Luciano Pavarotti dead

AP

[Gigantor]

Manager reports his death.

[ConservativeStatement]

I'm not much of a U2 fan but this is a brilliant performance with Bono and Pavarotti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX6c5als1lk

[ReignOfError]

If they want to carry on in Pavarotti’s memory, Andrea Bocelli is the most obvious understudy.

[Brandie]

Thank you so much, I love his voice and he will be missed. This is so very sad.

[Westlander]

Yep. A real Talent.

His name seemed to show up as much in gossip columns as serious music reviews, particularly after he split with Adua Veroni, his wife of 35 years and mother of their three daughters, and then took up with his 26-year-old secretary in 1996.

In late 2003, he married Nicoletta Mantovani in a lavish, star-studded ceremony. Pavarotti said their daughter Alice, nearly a year old at the time of the wedding, was the main reason he and Mantovani finally wed after years together.

He came under fire for canceling performances or pandering to the lowest common denominator in his choice of programs, or for the Three Tenors tours and their millions of dollars in fees.

He was criticized for lip-synching at a concert in Modena, Italy, his hometown.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20607839/

[dighton]

Above all his voice has that animal magnetism that sets the great Italian tenor apart from all other singers.

— Sir Denis Forman, A Night at the Opera.

[AliVeritas]

Ciao Luciano, I thank God for the gift of your voice. Now you sing with Mario, Juss and all the angels.

Nessun Dorma - Turandot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr5vpHtJIlg

Vesti La Giubba - I Pagliacci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr5vpHtJIlg

Una furtiva Lagrima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyrphGgLH4

Eternal rest grant unto him. Lord have mercy.

Prayers for the journey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zDH_ekIUg&mode=related&search=v=mb3bwGb0glQ&feature=PlayList&p=678DF3A1B39FF735&index=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQUFQ_N0JI8&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TfAyX8l5-g&mode=related&search=

[sillsfan]

The great Beverly Sills died of cancer just two short months ago, and now we loose Pavarotti to cancer.

Both Sills and Pavarotti shared the stage on a few memorial occasions when they both were in the spectacular vocal primes.

In celebration of their lives, enjoy this clip of the Act I duet from Lucia di Lammermoor from a live performance in Mexico City from 1969.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/YJffRptyIj8KcqbJY0yiG0UNJEnjr4AfH0Oe3H3-7qwnRNp4Vbsr20WRHLLQEW7FMoHRYo6quUTausG0bgog/Sills%20Pav%20Lucia%20Duet.mp3

Rest in peace divo and diva.

[Brandie]

Thank you so much, that is very kind of you.

[STARWISE]

Pavarotti ~~~ Panis Angelicus

With Sting (Sting doesn’t hold a candle)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUh1SlrtEG0

Pavarotti ~~ Ave Maria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI&mode=related&search=

[LeoWindhorse]

I really enjoyed Pavarotti’s wonderful singing .
He openned my eyes and ears to this music

I will miss him very music
Fortunately CD’s last a long long time...

[Captainpaintball]

Sad to hear him pass. But, ah, the remaining two tenors live on...

Yep. Although he will in a way, as well, through his recordings.

[AliVeritas]

La Donna È Mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM

[thefactor]

ok, so you show up to bad-mouth a man on a thread announcing his death. why don't you wait until the body cools, you ghoul.

thank god in heaven you, westlander, have NEVER made a single mistake in your personal life that you can sit here and judge a man with more musical talent in his pinky than 99.99% of the people who have ever lived could ever hope to possess.

i wonder how happy you would be if people held your personal life against you when discussing your professional life. grow up.

[LibertyRocks]

Godspeed and RIP, Luciano! Thank you for sharing with us your wonderful talents! Prayers for his family and friends.

[Westlander]

Thanks. Here's a wallet sized image for you.

[nicksaunt]

We have lost a great voice tonight.

[bobbyd]

music is the understanding of math , math is the understanding of God.

HHHMMM......double back space?

[Westlander]

He was unabashedly thrilled by fame, telling Newsweek magazine, “I want to be famous everywhere. I tell you, the time spent signing autographs is never enough.”

Known in some circles as ‘The King of Cancellations’, he was famously banned from performing at Lyric Opera of Chicago after pulling out of 26 of the 41 scheduled performances in an eight-year period.

Other controversies dogged Pavarotti’s career. In 1992 he was sued by the BBC for selling the broadcaster a lip-synched concert.

Pavarotti become embroiled in allegations of tax fraud in 2000, agreeing to repay $12 million in taxes after it was determined his home was in Italy, not Monte Carlo as he had claimed.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4191866a12.html

[AliVeritas]

What does that have to do with his voice?

I expect this from MSNBC but what’s your excuse? You had to skim good things that even they wrote to find the negative and paste it? Who stepped on your neck?

There’s this thing we call common courtesy; even if you don’t have respect for someone, have it for the family they leave behind. At least wait for a period of grieving, sheesh.

But you are nominated arbiter of social values from now on... congrats. We’ll call you small ‘g’ god for short.
Now that I think about it, I will never listen to him again because of your values system, no other reason. /s

P.S. You forgot a couple other bad paragraphs, but it’s late I guess... Somehow, his daughters were at his side when he died. Let’s hope we will all have that at our time, regardless of the decisions we make in life.

[My Favorite Headache]

You nailed it. Pavarotti was the icon of voices for those born in the 70s and early 80s..you just respected a voice like his on command and mention. Bocelli’s is the same for those in the 90s and 00’s.

Pavarotti was an institution...he set the standard for which all shall follow.