huge success
In his approach to popular music, he recorded duets with Eros Ramazzotti, Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Liza Minnelli, Tracy Chapman, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, and unpublished, with Brazil’s Caetano Veloso, the argentina Mercedes Sosa and the Irish rock group U2. A duet with Sarah Brightman was never specific, but was always desired by both artists.
On June 2, 1988 he appointed Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine at Merito della Repubblica Italiana .
However, the most comment at the international level of the great Italian tenor who was held with the Spaniards Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, with whom he formed the trio The Three Tenors (The Three Tenors). This idea, advocated by Pavarotti to get “il bel canto” to everyone, beginning with a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome that served as the closing to the World Cup 1990. The success was so deafening that repeated closures of world events of 1994, 1998 and 2002 and some other additional concerts, all with great success.
In his personal life, Luciano Pavarotti was a great football fan, and paint horses. Unio their destination for 34 years, Adua Verona, with whom she had three daughters, Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana, but the December 13, 2003 if remarried with his assistant, Nicoletta Mantovani, 30 years less than that and she had her fourth daughter, Alice.
For several years beginning in 1991, Pavarotti responded to the call of the organization War Child to raise funds for the construction of a music center in Mostar. In this way, organized annually in Modena concerts under the title Luciano Pavarotti and friends, which also involved other personalities of international music, such as Monica Naranjo and Anastacia, which raised funds for various causes benefiting children and men around the world. Perhaps its biggest benefit concert in 1998 were made in favor of Liberia or 2003, both held in Modena, Italy, where artists of the stature of Bon Jovi, Queen, U2, Deep Purple, Stevie Wonder, Eros Ramazzotti, The Corrs, Spice Girls, Zucchero, Celine Dion, Natalie Cole and Vanessa Williams from other pop and rock artists of world class. Collaborated with the most relevant figures in dance music scene of the time, demonstrating the high degree of popularity reached. For the first time an opera tenor was known as a star for the general public
Pavarotti was in great demand at theaters around the world until his retirement at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in March 2004, where he played the role of the painter Mario Cavaradossi in the opera Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini.
In May 2004, on the eve of his birthday, 70 the tenor’s farewell announcement tour featuring 40 concerts around the world to say goodbye to the faithful followers of his song. Despite this retreat in February 2006 played the aria Nessun dorma from Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini, as close to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2006 Winter Olympic Stadium in Turin.
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