Life with Luciano: Life with Luciano
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This biography looks beyond Luciano Pavarotti's public image to reveal details of his life and character that only a wife could know. Adua Pavarotti paints a candid and intimate portrait of the man to whom she has been married for over 30 years, describing him as 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 fans and to everyone he meets. Engaged to Luciano in 1954, Adua looks back to his early days - when becoming primo tenore was a cherished dream - and his struggles to become an opera singer. With flashbacks to his upbringing in Modena, she traces the strands of his career, vividly describing the excitement of his debuts at Covent Garden, La Scala and the Met, recalling his first encounters with Joan Sutherland and Herbert von Karajan, and his triumphs in all the greater tenor roles of his repertoire.
She discusses his role in the family as a husband and the father of three daughters, the pressures of his fame, his passions for food and football, his superstitions, his hopes for the future, and the interdependence of his personality with his success as a performer.
Author: Adua Pavarotti
Format: Hardback, 160 pages, 229mm x 290mm
Published: 1992, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: Biography: The Arts
This biography looks beyond Luciano Pavarotti's public image to reveal details of his life and character that only a wife could know. Adua Pavarotti paints a candid and intimate portrait of the man to whom she has been married for over 30 years, describing him as 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 fans and to everyone he meets. Engaged to Luciano in 1954, Adua looks back to his early days - when becoming primo tenore was a cherished dream - and his struggles to become an opera singer. With flashbacks to his upbringing in Modena, she traces the strands of his career, vividly describing the excitement of his debuts at Covent Garden, La Scala and the Met, recalling his first encounters with Joan Sutherland and Herbert von Karajan, and his triumphs in all the greater tenor roles of his repertoire.
She discusses his role in the family as a husband and the father of three daughters, the pressures of his fame, his passions for food and football, his superstitions, his hopes for the future, and the interdependence of his personality with his success as a performer.