Luciano Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti) - a world famous celebrity, opera singer of Italy with exceptional hearing and a wide range of voice. A participant in the Three Tenors project, performed on stage for more than 40 years, gave master classes at several conservatories around the world.
Biography
Luciano Pavarotti was born on October 12, 1935 in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, in Modena.
Family
The head of the Fernando family (Fernando) worked at the bakery and passionately loved music, mother Adele Venturi (Adele Venturi) was a worker in a cigarette factory. The family lived poorly, occupying a small apartment of two rooms, but Luciano and his younger sister Gabriella (Gabriella, 1940 - 2013) remembered their childhood warmly. The boy was the only male child in the house of 15 apartments where they lived, and was used to special attention.
Fernando Pavarotti had a good tenor, but a bad character and therefore did not become a popular singer, although he was a member of the Coral Rossi Modena choir. In his collection were many records with recordings of Beniamino Gigli, Enrico Caruso, Toto Skipa (Attilio Schipa), which he listened every day with his son.
Childhood and youth
The boy, like all Italians, loved music, all the time he sang and dreamed of becoming famous. Using a kitchen table instead of a stage, he climbed onto it and loudly sang the aria “La donna è mobile” (“The Heart of the Beauty”) of the Duke of Mantua from Giuseppe Verdi's opera “Rigoletto”. The first listeners of Luciano, the neighbors of the apartment building, did not want to listen to these cries and demanded silence.
But so far, the little boy was more interested not to make music, but to catch lizards with frogs and play football.
During World War II, difficult days came and the family decided to change their place of residence. In 1943, they settled in a nearby village, renting a small room for everyone and starting work on a farmyard.
Studying at school, Luciano, at the request of his parents, began to go with his father to sing in church. But the love of football took its toll and the young man becomes the captain of the youth team of the city. His cheerfulness and faith in victory were transmitted to the whole team, leading to victories.
Search for yourself
After graduating from school, Scuola Magistrale Luciano wants to enter the Sports Academy and is seriously considering becoming a goalkeeper. However, the parents did not share their son's intentions and convinced him that being a primary school teacher is better and more serious. For two years, a young teacher taught children at school. Pavarotti did not like this work, the children sometimes did not obey and had to shout at them, breaking his voice. And he wanted to sing.
At 19, in 1954, Luciano begins to sing with his father in the Coral Rossi choir. The head of the family said that his son - not Caruso and he needs a more serious profession. At the request of his son, his father with difficulty, but nevertheless agrees to help him financially until the latter reaches the age of 30. Then Luciano had to earn his living by any means on his own.
The future star begins to attend the lessons of the tenor Arrigo Pola, who, having noticed in Luciano a voice of extraordinary beauty and an amazing ear, agrees to free classes with the young man, due to the difficult financial situation of the family.
In 1955, a choir from a small town won a prize at the Eisteddfod contest in Wales, Luciano is inspired by the success achieved and makes the final decision to become a singer. At the same time, he met his future wife - aspiring opera singer Adua Veroni (Adua Veroni) and soon they will announce their engagement.
In 1956, A. Paula left Italy and left for permanent residence in Japan. Mentor Pavarotti becomes Ettore Campogalliani (Ettore Campogalliani).
While studying music, Luciano continued to teach at school, then moved on to insurance. 6 years of study were not marked by any striking events of a musical career. Pavarotti gave several concerts with free admission in small towns and that’s all.
One of these concerts in Ferrara was a failure: a crease appeared on the tenor’s vocal cords and he decided that he would no longer make music. But his future wife, persuaded Luciano not to do this. After a while, the crease passed, and the singer's voice sounded even stronger and better.
Career
In 1960, the aspiring singer became a participant in the competition of the Main City Theater - Teatro Reggio Emilia. He wants to get the main role in the new opera, but a sore throat did not allow him to draw out all the notes.
In 1961, Luciano retries, defeats and receives the part of Rudolph in Giacomo Puccini in La Bohème.
Together with him, Dmitry Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, takes part in the competition. The father with all responsibility captured the performance of his son for posterity, and Pavarotti also appeared on tape.
Pavarotti spends the entire fee from the first premiere for a wedding with Adua.
Soloist of opera houses
- In 1962, Pavarotti performed at the Belgrade National Theater in Yugoslavia, performing the part of Alfredo from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.
- In 1963, the singer became a debutant at the Covent Garden Theater. Tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano (Giuseppe Di Stefano) could not sing the part of Rudolph already familiar to Pavatoria in connection with his malaise. Luciano successfully and with pleasure replaces the patient.
- In 1963, he first performed with the same aria in Wiener Staatsoper.
