Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti (2004)

Luciano Pavarotti (born October 12, 1935 in Modena ; † September 6, 2007 there ) was an Italian opera singer ( tenor ). He is considered to be one of the most important tenors of all time, beyond the borders of opera and classical music. As a member of the Three Tenors and as a duet partner to many pop artists, Pavarotti became a superstar. He also used his fame for benefit concerts. During his career he has sold more than 26.3 million records, over 115,000 of them in his home country alone. The most successful release by Luciano Pavarotti is the album The Three Tenors in Concert with over 7.2 million units sold.

Live and act

Luciano Pavarotti was the son of the baker Fernando Pavarotti (1913 - May 24, 2002) and his wife Adele Venturi (1916 - January 10, 2002), who worked in a tobacco factory. He grew up in very cramped conditions with his parents and sister in a two-room apartment. The later soprano Mirella Freni , his childhood friend and frequent singing partner, and he were looked after by the same wet nurse; their mothers were work colleagues. At first he wanted to become a teacher, so he studied pedagogy at the "Scuola delle Magistrale" and also taught as a primary school teacher in Modena for two years. In addition to his bakery, his father was also active as a tenor in the Choir of the City of Modena, but because of being too nervous he turned down the singing profession. His son Luciano also made his first singing experiences in the choir. In 1956, Luciano Pavarotti decided to turn singing into a profession and began to study classical singing first with Arrigo Pola in Modena and later with Ettore Campogalliani in Mantua . He also worked as an insurance agent in order to finance his studies - which lasted over six years.

Pavarotti made his debut at the Reggio nell'Emilia Opera House in 1961 as Rodolfo in Puccini's “ La Bohème ”, his later star role, and won an international singing competition. Part of the award was her debut as Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème at the Modena Opera House. The performance was conducted by Leone Magiera, his childhood friend at the time; later he was his pianist at song recitals for decades. He was also Mirella Freni's husband at the time. The performance was broadcast live by RAI . This was followed by invitations from various Italian and international opera houses , such as Amsterdam , Covent Garden , the Vienna State Opera (debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème on February 24, 1963), Zurich and Glyndebourne .

In 1965 he performed with Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge on a tour in the USA and Australia , a year later he made his debut at La Scala in Milan . At the mediation of the Decca manager Terry McEwen, Pavarotti hired the former speechwriter Herbert Breslin (* 1926) as his agent from 1967. "Luciano, you're a nice guy. So you need a real bastard [Breslin] to do your publicity. "

Breslin organized for him his debut at the Met in 1968. Further appearances were made in Barcelona , Paris , London and at the Salzburg Festival (1978 as the Italian singer in Der Rosenkavalier , 1983 in the title role of Mozart's Idomeneo ).

In 1981 he founded a competition for young singers in Philadelphia and began reducing the number of his appearances on the stage. In contrast, he appeared more often in concerts and on television. Pavarotti made his directorial debut in 1988 at the Venice Opera ( La favorita by Gaetano Donizetti ).

Breslin managed to turn the opera star Pavarotti into a pop and superstar through a joint appearance by Pavarotti with the two tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras in a sporting event broadcast worldwide. The concert of the three tenors in the Roman Baths of Caracalla at the 1990 World Cup on July 7, 1990 reached around one billion television viewers around the world. The singing trio popularized opera arias and was able to fill soccer stadiums and sports arenas with listeners on their subsequent tours with this program. The aria Nessun dorma ( Vincerò! Vincerò! ) Is one of the most famous and successful opera arias and probably led Pavarotti to the height of his fame in the run-up to the soccer World Cup in Italy . The music world criticized the astronomically high fees as commercialization and a banalization of the opera repertoire.

Luciano Pavarotti at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille (2002)

In 1999 he celebrated his 40th stage anniversary. At the instigation of his new partner Nicoletta Mantovani, Pavarotti separated from his manager and confidante Herbert Breslin in 2002 after 36 years. The latter in turn published a biography of Pavarotti two years later, which, despite all of Breslin's admiration, was viewed as an accumulation of indiscretions and resentment, and which caused discomfort among reviewers.

In 2004 Pavarotti announced the end of his stage career after three acclaimed performances of Puccini's Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. As a concert singer, he continued to be active on tours that took him around the world, in song recitals, arena concerts and open-air concerts. In 2005 he decided to go on a big farewell tour, which had to be canceled due to cancer.

He made his last major appearance at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where he performed the aria Nessun dorma with the conductor Leone Magiera and his orchestra. Magiera made Pavarotti in his book . Visto da Vicino announced that Pavarotti no longer sang because of his advanced disease, but only wanted to use a playback .

