Luciano Pavarotti Dies, RIP

Posted in Deaths by The Gossip Monger on September 7th, 2007.

Luciano Pavarotti (10/12/1935 – 9/6/2007) was this century’s most famous tenor. One of the Three Tenors, the opera singer perished from pancreatic cancer. According to Wikipedia, Pavarotti relapsed in 2007:

On Thursday, August 9, 2007, he was hospitalized for observation in his hometown of Modena, in Northern Italy, hospital officials there said. Hospital spokesman Alberto Greco declined to give the reason the 71-year-old tenor was hospitalized, but local daily Il Resto del Carlino reported that it was pneumonia. On August 21, it was announced that he was being treated in the cancer ward, given tests related to his pancreatic cancer, and would not be released for another few days

The 100 million or more albums sold during his lifetime will continue playing around the world as his musical legacy, which will be difficult to replace.

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