October 26, 1991: a windy, blustery day by all accounts. Not so out-of- the-ordinary for the port city of Bari, Italy. Yet as day turned to night, what started as a typical late October evening turned quickly into a nightmare: Bari’s Petruzzelli Opera House – originally built in 1903 and perhaps the city’s only true ...
Well you made it! Torino! The Winter Olympics! Admit it; you felt the hair on your neck stand up when Luciano Pavarotti was hitting the high notes. Your heart sank when Nancy Kwan pulled out of the figure skating competition. You’ve been waving your USA banner every chance you get. But in between all the ...
Many bands record cover songs in the studio, while others have a tendency to perform them live. Here, I attempt to catalog all of the cover songs ever done by one of my favorite bands, as there’s indeed many. I separated the songs into ABC order in categories of the artists they’ve covered, which probably ...
In all frankness, I found it deplorable that someone found it necessary to announce to the world this week that Luciano Pavarotti lip-synched his final performance at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in 2006. It really wasn’t that much of a mystery, as I could easily tell he was lip-synching at the time. But I ...
In 1992, a popular Italian rock opera star named Zucchero wanted Luciano Pavarotti to duet with him on a song (“Miserere”) for his new album. When Pavarotti heard some of the demos of other potential opera singers being considered–he happened to hear one from a relatively unknown tenor named Andrea Bocelli who also just so ...
