

And they’re still coming, as a cursory internet search will show. Pavarotti’s stage partner and childhood friend Mirella Freni had retired, likewise his partners in the bel canto repertory revival: Joan Sutherland, conductor Richard Bonynge, and a whole list of great artists of the time.Īnd so the best of Pavarotti lists started to appear.


When tenor Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007, the classical world felt as though it had lost something that had been thought to be eternal: the unbroken link to the great tradition of Italian singing. Luciano Pavarotti | Credit: Sasha Gusov/Decca
