Italian Tenor Pavarotti Dies At Age 71

Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high Cs and energetic performances made him the most beloved and celetrated te enor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, has died. He was 71.

His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an emailed statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 AM local time. Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August.

"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In keeping with the approach that characterized his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness, the statement said.

For serious fans, the unforced beauty and thrilling urgency of Pavarotti voice made him the ideal interpreter of Italian opera, especially in the 1960s and 70s when he first achieved stardom. For millions more, his charismatic performances of songs like Nessun Dorma from Puccini's opera Turandot came to represent what opera is all about.

In fact, Nessun Dorma was Pavarotti's last performance, sung at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, in February 2006. His last full-scale concert was at Taichung, Taiwan, in December 2005, and his farewell to opera was in Puccini's Tosca at New York's Metropolitan in March 2004.

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