Inspirational Quotes by Luciano Pavarotti (Italian Tenor)

Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) was an Italian operatic tenor known worldwide for his many popular recordings. He was one of the most pleasing bel canto opera singers of the 20th century, and his voice was renowned for its purity of tone. He was also part of The Three Tenors—with Jose Carreras and Plácido Domingo,—the biggest-selling classical music act of all time.

Born in Modena in northern Italy, Pavarotti abandoned a career in teaching to become a singer and won the international competition at the Teatro Reggio Emilia in 1961, making his operatic début there as Rudolfo in La bohème the same year. He performed with the La Scala tour of Europe 1963–64 and in 1965 toured Australia with Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor. He made his American début at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 1968.

Pavarotti’s voice and performance are very much in the emphatic style of the traditional Italian tenor. In 1981, he won the Grammy award for best classical vocal soloist. In 1990 he became acquainted with a worldwide audience when he sang (alongside Carreras and Domingo) at an internationally televised concert in Rome to mark the World Cup soccer tournament. The recording of his signature aria ‘Nessun Dorma’ (from Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, 1926) also topped pop charts worldwide in 1990.

Pavarotti’s final public appearance was at the commencement ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, where he sang ‘Nessun Dorma.’ His autobiographies are Pavarotti: My Own Story (1981) and Pavarotti: My World (1995.)

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