Harlow, Anne (14 September 2007). "Luciano Pavarotti, 1935–2007". Temple University Libraries News . Retrieved 4 December 2019. Singer Luciano Pavarotti recovering from pancreatic cancer surgery". Fox News. 7 July 2006. Archived from the original on 9 July 2007 . Retrieved 5 September 2007.

Luciano Pavarotti, the world’s best loved operatic tenor, is the biggest-selling classical artist of all time and has sold over 100 million albums worldwide. In Decca’s 90th anniversary year the historic label releases Pavarotti: Music From The Motion Picture and Pavarotti: The Greatest Hits continuing his musical legacy and celebrating his extraordinary life. Richard Dyer, "Opera star Luciano Pavarotti dies: Epic career spanned 40 years", The Boston Globe, 6 September 2007Freedom of London for Pavarotti". Entertainment. BBC News. 13 September 2005 . Retrieved 6 September 2007. José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta (conductor) & the Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale for Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert A riot of colour, emotion and memories: the World Cup stands alone in the field of sport". The Independent . Retrieved 20 August 2018. Pavarotti once shared that Fernando had turned down the possibility of a singing career because he was prone to stage fright and nerves. That didn’t stop the pair coming together for a touching duet on more than one occasion. Pavarotti performing at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony Final performances and health issues Statue of Pavarotti in Eilat IMAX

Pavarotti began his career as a tenor in smaller regional Italian opera houses, making his debut as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia in April 1961. His first known recording of " Che gelida manina" was recorded during this performance. [5] Pavarotti's first of two marriages was to Adua Veroni which lasted from 1961 to 2000 and they had three daughters: Lorenza, Cristina, and Giuliana. [6] Luciano Pavarotti in 1972 The famous tenor married twice: his first marriage was with Adua Veroni, who he married in 1961, and the second was with Nicoletta Mantovani, who he married in 2003, three years after his first marriage had ended. He posthumously received the Italy-USA Foundation's America Award in 2013 and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2014. Seven years after his first turn as Tonio, Pavarotti was at the New York Met driving the crowd into a frenzy with his nine effortless high Cs in the opera’s signature aria: he went down in history as the audience’s response led to a record 17 curtain calls! Why was Pavarotti so famous?He can be seen to better advantage in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's movie Rigoletto, an adaptation of the opera of the same name also released in 1982, or in his more than 20 live opera performances taped for television between 1978 and 1994, most of them with the Metropolitan Opera, and most available on DVD. The final duet to be released is ‘Miserere’, recorded with chart-topping tenor Andrea Bocelli. The significant performance marked the start of a close friendship between the two singers. He received an enormous number of awards and honours, including Kennedy Center Honors in 2001. He also holds two Guinness World Records: one for receiving the most curtain calls (165) [36] and another for the best-selling classical album ( Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert by the Three Tenors; the latter record is thus shared by fellow tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras). In 1999, Pavarotti performed a charity benefit concert in Beirut, to mark Lebanon's re-emergence on the world stage after a brutal 15-year civil war. The largest concert held in Beirut since the end of the war, it was attended by 20,000 people who travelled from countries as distant as Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria. [53] In 1999 he also hosted a charity benefit concert to build a school in Guatemala, for Guatemalan civil war orphans. It was named after him Centro Educativo Pavarotti. Now the foundation of Nobel prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum is running the school. Not many opera singers become household names. But Pavarotti did, and in fact the name ‘Pavarotti’ has become synonymous with opera for music lovers and non-music lovers alike.

Pavarotti’s career went from highpoint, to higher, and in June 1965 he first appeared as Tonio in Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, at the Royal Opera House. It was this role that earned him the title of ‘King of the High Cs’.In September 1995, Pavarotti performed Schubert's Ave Maria along with Dolores O'Riordan; Diana, Princess of Wales, who attended the live performance, told O'Riordan that the song brought her to tears. [24] In 1995, Pavarotti's friends, the singer Lara Saint Paul (as Lara Cariaggi) and her husband showman Pier Quinto Cariaggi, who had produced and organised Pavarotti's 1990 FIFA World Cup Celebration Concert at the PalaTrussardi in Milan, [25] produced and wrote the television documentary The Best is Yet to Come, an extensive biography about the life of Pavarotti. [26] Lara Saint Paul was the interviewer for the documentary with Pavarotti, who spoke candidly about his life and career. [26] Pavarotti’s father was Ferdinando Pavarotti, a baker and passionate amateur singer – also a tenor – from Modena. His mother Adele Venturi, was a cigar factory worker. The house was filled with music when Pavarotti was a boy.

Gareth Malone (2011). Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music. HarperCollins Publishers. pp.34–. ISBN 978-0-00-739618-4 . Retrieved 30 July 2013. Pavarotti performing " Una furtiva lagrima" from the Italian opera L'elisir d'amore Biography Early life and musical trainingHis major breakthrough in the United States came on 17 February 1972, in a production of La fille du régiment at New York's Metropolitan Opera, in which he drove the crowd into a frenzy with his nine effortless high Cs in the signature aria. He achieved a record seventeen curtain calls. Pavarotti sang his international recital début at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, on 1 February 1973, as part of the college's Fine Arts Program, now known as the Harriman–Jewell Series. Perspiring due to nerves and a lingering cold, the tenor clutched a handkerchief throughout the début. The prop became a signature part of his solo performances. He began to give frequent television performances, starting with his performances as Rodolfo ( La bohème) in the first Live from the Met telecast in March 1977, which attracted one of the largest audiences ever for a televised opera. He won many Grammy awards and platinum and gold discs for his performances. In addition to the previously listed titles, his La favorite with Fiorenza Cossotto and his I puritani (1975) with Sutherland stand out. His diagnosis came while he was undertaking his international “farewell tour”. He began the 40-city tour in 2004 at the age of 69, performing “one last time” in old and new locations, after more than four decades on the stage. Luciano Pavarotti to Promote UN Causes During Series of Concerts, 2005–2006", U.N. Press release, 5/4/2005. Retrieved 6 September 2007 Pavarotti also had a baby son, Riccardo, who was Alice’s twin brother. Sadly, Riccardo died at birth, leaving Pavarotti and his family with a deep grief. “Every time that life has put tough obstacles in my way, my faith has always helped me through,” Pavarotti said at the time of Riccardo’s death. “But confronted with the death of a son, the greatest of pain, not even faith can help the feeling of desperation.”