Posted on 09/05/2007 12:51:22 PM PDT by Borges
ROME (Reuters) - Luciano Pavarotti's health has deteriorated sharply and the 71-year-old tenor is at home, unconscious and suffering from kidney failure, a television station reported on Wednesday.
Family and friends went to Pavarotti's home to be near the singer, considered one of the greatest tenors of his generation, E' TV Antenna Uno television station in Modena, the tenor's home town, reported.
In July 2006 Pavarotti underwent surgery in New York for pancreatic cancer and retreated to his villa in Modena. He had to cancel his first planned public reappearance a few months later.
Taken to hospital with a fever last month, Pavarotti was released from hospital in Modena on August 25 after undergoing more than two weeks of tests and treatment. Italy's AGI news agency said cancer specialists were treating Pavarotti at home, and described his condition as "very serious".
One of Pavarotti's friends contacted by Reuters said she had also heard the singer was in "serious" condition.
A spokesman at the Modena hospital declined to comment.
Absolutely beautiful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jpB-5NxW4
How can I turn that into a “red” link?
So sad to hear this about Pavarotti along with the passing of D. James Kennedy earlier today.
Oh, how I have enjoyed Luciano Pavarotti’s wonderful voice and his personality over the years. I really need to go dig out my La Boheme recording with Pavarotti and Mirella Freni.
If you don’t already own it, you can order that show on VCR through Amazon. The CD is also available, though they really need to remix it to get rid of the audience noise.
How you do dat?
My wife’s aunt was one of his biggest fans and would often travel around the US or to Europe just to catch one on his concerts. One evening she thought it was time she met him so she went backstage where she was stopped by bodyguards. But she decided to fake her way in by adopting her best Italian imitation and saying to the guard, “Io sono de la familia!” The guard let her pass and she reported that Pavarotti was very gracious to her despite not knowing her at all.
I suppose it was Pavarotti that introduced a whole generation to the music of opera. I was one of them. Never a connoisseur of opera... but Pavarotti had a knack for being interesting to us unwashed masses.
“How you do dat?”
LOL. I have no idea why your original didn’t work, but what I did was copy the url, past it in my browser and go to the site, where I just recopied it at the YouTube site and pasted it here.
You have to be sure not to use any HTML code in the post, but I didn’t see that you had any so I don’t know why it didn’t work for you.
I saw him perform with Joan Sutherland in Houston in the late 80s. He was amazing.
Prayers up.
My heart is forever broken......he truly was gifted.
I'll look around for it on VCR. Or, I'll just record it when it comes on again. I imagine that if he passes away, there will be plenty of his works on TV as a "retrospective".
He truly did bring opera to the masses.
I shot the video at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa a year ago.
Pancreatic cancer - I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. A particularly painful and horrible way to go as evidenced 17 years ago with my dad. May God comfort and be merciful to Pavarotti as only He can.
“I hope I’m unconscious when I die.”
If you’re not, you will be.
I enjoyed it very much, thank you.
Prayers up.
I had heard sometime back that Pavarotti was terribly ill. This latest news doesn’t sound good.
I didn’t like opera either — still don’t for the most part — but I do have the Three Tenors on audio and video. Some critic once dubbed it, “one tenor and two egos” — Pavarotti and Domingo being the two egos. I didn’t care — even if their voices were not as they once were, they were still magnificent.
Prayers for him and his family and for all who love him.
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