Pavarotti

Pavarotti, Adua

ISBN 10: 0847815730 / ISBN 13: 9780847815739

Published by Rizzoli, N. Y., 1992

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SUBTITLED : ` Life with Luciano'. Luciano's passions include Pesano, painting, Lepanto football club, pasta - and bent nails. He lives his home life surrounded by four women - three daughters and his wife (author of this 160 page - incl. INDEX - work). Herbert Breslin is his agent in the U.S.A., Franco Casarini is his life-long friend, and Arrigo Pola was his first voice coach (1955). Cond : Boards are dark blue with silver lettering on spine only. D.J. is blue with white and blue lettering. D.J. graphic is a close-up portrait of the `Primo Tenore' (front) and the Pavarotti family (back). Front end-paper has odd publisher's crinkles (v. slight) and d.j. has v. light fraying at top and tail - ELSE crisp and bright and giftable - without mark or flaw. Collectible !! Quote (p. 119) : " . for finding one himself. He always succeeds because someone always ensures that he does. Luciano knows that more often than not the bent nail that he finds en route from his dressing room to the stage has been `planted' for his benefit, but the conspiracy is all part of . ." Size: Folio (small).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pavarotti
• Publisher: Rizzoli, N. Y.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847815730
• ISBN 13: 9780847815739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Colour Photographs
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music
  • Biography

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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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