Marriages and families

In 1960 Pavarotti married Adua Veroni; the couple had three daughters Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana. The marriage ended in divorce in 2000. Pavarotti was said to have had many affairs that his wife tolerated until she threw him out of their shared apartment in 1993 because of holiday shots with Nicoletta Mantovani (* 1969) in a magazine. He had met Nicoletta Mantovani in 1993, she had worked in a concert agency for the annual concert series "Pavarotti & Friends" in Modena since 1992. She worked first in the office and then as his personal secretary.

In January 2003 Nicoletta Mantovani gave birth to twins, of which the son died after complications during childbirth. Because of lengthy divorce negotiations and Adua's high financial demands, Pavarotti could not marry Nicoletta Mantovani until December 2003. Based on allegations by two friends of Pavarotti that shortly before his death he complained about Nicoletta Mantovani's greed for money, she sued the two for defamation for € 30 million in compensation.

Sickness and death

In early July 2006, Luciano Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A few days after the diagnosis, he underwent a duodenopancreatectomy in New York , which removed the pancreas and tumor . For the remaining months of 2006, however, all appearances were canceled.

Pavarotti then announced that he would return to his home country Italy to recover there and then continue his farewell tour around the world, which he had canceled in London at the end of June 2006 due to illness.

In August 2007, Pavarotti was hospitalized again with pneumonia . In early September 2007, his health deteriorated rapidly. On September 4th, he was released home to receive medical care there. He died of kidney failure on September 6 at 5:00 a.m. (CET) at the age of 71 .

Family grave in Montale near Modena

From September 6 to 8, 2007, around 100,000 people said goodbye to Pavarotti, who was laid out in an open coffin in the Cathedral of San Geminiano in Modena. Archbishop Benito Cocchi , who also received a condolence from Pope Benedict XVI , celebrated the funeral mass in the cathedral on September 8, broadcast worldwide by television . read. The celebration was accompanied by music from the Choir of the City of Modena as well as the soprano Rajna Kabaiwanska , the flautist Andrea Griminelli and the tenor Andrea Bocelli . In addition, a video recording of Panis angelicus by César Franck was shown in the joint interpretation of Pavarotti with his father. In honor of Pavarotti, a formation of ten fighter jets from the “ Frecce Tricolori ” aerobatic team flew during his funeral, leaving streaks of smoke in the colors of the Italian flag, green-white-red. This usually only happens at state funerals. After a funeral procession through downtown Modena, Pavarotti was buried in his parents' grave in Montale Rangone , ten kilometers away , a district of Castelnuova Rangone (Modena province).

capital

There are very contradicting data and estimates about the amount of Pavarotti's inheritance. The British daily Daily Telegraph puts this at £ 250 million , which in addition to its art collection of Matisse paintings and restaurants also includes real estate in New York City, Barbados , Italy and Monte Carlo .

In 1996 he was charged with tax evasion between 1989 and 1991: after four years in court, in 2000 he publicly presented the then Finance Minister Ottaviano Del Turco with a check for 25 billion lire (EUR 12.5 million) in order to pay off his tax debts . In the following year he had to answer again for tax evasion in court. The point of contention was the real residence of Pavarotti, who, because of his many tours, denied staying mainly in his country house near Modena.

When the will was opened, it initially appeared that Pavarotti was allegedly leaving behind a million dollar fortune of 18 million euros in debt. The executor Giorgio Cariani pointed out, however: “We are still at the very beginning with the inventory.” Mantovani was appointed chief heir, but his first wife wanted to contest this. The most controversial issue is the formation of two wills, according to which everything Pavarotti owned in the USA would be given to Mantovani alone and only have to share the Italian part with Pavarotti's daughters. In the last months of Pavarotti's life, she acquired stakes in other agencies, in advertising, real estate and travel companies as well as in software companies. Since then, Mantovani has also had to fight bad press in Italy.

According to an interview with Mantovani's lawyer in the daily Quotidiano Nazionale , Pavarotti's widow is said to have reached an amicable division of the inheritance with the three daughters ten months after Pavarotti's death.

meaning

Pavarotti in a solo concert

Luciano Pavarotti was one of the most famous tenors of all time, one of the best-known representatives of the opera art genre and, together with Maria Callas, the best-selling classical music star. At the time of his heyday he sold twice as many records as Carreras and Domingo (the other two of the Three Tenors ) combined. He was the first classical artist whose CD recordings hit the pop hit parades and penetrated the pop segment in terms of sales.

