Happy birthday, Maestro: forever alive Luciano Pavarotti

He was called a classic during his lifetime. He was the only one who was able to popularize the art of opera - it was thanks to his talent that classical music experienced a real renaissance at the end of the 20th century. Already in childhood, he learned arias from famous operatic works. He was an amazing artist who could cancel a concert because of a football match, because as a child he dreamed of becoming a football player, and not the great tenor of our time. Excellent voice, sunny timbre, incredibly bright personality, soulful singing, kind heart - all these words, of course, about the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Today he could have turned 80. But it didn’t work out: pancreatic cancer took the great singer away from us forever. Today we propose to recall the brightest moments of the life of the greatest genius from God.

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1. Luciano was born on October 12, 1935 in Modena in the family of a baker and a cigar factory worker. The family lived very poorly - sometimes they did not have enough for the most necessary things - but despite this, Luciano always spoke warmly about his childhood.

In early childhood, Luciano was fond of football and even dreamed of becoming a goalkeeper, but it did not work out. In 1943, his family had to leave their hometown and take up farming. What is surprising now, but Luciano even began to enjoy it.

2. As for music, it has always been in Luciano's life. His father had an amazing operatic voice and could have had a brilliant career, but he was stage fright and performed only in small halls. Even as a child, little Luciano fell asleep to the voice of his father, and as he grew up, he enjoyed the recordings of Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Martinelli and Tito Skipa, who were popular at that time. Needless to say, it soon paid off? At the age of 9, he begins performing with his father, and a little later he takes lessons from Professor Dondi, although he does not attach any importance to this yet.

3. After leaving school, Luciano wanted to enter the sports academy, but at the insistence of his mother, he got a job as a music teacher, where he already realized that he wanted to connect his life with the art of music. At 19, he begins to take lessons from the great maestro Arrigo, who discovered all the talent of the future genius, and a little later from Ettore Campogalliani. It turned out that Pavarotti had perfect hearing.

4. Nevertheless, he was still not sure of success and gave his word to his father that if he didn’t achieve anything before the age of 30, he would give up this idea and would “earn his living as he could.” After studying for 6 years, he still could not achieve any success and even thought about quitting singing. He tried to connect his life with insurance, in addition, at that time he developed a thickening on his vocal cords, which for the vocalist means the end of everything. But with the recovery of Pavarotti, he acquired the sound production that he could not achieve by studying with high-class teachers. Miracle? May be. But the main thing that distinguished Pavarotti from others was talent and diligence.

5. Around the same time, he met his future wife, Adua Veroni, who was also an opera singer. However, the marriage did not last long. But Adua left her mark on Pavarotti's life. Subsequently, he admitted that it was she who made him seriously think about the career of an opera singer.

6. And in 1961, Pavarotti won the International Vocal Competition, after which he made his debut at the Reggio Emilia Theater with the party in La bohème by G. Puccini, with which he also performed at the Vienna Opera and London's Covent Garden in 1963.

7. In 1965, Pavarotti made his debut at the Miami Opera House. A tenor singer scheduled to perform that evening fell ill and Joan Sutherland recommended Luciano, who was familiar with the role.

8. From that moment on, real success comes to Pavarotti. He performs great arias in no less great theatres. Thus, the part of Tonio in the opera "The Daughter of the Regiment" brought Senor Pavarotti world fame in 1966. In the same year he made his debut at Milan's La Scala with the part of Tybalt in Capuleti and Montecchi.

9. Since the 70s, he has consistently taken part in the Arena di Verona festival, participates in concerts, tours with La Scala, performs the greatest parties on the most famous stages of the world.

10. In the 80s, Pavarotti established his own competition - the Competition for Young Talents, the winners of which, among other things, periodically performed with the maestro. In the same period, he collaborates with the Vienna Opera and La Scala and works in a duet with Mirella Freni, Maria Chiara, Luca Ronconi.

11. On February 24, 1988, Pavarotti enters the Guinness Book of Records - at the request of the audience, Luciano went to the encore ... 165 times.

12. At the age of 55, Senor Pavarotti does the impossible - he seeks to popularize opera music. After his performance at the opening of the World Cup, the aria Nessun Dorma hits the top of the charts, and the singer himself lights up with the idea of ​​bringing classical music to the masses further. And after uniting with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, a great trio of tenors was born, whose repertoire consisted of modernized opera arias.

13. He was one of the first to perform with world-class rock and pop artists: Bryan Adams, Sting, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli, Celine Dion, Joe Cocker, Bono, Eric Clapton, Elton John and others ...

14. Pavarotti also remembered his passion for canceling concerts if a football match was to be on TV. He really loved this sport.

15. Pavarotti was a world-famous tenor and simply a favorite of the public. This could not go unnoticed, and in 1998 Luciano was awarded the Grammy Legend Award.

16. In the middle of the 2000s, the master was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which caused the death of Pavarotti in 2007. He was buried in his hometown next to his parents and stillborn son.