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Article: Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007.(Appreciation)(Obituary)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- September 17, 2007
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Byline: Andrew Moravcsik
The fat man sings no more. The great bearded figure with outstretched arms, holding a flag-size silk handkerchief at the front of the stadium. The global superstar whose rendition of "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot" topped the charts and became the theme song of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The man whose "Three Tenors" concert with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras became the best-selling classical recording of all time, heard by one fourth of humanity. The celebrity who bantered on TV and crooned his way through pop duets with Bono, Sting and Elton John. Luciano Pavarotti is dead.
In the final decades of his career, ...