Opera legend Pavarotti dies at 71

[Sticks]

From BBC News Online (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6981032.stm)

Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died, his manager has announced.

[Serenitude]

Oh, my. I've been following this story for days, hoping he'd pull through :(

Goodbye, to one of the finest voices to grace the Earth.

[PhantomWolf]

I is sad. :( While opera was never my favourite, Pavarotti made it worth listening too. The world truer is a darker place this day. Goodbye and farewell to a great man, and a beautiful voice.

http://lokishammer.dragon-rider.org/X/263810~Luciano-Pavarotti-Posters.jpg

RIP 1935-2007

[astromark]

It is with sadness I admit that this man brought opera to the people. A great voice falls silent... where's the volume... crank it up two clicks...Play.

Ooooo, oooOOO Missssannn Dormaaaaa! its not the same is it...:(

[Argos]

Nessun Dorma is never going to be the same...

The News (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/06/bmpavarotti306.xml)

[NEOWatcher]

Nessun Dorma is never going to be the same...
Um; why didn't you use the existing thread (http://www.bautforum.com/off-topic-babbling/64289-opera-legend-pavarotti-dies-71-a.html)?

[Argos]

Because I didn´t see it?

[NEOWatcher]

Because I didn´t see it?
Obviously...:lol:

[Maksutov]

Such joie de vi·vre!

The three are now down to two and little José had better stay healthy.

Pavarotti definitely made for one of best-fed, poor starving artist Rodolphos in history. But the sound was wonderful.

What memories now for those of us who enjoyed his art.

Arrivederci, Luciano!

[Jim]

Because I didn´t see it?

I did. Merged.

I hate opera. Well, hate may be too strong a word... don't really care for it.

However, I can appreciate a fine singing voice and performer, and Pavarotti was both. He was criticized by "opera lovers" for "going pop." His response - paraphrased - was that if classical meant boring, he preferred pop. Besides, he continued, there are only two kinds of music, good and bad.

Ciao, Luciano!

[Neverfly]

40 years of bringing such talent to the stage...

I was first introduced, with much protestation, to opera when the three tenors sang for the World Cup.

I was still in high school back then and opera was "nerdy".

Nevertheless I was enratpured by it and went on to research where the music came from and what they meant.
Nessun Dorma was from Turandot.

Even for its time a strange performance full of prose and analogy. However, it was full, too, of wisdom and a lesson many need to learn today even.

An old fashioned skater boy metal head... I spent a lot of time crowsing the classics at the music store- much to the surprise of the clerks.

Pavarotti first introduced me to "Culture."

[Serenitude]

Pavarotti first introduced me to "Culture."

Which culture?

[Neverfly]

Which culture?

Cheese, of course.

[davidlpf]

Cheese, of course.
we just can not stay out of the cheese.

[Doodler]

He gets major credit for bringing opera back into the cultural mainstream.

I remember rolling my eyes about some of the criticism he took when age started taking its toll on his performances. The guy was in his 50's and 60's belting with enough heart to shame men half his age that a little edge off the top end of his range because time stole some wind from his sails was nothing.

[Serenitude]

He gets major credit for bringing opera back into the cultural mainstream.

I remember rolling my eyes about some of the criticism he took when age started taking its toll on his performances. The guy was in his 50's and 60's belting with enough heart to shame men half his age that a little edge off the top end of his range because time stole some wind from his sails was nothing.

Agreed. I can remember the scandal when he actually missed a note at a major performance a few years back (sorry, the exact details escape me...) and the crowd stood and booed him.

And I thought "This is why most don't like Opera in general. Not because of the gorgoues music, but because of the pompous donkeys who compose it's 'culture'..."

[Sticks]

"This is why most don't like Opera in general. Not because of the gorgoues music, but because of the pompous donkeys who compose it's 'culture'..."

I find this comment appalling and uncalled for

Why must you insult such a noble beast as the donkey by association pompous people. :naughty:

[Serenitude]

I find this comment appalling and uncalled for

Why must you insult such a noble beast as the donkey by association pompous people. :naughty:

My mistake. I retract the statement ;)

[peteshimmon]

One silly little thing I will miss, the other
two hamming it up that they are narked he
held a note too long. The camera settling on
them just before they made the annoyed gestures
was a bit of a givaway.