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So far this year we have lost many great singers, Todays news brings great sadness. What can one say but Thank You for all the enjoyment that you have brought to millions over the years. You will be sadly missed but not forgotten. God Bless Luciano.
Please would you be kind enough to pass on my sympathy to his family.
-Paul Dalton United Kingdom.
I Wish to extend my Deepest SYMPATHIES TO THE FAMILY OF LUCIANO PAVAROTTI. HIS PASSING IS A GREAT LOSE TO ALL.I WAS A SUPERNUMERARY WITH THE MET FROM SEASON 1984-85 THROUGH SEASON ENDING IN 1996. MANY TIMES HAVE I STOOD IN THE WINGS WATCHING THIS GREAT PERSON PERFORM WHILE I WAS WAITING FOR MY CUE TO GO ON. I HAVE MET HIM AND SPOKEN WITH HIM FOR A FEW MOMENTS ON OCCASION AFTER A PERFORMANCE. IT WAS TRULY AN HONOR TO BE PART OF THE MET AND AN HONOR TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE WORKED MR. PAVAROTTI. HE UNDOUBTLY WILL BE TRULY MISSED.
-H. ROSENTHAL
Pavarotti is gone. How fortunate we are to have heard this heavenly voice.
-Richard Warnock
First Ms Sills and now another of the greatest voices ever to grace the opera stage…To all the friends of Luciano at the Met - particularly to Maestro Levine - may I offer my sincerest condolences at Luciano’s passing. There are no other words that I can express through my tears…Deep regards & best wishes, Norman Knowles, Canberra, Australia
Addios Mr. P, you will be missed.
Great people and great voices never truly depart..they live in our memories like Christmas morning as a child. Thank you for bringing many Christmas mornings to my life.
-philice ann flint
September 12th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Although it is extremely sad to lose one of the finest tenors to ever grace the stage how fortunate we are to have enjoyed his golden voice, and exuberant personality, all these years. For those who know little or nothing about opera they certainly knew about Luciano Pavarotti. He made opera familiar and accessible to all. To those who love opera certainly an era is gone and we are greatly saddened by his loss. Fortunately modern technology will keep his voice alive forever.
Bravo Maestro!
September 12th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Many people criticised Pavarotti, for he was an unsual man of unsual manners. But his voice filled any floor, any gallery, any box of partial view… His voice reached all and everyone, and brought new horizons and hopes for the world of opera. He brought opera to the people.
Pavarotti is now inmortal, and he will live through history.
Tania Ortiz de Zuñiga, New York
September 15th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Luciano Pavarotti is the best example of why I love singing. Forgive me if I get some of the details wrong here. Several years ago, I think it was his 25th Anniversary Gala at the Metropolitan, he was doing scenes from three different operas. In the first scene, he’s not on stage right away. But when it comes time for his entrance, you see a foot come out from stage right, and the audience immediately started cheering. He hadn’t done anything yet, he hadn’t sung a single note, he wasn’t even all the way on stage, and the audience was cheering. To have that effect on an audience, to feel that kind of “Now we’re really going to hear something special” from an audience, that’s why I love singing.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Many years ago, after listening to Pavarotti in his trademark “Rodolfo” role in La Bohème, I got hooked into Opera. A new world opened to my ears thanks to his glorious voice. All I got from him now are just wonderful moments that will live forever in my heart.
Thanks Luciano!!!
Raul Francisco Castro, New York
September 16th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
THE DEATH OF LUCIANO PAVAROTTI IS A HARD THING TO ACCEPT. I’M SO VERY SORRY HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER AND WIFE, DIDN’T HAVE A LONG LIFE WITH THIS GREAT MAN IN MUSIC. LIKE MANY OTHERS, I HAVE MANY MANY RECORDINGS OF LUCIANO PAVAROTTI AND HAVE SEEN HIM IN PERSON MANY TIMES. I WAS VERY FORTUNATE TO SEE HIM IN HIS LAST OPERA AT THE MET. HIS MANY VALUED RECORDINGS WILL KEEP HIS MEMORY ALIVE.
