Luciano Pavarotti

When Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007, the world lost one of its finest voices. The ‘King of the High Cs‘ was sought after by all the major opera houses in his early career     Luciano Pavarotti was born in 1935 on the outskirts of Modena in Northern Italy, the son of Fernando Pavarotti, a baker and amateur tenor, and Adele Venturi, a cigar factory worker. Although he spoke fondly of his childhood, the family had little money; its four members were crowded into a two-room apartment. According to Pavarotti, his father had a fine tenor voice but rejected the […]