LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

The Italian singer (tenor). Performer of Rodolfo in "La Boheme," Cavaradossi in "Tosca", the Duke of Mantua in "Rigoletto" and Nemorino in "love drink". He sang the title role of "Othello" in Chicago (USA, 1991). Doing much to popularize opera. Together with Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo has recorded the most popular opera arias during the football matches in Rome for the World Cup (1990).

As a child, Luciano most liked to catch frogs and lizards, to play football - and, of course, sing. However, in Italy, is known to sing everything. Luciano's father brought home a plate of famous tenors - Gigli, Caruso, Martinelli, along with his son and they listened to them literally to pieces. Luciano climbed on the kitchen table and vote in all the light "La donna e mobile. " In answer to his heart-rending singing at the same time from 15 neighboring apartments were distributed at least heart-rending cries of "Enough! Yeah shut up you are, at last!"

Later - in school - Luciano began singing in church choir. He was 12 years old when on tour in the local theater tenor Beniamino Gigli came. Luciano made his way to the theater during rehearsals. "I want to become a singer!" - He blurted Gigli, thus attempting to express their admiration. Although actually wanted to become a footballer.

Football out of it, as you know, did not work. In 1961, Pavarotti won first place in the vocal competition in Reggio Emilia-nel, in the same year he made his debut in "La Boheme" by Puccini. Two years later came true dream a young singer, he became a soloist with the world-famous opera "La Scala" and began a triumphal procession of scenes and concert halls around the world. On one of his speeches in the "Metropolitan Opera" Pavarotti brought the audience to a state of complete euphoria, so that the curtain had to lift 160 times - and that was entered in the Guinness Book of Records.

Friends called Pavarotti "Big P". "Big" - not in the sense of "great", but in the fact that neither is the literal sense.

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True, in the near Pavarotti in one voice, that it 150 kilograms of pure charm and good nature. That is 150 plus or minus 10. Dietary trials that befell Pavarotti, regularly replicated in the press and almost went in the category of jokes. Yes, the dimensions of Pavarotti - a problem for tailors and trouble for chairs. That there is at least sing Cavaradossi party in Puccini's "Tosca. " In the second act his character after the torture leads to the office, and he was so exhausted that barely stays on his feet and drops into a chair. Even during rehearsals Pavarotti wary glance at the chair of carved wood, and then went to the director and quietly so no one heard, said: "I think this chair I will not stand. " The director assured him that nothing to worry about, the chair in advance of reinforced metal. Rehearsal chair actually broke down. Come opening day. The second act. The guards dragged Pavarotti under the arms and sat him on a chair. Hildegard Behrens, who had served the party Tosca, had come to her lover and hug him. But it became a part that fled across the stage and threw herself on his neck. What happened after that, the scene of "Grand Opera" there has never been: a chair with a crash fell apart with him, crashed Pavarotti as Cavaradossi, and Tosca, and landed on top.

"Why did I eat so much? - Luciano on the eternal question answered reporters. - First, I'm Italian. Secondly, I'm from Modena - the town gluttons. " What can you do - it's his style: lodge in the house of a consultant nutritionist and pay him a fantastic sum for each day, and then, as soon as he crosses the threshold, to rush to the kitchen and empty the fridge.

"I'm the heavyweight rapper in the world" - as the great tenor said his performances with pop and rock stars: Zucchero, Sting, Bryan Adams, the Irish band "U2". Recordings of concerts, "Pavarotti and Friends" went millions of copies worldwide.

Luciano and Adua met teens and were engaged for seven years before they married.

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The wedding took place in 1961, when Luciano got his first decent fee, and they say, even tried to paste bills bedroom wall, but later traded with them all the same to you, to buy his first car.

By the way, Adua Pavarotti is required for being the singer, not a teacher in a traditional school. At the time, she persuaded him to take vocal lessons. "Few women could come to terms with the life of opera singer, was able to do it Adua" - Luciano Pavarotti, wrote in his book. She did not complain no matter what their home was more like a thoroughfare, or the fact that she saw her husband at most 5 days per month. "For all time of our life together I no longer spoke to him on the phone - said Adua Pavarotti - than was seen with her husband. By the way, on the phone he learned of the birth of our daughters. "

Credo is a former spouse is defined as: "Spaghetti, spaghetti, and then - the love" - ??and to the question of how it relates to the fact that during visits Pavarotti surrounds so many beautiful women, Adua few years ago, said: "Nothing okay, if he looks at the pretty face. Anyway, he will choose pizza. "

Seeing publicized around the world photos of 61-year old Pavarotti and his 27-year secretary, Nicoletta Mantovani, Nezha in the Caribbean, Adua in doubt.