At the beginning of his career, Pavarotti was a light lyric tenor - ideal for the roles of Bellini, Donizetti and the young Verdi . In the course of time, however, his voice developed in the direction of more dramatic roles up to verismo , the genre of opera founded by Puccini, Mascagni and Leoncavallo, which tells of the everyday life of the average population and is characterized by very dramatic music.

According to Herbert von Karajan , Pavarotti was a tenor of the century, a voice that only exists once every 100 years. At the last opera performance under Herbert von Karajan's direction, Luciano Pavarotti sang the role of Cavaradossi ( Tosca by Giacomo Puccini , Salzburg Easter Festival , 1989).

Pavarotti's complete opera recordings are regarded as outstanding works of vocal art. The great success in the field of record sales and the rise to a superstar who crossed the boundaries from classic to pop star also earned him criticism from purists and critics. It was also repeatedly claimed that Pavarotti himself said he could not read music. His audience, however, had a clear stance: on February 24, 1988, after his appearance as Nemorino in Donizetti's love potion, 115 curtains were registered at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin , with 67 minutes of uninterrupted applause.

In addition to his stage career, he pursued an equally successful concert career, which reached its peak in the nineties of the last century. Even before the concerts of the 3 tenors, Pavarotti gave an open air concert in London's Hyde Park in 1992 in front of 250,000 people and in 1993 his largest in New York's Central Park in front of 500,000 listeners, which is the best-attended classical concert by a solo artist to date.

In addition, he consistently pursued the crossover section with the so-called "Pavarotti and Friends" concerts, in which he recorded duets with many current pop stars, which were sold over ten million times. The single Miss Sarajevo with Bono by U2 reached number 6 in the British pop charts and number 1 in Latvia.

During his career, Pavarotti has sung on all the major international stages and worked with almost all of the great conductors of his time. In addition to Joan Sutherland and Mirella Freni , his singing partners included Montserrat Caballé , Maria Chiara , Ileana Cotrubaș and Kiri Te Kanawa .

voice

From tenore lirico to tenore lirico spinto

Luciano Pavarotti's vocal subject was at the beginning of his singing life a bright lyrical tenor (tenore lirico) who reached the heights without any effort. The ease of his voice guidance and the radiant, silver sound of his voice caught the attention of the soprano Joan Sutherland and her husband, the conductor and bel canto specialist Richard Bonynge . In the mid-1960s, they were looking for a suitable tenor voice for Sutherland in order to revive the bel canto repertoire of Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti , which was neglected at the time . Pavarotti accepted her invitation to tour the USA and Australia in 1965, marking the start of a long-term collaboration and training at Sutherland. His coloratura skills and breathing technique had only been poorly developed up to then. In 1967 he sang the nine high Cs in Donizetti's La fille du régiment (The Regiment's Daughter) in the aria Ah, mes amis with impressive certainty, thus establishing his fame.

On February 25, 1976, when he was just over 40 years old, he sang Arturo in Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani and, on the advice of his manager Herbert Breslin, switched from bel canto to the dramatic and heroic roles of tenore lirico spinto . Immediately afterwards, the US magazine Newsweek celebrated him in a cover story as "The Great Pavarotti", a reference to "The Great Caruso ". He now concentrated on Verdi and Puccini operas as Manrico in Il trovatore , Radamès in Aida , Cavaradossi in Tosca and Calaf in Turandot . Here he developed richer timbres and shades and perfected his phrasing.

Pavarotti's voice was characterized by an unusual level of head resonance, which became even more pronounced as his career progressed. This gave it a bright, vibrating sound that made it unmistakable. Later in his career, however, Pavarotti repeatedly had dropouts in high notes. He responded by having some parts transposed lower and concentrating on concerts in larger settings, where audio technology could support his singing.

repertoire

Since Pavarotti only sang in Italian, his repertoire comprised only 18 operatic roles, the French repertoire was almost entirely absent. Only the Decca recording of the "regiment's daughter" is recorded in the French original language. Another exception is his interpretation of We Are the World by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie , recorded in 1985 , which he performed together with the band Boyzone, Alex Britti, Mariah Carey , Joe Cocker , Gloria Estefan, BB King, Ricky Martin, Gianni Morandi, Laura Pausini, Lionel Richie, Renato Zero and Zucchero covered. The proceeds went to children's aid in Guatemala and Kosovo. In the 1969 recording of the [German-speaking] Rosenkavalier under Georg Solti , Pavarotti performed the Italian aria "Di rigori armato". His interpretations on stage and on sound carriers are among the most brilliant performances in opera history. The clarity of the intonation, the accuracy of his diction and especially the eruptive, euphoric and triumphant arias, which he knew how to create powerful and brilliant like no other, are emphasized.

