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We were in Brazil.

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The night before,
Luciano sang for 200,000 people.

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It was an amazing concert in Buenos Aires.

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The next morning,
we went up the Amazon, into the jungle.

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Thankfully, I had my video camera.

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There was this theater
in the middle of nowhere,

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and, uh, I realized this was a pilgrimage.

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And Luciano said,

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"I want to sing on this stage
where Caruso sang 100 years ago."

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You know, we had nothing organized.

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We arrive in front of the theater,
and it was completely locked up.

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Nobody was there.

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We found somebody, uh, to open it.

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And somebody came out
and said, uh, "Who is he?"

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And he said, "I am Luciano Pavarotti."

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Luciano never had a plan in his mind

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and was not somebody
that planned things, you know?

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Things just happened.

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One day, we receive a video camera.

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So, I was always there with this camera,
and we shoot everything.

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He really trust people.

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He always thought
that everybody had a good part, you know?

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He was so full of joy
and so happy all the time.

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Luciano was completely conscious
of the fact

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that he received a great gift from God.

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Not just in opera,
but everything else in life.

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It gave him purpose.

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But it was also a burden.

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I always wanted to understand
the reason why.

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Our profession
is a very, very particular one.

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You don't become well-known in a day.

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In this growing, you don't realize
what is going to happen to you.

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You don't know who you are, really.

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I was born during the war,
so, I am carrying that.

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Always.

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But I was a very lucky boy,

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because I was raised
in the most beautiful place.

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My father was a baker and a tenor.

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I was very lucky
to have my father singing in the church.

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Even for a little boy, by imitation,
you always do what your father is doing,

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so he was my teacher.

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It was a fantastic tenor voice.

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Phenomenal. Better than mine.
And nobody believed, but he was like that.

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I was singing with my father
and 50 more male voice.

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We went to this place in Wales
to make a competition.

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1955, you won first prize in Wales.

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Yes.

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That was one of the most important
and unforgettable day of my life.

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And sharing it with all my friends
and with my father.

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And that time,
I was a teacher for elementary school.

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My father, he says, "Listen.

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Now you study, you go to the city,
and you become professor."

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Because my father
did not succeed as a tenor.

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He knows how difficult it is,
even with a beautiful voice.

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And I say,
"Okay, if you say so, I will do that."

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My mother says, "No, I think,

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when I hear my son sing,
I have something in my heart."

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Oh, I say, "Mama, you say that
because you are my mother. Come on."

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She says, "No, no, no, no.

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No, because I don't say that
when I hear your father."

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She make me do exactly what I want,
and I think for what I was born to do.

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So, in 1955, I begin to study,

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and six year after,
I made my debut in 1961.

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So, how did you get
your first part in an opera?

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I won a competition,

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and the prize of the competition
was to sing on the stage

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with an orchestra with a conductor
with, uh, the entire performance.

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And my debut was the 29th of April, 1961,
and I was playing Rodolfo in Bohème.

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In La bohème, yeah.

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It was not a sensational night,

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but I think everybody was very pleased,
especially my mother.

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The 29th of April, 1961,

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a young elementary school teacher
went on the stage, and he become a tenor.

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And I fall in love.

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We did live together a couple of months.
Really like bohemians.

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I remember that we have the room,
one in front of the other,

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and the bathroom was there for everybody.

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It's love. It's passion.
It's very beautiful. It's casual.

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It's everything poetic and romantic
and positive in life.

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And desperate,
because there is... that is there.

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London is an incredible city,

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and Covent Garden is my first
important international theater.

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I sang there in 1963 with great success.

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Covent Garden was making
ten performance of Bohème.

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Performances with Mr. Di Stefano,

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who is one of the greatest tenor
of all time.

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And then, when he is arriving,
he was very sick,

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and he's canceling the performance,
and I am singing in his place.

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And the news was incredible,

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because young tenor
will substitute Di Stefano.

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The work is Di Stefano,

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but doesn't matter
because the young tenor was me.

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Finally, I am reaching that point

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in which you are able
to deal with the stage.

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It's still difficult, but you made it.
So I made it.

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It was very early in my career.

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I was going to make my debut
in Vienna in '67.

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And I had been reading
about this new superstar

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that was singing
with JJoan Sutherland in a tour.

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Going to Australia with Joan,

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first of all, I learned to be
a very serious professional singer.

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And from her, particularly,
I learned to breathe,

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which is the most simple thing
but the most difficult.

