Word: pavarotti
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...found,including a man named Peter Kazaras who is a busyopera singer in New York. So I e-mailed him andasked "Are you the real Peter Kazaras?" and hewrote back, "Yes, I'm the real Peter Kazaras, andwhy would anyone want to imitate Peter Kazaraswhen they could imitate Pavarotti or PlacidioDomingo." So the next I emailed him and asked himif he would hear me sing. He said yes, and so Iwent to sing there, and he gave me a great, greatresponse and invited me to see a dress rehearsalfor Billy Budd at the Met the next day. So thenext...
Keeping on the subject of "larger than life" singers, Hoelterhoff manages to continually weave in the story of everyone's favorite tenor, Lucianno Pavarotti. Told with a tinge of sympathy and pity, she traces the last moments of a tenor past his prime, who has constant memory lapses and has to transpose all of his arias down to avoid the dreaded high Cs, yet desperately does not want to leave the public spotlight. Like Bartoli, even Mr. P (as Hoelteroff affectionately calls the Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed...
Choral concerts are planned for every evening, with organizers hoping to sign up the incomparable Three Tenors--Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti--for a New Year's Eve Concert of Hope in Manger Square...
During his audition, Ilagan was asked to nickname Luciano Pavarotti, who had just sung a concert with the Spice Girls...
Three years ago, Michael Bolton had a fortunate epiphany. Sharing a stage with Luciano Pavarotti at an Italian benefit concert, Bolton heard the First Tenor sing Puccini's Nessun dorma. The experience left the pop balladeer "overwhelmed by the emotional depth of this great music." Now Bolton has recorded My Secret Passion: The Arias (Sony Classical), a collection of 10 popular arias and a duet from La Boheme on which he is joined by no less a luminary than soprano Renee Fleming...