Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti is an outstanding opera singer of the second half of the 20th century. Luciano was born on October 12, 1935 in the Italian city of Modena. Fernando Pavarotti's father worked as a baker, but singing was his weakness. Fernando did not become a professional singer just because he was afraid of the stage. Luciano's mother Adele Venturi worked in a tobacco factory. In 1943, with the arrival of the Nazis in the city, the family moved to a country farm. Parents and their children became interested in agriculture.

Little Luciano studied music from an early age. The baby began giving his first concerts in front of neighbors and relatives at the age of 4. Later, he sang with Father Luciano in the church choir. At home, the boy constantly listened to records of opera singers from his father's collection, and at the age of 12 he first came to the opera house, where he heard the performance of the tenor Benjamin Geely. While still studying at the Schola Magistrale school, the young man took several vocal lessons from Professor Dondi and his wife.

In addition to singing, Luciano played football and even seriously thought about a goalkeeper career. But after receiving a diploma of secondary education, the mother convinced her son to study to be a teacher. After completing his professional education, Luciano Pavarotti worked as a primary school teacher for two years. At the same time, Luciano began to take lessons from Arrigo Paul, and two years later from Ettori Campogalliani. After making the final decision to pursue a vocal career, Pavarotti left school.

In 1960, after laryngitis, Luciano received an occupational disease - thickening of the ligaments, which led to the loss of his voice. Pavarotti, having experienced a fiasco on stage during a concert in Ferrara, decided to leave music, but a year later the thickening disappeared, and the tenor's voice acquired new colors and depth.

In 1961, Luciano wins the International Vocal Competition. The first prize was awarded to two singers at once: Luciano Pavarotti and Dmitry Nabokov. Young vocalists received roles in Puccini's La Bohème at the Teatro Reggio Emilia. In 1963, Pavarotti made his debut at the Vienna Opera and London's Covent Garden.

Luciano Pavarotti's success came after performing the role of Tonio in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, with which the tenor performed first at the Royal Theater in London, Covent Garden, and then at the Italian La Scala and the American Metropolitan Opera. Pavarotti set a kind of record: he sang 9 high notes "C" in a row at full power in Tonio's aria with impeccable ease.

The sensational performance changed Pavarotti's creative biography forever. The impresario Herbert Breslin signed a contract with the new star of the operatic horizon, who started promoting the tenor in the best theaters in the world. Since 1972, in addition to performing in performances, Pavarotti began touring with recitals, which include classical opera arias, Italian songs and concons.

In addition to the parts of the lyric tenor Elvino in Somnambula and Arturo's Puritans by Bellini, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Alfred in La Traviata and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto by Verdi, Luciano Pavarotti also masters the dramatic roles of Bicale Masquerade "by Verdi, Cavaradossi in" Tosca "by Puccini, Manrico in" Troubadour "and Radames" Aida "by Verdi. The Italian singer often appears on television, participates in the Arena di Verona festival, makes recordings of famous opera arias and popular songs "In Memory of Caruso", "Oh sole mio!"

In the early 80s, Luciano Pavarotti founded The Pavarotti International Voice Competition. Over the years, with the winners of the competition, the stage star goes on tour across America and China, where, together with young talents, the singer performs fragments from the operas La Bohème, Love Potion and Masquerade Ball. In addition to his concert activities, Pavarotti collaborates with the Vienna Opera and the Teatro alla Scala.

Luciano's performance in the opera Aida is accompanied each time by long ovations and repeated raising of the curtain. But not without failures: in 1992, in the play "Don Carlos" by Franco Zeffirelli, which was staged at La Scala, the audience booed Pavarotti for playing the role. The tenor himself admitted his own guilt and did not perform in this theater again.

A new round of international recognition of the Italian tenor took place in 1990, when the BBC company made the screen saver for the broadcast of the World Cup with the aria "Nessun Dorma" performed by Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras. The video for the video was filmed in the Roman imperial baths of Caracallah. The circulation of sold records became the largest in the history of music, which is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. The Three Tenors project proved to be so successful that the singers performed at the opening of the next three World Football Championships.

Luciano Pavarotti popularized opera. His recitals attracted up to half a million spectators who came to listen to the tenor live in Central Park in New York, in London's Hyde Park, on the Champ de Mars in Paris. In 1992, Pavarotti created the Pavarotti and Friends program, in which, in addition to opera singers, pop stars Elton John, Sting, Brian Adams, Andrea Bocelli, Lionel Richie, James Brown, Celine Dion, Sherrill Crow participated. In 1998 Luciano Pavarotti received the Grammy Legend Award.

While still in school, Luciano met his future wife Adua Veroni, who was also fond of singing. Together with Luciano, the girl went to work as a teacher in a rural school. Young people were able to get married in 1961, as soon as Pavarotti began earning money on his own on the opera stage. In 1962, the couple had a daughter, Lorenz, in 1964 - Christina, in 1967 - Juliana.

The marriage with Adua lasted 40 years, but Luciano's constant infidelities forced his wife to file for divorce. During his musical career, Pavarotti met with many singers. The most famous novel of the 1980s was his relationship with his student Madeleine Reni. But at 60, the tenor met a girl who gave Luciano a second life.

The young lady's name was Nicoletta Montovani, she was 36 years younger than the maestro. In 2000, after a divorce from his first wife, Pavarotti proposes to Nicoletta and builds a spacious mansion for the new family. In 2003, the couple had twins - a son, Ricardo and a daughter, Alice, but the newborn boy soon dies. Pavarotti gives all his strength to raising a little daughter.

In 2004, Luciano was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The artist, having weighed all the possibilities, decides to conduct the last farewell tour of 40 cities of the world. In 2005, the disc of the singer The best was released, which included the best numbers ever performed by Pavarotti. The last performance of the great tenor took place on February 10, 2006 at the Turin Olympics, after which Pavarotti went to the hospital for an operation to remove cancer.

Luciano's condition improved, but in August 2007 the singer suffered pneumonia. Returning home to Madena, the artist died on September 6, 2007. The death of the maestro could not leave his fans indifferent. For three days, while the coffin with the body of Luciano Pavarotti stood in the cathedral of his hometown, people walked around the clock to say goodbye to the idol.

The Essential Pavarotti - 1990 Pavarotti & friends - 1992 Dein ist mein ganzes Herz - 1994 Pavarotti & friends 2 - 1995 The Three Tenors: Paris - 1998 Christmas with Pavarotti - 1999 The Three Tenors Christmas - 2000 Donizetti Arias - 2001 Neapolitan and Italian Popular Songs - 2001

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