Honors (excerpt)

• 1976: Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1979: Grammy for "Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance"; Four more Grammies followed in the next few years.
• 1980: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1988: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1989: The Hamburg State Opera honored him with the appointment of Hamburger Kammersänger .
• 1998: he received the " Grammy Legend Award".
• 1999: Namesake of the Centro Educativo Pavarotti
• 2001: Pavarotti received the World Social Award and the Nansen Refugee Prize.
• 2005: Honorary Citizen of London
• Officer of the Legion of Honor
• Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit
• 2013: Classic Brit Award (Lifetime Achievement Award)

Quotes

“He was the public tenor par excellence. He was there for the masses, he embraced them, waved to them with his handkerchief, laughed, cried, paced, and won. "

- Die Zeit , September 13, 2007

“Pavarotti was [...] a tenor like no other in his time. In its silver brilliance, its open tone and its lyrical smoothness, his nevertheless metallic penetrating and comparatively voluminous voice was unmistakable, unique. "

- FAZ , March 2004

“The brilliance and beauty of the material were already noticed in the early sixties; In addition, there was a technique that allowed him to jump to peak notes with unheard-of elasticity, to phrase it in a distinctive and elegant way over a wide area, to advance voice and music with rhythmic verve. He was also lucky enough to work with conductors who took their job seriously and who wanted to develop their phenomenal talent. "

- FAZ , October 12, 1995

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1980	O Sole Mio	-	-	-	-	US77 gold (21 weeks)US	Chart entry: February 1980 Sales: + 500,000
1982	Greatest hits	-	-	-	UK95 gold (1 week)UK	US85 (26 weeks) US	First published: May 1982 Sales: + 300,000
	Luciano	-	-	-	-	US141 (7 weeks) US	Chart entry: May 15, 1982
	Yes, Giorgio	-	-	-	-	US158 (3 weeks) US	Chart entry: November 1982
1984	Mom	-	-	-	UK96 (1 week) UK	US103 (14 weeks) US	First published: June 1984
1986	The Collection	-	-	-	UK12 platinum (34 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 1986 Sales: + 300,000
1988	The New Collection - Live!	-	-	-	UK63 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1988
1990	The essential	-	-	-	UK1 × 3 Triple platinum (72 weeks)UK	-	First published: March 1990 Sales: + 925,000
	Christmas - O Holy Night	DE28 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: December 1990
1991	Essential II	-	-	-	UK1 platinum (28 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 1991 Sales: + 300,000
1992	In The Park	-	-	-	UK19 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 1992
	Songbook	-	AT33 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	US173 (1 week) US	First published: June 1992
1993	Ti Amo Puccini's Greatest Love Songs	-	-	-	UK23 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1993
	Christmas Favorites ...	-	-	-	-	US127 (4 weeks) US	with Plácido Domingo, Josep Carreras (Metha and Levine)
1994	My Hearts Delight	-	-	-	UK44 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1994
1995	The Greatest Album Ever	-	-	-	UK86 (1 week) UK	US150 (1 week) US	First published: May 1995
1996	Christmas In Vienna - Best Of	DE60 (3 weeks) DE	AT37 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: November 1996 with Helmut Lotti , Patricia Kaas , Vanessa Williams Charlotte Church , Sarah Brightman , José Carreras & Plácido Domingo
	Classic Christmas Album Christmas gala of world stars	DE48 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: December 1996 with Kiri Te Kanawa & Plácido Domingo
1997	Sanctus: The Concert For The Soul	DE39 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First publication: March 1997 with Andrea Bocelli & Plácido Domingo
	The Ultimate Collection / Hits & More	DE62 (5 weeks) DE	AT8 (14 weeks) AT	-	UK8th gold (18 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 1997 with Cecilia Bartoli , Frank Sinatra & Andrea Bocelli
1999	Love songs	-	-	-	UK26th silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 1999 Sales: + 60,000
2001	Amore	-	AT26 (5 weeks) AT	-	UK41 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 2001
2003	Ti adoro	DE49 (5 weeks) DE	AT45 (6 weeks) AT	-	UK21st gold (9 weeks)UK	US135 (2 weeks) US	First published: September 2003 Sales: + 100,000
2005	The Best (Farewell Tour)	DE47 (5 weeks) DE	AT14 (26 weeks) AT	CH79 (2 weeks) CH	-	US76 (1 week) US	First published: April 2005
2007	Forever	DE7th gold (24 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (19 weeks)AT	CH12 gold (17 weeks)CH	-	US137 (6 weeks) US	First published: September 2007 Sales: + 566,000
2008	Nessun Dorma Puccini's Greatest Arias	DE80 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: July 2008
	The Duets	DE55 (7 weeks) DE	AT20 (16 weeks) AT	CH83 (3 weeks) CH	UK10 silver (7 weeks)UK	US153 (2 weeks) US	First published: September 2008 Sales: + 63,000
2010	75th Birthday: Limited Edition	-	-	-	-	US76 (1 week) US	Chart entry: May 8, 2010
2013	The 50 Greatest Tracks	DE58 (2 weeks) DE	AT57 (3 weeks) AT	-	UK20 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 2013
2016	Christmas With Pavarotti	-	AT48 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: November 2016

