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Pavarotti dies aged 71
Matthew Weaver and agencies
September 6, 2007 
The Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti died 
at his home in Modena aged 71. The tenor, 
who helped take opera to a new audience, was 
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. His 
manager, Terri Robson, said Pavarotti died at 
5am on September 6. “The maestro fought a 
long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer 
which eventually took his life. He remained 
positive until the end,” Mr Robson said.
Pavarotti made his professional debut in 1961, 
as Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Boheme at the opera 
house in Reggio Emilia. His most celebrated 
performance came at New York’s Metropolitan 
Opera House where he hit nine high Cs in 
Donizetti’s La fille du regiment. 
But Pavarotti reached a new global audience 
during the 1990 football World Cup when his 
interpretation of the Puccini aria Nessun Dorma 
was chosen as the tournament’s theme tune. It 
became an international hit. Later the Essential 
Pavarotti became the first classical album to 
reach number 1 in the UK charts. 
The 1990 World Cup was also the venue of the 
first of the hugely popular Three Tenor concerts 
that Pavarotti performed with Placido Domingo 
and José Carreras. His most high-profile 
performance in Britain was the Pavarotti in the 
Park concert in a rainy Hyde Park in 1991. His 
friend, Diana, Princess of Wales, was in the
front row. 
Like many opera stars, Pavarotti also had a 
reputation for being difficult. At a Royal Variety 
performance in Edinburgh he demanded a fully-
fitted kitchen to be built into his hotel suite. He 
also frequently cancelled concerts at short notice.
But he also raised millions of pounds in a number 
of charity performances. 
Domingo led the tributes to his fellow tenor. “I 
always admired the God-given glory of his voice,” 
he said. “I also loved his wonderful sense of 
humour. We had so much fun during our concerts 
with José Carreras.” 
The British tenor Russell Watson said that 
Pavarotti was the man who brought opera to 
the people. “The World Cup was the Three 
Tenors led by Pavarotti, with a very entertaining 
version of Nessun Dorma, in fact, it’s now called 
‘Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma’,” Watson said. “His 
voice was so distinctive you only needed to listen 
to a couple of bars and you knew it was him, he 
had incredible power and control.” 
Another tenor Ian Bostridge agreed. “He was 
an old-fashioned star,” he said. “Vocally he was
the best.
In a statement, the Royal Opera House said: 
“He introduced the extraordinary power of 
opera to people who perhaps would never have 
encountered opera and classical singing [and] in 
doing so he enriched their lives.” 
Pavarotti gave farewell performances at the 
Royal Opera House in January 2002. “The 
applause on those evenings was probably the 
most moving and heartfelt in the history of the 
Royal Opera,” the statement said. “He had a 
unique ability to touch people with the emotional 
and brilliant quality of his voice. He was a man 
with a most extraordinary gift. He will be missed 
by millions of people.”