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Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007)

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One of the world’s most popular opera singers, Luciano Pavarotti, was born on the outskirts of Modena in north-central Italy on October 12, 1935, and is considered by many critics as one of the greatest lyric tenors of all time.

Pavarotti studied opera privately, mostly in Mantua. After winning the Concorso Internationale, a singing competition, he made his professional operatic debut as Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème in April, 1961 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He then played in opera houses throughout Europe and Australia. In 1968 he made his debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House and from 1971 was a regular performer there.

He won a Grammy Award in 1979 and 1980 and, with José Carreras and Placido Domingo, he was one of 'The Three Tenors' (1990–2002), who achieved international success with their recordings of operatic hits for the World Cup soccer tournament in Rome, Italy, in 1990.

His most notable operatic roles include the duke in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, Tonio in Gaetano Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment (with its demanding sequence of high Cs), Arturo in Vincenzo Bellini's The Puritans, and Radamès in Verdi's Aïda.

Pavarotti died on September 6, 2007.

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