Pavarotti's friends and colleagues remember his life. Read what they have to say of the late master. "He was like a, let's say prima donna? Yes, why not? Prima donna can be also a tenor, and we need prima donnas on stage to catch the ...
Metropolitan Opera Archives "Che gelida manina" "Che gelida manina" ("Your tiny hand is frozen"), from Puccini's La Boheme (1896), stacks high in any tenor's repertory, but none higher than Pavarotti's. The role of the romantic poet Rodolfo fits him like a glove and was the ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET pays tribute to the life of Luciano Pavarotti, who died on September 6, 2007, with an encore performance of one of his most treasured roles, Nemorino in Donizetti's "L'Elisir D'Amore" ("The Elixir of Love"). The two-and-one-half-hour, two-act opera was originally ...