Word: pavarottie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately for opera lovers, the discord has already cost five weeks of performances, including the season premiere of Turandot, starring Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe. It will be two or three weeks before the house reopens. For some productions, like Samson et Dalila, Das Rheingold and Gotterdammerung, the agreement almost certainly has come too late. A new staging of Queen of Spades, planned for next March, may also be scratched. Even so, there were few tears at Lincoln Center. If the accord had not come now, there might have been no season...
...flight of ten R.A.F. Red Arrows jets streaked across the sky in a perfect E, for Elizabeth, formation. Tenor Luciano Pavarotti warbled Happy Birthday over champagne at a cozy luncheon. At Covent Garden, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov leaped through the air in a new ballet created in her honor. Bonfires glowed on the Kent and Sussex coasts. Cannon boomed from the Tower of London...
...singing." That's what Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Angie Dickinson and other members of Hollywood's elite were doing last week at Chasen's restaurant as the stars twinkled out a little starstruck themselves to meet the town's newest celebrity: famed Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a sometime Alfredo, who is about to take four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian singer who falls in love with an American woman. Carol Burnett produced paper and pen for his autograph, Carroll...
...tension bursts over curtain calls. Pavarotti takes a disputed solo bow, so Scotto refuses to take her final bow. As the loudspeaker calls her repeatedly to the stage, she sits in her dressing room, ignoring Mansouri's just praise and his fervent pleas. There will...
...Pavarotti arrives at the administrative offices swathed in desert robes. He strokes the astonished Adler's hair affectionately and then drinks the director's coffee. When he protests, Pavarotti says mildly that it is his coffee. The stage, the opera, the fans are his coffee too, and he knows it. He is in superb voice. Adler murmurs, "When Pavarotti sings like this, a compliment is not enough...