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Luciano Pavarotti's Birthday
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Where it comes from
This Story marks the birthday of Luciano Pavarotti, born in Modena, Italy, on 12 October 1935, the son of a baker who sang as an amateur tenor. He trained as a primary school teacher before studying singing, and made his opera debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème in 1961.
How it's celebrated
There is no organised observance, but Modena remembers him all year. His home in the countryside outside the city has been a museum since 2015, the city's opera house carries his name (since 2021 shared with his childhood friend, the soprano Mirella Freni), and a bronze statue of him stands beside it.
Did you know
In 1986 he took La Bohème to Beijing and gave the first concert ever held in the Great Hall of the People, to an audience of 10,000.
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