殘酷一叮 [英國版]

Thanks for the recommendations from Nam Ma. This show was really awesome and touching.



Paul Potts has won the final of this competition and £100,000 and will perform at the Royal Variety Performance.

Check out the show's home at http://talent.itv.com/

Check out the clip of his semi final winning performance at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDB9zwlXrB8

His final winning performance at "Britains Got Talent".

Click this link for Observer interview with Paul Potts: http://tinyurl.com/2gza22

Paul Potts sings Nessun dorma on UK talent show "Britain's got Talent" featuring Simon Cowell as a judge.

Brief background:

- Bath Opera is an amateur opera company staging a small number of productions a few times each year.

- Paul has performed in just 4 four productions with this company.

- Paul has attended some masterclasses in Italy. These courses are designed for talented amateurs. All of these are paid for by those attending.

- A few masterclasses, even one with the great man do not constitute "a formal opera training" by any stretch of the imagination.

- Professional opera singers earn their living by treading the boards night after night week-in week-out, year after year with professional opera companies.

- Paul, has never earned a single penny from opera performance, other than winning a tv talent show in 1999 - the winnings funding masterclasses.

- Paul has not performed since 2003.

- He is not a professional opera singer pretending to be a mobile phone sales man, but rather he is a mobile phone salesman aspiring to be an opera singer.

- An operatic voice IS a trained voice.