Many opera “purists” criticized him for going on tour with Domingo and Carreras and for singing with pop artists. If it weren’t for a beautiful song, Perhaps Love, that Domingo recorded with John Denver I would never have found Pavarotti.
My favorite youtube clip. The three tenors and O Sole Mio. Shows the humorous side of this brilliant man and his amazing voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99kjFdLFjH4
A comment on youtube explains this clip:
If you watch the video closely, you will see the signaling between singers and conductor as to whose turn it is. Pavarotti did not forget his place—Domingo “took” it and in response, Pavarotti’s extended trilling—and in response to that the duet trilling of Domingo and Carreras—to Pavarotti’s delight.