Who ran out and bought a Pavarotti CD today?

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<p>Guilty as charged here.</p>

<p>Riposi in pace, the Great Pavarotti. </p>

<p>:(</p>

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<p>I did not buy today, but I listened…
He was truly great. He made opera alive.</p>

3

<p>H and I separately logged into Youtube.</p>

4

<p>I listened in the car to and from work-
I listened even more intently than ever.
So beautiful, and we can thankfully listen whenever we want to his legacy.</p>

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<p>I made an Italian dinner tonight (pasta with meat sauce) and put on my CD of La Boheme. I remember Pavarotti singing Rodolfo at the Met in the '70s. He was a real showman.</p>

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<p>I listened and cried. I miss him.</p>

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<p>KCOHIO -Same here!! He made my spine tingle hitting those high Cs!</p>

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<p>Beverly Sill and Pavarotti. A lot to lose.</p>

<p>If you want a hoot find an old movie, YES GEORGIO. Pavarotti plays himself, albeit named Georgio. The character suffers laryngitis and is treated by a pretty doctor who becomes his love interest. (Kathryn Harrold I believe.) The movie presents many scenes from Turandot (including of course the necessary Nessun Dorma), and has a riotous food fight. It is a bad movie, but for all its silliness it is enjoyable to watch. It was a favorite family movie when the kids were little. I think the first enticement was the food fight (spaghetti, what else?), but they also grew to like opera.</p>

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<p>I loved him, and used to watch him with my 3 year old, who was transfixed.</p>

<p>I remember seeing a bumper sticker, “I brake for Pavoratti.”</p>

<p>This evening, I was at a faculty meeting with some younger teachers who didn’t know of him, but knew of “the blind tenor.” So I just said, “Each generation has their great tenors, and he will be yours.”</p>

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<p>I heard him in concert in Cincinnati in 1978–with his trademark silk handkerchief and dazzling smile…</p>

<p>The radio played “Nessun dorma” which I normally don’t pay much attention to anymore because it’s such a warhorse–(our station doesn’t program enough vocal music, IMO, but tends to throw out these overdone operatic nuggets in an attempt to pacify some of us. :wink: ) but this day–I listened and I cried. </p>

<p>A great one has passed.</p>

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<p>^ How lucky to have seen him in 1978. Wow.</p>

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<p>The one and only time I got to see him was during the 3 Tenors concert at the 1994 World Cup Finals in LA.</p>

<p>He was truly a great artist. I will miss him.</p>

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<p>I’ve been youtube-ing, too. Besides the classical performances, I watched some of his collaborations with pop singers. Most of these don’t work very well - his performance with the Spice Girls (I’d never heard anything by them before - how did they get so famous when they can’t sing?) was execrable - but I liked this one:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0WFcygdWY[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0WFcygdWY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Look at Google today. :)</p>

<p>Happy Birthday Pavarotti.</p>

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<p>My favorite one is when he sings with James Brown, they really seem to be enjoying each other.</p>