is a very serious artist. he is still putting together some amazing work like this

It includes a comment by Michael Bolton on the story behind every aria and in my opinion his peculiar voice sounds 'fresh' in this kind of music. If you like this music, I would also recommend you the cd called 'Christmas in Vienna', which feautures M.Bolton,Plácido Domingo and Yin Huang. Make sure your dvd player can play ZONE 1 dvd's.

I saw the video on YouTube and was suprised by Michael as I loved my paison' Luciano but didn't realize that he saw in Michael a hidden tenor voice to culture as to invite Michael Bolton to study with him in the 90's & produce this fantastic video-bellisimo !!!

There is no excuse for this beyond trying to capitalize on the then-waning success of a formerly (briefly) novel sounding voice. While he found success with his forceful, bluesy vocal production in the pop/R&B genre during the earlier part of the last decade, he should have never taken this step. The raspy, strained sounds issuing forth from Mr. Bolton's throat were, by the time of original recording, already beginning to grate on American housewives' nerves. Calling upon such paltry resources borders on the blasphemous in this material. An aria by aria critique would be pointless and would be plain mean. Suffice to say: 'Nessun Dorma'? Maybe not, but a good long nap is definitely the desired alternative to staying awake through this embarrassing display.