RIP Pavarotti
As you have definitely heard by now, the man who made opera accessible to the masses, Luciano Pavarotti, died today morning in Italy. With his passing, we lost a larger than life legend. I have never been much into opera and (unfortunately) never been to a performance but I do have a few CDs of Pavarotti (notably his “Three Tenors” series with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras).
The ever reliable Youtube obviously has many performances by Pavarotti for me to embed here but this one strikes me as particularly awe-inspiring… it’s a duet with the late great James Brown singing Brown’s “It’s a Man’s World.” May both men rest in peace.
