Genres at Eurovision Part IV: Opera

In our fourth episode of the 'genres at Eurovision' series we look at opera entries at the Eurovision Song Contest. Opera music and songs with an operatic musical style have been performed on the Eurovision stage throughout the decades and today we are looking at just a few examples.

[Yarshy.]

Cezar's It's My Life is still such a guilty pleasure of mine 😏

[finneurovision]

My favourite: Romania 2013 it's my life

[bulgariaplovdiv]

Of course, IL VOLO, they're the best !

[b.b.]

Cezar and Malena Ernman were incredible. But also Serteb Erener's Leave song in opening of Eurovision 2004 had amazing operatic high notes.

[dahooliii]

Oh that's incredible. Cezar was very crazy.

[IzayoiArwena]

GRANDE AMORE IS BEST!!! And Jaques. Ok and Cezar is nice too

[connorgeorge]

Cezar perfectly explained my relationship with Eurovision!

[oemusik]

Time to add ELINA NECHAYEVA - “La forza" to the list

[ksj]

Some of these songs sound awesome and I hope someone could tell me the name of following songs so I can track them down and watch the performance: 1. The one at 2:24 by the british sololist. 2. The 0 point one at 2:55. 3. 3:05 the blond guy's song. 4. the duet at 3:25. 5. the group at 3:40. 6. The falsetto at 3:55. Thanks.

[maymorgan]

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of opera so many of these are my favourites, Slovenia 2007, Sweden 2009 and France 2011 as well as Il Volo

[larry_wilde]

my most favourite genre in eurovision... love Estonia 2018, Australia 2019, and Italy 2015

[ACarolinaGodinho]

PLEASE, Keep Doing These Videos. People must know/understand the beauty of having ESC with all genres

[bucketslash]

Estonia 2018 killed it, Elina was so good and the song was so melodic that it never alienated people who don't listen to opera

[SimonSarka]

I need a playlist of all the opera in Eurovision please

[denalihedgehog]

Sertab Erener's Eurovision 2004 opening song "Leave" is my favourite operatic song in Eurovision

[NoyaMai]

What about Patricia Bredin for UK in 1957 ? Or even Mathé Altéry for France in 1956 who was (I guess) the first ever to participate at ESC with an opera singing style.

[Sabinefundel]

I love "my heart is yours" performed by Didrik Solli-Tangen, 2010 for Norway :-)

[geminix]

Next, the winner of EV 2018: La Forza

[Akber_aghazadeh]

Elina Nechayeva is the best ever opera in this contest

[paulobrogueira]

Italia and Romenia the best !!! Vuolo and Cezar