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What the opera world needs most right now is a new Wagnerian soprano or a hefty heldentenor, but that is not what the fans are looking for. What they fret about is, Where is the next Pavarotti going to come from? Who will replace Domingo? These two supersingers have raised tenor worship to extraordinary levels, and even they admit that they can't go on forever. There are many claimants for the rich prize of tenor dominance, but the one taken most seriously is a young French-born Sicilian named Roberto Alagna. He is 32, handsome, slender and blessed with...
Only last October, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI declared himself "incredibly monogamous," and Adua, his wife of 35 years, concurred. But in Barbados, the Italian weekly Chi snapped Big Luciano--as he's known back home--and his secretary NICOLETTA MANTOVANI Making a certain sort of music together. Chi reports that the tenor has finally proclaimed his love for his 26-year-old aide. "Nicoletta and I are very happy, as you can see. To hide it or to deny it would be a crime," he said. "She is my favorite of my harem...
...vary Marx's formulation slightly, history repeats itself -- the first time as an enchanting evening of song, the second time as an example of extreme bad taste and lazy greed. What was wonderful in Rome in 1990 was awful in L.A. as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sight-read their way through arias and show tunes on a set that included a waterfall. And no, the Brindisi from La Traviata -- the sequel's intended Nessun dorma -- did not fly to the top of the charts...
Tenors -- Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti -- reunite...
...Enrico Caruso's sons was once asked whether his father sang for pleasure. "No," the young Caruso replied, "my father sang for money." Anyone who believes that the big payday looming for Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti this week in Los Angeles is unprecedented ought to think again. The Three Tenors don't approach in earning power or popularity such predecessors as Caruso and John McCormack. Both earned millions while singing everything from Vesti la giubba to Come into the Garden, Maud at a time when the income tax was either nonexistent or in its infancy and when a dollar...