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More albums

• 1988: In Concert (UK:gold)
• 1990: Caruso
• 1990: Tutto Pavarotti
• 1991: Pavarotti In Holland
• 1993: O Holy Night (US:platinum)
• 1994: A Night At The Opera
• 1994: My Heart's Delight
• 1997: Pavarotti in the Amsterdam Arena
• 1997: Sublime
• 2006: gold
• 2010: Bravo
• 2011: Buongiorno a te
• 2014: Classic Duets

Pavarotti & Friends

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1993	International Charity Gala Concert	-	-	CH35 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: March 1993
1995	Pavarotti & Friends 2	DE16 (15 weeks) DE	-	CH6 (13 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 1995 Sales: + 300,000
1996	Together For The Children Of Bosnia	DE7 (21 weeks) DE	AT5 (16 weeks) AT	CH7 (9 weeks) CH	UK11 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1996 Sales: + 250,000
	For War Child	DE14th gold (14 weeks)DE	AT8 (16 weeks) AT	CH14th gold (14 weeks)CH	UK45 silver (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1996 Sales: + 510,000
1998	For The Children Of Liberia	DE12 (11 weeks) DE	AT18 (11 weeks) AT	CH18 (12 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: October 1998 Sales: + 150,000
1999	For Guatemala And Kosovo	DE23 (14 weeks) DE	AT6 (14 weeks) AT	CH39 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: September 1999
2000	For Cambodia And Tibet	DE20 (6 weeks) DE	AT12 (7 weeks) AT	CH32 (7 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: September 2000

The 3 tenors

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	In concert	DE3 platinum (100 weeks)DE	AT2 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)AT	CH10 gold (16 weeks)CH	UK1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (82 weeks)UK	US35 × 3 Triple platinum (100 weeks)US	First published: August 1990 Sales: +7,270,000; with José Carreras, Plácido Domingo & Zubin Mehta
1994	In Concert 1994	DE2 (48 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)AT	CH3 platinum (22 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (28 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (33 weeks)US	First published: August 1994 Sales: + 4,275,000; with José Carreras, Plácido Domingo & Zubin Mehta
1998	Paris 1998	DE3 (18 weeks) DE	AT8th gold (16 weeks)AT	CH10 gold (10 weeks)CH	UK14th silver (9 weeks)UK	US83 gold (10 weeks)US	First published: August 1998 Sales: + 710,000; with José Carreras, Plácido Domingo & James Levine
2000	Christmas / Christmas	DE9 gold (5 weeks)DE	AT3 (6 weeks) AT	CH11 (4 weeks) CH	UK57 silver (2 weeks)UK	US54 (8 weeks) US	First published: November 2000 Sales: + 550,000; with José Carreras & Plácido Domingo
2002	Best of	-	AT37 (6 weeks) AT	-	UK86 gold (1 week)UK	-	First published: May 2002 Sales: + 100,000; with José Carreras & Plácido Domingo
	Number one albums	DE-DE	AT1AT	CH-CH	UK4thUK	US-US
	Top 10 albums	DE6thDE	AT9AT	CH5CH	UK6thUK	US1US
	Albums in the charts	DE21stDE	AT20thAT	CH14thCH	UK23UK	US17thUS

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	Nessun dorma The Essential	DE60 (13 weeks) DE	-	CH32 (4 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (16 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 1990
1992	Miserere Miserere	-	-	CH22 (2 weeks) CH	UK15 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1992, with Zucchero
1994	Libiamo / La donna è mobile In Concert	-	-	-	UK21 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1994 with José Carreras & Plácido Domingo
1995	Miss Sarajevo Original Soundtracks 1	DE11 (17 weeks) DE	AT22 (10 weeks) AT	CH10 (13 weeks) CH	UK6 (15 weeks) UK	-	First release: November 1995 with U2 & Brian Eno as passengers
1996	Live Like Horses The Big Picture	-	AT35 (1 week) AT	-	UK9 (11 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1996, with Elton John
1998	You'll Never Walk Alone Paris 1998	DE46 (4 weeks) DE	-	CH28 (2 weeks) CH	UK35 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1998 with José Carreras & Plácido Domingo

