Word: pavarotti
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...alone. He walks around the city as godlike as a mortal can be. The families of the fallen cling to him. Workers pulling grim double shifts at ground zero get a second wind when he visits. At opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, he gets an ovation Pavarotti would envy. He brings David Letterman to tears and a Saturday Night Live audience to life, telling people it's O.K. to laugh again...
...Pavarotti drank the Trevi fountain b) Mount Etna erupted c) Roberto Benigni won't let go of the Tower of Pisa d) Coliseum ticket takers can't bear to hear "Strength and honor!" anymore...
...Noted "We keep it secret like a doctor keeping a patient's records." MANU MELWANI, owner of Sam's Tailor shop in Hong Kong, on the measurements of jumbo tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who ordered nine suits last week...
...First on the scene was the French-born Roberto Alagna, who had people talking about "the new Pavarotti" with his 1990 performance in La Traviata at Milan's La Scala. When, six years later, he married the sensational young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, you could almost hear record company executives cheer. By Three Tenors standards, however, the couple's sales have disappointed. Alagna's label, EMI, is reluctant to disclose figures, but according to music retailer HMV, his best showing-an album of duets with Gheorghiu-sold no more than 70,000 copies in Britain. Critically overshadowed by his wife...
...both snapped up by Sony: another Argentinian, Marcelo Alvarez, and the Italian Salvatore Licitra. Alvarez, however, has a voice too light for the supertenors' territory of arenas and stadiums, and Licitra is still unproved-although recent performances at La Scala have set music critics writing things like "Not since Pavarotti...