Soliloquy Carousel - Julian Ovenden PROMS 2010 video free download

三浦基真子

fantastic!!!

gmoy1123

This is great. Thanks so much for uploading! 

Joao Aurelio

Glorious performance!!! And the musicals obssession will hunt me down again for some time.

Stan Astan

Magnificent tenor, magnificent music, magnificent poetry - what more do you want?

倪传历

God the song is so long...

corvus13

Billy Bigelow is such a tragic character.

peckhamrye29

Every time I watch this perfomance I spot something new - he's such a wonderful, subtle actor, and don't even get me started on that incredible voice ...

Calum Cronin

Every single time I find a different version of Soliloquy on here, for example by Julian Ovenden or Hugh Jackman, its always the same sob story: "John Rait was better" or "this is nothing compared to Gordon Macrae's version". Why can't people accept this performance in its own, instead of comparing it to other interpretations? I'm a huge fan of Julian's version, and all versions, and believe they all have something special to them. Why does everyone have to make it so negative >.<

Teladian2

Not enough power in the lower tessatura of this song to project over the orchestra even with the microphone the performance is ok, but it's just lacking something that John Raitt had.

ptownlegend1

Is music supposed to be so much of contest.

Hyramess

Nonsense! He's extraordinarily fine in every way, but not quite right for the part of Billy Bigelow. His voice doesn't have sufficient "weight," and his stature is a bit too small. That aside he's a very fine, polished performer, an excellent singer, and full of obvious sincerity.

Hyramess

It's a very finely detailed, sensitive, aware performance full of meaning, but it seems a bit too "light" to me for this role. John Rait, the original Billy, was more robust, more roguish and somehow Larger Than Life. Gordon MacRae did a superb job in the movie, but he too never seemed "big enough" or rough enough for the part. Now, Sir THOMAS ALLEN, and the American Sensation NATHAN GUNN get it just right. It's an indefinable tough-tender quality rare in men. Julian: tender not tough enough.

Hyramess

Yes, but that's about it. "More than passable," describes it perfectly.

Anna Ferrara

Blown. Away.

ormandy

MAGNIFICENT !!!!!

miss mabel

Oh my God, wow!! He hits all the emotional marks just right, which is SO important for a song like this.

thereds1959

This guy can Sing!

patrickdmcmullen

"his singing isn't very good". That is true. It's great!!!

johnsy88

its alright but weak in comparison to Gordon MacRaes version

Perry Weiner

Yew, he's a good actor, in a facile kind of way, but his singing isn't very good, sad to say. Not when there are so many who sing this amazing piece so well, even the guy who sang it at Goodspead in Connecticut in their production of "Carousel" this past summer (2012).