- In 1963, the first solo concert of Luciano Pavarotti was organized in Ireland.
- In 1965, Pavarotti was invited to enter the stage of the Florida Grand Opera in Miami.where he again replaces the tenor, singing Edgar’s aria in the opera Lucia di Lammermoor by composer Gaetano Donizetti. His stage partner was the soprano Joan Sutherland. The voice of Luciano Pavarotti was so liked by the Australian singer that she invited him to organize a joint tour. For 2 months they performed at 40 concerts, which allowed the growing tenor to gain enormous vocal experience and the experience of performing.
- In 1966, Pavarotti achieved his cherished dream, he was adopted by the soloist of the world center of opera culture in Italy- Theater La Scala (Teatro alla Scala or La Scala), performing the part of Tybalt in the opera Capuleti and Montecchi (I Capuleti ed i Montecchi) by Vincenzo Bellini. Prior to that, he was not accepted into the theater twice, but conductor Herbert von Karajan ensured that Pavarotti was taken as a substitute. Later, Karayan will call him the best tenor in the world.
- In 1967, Tonio's part (Quel destin aria), performed by Pavarotti in the opera Daughter of the Regiment (La figlia del reggimento) by composer Gaetano Donizetti, came to listen to the entire city elite in Covent Garden. From that day on, Luciano received the title of “King of the Upper Do”: he easily, easily and naturally performed all 9 upper “Do's” in a row. The hall froze, not a single singer could have done this before.
- In 1968, Luciano Pavarotti performed for the first time at the New York Metropolitan Opera.. He repeated the success of the Quel destin aria and he was applauded so fiercely that the theater was forced to open the curtain 160 times. This moment was not left without recognition and was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
So, starting with the lyrical arias (Elvino in “Somnambula” (“La sonnambula”) and Arturo in the “Puritans” (“I puritani”) by composer Bellini, the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's “Rigoletto” (Rigoletto), gradually Pavarotti comes to dramatic arias (Riccardo in “Un ballo in maschera”), Manrico in “Troubadour” (“Il trovatore”) and Ramades in “Aida” (“Aida”) Verdi, Cavaradossi in “Tosca” ( "Tosca") Puccini). But there comes a time when the tenor becomes few walls of theaters.
World famous
In 1970-80 Pavarotti becomes a media personality. He is constantly shown on television, he gives solo concerts in concert halls and parks, participates in mixed rooms. Luciano becomes a regular participant in the Arena di Verona festival and performs in the eponymous arena.
In 1974, the tenor first visited Mosca with the La Scala Theater.
In 1980, the concert performance of Rigoletto in Central New York Park was broadcast to an audience of 200 thousand listeners. After that, the Italian is the founder of the international competition for unknown vocal talents ("The Pavarotti International Voice Competition"). Finalists are given the opportunity to sing with the maestro in Modena, Beijing and Philadelphia.
In 1984, Luciano Pavarotti performs at Covent Garden before the regal couple Diana and Charles, after which their friendship begins. However, the Italian refuses to sing at Diana’s funeral, as he took the tragedy to heart.
In 1988, the tenor breaks his record by performing at Deutsche Oper Berlin.. “Love drink” (“L'elisir d'amore”) G. Donizetti with his participation was so brilliant that the curtain was opened 165 times!
Three tenors
The aria “Nessun Dorma” from “Turandot” by G. Puccini again brings him fame in 1990, but not theatrical, but in the circles of pop culture. The song was performed at the opening of the FIFA Cup, after which it became a hit.
At the final match of the tournament, the first concert of the “Three Tenors” was given: Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti. The background for their performance was the ancient Roman terms of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla).
The record of the performance broke all world records in music sales, which is also noted in the Book of Records. The trio performed several times at football championships: in the USA in 1994, in France in 1998, in Japan in 2002. The Three Tenors project lasted 15 years and was a resounding success around the world. Opera singers were able to convey serious music to the masses, leaving the theater.
In 1992, Luciano Pavarotti sang for the last time in La Scala at Don Carlo by composer Franco Zeffirelli. This is the only case where neither the audience nor the critics liked the performance.
Pavarotti and friends
Performances with famous pop and rock musicians at the charity concerts “Pavarotti and Friends” began in 1992 and were held until 2005.
The tenor sang: Zucchero, Brian May, Sting, Roger Taylor, Céline Dion, Bryan Adams, U2, Meraya Carey (Mariah Carey) and other celebrities.
Monies from the concerts went to help refugees around the world. Album concert recordings were a surprise for music lovers and diverged in huge circulations.
