LUCİANO PAVAROTTİ

He was born in 1935 in Modena, Italy. He had his first musical experience in the choir with his father Fernando in his city. When he was a teenager, he went to Wales with his father with the choir named Gioachino Rossini. He came first in the Llangollen international singing competition and this made him ambitious to become a tenor.

Pavarotti, who was actually trained to be a teacher, won the "Concorso Internazionale" award in 1961 with the lessons he took by Argio Pola and Ettore Campogallianni, and made his opera debut in a theater with his work La bohème on April 29 of the same year. he did. After that, he gave concerts many times in South and North America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. Then, he opened a school in Modena to train young singers. After the war in Bosnia, he founded a center named Pavarotti Music Center in the city of Mostar and gave musicians the chance to develop their talents. For this reason, the city of Sarajevo awarded him honorary citizenship in 2006. He was simply called "Big Lucio" in the United States. In places where there was a large distance between the dressing room and the stage, he used an electric golf vehicle specially designed for him and called "Pavamobile" by his fans. After important concerts, he would host meals for special guests near the concert hall or the hotel where he stayed. However, he either never attended these meals or was content to appear for very short periods of time.

The dish he orders most in restaurants is veal schnitzel with sausage, eggs, beans, rice, ham and polenta (corn flour jelly). In 1963, he experienced an event that left a mark on his life. Pavarotti came to Ankara upon invitation by the Ankara State Opera and Ballet. While he had only been a tenor for two years and his voice was not yet fully established, he was invited by the State Opera and Ballet to act as a tenor in a difficult play, but after the first concert, his voice was found to be 'inadequate' and he was sent back. Pavarotti was the most well-known voice of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s with his rare, sensitive and clear voice. In 1966, he became the first tenor who could sing all nine high C's in "La Fille du Regiment" by Gaetano Donizetti. He performed the same performance at the Metropolitan Opera (New York) in 1972 and became the "King of High C" (high C'). Pavarotti's popularity was greater than that of any tenor of all time.