Biography
Luciano Pavarotti is an outstanding opera singer of the second half of the 20th century. Luciano was born on October 12, 1935 in the Italian city of Modena. Father Fernando Pavarotti worked as a bake, but singing was his weakness. Fernando did not become a professional singer just because he felt the fear of the scene. Mother Luciano Adel Venturi worked on a tobacco factory. In 1943, with the coming to the city of Fascists, the family moved to a country farm. Parents with the children were fascinated by agriculture.
Little Luciano from an early age was engaged in music. The first concerts in front of neighbors and relatives of the baby began to give already in 4 years. Later, together with the father, Luciano sang in the church choir. At home, the boy constantly listened to the plates of opera singers from the Father's collection, and for the first time he came to the Opera House, where he heard the performance of the tenor of Benjamin Gili. Student at school Schola Magistrale, young man took a few lessons of vocals from Professor Dondi and his wife.
In addition to singing, Luciano was engaged in football and even seriously thought about the career of the goalkeeper. But after receiving a diploma about secondary education, the mother convinced the Son to learn to the teacher. After receiving the vocational education, Luciano Pavarotti worked at the school teacher of primary classes for two years. At the same time, Luciano began to take lessons from Arrigo Paul, and after two years - at Ettore Campogalkaliani. After making the final decision to start a vocal career, Pavarotti left the school.
Music
In 1960, Luciano after Larygitis received a professional disease - thickening of ligaments, which led to voice loss. Pavarotti, having experienced Fiasco on stage during a concert in Ferrara, decided to leave the music, but in a year the thickening disappeared, and the tenor's voice acquired new paints and depth.
In 1961, Luciano wins the international vocal competition. The first prize was awarded to two singers at once: Luciano Pavarotti and Dmitry Nabokov. Young vocalists received a party in the opera "Boheme" Puccini in the theater of Reggio Emilia. In 1963, Pavarotti debut in the Vienna Opera and London "Covent Garden" took place.
Success to Luciano Pavarotti came after the execution of the Tonio party in Donizetti's office "Daughter of the Regiment", with which tenor spoke at the beginning in the London Royal Covent Garden Theater, and then in the Italian La Scala and the American Metropolitan Opera. Pavarotti put a kind of record: sang in a row 9 high notes "before" at full voice power in the Aria Tonyo with impeccable ease.
Sensational speech forever changed the creative biography of Pavarotti. With a new star of the Opera Sky Skysklon, I concluded the contract Impresario Herbert Breslin, who took up the progress of the tenor in the best theaters of the world. Since 1972, in addition to performances in performances, Pavarotti begins to tour with solo concerts, which includes classic opera arias, Italian songs and ancond.
In addition to the parties of the lyrical tenor, Elvino in the "Somnamboul" and Arturo "Puritans" Bellini, Edgardo in the "Lucia di Lammermur" of Donizetti, Alfreda in the "Traviato" and the Duke of Mantoan in Rigoletto, Verdi, Luciano Pavarotti masters and the dramatic roles of Riccardo in "Bale Masquerade "Verdi, Kawaracessi in" Tuske "Puccini, Manriko in Trubadur and Radams" Aida "Verdi. The Italian singer often appears with speeches on television, participates at the "Arena di Verona" festival, makes the record of famous opera arias and popular songs of the memory of Cairoso, "O, Sole Mio!".
In the early 1980s, Luciano Pavarotti is based on the international competition of Wocalists The Pavarotti International Voice Competition. In different years, with the winners of the competition, the Star Scene goes to touring tourists in America and China, where, together with young dating, the singer performs fragments from the operas "Bohemia", "Love Drink" and "Bala Masquerada". In addition to the concert activity, Pavarotti cooperates with the Vienna Opera and theater "La Scala".
The speech of Luciano in Opera "Aida" is accompanied by long ovations and multiple curtain raising. But it did not do without failures: in 1992, in the play "Don Carlos", Franco Dziffirelli, who was put in La Scala, the audience spawned Pavarotti for execution of the role. Tenor himself recognized his own guilt and did not speak more in this theater.
The new round of international recognition of the Italian tenor occurred in 1990, when the Air Force of the Air Force, the Nessun Dorma world football championship broadcast, performed by Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, José Carreras. The video for the clip was shot in the Roman imperial baths of Karakallah. Circulation Sold out records became the largest music story, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. The project "Three Tenors" was so successful that the singers were still at the opening of the three followers of the World Cup.
Luciano Pavarotti popularized Opera. His solo concerts were collected to half a million viewers who came to listen to the tenor alive in New York Central Park, in the London Hyde Park, on the Marsfield in Paris. In 1992, Pavarotti creates the Pavarotti and Friends program, in addition to the Opera Singer Estrada Star Elton John, Sting, Brian Adams, Andrea Bocelley, Lionel Richie, James Brown, Celine Dion, Cheryl Crow. In 1998, Luciano Pavarotti receives the Legend Grammy Prize.
Personal life
Student at school, Luciano met his future wife Aduu Verona, who was also fond of singing. Together with Luciano, the girl went to work as a teacher in a rural school. Young people were able to marry in 1961, as soon as Pavarotti began to earn independently on the opera scene. In 1962, the pair had a daughter Lorentz, in 1964 - Christina, in 1967 - Juliana.
Marriage with Adua lasted 40 years, but permanent treasure to Luciano forced the spouse to give a divorce. Pavarotti during the musical career met with many singers. The most famous novel of the 1980s was his connection with the student of Madeleine Reni. But in 60 years old, tenor met a girl who gave rise to the second life.
The young person was named Nicoletta Montovani, she was 36 years old Maestro. In 2000, after a divorce with the first wife, Pavarotti makes an offer to Nicolette and builds a spacious mansion for a new family. In 2003, the couple born twins - the son of Ricardo and the daughter of Alice, but the newborn boy will soon die. Pavarotti gives all the strength to raising a little daughter.
Death
In 2004, Luciano put a disappointing diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The artist, having weiging all the possibilities, is being decided for the last farewell tour of 40 cities in the world. In 2005, the disk of the singer THE BEST, which included the best numbers ever filled with Pavarotti. The last speech of the Great Tenor took place on February 10, 2006 at the Turin Olympiad, after which Pavarotti lay down to the hospital for the operation to remove cancer education.
The state has improved launcher, but in August 2007, the singer suffered pneumonia. Returning home in Madenu, the artist died on September 6, 2007. The death of Maestro could not leave his fans indifferent. For three days, while the coffin with the body of Luciano Pavarotti stood in the cathedral of his native city, people were walking around the clock to say goodbye to the idol.
Discography
- The Essential Pavarotti - 1990
- Pavarotti & Friends - 1992
- Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz - 1994
- Pavarotti & Friends 2 - 1995
- The Three Tenors: Paris - 1998
- Christmas WITH Pavarotti - 1999
- THE THREE TENORS CHRISTMAS - 2000
- Donizetti Arias - 2001
- NEAPOLITAN AND ITALIAN POPULAR SONGS - 2001