More singles

• 1990: Caruso
• 1990: 'O sole mio

more publishments

title	medium	year	Music publisher
Primo tenor	CD	1971	Decca
Gala concert in the Royal Albert Hall	CD	1982	Decca
Mattinata	CD	1983	Decca
Passione; Neapolitan songs	CD	1985	Decca
Mancini, Henry: Volare	CD	1987	Decca
Pavarotti at Carnegie Hall	CD	1988	Decca
Pavarotti in Hyde Park	CD	1991	Decca
Opera duets	CD	1991	Decca
Arias	CD	1991	Decca
A Night In Central Park	CD	1994	Decca
My heart is all yours	CD	1994	Decca
Pavarotti Plus	CD	1995	Decca
The Greatest Tenors of the Century	CD	1998	Deutsche Grammophon
The Essential Romantic Collection	CD	2001	Decca
Live recital	CD	2001	Decca
Italian Popular Songs	CD	2001	Decca
The Pavarotti Edition	CD	2001	Decca
O Holy Night 2005	CD	2005	Decca
Pavarotti, Luciano - The Best 2005	CD	2005	Decca

Complete opera recordings

composer	title	medium	year	Music publisher
Richard Strauss	The Rosenkavalier	CD	1969	Decca
Gioacchino Rossini	Stabat Mater	CD	1971	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Rigoletto	CD	1971	Decca
Giacomo Puccini	La bohème	CD	1973	Decca
Giacomo Puccini	Madama Butterfly	CD	1974	Decca
Pietro Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	CD	1978	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	La favorita	CD	1978	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	requiem	CD	1980	Decca
Gioacchino Rossini	Gugliemo Tell	CD	1980	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	La traviata	CD	1981	Decca
Arrigo Boito	Mefistofele	CD	1985	Decca
Vincenzo Bellini	Norma	CD	1988	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Aida	CD	1989	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	Maria Stuarda	CD	1990	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	L'elisir d'amore	CD	1990	Deutsche Grammophon
Giuseppe Verdi	Luisa Miller	CD	1991	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Otello	CD	1991	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	CD	1991	Decca
Vincenzo Bellini	La sonnambula	CD	1991	Decca
Umberto Giordano	Andrea Chénier	CD	1991	Decca
Vincenzo Bellini	I puritani	CD	1991	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	La fille du regiment	CD	1991	Decca
Giacomo Puccini	Madama Butterfly	CD	1991	Decca
Giacomo Puccini	Tosca	CD	1991	Decca
Giacomo Puccini	Turandot	CD	1991	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	CD	1991	Decca
Richard Strauss	The Rosenkavalier	CD	1991	Decca
Vincenzo Bellini	Beatrice di Tenda	CD	1992	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	La traviata (excerpts)	CD	1992	Deutsche Grammophon
Ruggiero Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	CD	1993	Philips
Giacomo Puccini	Manon Lescaut	CD	1993	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Macbeth	CD	1994	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Don Carlo	CD	1994	EMI
Giuseppe Verdi	Il trovatore	CD	1995	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	I Lombardi	CD	1997	Decca
Gioacchino Rossini	Petite fair solennelle	CD	1998	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Il trovatore	CD	1998	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	CD	1998	Decca
Amilcare Ponchielli	La Gioconda	CD	2005	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Ernani	CD	2005	Decca
Arrigo Boito	Mefistofele	CD	2005	Decca
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Idomeneo	CD	2006	Decca
Gioacchino Rossini	Guglielmo Tell	CD	2006	Decca
Gaetano Donizetti	L'elisir d'amore	CD	2006	Decca
Giuseppe Verdi	Il trovatore	CD	2007	Decca

Awards for music sales

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Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Argentina (CAPIF)	-	-	6 × platinum6th	152,000	capif.org.ar ( Memento from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Australia (ARIA)	-	3 × gold3	7 × platinum7th	512,500	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	115,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	gold1	platinum1	45,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	Individual evidence
Germany (BVMI)	-	5 × gold5	3 × platinum3	2,150,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	3 × platinum3	(3,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	28,684	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	8 × gold8th	4 × platinum4th	1,340,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Ireland (IRMA)	-	-	platinum1	15,000	irishcharts.ie
Italy (FIMI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	115,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	5 × gold5	15 × platinum15th	1,390,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	gold1	-	100,000	Individual evidence
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	50,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	6 × gold6th	25 × platinum25th	2,790,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	100,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Austria (IFPI)	-	4 × gold4th	4 × platinum4th	290,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	530,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	-	gold1	-	10,000	Individual evidence
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	120,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	6 × gold6th	platinum1	165,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	5 × gold5	29 × platinum29	3,060,000	promusicae.es ES1 ES2 ES3 ES4
Hungary (MAHASZ)	-	gold1	platinum1	9,000	slagerlistak.hu
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	15 × platinum15th	8,550,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	8 × silver8th	8 × gold8th	15 × platinum15th	5,195,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	8 × silver8th	68 × gold68	145 × platinum145