This Nicoletta could not not like it. Pretty face with an irresistible smile, as, indeed, and her seducer. And this is not stupid. In Bologna, she studied science, has become a good psychologist. After all, she was the only person who comforted Luciano, when the Italian team lost match at World Cup. Is not it so important? And can anyone doubt her exploits as she drove the terrible snake, quietly penetrated the room divine tenor in Bali?

Who can resist such a mighty Venus? Of course, this is not the first slap, applied spineless hero family peace and prosperity. He always sang the praises of his legitimate and downright indispensable wife, ably ruled the empire of Pavarotti.

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Now before this eternal wanderer has opened a free field of activity.

Yar'Adua, which manages an enormous state of this good-natured giant, of course, for all his adventures turned a blind eye. Once the Vatican even forbade Luciano participate in a solemn Mass in New York's Central Park, the wife pretended to be indifferent to the articles which have appeared on this subject in the press. But this time, Adua riled flooded the press photographs of two doves, frolicking in the warm waters off the coast of Barbados. This Nicoletta, is not she repeats at all intersections, which give birth to dreams of Pavarotti's son? Do not insult it over her three daughters?

In a rage, tore Adua Pavarotti name tags from the doors to close Salicheta Modena, home to all of their clan. On the door there was only her first name: Yar'Adua Verona. The letter, which further sparked a scandal by angry Juno passed through his lawyer. It can be considered a masterpiece of diplomacy. "For anyone to create, this is the immutable law of life, the path to success is becoming increasingly blurred. When dusk descended, - she wrote to her husband with a charming courtesy - a feeling of loneliness and the end, especially frequented by people who have had success in life, you can suppress the other, deep-rooted feelings, stood the test of time. "

However, Yar'Adua totally unselfish, Pavarotti married couple in terms of separation of assets and the issue of divorce (in Italian) at the moment it is not necessary.

Luciano Pavarotti has given an interview with "Frau im Spiegel": "Maestro, psychologists regard your choices as a young woman as a life partner as an escape from his own age. What do you say?"

"Why not? I had a wonderful childhood with the great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, aunts. I had a wonderful life with my wife and daughters. I was able to make a fantastic career. Now I have decided to start a new life together with Nicoletta.

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I'm sure it will be just as beautiful as everything in my past. Maybe your psychologists have anything against human happiness and joy? "

"When your love story with a secretary in the public domain, you just had to sing in" at the Metropolitan Opera. "You were not afraid of the negative public reaction?"

"It was a pure nightmare! Some people can not distinguish personal from the professional, dump everything into one pile and think that if the singer gave his heart to a young woman, it should have an effect on his artistic skill, and for the worse. Gossip and backbiting in the press and the hostile attitude of the public - it was a monstrous load before the first night I passed this test. "

"You lost 15 pounds. Nicoletta merit?"

"It is quite true. She locked me in three weeks at home alone with a diet plan and its corresponding products. No pasta, no pizza, no alcohol . . . Solid juice, and even water-diluted. "

"And how are relations with your ex-wife?"

"Peacefully. With her daughters also no problem - they're smart girls, and very fond of me. "

"You have a full understanding with Nicoletta and yet there are any differences?"

"As for eating - constantly. Her culinary skills - a solid disaster. Once she met me cook tortellini. To do this, she needed to call from New York, where we were, my mother in Bologna - to learn the recipe. They talked for almost an hour . It is certainly nice of her hand, but much cheaper it would be to fly to Italy. "

"You're not going to acquire a child?"

"Of course. I would very much like a boy, because my whole life I was surrounded only by women. But we'll wait another couple of years, April 29, 2001 I celebrate the 40th anniversary of my creative work and go" retirement "- will teach singing. It's about time to become a father again. "