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/
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.
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.
One can’t deny the man’s talent. However, I lost much respect for him when he left his wife and took up with his secretary with whom he had a child out of wedlock. That doesn’t speak well of his character.