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What did you learn? How could you tell
what was going on inside?

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Well, while singing a duet,
I tried to touch her to see

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how she was doing, and...

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What did you feel?
Could you feel the air?

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- I saw the muscle of the diaphragm.
- Yeah.

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And she use... and how firm the muscle was
before she attack any kind of note.

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More than everything,
I think the technique is perfect.

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I think it's probably
the most incredible technique

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of all the time, I would like to say.

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I think Luciano has
one of the most ideal voice

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ever born on this Earth,
at least for a tenor.

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Luciano's voice
always went right to my heart.

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It was just one of the clearest,
most pure, most emotional,

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passionate, beautiful... everything.

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It's just heaven on earth, truly.

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It's very important
to make people understand

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that a soprano and a baritone,
they are the most natural voices.

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Men, they are naturally baritones.

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But to become a tenor,
that's another thing. It's more unnatural.

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If you want
to become Luciano Pavarotti,

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you must have the high C.

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That's the most important thing.

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You can have a beautiful,
nice life of the tenor,

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but if you don't have a high C,
no big tenor.

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When I was listening to Luciano, you know,

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he was just opening his mouth,
and here it goes.

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Everything... Everything was easy.

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When he was singing
La fille du régiment,

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that was the opera that made him famous.

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His famous, you know,
nine high C's in La fille du régiment,

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La fille du régiment, uh,
that's, you know, opera history.

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I felt like I could see his voice.

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It was super clear, like a photograph.

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You can count molecules practically.
It's so clear.

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A tenor singing a high C
makes your ears vibrate.

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There's such tension of sound.
My ears would ring.

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We all dreamed to be
the most important in the operatic world.

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Luciano was the one and only. Yes.

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Luciano was singing
in all the theaters,

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Covent Garden, Vienna,
La Scala and Metropolitan,

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and many other theaters
all around the world.

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All his recordings
became quite legendary.

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He was labeled by Decca
as the King of the High C's.

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The jump of the horse who can jump...

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It's not difficult
if he reach the obstacle

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at the right moment, in the right balance.

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And it's the same singing the top.

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Top is not difficult if you arrive there
prepared to make the top.

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Can you be absolutely sure that you'll...

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If you've prepared properly,
can you be sure you'll hit the note?

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No. That is the beauty of my profession.

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I always say that, uh,
"voice" in Spanish is feminine.

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It's la voz. Also, in Italian, la voce.
In French, la voix.

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So, I believe that to live with a voice,

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she's like a very, very jealous
and demanding woman.

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I know I cannot do anything without her,

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without the voice.

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You live with it, and you have to realize,

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and everything affects it.

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Good news, bad news,
something then it is emotional,

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physically, we react.

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This muscle...

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you never know if they respond
to you immediately.

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She's the prima donna of my body.

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One day's better than another one.

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Like in any relationship,
you have to know the person very well

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in order to really treat
somebody that you love so much

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in the best way.

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So, that's the voice, you know.
She's a lady.

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The opera is love, hate, death.

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It is very important.

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With a little makeup,
you can become another person.

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The opera is something fake

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that, little by little
on the stage, it become true.

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I understand you carry,

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of all things,
in your pocket, a bent nail.

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A bent nail, yes.

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It's a superstition,
and all the artists, I think, have one.

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Like in English, says, "touch wood,"

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in Italy, we say, "touch iron."

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And we have a bent nail with iron.

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It's double good luck.

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Are you a devout Catholic?

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I think so, very deeply.
But let's say, then, even being Catholic,

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I am still superstitious, just in case.

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I think there's no question

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Luciano was, at heart, a simple person.

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He called himself a peasant.

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I think one of the reasons
that the role of Nemorino

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in L'elisir d'amore was such a natural fit
is that he was a bit of a bumpkin.

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He had
thousands of fans around the world.

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People were queuing around the block
for tickets. They'd kill for them.

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Somebody from the record company

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said to Luciano,
"Well, you... You're such a nice guy...

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what you need is a real bastard
to work for you."

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That's how we started.

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Herbert Breslin had a reputation

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as being one of the most hated people
in the opera business.

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I had never heard anything good about
Herbert Breslin before I worked for him.

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What happened
with Luciano Pavarotti and myself

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was a unity of purpose.

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He wanted it, and I wanted it.

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Because, as his reputation was being made,
my reputation was being made.

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Herbert would also tell you
that he generated

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a number of the sort of popularizing ideas
that helped make Luciano what he became.

