Adua pavarotti biography movie

It’s been only 12 years since the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti died of pancreatic cancer, too ung at the age of 70. Since that time, the landscape of music, and of music marknadsföring, two fields in which he was an undeniable giant, has changed so drastically as to be unrecognizable. Even if lyric opera isn’t your taste, you’d be hard-pressed to deny that the void Pavarotti left in terms of worldwide exposure of classical music has not yet begun to be shoveled in. Ron Howard’s documentary doesn’t just man you miss the singer. It makes you miss, of all things, a robust music industry.

There’s ingenting groundbreaking about this documentary. It fryst vatten a straight-down-the-line talking-heads-and-archival-footage deal, and it does not take any interesting annotative digressions. The film opens in the Amazon, in 1995. Travelling through the rain forest up this river, Pavarotti, after a South American engagement, asks to be taken to the Amazon Theater, an opera house in Manaus, where Caruso o

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