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI CERTAINLY DESIRED ALL OF THE ATTENTION HE RECEIVED AFTER HIS DEATH. HE GAVE SO MUCH TO THE WORLD OF MUSIC.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I consider myself fortunate to have heard Luciano at the Met over the years. His performances with Joan Sutherland were outstanding as was his La Boheme with Scotto in the 70s. I will always treasure the clarion sweetness of that voice and the warm coloring he brought with it. A remarkable presence on stage and truly one of if not the greatest tenor of our times.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
It is so sad we lost sure a great tenor who gave so much to the music world out of his love of music. I’m sorry Luciano Pavarotti’s young daughter and wife couldn’t have more time with him. I had the great priviledge of seeing Pavarotti in personal several times. Two of the events including the luncheon given for him by The Opera Guild (the ballroom was packed) and his finally performance at the Met in Tosca. Thank goodness I have many many recordings of Pavarotti. He deserved all of the attention that was given to him after he passed. Glad the media was generous in their coverage.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:39 am
I lived 15 years in New York and every time I think about the Metropolitan Opera, I can still hear Pavarotti singing in Tosca. For the second part of the 2oth century and the first part of the 21st, for millions of people around the world Pavarotti is Opera. Thank you Maestro for all these wonderful moments. May Heaven be filled with your magic voice and your warm and exhuberant smile.
Patrick Bordeaux, Quebec,Canada
September 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Many tenor roles are about doomed or desperate lovers, atists, poets, revolutionaries, etc., at the peak of their youth. Pavarotti’s glorious voice is instantly recognizable for no other tenor projects the yearning, hope, enthusiasm, and impetuousness of youth, like Luciano does. He may be singing with the angels now, but his voice will be among us mortals for eternity.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Luciano Pavarotti….
A high star from the World of the Opera and a great human being, He is not dead, he is in our heart, we have a treasure of him: all his videos, recordings and Cd’s…
Please, remember to Luciano Pavarotti as one of the Best Tenors in the history of the humanity…
I’m sorry for his family…
:0(
Ciao Luciano!
Gilberto, Guatemala
September 21st, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Luciano Pavarotti è stato il più grande tenore italiano di tutti i tempi, nonchè grandissimo interprete delle Opere Liriche di Giuseppe Verdi (anche Puccini e Donizetti) che tutto il mondo hanno appassionato.
Che dire…………la sua scomparsa è una grande perdita.
La sua voce, potente e chiara, ha permesso a tanti di conoscere il contenuto delle Opere e la bellezza della Lirica.
Il Dio ha richiamato a sè il suo discepolo, esecutore di musica divina, affinchè allietasse i suoi momenti.
Grazie maestro Luciano
September 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I was blessed by God to see this great man many, many times at the Met. I was able to see him in his last performance of Tosca. I knew when he stepped behind that gold curtain, it would be the last time I would ever see him, despite promises of future farewell concerts. I think my heart broke.
Farewell Maestro, God bless you and keep you. Thank you for everything.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Sincerest condolences to the Pavarotti Family.
Luciano was simply the Greatest Italian Tenor EVER! While there are many others who could challenge for this title, only he was truly worthy of it. The sound, artistry, control, line, personality, style,and diction were clearly unmatched by his Italian colleagues- (or any others for that matter) past and present. Sadly for me, I took him for granted in that age when great singers were a dime a dozen, but as the years progressed and great voices became rarer and rarer and, his Art greater and greater, to finally the present age, which is truly barren, I grew to worship him. He was a Singer: the others were vocalists, merely. To quote Leontyne Price, “a tenor with a capital “T”. Most important, he was a great Artist…the one and only.
Addio Maestro!
November 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Luciano Pavarotti - words cannot express the loss felt around the world! Mr. Pavarotti was truly THE Good Will Ambassador of opera. He reached heights that will never again be duplicated, such as hitting nine (9) high C’s during a single performance, yet he never forgot his roots! Always remaing “the son of a baker”, he sang with everyone from James Brown to The Spice Girls.
Bringing opera to the common man, Luciano Pavarotti changed the old belief that opera was only for the wealthy. He sang benefits for many, many causes throughout the globe, loving people from all walks of life. Not only was his throat kissed by God, so was his heart! I miss you so much, but you will remain alive through your many CDs and DVDs! Thank you so much Luciano for all the joy you have brought into my life! Addio, amore! Please hit a high C in heaven tonight! Caterina