I am not a great opera buff but I am very saddened to read about this news this morning. The man’s voice was simply amazing.
Rest in peace.
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the good news is that planned concert tour will go ahead, with elton john replacing pavarotti. it’s being billed as two tenors and a nine bob note.
(Johnathan writes: I don’t normally mind gags, even very bad taste ones, but this is in pretty shitty taste. Fuck off).
I have to agree. I was gutted with this mornings news and rode a rollercoaster of emotions as I learned of his death and listened to extracts of his work on radio 4. I was a music student many years ago and whilst opera is shunned by the majority, Mr Pavarotti did more to bring it the the masses than any other person in recent history. I own a collection of opera on my ipod in part because of this great man.
Absolutely, Mark.
To many people Pavarotti=Opera.
I’m lukewarm about opera but the whole “three tenors phenomenon” at least means that I can say that rather than “Opera, er…?” But for a great many folk he was their portal into music they would never have thought of before yet now gain great pleasure from.
He was a great singer and also a great advocate of opera and for both those things I salute him.
I’m a rock and Jazz man myself but my wife is classically trained and we went to see the three tenors in the park in front of the Royal Crescent Bath.
Wow what a night! Mark and Nick are absolutely right. The three Tenors did more to introduce opera to an unknowing and unresponsive audience than 50 years of radio 3.
They took opera out of the opera house, and presented it like a rock gig.They selected all the best arias and single-handedly increased the sales of Opera cds by 100%
Goodbye big man and thanks.
I think the great thing about him was that singing obviously came so naturally to him. When you watch Domingo or Kraus or any of those, it always looks like such an awful, uncomfortable effort. Pavarotti just seemed to belt it out effortlessly.