Filmography

• Beloved Giorgio . (OT: Yes, Giorgio ). Feature film , USA, 1982, director: Franklin J. Schaffner
• Ustinov meets Pavarotti. (OT: Ustinov Meets Pavarotti ). Peter Ustinov in conversation with Luciano Pavarotti, Great Britain, 1993, director: Philip Saville, production: BBC , review:
• Luciano Pavarotti. Documentation, Germany, 2010, 55 min., Script and director: Esther Schapira , production: hr , ARD , series: Legenden, first broadcast: September 6, 2010, film announcement ( memento of September 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on ARD.
• Concert and opera recordings: Luciano Pavarotti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pavarotti 2019 documentary directed by Ron Howard

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Pavarotti was nicknamed "Big P." by his singing partner and mentor Joan Sutherland.

In the last years of his life, the obese Pavarotti used an electric car backstage, which was jokingly called "Pavamobil" in reference to the Pope's car.

To reduce his excess weight, Pavarotti had employed two dieticians and lived with them.

He founded a school in Guatemala, the Centro Educativo Pavarotti , to help the children in a country that was plagued by civil war.

literature

Autobiographies

• Luciano Pavarotti with William Wright: Me, Luciano Pavarotti. Noack-Huebner, Munich 1987; XVI, 236 pp., Ill.
• Luciano Pavarotti with William Wright: My world - my life. Kindler, Munich 1995; 400 pp.

Biographies and Studies

• Jürgen Kesting : Luciano Pavarotti. An essay on the myth of the tenor voice. Econ, Berlin 1991, 192 pp., Hardcover, ISBN 3-430-15385-9 .
• Adua Pavarotti: Life With Luciano. Rizzoli 1992, ISBN 0-8478-1573-0 ; 159 p. (English)
• Leone Magiera: Pavarotti. Myth, Method and Magic. Swiss publishing house Schott, Zurich / Mainz 1992; 162 pp., Ill., Sheet music examples and vocal technical appendix.
• Herbert Breslin, Anne Midgette: The King & I. The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary. Doubleday Books, New York 2004, ISBN 0-385-50972-3 .
• Alberto Mattioli: Big Luciano. Pavarotti, la vera storia. Mondadori, Milano 2007, ISBN 978-88-04-57574-0 ; 196 p.
  The Italian director Gabriele Muccino will film the book in a six-part television series from summer 2008.
• Adrian Hollaender : The very private Pavarotti. Addio, Luciano! Amalthea Signum, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85002-634-5 ; 152 pp.
• Leone Magiera: Pavarotti. Visto da Vicino. Edizioni Ricordi, Milano 2008, ISBN 978-88-7592-813-1 .
• Felix Scheuerpflug , Edwin Tinoco, Thomas Reitz: Luciano Pavarotti. With a foreword by Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana Pavarotti. Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89910-401-1 ; 240 pp.

Web links

Commons : Luciano Pavarotti  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the Fondazione Luciano Pavarotti (Italian, English)
• Website of the Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti (Italian, English)
• Literature by and about Luciano Pavarotti in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Luciano Pavarotti  in the German Digital Library
• Luciano Pavarotti in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Obituaries

• Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Tenor, Is Dead at 71. In: New York Times . September 6, 2007 ( nytimes.com , with photo series).
• Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages. In: Time . September 6, 2007 ( content.time.com ).
• On the death of Luciano Pavarotti. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . - Focus, September 6, 2007 ( faz.net ).
• The voice of a foil fencer. In: The time . September 6, 2007 ( zeit.de ).
• One voice for the world. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 6, 2007 ( sueddeutsche.de , with picture gallery and video).
• A minor ending. In: Tagesspiegel . September 7, 2007 ( tagesspiegel.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fernando Pavarotti , Rodovid, free ancestral archive
2. ↑ ^{a b} In memory of Luciano Pavarotti . ( Memento from September 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ZDF , September 7, 2007
3. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: The tenor for every occasion . In: The time . tape 2007 , no. 38 , September 13, 2007, pp. 48 : "He learned the technique from Mr. Arrigo Pola (for correct declamation) and Ettore Campogalliani (for correct breathing), well-known in specialist circles."
4. ↑ Rodolfo's aria (“Che gelida manina”) from this performance can be heard on various collective recitals by Pavarotti.
5. ↑ ^{a b} 'The King and I': A Fight at the Opera . In: New York Times , December 12, 2004 (only with cookies )
6. ^ Norman Lebrecht: Herbert Breslin - The man behind Pavarotti . In: La Scena Musicale , October 28, 2004
7. ^ A Night at the Opera . In: Washington Post , October 17, 2004
8. ↑ Jürgen Kesting : The high and the hollow C . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , October 9, 2005, p. 28
9. ↑ Conductor: "Pavarotti did not sing live anymore" . news, ch, April 9, 2008
10. ↑ Pavarotti's playback appearances. The two tenors . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 8, 2008
11. ↑ Love At Sixty For Luciano And Nicoletta . In: Corriere della Sera , September 6, 2007 (English)
12. ^ Inheritance dispute: widow sues Pavarotti lover . In: Die Presse , November 26, 2007
13. ↑ Luciano Pavarotti is dead. In: Zeit online , September 6, 2007
14. ↑ Italy bows to Luciano Pavarotti . Welt Online , September 8, 2007
15. ↑ Moving farewell for Luciano Pavarotti . Tagesspiegel, September 8, 2008
16. ^ Tomb of Luciano Pavarotti. knerger.de
17. ↑ Pavarotti 'changed will' in favor of first wife . In: Daily Telegraph , September 12, 2007
18. ↑ Luciano Pavarotti, 71: Famed tenor . In: The Star , September 6, 2007
19. ↑ A great tenor . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , September 7, 2007
20. ↑ Pavarotti tax trial adjourned . BBC , May 2, 2001
21. ↑ Pavarotti has to go to court for tax evasion . In: Rheinische Post , February 16, 2001
22. ↑ Pavarotti's poor, rich heirs . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 23, 2007
23. ↑ ^{a b} Pavarotti Estate: Two families, two wills . ( Memento of April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Presse , September 19, 2007
24. ↑ Pavarotti's inheritance: widow comes to an agreement with daughters . In: Die Presse , June 30, 2008
25. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: The tenor for every occasion . In: The time . tape 2007 , no. 38 , September 13, 2007, pp. 48 : "At that time [at the beginning of his career] Pavarotti was a typical" tenore di grazia ", ideally suited for agile, sky-high, jubilant roles by Donizetti or Bellini."
26. ↑ Words of the Week . In: Die Zeit , No. 31/1997
27. ↑ Luciano Pavarotti is dead. In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 6, 2007
28. ^ A voice of the century has fallen silent . In: Spiegel Online , September 6, 2007
29. ↑ Broad tenoral effect . In: NZZ , September 6, 2007
30. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Kesting : Nobody should sleep tonight ( Memento from November 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: FAZ , September 6, 2007.
31. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: The tenor for every occasion . In: The time . tape 2007 , no. 38 , September 13, 2007, pp. 48 : “Nonetheless, Pavarotti understood that the audience was not at all interested in the debates of the connoisseurs. Above all, there was a desire for the sexual dimensions of tenor singing: for high, loud tones and their stability. Meanwhile, Pavarotti's voice fell short of such claims more and more often. He used tricks, had some parts transposed deeper [...]. He appeared in stadiums, arenas, exhibition halls and aircraft hangars, the microphone helped with vocal indispositions [...]. "
32. ↑ Big P. is dead. Voice and repertoire on Wissen.de
33. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: The tenor for every occasion . In: The time . tape 2007 , no. 38 , September 13, 2007, pp. 48 : “As a young Rodolfo in La Bohème , he took a seat at the side of Mirella Freni and Herbert von Karajan in the throne room of the record story. One heard a voice of brilliant bravura, bright timbres, enchanting sensual. "
34. ↑ Chamber singer Pavarotti . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 2, 1989.
35. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: The tenor for every occasion . In: The time . tape 2007 , no. 38 , September 13, 2007, pp. 48 .
36. ↑ Quoted in: An instinct musician par excellence . In: FAZ , September 6, 2007
37. ↑ Quoted in: Sheer infinite breath . In: FAZ , September 6, 2007
38. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
39. ↑ Ralf Schlueter: Human Muppet Show. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 29, 1994; Discussion: Ustinov meets Pavarotti ( [1] ).
40. ↑ Broad tenoral effect . In: NZZ , September 6, 2007
41. ^ Soap Opera . In: The Sunday Times , September 9, 2007