After wowing American audiences for nearly a year, Jackie Evancho crossed the pond to perform in London this weekend and blew away an audience at the finale for "Britain's Got Talent."
Evancho was the runner-up last summer in the British show's American cousin -- NBC's "America's Got Talent." It catapulted her tointernational fame as she amazed the judges and audiences with her soaring adult-like voice.
British hosts Ant and Dec introduced her Saturday night with video clips from home and past performances, calling her "an ordinary schoolgirl who blew America awaywhen she entered its biggest talent contest."
Encircled by hundreds of candles on the stage floor, the 11-year-old Evancho sang"Nessun Dorma" from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" in her live United Kingdom debut performance. see the YouTube video of her performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBIsfxWw5k&feature=player_embedded
The audience broke into applause as soon as she started to sing and then clapped sporadically throughout the performance.
A huge smile covered Evancho's face when the song ended.
TV cameras showed the four judges -- media mogul Simon Cowell, actor/singer David Hasselhoff , actress Amanda Holden and comedian Michael McIntyre -- giving her a standing ovation.
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