pavarotti

Touching Tribute To Pavarotti In Today’s Crikey Mail Out!

1:48PM Jess McGuire | Seventeen thousand thumbs up, followed by a gentle self-harming session whilst listening to Dashboard Confessional, to Crikey.com.au for the stunningly and wonderfully emo tribute to recently deceased opera star Luciano Pavarotti that opens today’s newsletter. Luciano Pavarotti is dead. Why does this resonate? Because the life of Pavarotti is an allegory for our time, our decadent decline made flesh. Here was a man blessed by talent, art and beauty who was consumed by vanity and the dumb blandishments of vapid celebrity. A man gifted with an abundant natural resource – a larynx touched by God he thought – a creature of incalculable, classical, learned beauty that ended up stuffing itself with lard and singing duets with Bono. This is our age on legs: cancer laden, caked in hair dye, fake tan and kohl, still sort of singing. Then dead. RIP. “Then dead. RIP.” BRILLIANT. More »

Pavarotti Shuffles Off His Mortal Coil, Now Impressing The Gods With His Ability To Effortlessly Hit High C’s

3:59PM Jess McGuire | Vale Luciano Pavarotti, who has just passed away at age 71. Luciano Pavarotti, one of the greatest tenors of his generation, has died at his home in Modena, his manager says. “Luciano Pavarotti died one hour ago,” manager Terri Robson said in a telephone text message to media. In an email statement to the Associated Press Robson said Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5am local time (1pm AEST). “The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness,” the statement said. More »