In the documentary, “Pavarotti” is a portrait of Academy award winner Ron Howard and the in 2007 deceased Tenor. Material for this the man with of-the-century voice enough.
Up to 100,000 people were on 8. September 2007, in the Cathedral square of Modena, hometown of Luciano Pavarotti gathered. Two days earlier, the “Tenorissimo” with cancer and had succumbed to. Worldwide, the funeral service was transferred to the Cathedral in the television, during the end of the show, the aerobatic team of the Italian air force circled over the Cathedral and the Red, White and Green Tricolor in the sky painted. It was the funeral of a king, as the Italian come mentatoren agreed.
Funeral service for Luciano Pavarotti in 2007, in the Cathedral of Modena
Pavarotti came from a poor background
In 1935, Pavarotti was born the son of a Baker and a tobacco worker in Modena. Yes, his mother worked in a tobacco factory. Just as Carmen in Bizet’s Opera of the same name. A almost far-fetched Detail in the biography tenors of the later, the largest Opera in the world counting Pavarotti. Worked briefly as a primary school teacher before he decided to train his voice and eventually studied voice. As Rodolfo in “La Bohème,” he entered in 1961, for the first time, the world of Opera. A year later, he attracted attention in the bittersweet role of Edgardo in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”, the Opera, which brought him in with performances in the USA and Australia, the international breakthrough.
The three tenors
Pavarotti is more than 20.8 million sound recordings sold
Since then, Pavarotti’s star shone brightly in the Operatic firmament, and soon not only there: Pavarotti became the first classical artist to burst with CD sales in the Pop Charts. Lastly, in 1990 the football made the world Cup in Italy, not only Germany to the world, but also Pavarotti biggest star in the world: A concert in Rome in the framework of the program of the world Cup became a global media event. The joint appearance with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras as “the Three tenors” was sold until the mid-1990s, ten million Times. Pavarotti’s Aria, it became the anthem of the world Cup.
The Three tenors: Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo in 1998, the football world Cup in Paris
Pop star and overall product
Many a football fan may at first have thought, because Bud Spencer is standing on the stage. Full beard and plump figure were a trademark of the tenor as well as of the actor. The body was wealth increasingly to the Problem. At the latest, in the early 1990s, Pavarotti suffered from health-endangering Obesity. Concerts were, had to Opera performances to be cancelled. But if “The Big P” was to be heard in this Phase, however, dam critics of his voice agreed with him to continue to tenoralen sheen, Timbre, and beam power or “lyrical melting, however the metal by striking”, such as the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” wrote.
The Tenor was also with Elton John and Sting on stage
Pavarotti knew no fear of contact. He didn’t hesitate, with his exceptional Pop voice, Refine productions, such as with Sting, Elton John or Bon Jovi, to. On several occasions he devoted such duets charitable purposes, such as children’s aid projects in Afghanistan, Guatemala and Kosovo. In addition, the right aggressive marketing of the brand Pavarotti, who also gave a perfume to his name, threatened to obstruct the view of the artist.
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Posing for the wedding album: Luciano Pavarotti’s wife Nicoletta Mantovani and daughter Alice in 2003, after their wedding Ceremony
In 2006, Pavarotti made his disease to pancreatic cancer in public, the consequences of which he at 6. September 2007 at the age of 71 years died. It is a ugly medial swept armed to the million-dollar inheritance between his daughters from his first marriage and the second, 35 years younger wife Nicoletta followed.
Louder than the reverberations of the century sounds, however, Pavarotti’s, the “have honored with his “Talent and the divine gift of music, voice”, as it is write in the Condolences of Pope Benedict XVI was called, which was read at the funeral ceremony in Modena.
Now Ron Howard’s documentary about the unforgettable Tenor in the cinemas.