My favorite opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti died today. He was at the age of 71 when he died at his home at Modena (the city of his birth) after suffering a pancreatic cancer.
I'm really sad. Sad because he was responsible for introducing me in to the world of opera, in to the magic world of opera music. I can remember the first time when I have heard him, it was on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final when he was singing alongside with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras (later this trio of tenors was known as The Three Tenors) .
I can also remember that one of my first CD`s I have bought by myself, was some compilation of Luciano Pavarotti. Damn. I can clearly see that moment. After I was saving money for more than a three weeks, I got to the store. The picture was like this : there was a little confused boy standing in the front of the shop manager and asking for Pavarotti`s CD (I was that boy for sure). Than I got some confusing, rather strange, facial expression on manager`s face, meaning "Are you sure boy?" and I was just staring him with my big blue eyes and shaking up and down with my head. After few seconds of this nonverbal communication he has finally given me the CD. I was so proud and I was only 10 years old. So, I can say that I have literally grew up with his music.
I'm still pretty sad and shocked, therefore I don't know what else to write. I'm going to simply play his CD`s again.
I can just say one big THANK YOU! I've enjoyed your singing and I will continue enjoying it, you great man. You, always smiling big man.
Requiescat in pace, Pavarotti!
I'm still pretty sad and shocked, therefore I don't know what else to write. I'm going to simply play his CD`s again.
I can just say one big THANK YOU! I've enjoyed your singing and I will continue enjoying it, you great man. You, always smiling big man.
Requiescat in pace, Pavarotti!
2 comments:
One great man went down but with his singing he will make the hearts and the souls of the others greater.
Still I must say that what left the strongest impression of this story are the few sentences about the first CD.
As a friend of yours, Vlado, is damn funny to know this and I will never forget it. People come to this world and go away but their singing or their stories remain. Yo!
Omg, I didn't know you loved Pavarotti as well:D He's a great singer, and I almost always get goosebumbs on my arms when he sings:)
It's very sad that he died, yes. I was so sad when I heard it, we were told in the start of the italian lesson at school the day he died. We honored him by wathching movies of him singing, and I'm actually trying to learn to sing Nessun Dorma:) I'm not as good as pavarotti, though..I guess I never will be - 'cos he was the BEST!:D
R.I.P Luciano Pavarotti, tu sei il re de la opera<3
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