Farewell to the scene and life
In 2004, the tenor officially said goodbye to the stage. Cavaradossi’s aria from the opera Tosca by Luciano Pavarotti was performed after informing guests of the New York Metropolitan Opera about the Italian’s latest release. There was a full house in the hall, and the honored singer held a standing ovation, which lasted 11 minutes.
February 10, 2006 in Torino (Torino), he last sang at the opening of the Olympic Games.
In the same year, a malignant tumor on the pancreas was discovered in Pavarotti. He underwent surgery to remove the neoplasm. On August 8, 2007, tenors are hospitalized in a hospital with a fever, and he has been in a hospital for 2 weeks.
September 6, 2007 at 5 o’clock in the morning Luciano Pavarotti died at home. According to his will, he was buried in the Montale Rangone cemetery in the crypt of the family, where Pavarotti's parents and son from his second wife were.
Family
The first wife of Adua was for Luciano a guardian angel, a faithful companion, assistant and guardian of the hearth. The birth of the first daughter of Lorenza (Lorenza) in 1962, the newly made dad missed because he did not sleep at home. He and his friends all night celebrated his successful debut at Rigoletto. In 1967, Adua gave birth to Cristina, in 1967. - Giuliana And all the news the father of the family found out by phone. He did not become an exemplary father either.
After the divorce, Adua lamented that her ex-husband could spend the whole night in the nursery of a sick mare if she was unwell, but would never do this for any of her daughters.
Numerous novels of a loving husband did not cause anger in his wise wife. While her husband earned millions, she invested them: in real estate, in stocks, in enterprises. She knew everything about his income. At the same time, Luciano smoothed out his depraved behavior with expensive gifts.
So that his wife would not interfere with his romance with the secretary Madeline Renee for 7 years, he presented his wife a bracelet worth 250 thousand dollars. Subsequently, Madeleine found herself another man and they got married, and Pavarotti almost jumped out of the window when he found out about it.
Many of Luciano's secretaries were not only in a working relationship with their boss, but none of them advertised as Nicoletta Mantovani. She was 27 years old, Pavarotti 61 and their photos from Barbados were replicated throughout Italy. Luciano openly said that he is happy with a girl who is younger than his youngest daughter. Nicoletta, in turn, told everyone and everyone that she wanted to give birth to a son.
In March 1996, the Pavarotti couple announced that they were no longer together. Adua drove Luciano out of the house. The divorce was loud and officially took place after 6 years. There were many difficulties with the division of property, since the marriage was concluded on the terms of separate ownership.
At the age of 65, Pavarotti completed the construction of a new house, where he planned to live with his young wife. But a period of trouble began: Nicoletta was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Luciano's parents died in 2002 from cancer. In 2003, Mantovani gives birth to two heterosexual twins - Ricardo (Ricardo) and Aliche (Alice). One boy dies right away.
Nicoletta and Luciano are married. But the young wife was not an angel. She could not build a warm relationship with her husband after he was diagnosed with cancer. Luciano wanted to divorce her because of his wife's disrespect, but the 4-year-old daughter became an obstacle to such a decision.
At the same time, Pavarotti began to improve relations with his first wife. In the last days of his life, he radically rewrote the will, sharing his entire inheritance (at home, a collection of paintings, a perfume business, 11 working enterprises) between four daughters and a sister.
Interesting Facts
- Friends and colleagues jokingly called Luciano "Big P". According to the tenor, he hails from the "city of glutton" and is not able to go on a diet, no matter how much he pays to his nutritionists. His 150 kilograms of weight once on the stage of the Parisian Grand Opera (GrandOpéra) crushed a chair for himself during the opera Tosca, although the furniture was reinforced with metal in advance.
- Luciano missed the birth of all three daughters from Adua. He found out by telephone.
- Luciano's first woman was Sandra's roommate. The boy at that time was 15 years old, and the girl - 20.
- Pavarotti's love of football reached the point that he could cancel the concert if he was afraid to miss an important match.
- At a vocal competition in 1961, the tenor's mother wished him good luck and put a nail in his son’s jacket pocket, in the hope that metal would not let envious people ruin his son’s performance. For many years, Pavarotti carried this nail with him for all performances, believing that it brings success.
- In recognition of Luciano himself, he did not know the notes and uses his own signs to remember music.
- Once in Bali, a snake crawled into the tenor's room, but Nicoletta saved Luciano from death by driving her out.
- In all of Pavarotti's solo performances, his handkerchief has been his accessory since 1973. He first appeared on stage with a scarf in his hands in Missouri, where he was very nervous and sweating.
- The singer was very superstitious: he did not pass under the stairs, did not perceive the purple color, believed that the spilled salt - not good.
