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 ...
Luciono Pavarotti is a name synonymous with opera singing – effectively bringing the sounds of long past to modern, 20th and 21st century audiences with his brilliant voice and simple love for the genre. Tragically, on Wednesday September 5, 2007, after a year long battle with pancreatic cancer, the renown opera singer succumbed to his ...
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 ...