Luciano Pavarotti Dead at 71

[HSaabedra]

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

The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, died at his home in the northern city of Modena, at the age of 71.

He had been admitted to hospital in Modena on 8 August with a fever. He was released two weeks later following diagnostic tests.

Pavarotti had cancer surgery in July 2006 in New York, and had not made any public appearances since then.

Nessun Dorma will never sound the same....:(

[tenshi_a]

I woke up to this news, this morning. There've been tributes from all sorts of people pretty much non-stop since then (an hour).

I'm feeling a great sadness here, even though I haven't actually listened to any Pavarotti for quite a while... great presence, great voice, a whole lot of depth and power and accuracy, and (quite rare) an opera singer where you could actually make out what he was singing without really struggling. Not that I can understand Italian or anything, I just like that in singers. Half the time, when opera singers are singing in English, I can't work out what they're singing...

Sounds like he led an interesting full life outside of singing, and was passionate about women and football (as in soccer). Good man.

[seba_boi]

Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza
guardi le stelle
che tremano d'amore e di speranza...
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
il nome mio nessun saprà!
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò,
quando la luce splenderà!
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
che ti fa mia.

Il nome suo nessun saprà...
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir!

Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincerò!
Vincerò! Vincerò!

[Bernard_Monsha]

He had a voice that comes along once every 200 years. He will be sorely missed. Requiscat in Pace Luciano, sing in peace with the choir invisible

[Soluzar]

It's a good thing we live in the age of permanent digital recording. In ages past, there was no way to preserve a voice such as this, that future generations might hear it, and be moved by it. People who have not yet been born may hear Pavarotti sing, as though he were still at the height of his powers.

There's no replacement for a great singer, but their legacy can live on.

[tenshi_a]

It's kind of like one thing I heard in the tributes this morning; the news presenter asked an opera critic whether he thought Pavarotti was better than Caruso, and then commented how it wasn't really fair because we have Pavarotti's later recordings in full top quality digital but nothing but scratchy vinyl for Caruso's recordings (from about when vinyl was invented).

A lot of critics were saying that Pavarotti was best in the 70s-80s, before digital, but it might be just that they're critics who want to go "lol noob, I liked him before he was a superstar" at us all, hehe.

[Soluzar]

Most of Caruso's important recordings have apparently been re-issued on CD, after the attentions of skilled sound engineers, so I'd assume that whatever difference there is in quality between Pavarotti's recordings and Caruso's, the true quality of the respective voices still will shine through to some extent. There's a lot which can be done to preserve an analogue recording as long as a reasonable copy of it still exists.

I have to be honest, though. I just don't know enough about opera to comment on anything other than the existance of these recordings, and that they are described as having been digitally remastered. I have nothing to say about how good the recordings really are, just about what is possible.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...Luciano Pavarotti. dead, at age 71.

he will be sorely missed.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...oh snap. i made a similar thread in OT. my bad.

[Animematt55]

He will be missed

[goddessofanime]

R.I.P.

(filler)

[Tenou]

He's being remembered on a couple of the pop stations here.
I wish I could have seen him preform.