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He'd never done a concert before.

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He'd never done a recital before.

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I opened up the gates of music to him.

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My manager sent me out
to Liberty, Missouri

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by myself to make a recital.

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In opera, you've got the benefit
of a costume and makeup,

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and you become another character
during those three hours,

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whereas in a recital, you're yourself.

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It's only his voice.

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You're totally exposed.

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You're almost naked because, you know,
you can't hide behind anything.

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Luciano said, "Oh, my God,
what am I going to do with my hands?"

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His manager said to him,

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"Take that handkerchief
that's in your pocket

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and hold it in your hands."

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My manager said,
"If you don't like it, don't do it."

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And I say, "I don't like. I adore it."

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We started doing recitals
in rural America.

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Places that don't have opera houses.

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It's a certain way
to give back what God gave to me.

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It's not to make myself popular.

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It's to make
the world of the opera popular.

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He liked to go
to the buffets in the hotels,

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and we would each fill up
two or three times

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and pig out on American food.

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Mac and cheese and very non-Italian stuff.

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What I was able to provide him
was the dynamic of making a star.

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Welcome to an historic event:

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the first live telecast of an opera

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from the new Metropolitan Opera House
in Lincoln Center.

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Tonight's opera is La bohème,
"The Bohemians."

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Luciano made his debut
at the Met, November of '68,

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and it became his artistic home.

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So, I think I had
a very close relationship with him

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for about 20 years.

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I don't think they've ever seen you...
most of them... on television like this.

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Well, television like that,
I think it was never made.

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It is the first time, is it not?

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- Is it not the first time?
- Yes.

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- And, uh...
- Have you done television opera in Europe?

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- Not live. Uh...
- Okay.

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- In studio, yes.
- Uh-huh.

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But live, it is the first time.

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- It is a new experience for me.
- Uh-huh.

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And, uh, don't ask me if I am happy,
because I am never happy, and, uh...

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I'll ask you if you're happy.

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- Are you happy?
- I am not.

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- You're not happy?
- Never. Never happy.

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- Never happy? All right.
- Never happy.

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I always think I can do better than I do.

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He was a nervous wreck
before every performance.

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He would always say, "I go to die."

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We go to die.

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And he would always
end up living after the performance.

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You could see the public
was absolutely taking to this man.

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Because of his smile,
because of his artistry,

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and because of his personality.

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They couldn't get enough of him.

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Good morning from Chicago,

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where I am pleased to introduce
to a very excited audience,

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Luciano Pavarotti.

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Luciano, you know, loved pasta.

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He'd come to our apartment for dinner,
and he'd want to cook.

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Garlic, sliced.

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- All that?
- Yes.

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Going to be fantastic.

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Olive oil.

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Red pepper.

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You're serious now?

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- I am very serious.
- All right, all right.

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You will cry later, probably.

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When you taste.

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When he was in New York, he would
always cook this spicy spaghetti for me.

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- He didn't like Indian food too much.
- Mmm.

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Mr. Pavarotti, on the road,
do you like to have a hotel room with a...

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What?

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...with a kitchen?
Isn't that right? You...

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It's pretty common, I think,
for big international stars

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to try to take their home with them,

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because you're just always
in a hotel room.

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Not being home, not being with his family,
he led a lonely life.

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And that's why, I think,
he had the big entourage all the time.

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And the after-performances,
all the people going to dinner.

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- Can we agree, sir, that it is fattening?
- Hmm.

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No doubt about that.

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One day, he says,
"Now, this is how you lose weight.

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First, we have chicken,
beans and mashed potatoes.

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And after that, we then have
four scoops of vanilla ice cream."

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And he eats quickly his three scoops,

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and he pushes the plate away,
leaving a scoop.

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He said, "Now, that's the diet.
You don't eat the last scoop.

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I guarantee you, you'll lose weight."

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That was his diet.

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He absolutely hated being alone.

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For somebody who was so big and famous,

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he was extremely vulnerable
in so many ways.

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He had a lot of nerves,

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and I think the audience
could connect with that.

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What am I? Am I successful,
or am I just famous?

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That, I don't know. I don't care.

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I know that people
recognize me on the street. Very good.

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But I have three daughters and one wife,

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and when I am at home,
I know exactly who I am.

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Nothing. Exactly zero.

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But I am happy.

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Even successful nothings
carry the American Express Card.

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The American Express commercial
paid $10,000, which is chicken feed.

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But it didn't matter.
It was all over the place.

