Pavarotti: Life with Luciano

Adua Pavarotti

ISBN 10: 0847815730 / ISBN 13: 9780847815739

Published by Rizzoli, New York, 1992

About this Item

Pavarotti: Life with Luciano; by Adua Pavarotti with Wendy Dallas; special photography by Judith Kovacs, Robin Matthews, and Mirella Ricciardi; Rizzoli, New York, 1992. First American edition.
From the blurb ? Luciano Pavarotti is one of the greatest tenors of the century. His inimitable voice and charismatic personality, his passionate commitment to music and his appetite for life have worked a particularly potent sort of magic, attracting millions throughout the world to an art form that was once regarded as the exclusive reserve of the privileged. Through his open-air and arena concerts, his television appearances, videos and recordings, he has achieved the main ambition of his life ? to make opera available to a wider audience.
For the first time, a book looks beyond Pavarotti?s public image to reveal details of his life and character that only a wife could know. Adua Pavarotti paints a candid and delightfully intimate portrait of the man she has been married to for over thirty years: a man who, wherever he is, is the pivot around which all life revolves, who is endearingly generous and impossibly demanding; who has close family relationships, impulsive shopping sprees, an exaggerated interest in his health, and a love of people that he communicates to his fans and to everyone he meets.
With 160 colour and 40 black-and-white photographs.
This large format book, 160 pages, is fine condition. The dust jacket is also in fine condition and is now in a protective mylar wrap. This large and heavy book may require additional postage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pavarotti: Life with Luciano
• Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847815730
• ISBN 13: 9780847815739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The famous tenor's wife offers unique insight into her husband's complex personality, his love of music, his early years, the pressures of his fame, and their family life

Reviews

Some 200 photographs, 160 in color and many of them charming family snapshots, combine with an affectionate (but not totally uncritical) text by his wife, written with freelancer Dallas, to spotlight the famed Italian tenor's personal life and commitment to making opera widely accessible. An appealing portrait emerges of a warm, outgoing man with a passion for food (when he cooks, according to his wife, "there is food on the wall as well as in the dishes, and cleaning up is not his specialty"), friends (during his annual holiday by the Adriatic Sea, as many as 25 people sit down to dinner every night), family, his hometown in northern Italy (the book includes eye-popping pictures of his palatial residence there) and, of course, his art, which he insists is more appreciated by those who line up for hours to buy the cheapest seats than by those who pay top dollar to sit "down in the suits." Adua Pavarotti, who runs a management company that represents young singers as well as coordinates her husband's appearances, doesn't reveal anything particularly new about the tenor or his astonishing voice, but this agreeable, attractively designed book will be enjoyed by fans.
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Italian opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti is sympathetically portrayed here by his wife of more than 30 years. Her text is secondary to the many photographs, which include a few early black and whites from the family album, plus many more recent images in color. Fame, family, and fortune shine forth from these portraits of an ebullient singer who lives life to the fullest. This is at least the third book to capitalize on Pavarotti's celebrity status. An earlier pictorial biography, Martin Mayer's Grandissimo Pavarotti ( LJ 11/1/86), emphasizes the musical career, as does the singer's decade-old biography, Pavarotti: My Own Story ( LJ 3/1/81. o.p.). A decade is a very long time in an opera singer's career, so this new work should find a niche in music collections with a need for current, popular material, or in collections with celebrity biographies.
- James E. Ross, Seattle P.L.
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