Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Italian news agency ANSA reported on Thursday, citing Agerpres.
Luciano Pavarotti, the Modena-born opera star who died on September 6, 2007 at the age of 71, was honored at a ceremony attended by his daughter Cristina and Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra conductor James Conlon, among others.
Star number 2730 on the Walk of Fame, alongside those awarded to Sidney Poitier, Stan Lee, Ennio Morricone and Lina Wertmuller, was awarded to the legendary Italian tenor 10 days before the 25th anniversary of his death.
“When I think about my father, the paths he opened and the emotions he gave and received, I start to feel dizzy,” said the late artist’s daughter Christina, also speaking on behalf of his sisters. Lorenza, Giuliana and Alice, as well as Pavarotti’s widow Nicoletta Mantovani and their youngest daughter Catherine.
Khrystyna recalled that after the end of even the most exhausting concert or opera performance, “happy, but tired and hungry, he stood in line for hours to sign autographs so that not a single fan went home sad.”
Luciano Pavarotti will have a dedicated section at the Grammy Awards Museum
Conductor James Conlon spoke of Pavarotti as an individual artist who was willing to take risks when few others would, such as when he performed “Nessun Dorma” at the 1990 World Cup hosted by Italy.
On Thursday, the Grammy Awards museum will host the grand opening of a section dedicated to Luciano Pavarotti. The Italian tenor has received five Grammy awards, as well as the “Legend” award throughout his career.
The new exhibition will include the score for his first performance of Verdi’s Requiem under Herbert von Karajan at La Scala in Milan in 1967, a score on which Pavarotti later collected the autographs of the great conductors with whom he collaborated. cooperated during his 30-year career.
During his career, Luciano Pavarotti sold more than 100 million records, and his first album, released under the umbrella of the Three Tenors with Spanish tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, became the best-selling classical music album of all time.
Luciano Pavarotti died of pancreatic cancer on September 6, 2007.
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