I know that opera doesn’t have much to do with (business) presentations but it seemed appropriate to just say something to acknowledge the death of Luciano Pavarotti this week. He made it sound simple. As something of a trained singer I know that it certainly wasn’t.
One of my key beliefs about presenting is that if it looks like you’re working hard when you ‘perform’, you’ve not been working hard enough when you prepare. (See this post.) He had that down!
On another point, he was also a technical master. The loud bits (fortissimo, if you’re interested) were certainly that, but they sounded even louder than they were because he had the technical skill (and discipline) to sing the quiet bits (piano) quietly!
He may have lost it a bit in the last decade, but who cares!
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