Luciano Pavarotti; "La dolcissima effige"; ADRIANA LECOUVREUR; Francesco Cilea

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ========================= Luciano Pavarotti--tenor National Philharmonic Orchestra Oliviero de Fabritiis--conductor Date (?) ======================== "Luciano Pavarotti, (born October 12, 1935, Modena, Italy—died September 6, 2007, Modena), Italian operatic lyric tenor who was considered one of the finest bel canto opera singers of the 20th century. Even in the highest register, his voice was noted for its purity of tone, and his concerts, recordings, and television appearances—which provided him ample opportunity to display his ebullient personality—gained him a wide popular following. Pavarotti graduated from a teaching institute in Modena (1955) and then taught elementary school for two years. He studied opera privately, mostly in Mantua. After winning the Concorso Internazionale, a singing competition, he made his professional operatic debut in 1961 as Rodolfo in La Bohème (1896) in Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy. He then played in opera houses throughout Europe and Australia and performed the role of Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo (1781) at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1964. He made his first appearance in the United States in Miami in 1965, singing opposite Joan Sutherland as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). In 1968 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and from 1971 he was a regular performer there. Pavarotti toured the world, performing to as...