Word: pavarotti
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...Olympics are a lot about national pride. And so, beyond Dante, Italy trotted out its stars to tout its culture: Giorgio Armani designing costumes; Sophia Loren carrying the Olympic flag; Eva Herzigova, a Czech-born resident of Torino, starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half-shell and Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini's Nessun Dorma. A Ferrari roared on stage; speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!); and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there was a poetry-spouting Yoko Ono (who knew she was Italian?). The only thing missing was Torino...
...evoking an icy wonderland on television, since Torino has been unseasonably warm and there is no real snow in town. But it turned out they were leaving in the eighth inning. Massive ruby drapes had appeared beneath the cauldron and they parted to reveal a giant chandelier and Luciano Pavarotti in a setting suggesting an outdoor opera house. H?e performed "Nessun Dorma," the Puccini aria he made immortal. In English, it would be, "With the dawn I will win! I'll win! I'll win!" Or even, "I will conquer." The brief fireworks that followed were literally anticlimactic...
According to Acosta, one possibility open to Ma is to work with the Messengers of Peace program, along with fellow performers Luciano Pavarotti and Michael Douglas, as well as Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, scientist Jane Goodall, and athletes Magic Johnson and Muhammad...
...opera house SEVEN months later. how was that? I felt if I didn't go back, the experience would loom larger in my memory, and I needed to step up to the plate. It is a lot like getting back on a horse that has thrown you. But Pavarotti was booed there, and he never went back. [Opera at La Scala] is a little bit like a sports event, with fans shouting at their teams. Is it true that you practice singing in the mirror? Once in a while. I can see if I am singing out of the side...
...OPERA HOUSE SEVEN MONTHS LATER. HOW WAS THAT? I felt if I didn't go back, the experience would loom larger in my memory, and I needed to step up to the plate. It is a lot like getting back on a horse that has thrown you. But Pavarotti was booed there, and he never went back. [Opera at La Scala] is a little bit like a sports event, with fans shouting at their teams...