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Pavarotti: a guide to the life and times of the world's most famous opera singer

For some, their introduction to Pavarotti may have been an enthralling opera at the Met or Covent Garden. For others it would have been a drenched night in Hyde Park. Perhaps a balmy evening in the company of Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, with whom he made up the iconic Three Tenors. For others still, it was Lineker scoring, Gazza crying and Pearce missing from the spot.

Whatever image or event they might associate it with, more people have become familiar with Luciano Pavarotti’s tenor voice than any other. But who was Pavarotti, and how did he become just so famous?

Who was Pavarotti?

Luciano Pavarotti was, in short, the most famous opera singer that the world has known. He became best known for his performances of 'Nessun dorma', the iconic aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera, Turandot.

It was a wet day in Hyde Park in July 1991. The heavens opened and the traffic jammed up around the park. St John’s Ambulance volunteers treated 193 people who were said to be suffering from

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In Search of Pavarotti (Opera News)

Getting an interview with the most famous tenor on the thirtieth anniversary of his Met debut was a good idea. Making it happen turned out to be a story in itself.

November 2, 1998

Volume: 63, Issue: 5

ANYONE SETTING OUT to write about the world’s best-known opera singer is confronted with two practical questions: how do you get an interview with Luciano Pavarotti, and what can you possibly say about him that hasn’t been said already?

The answer to the first question seemed relatively straightforward when my OPERA NEWS editor called me early in the summer. The “Pavarotti people”—that is, the agency of Herbert Breslin, who has guided Pavarotti’s career for thirty years—had set up an interview in Italy on August 15, and would I like to do it during my next European trip? Of course I would.

Make that August 20, OPERA NEWS said a few weeks later. The interview date had been moved. I rebooked my flight home accordingly.

The second question was more daunting. Pavarotti has been one of the world’s leading opera singers since before

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Program: Tenor Superstar Luciano Pavarotti

“His vocal cords were kissed by God.” Herbert von Karajan, conductor

“He was a real natural, but he didn’t work hard; he was confident in Italian repertoire, the bel canto, early verismo; but tragically he didn’t learn to read music and tended to rely on the prompt. But he communicated so well with the public. He got to them! I remember him [and] Joan, especially when she sang I Puritani with him. She’d come off the stage with her arms black and blue because he got so terrified- he was hanging on to her. But that was a very great voice.’ Richard Bonynge, conductor