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And do you know me?

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Well, if you didn't know me,
you'd know him pretty soon.

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Would you welcome, please,
Luciano Pavarotti?

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Luciano Pavarotti.

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- Luciano Pavarotti.
- Luciano Pavarotti.

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Welcome...

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to this afternoon's special class

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with Mr. Pavarotti and the students
of the Juilliard Voice Department.

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Luciano Pavarotti.

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Before I met Luciano,
I had no idea who he was.

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I should be embarrassed to say that.

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I was already
in my second year at Juilliard.

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He was doing a master class.

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Master class.

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The word by itself already scare me.

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I am very, very nervous.

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It's a daunting experience,

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but Luciano was very good
at putting people at ease.

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And especially in front of an audience.

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He was already a maestro
listening to younger singers

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and, you know, knowing the repertoire
and knowing the vocal difficulties

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and being able to say something
to make it better.

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00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:13,461
Wow. Beautiful voice.

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00:34:13,552 --> 00:34:19,469
I think, for your voice, you should
take the tempo just a little quick.

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Un poco più veloce.

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Doesn't matter what the piano play,
what the orchestra play,

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with the right tempo, for everybody.

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Can you try the beginning, please?

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I always knew I wanted to sing
from the time I was young,

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and I had studied Italian
and lived in France when I was little,

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so I had several languages.

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Luciano, he needed somebody
to answer his phones

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and somebody to answer his fan mail.

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He said, "If you help me out,
I will work with your voice."

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He loved teaching.
That's what maestro is. He's a teacher.

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He had great teachers as a young person,

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and he was very, very technically educated
as a tenor student.

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When I was a kid,
I gave up everything.

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I begin to go to bed early every night.

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I try with all my power,
studying the singing,

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and become a more serious student.

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I'd have two teachers.

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One was a tenor,
and he give me vocal ways.

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And the second one
is a very, very famous teacher,

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and he was more about the phrasing,
the music.

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Technique was everything to him.
Technique and language meant so much.

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When studying our profession,
Italian opera is the base for opera.

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First, we have the words.

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The composer, he has the words,
and then he put the notes.

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The composers, they are based
on the meaning of the word.

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It's the most important
to understand how to...

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to share that emotion
from that particular word with the public.

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Composers like Mozart, Verdi, Donizetti,
they use the language.

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So, if you pronounce it well,
you get the rhythm immediately,

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'cause the rhythm is in the music, too.

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It's about breathing.
Controlling your diaphragm.

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Taking your air in,
and you're the one that decides

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where your air goes, how it goes out,
how long your phrase is.

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As Luciano used to say...

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You measure your breath.

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It's how you coordinate
everything with feelings.

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With expression, you know?
With temperament. With joy.

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The public, they don't know
what are you doing, but they feel it.

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- Beautiful.
- Beautiful.

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If you just have, singing,

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a quarter of the beauty voice
you have speaking, my dear,

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you would be yourself a great singer.

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- Oh, thank you very much.
- I'm sure.

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- Beautiful voice.
- You sly dog, you.

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You go right to the ladies, you see?
Right to the ladies.

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I saw you before.

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00:38:06,493 --> 00:38:11,033
Luciano was mischievous.
He had... How would I say? Monello.

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That would be the word I would use.

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It's an Italian word for,
you know, like a schoolboy sense of humor.

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He would take delight in the little
funny things, you know? The stupid things.

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Mr. Pavarotti, speaking on behalf
of all the ladies in the audience,

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we should like you to know
that we love large men,

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and particularly...

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Especially large men with large voices.

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Do you think
that your huggable extra inches

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helps to produce that beautiful resonance?

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I think so.

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When I was born in this building,

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it was already six year
that a boy was not born.

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00:39:16,896 --> 00:39:20,355
So I was the first boy after six years

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born in a house with 15 family,
100 people.

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My mother embraced me,
and with all the women of this house,

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I was the Lucianino.

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Everybody was looking for me.

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I was very much spoiled, loved,
but even... kept smart.

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I think Luciano loved women.
And he also trusted them.

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He was brought up by women.
He had aunties, his mum.

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And, of course, with Adua,
he had three daughters.

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And then Alice and Nicoletta.
He definitely had an affinity for women.

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And I think, the bossier we were,
the more he argued with us,

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but the more he trusted us
as well, I think.

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I was accompanying him
on all his tours all over the place.

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I remember he had 28 suitcases.

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00:40:16,539 --> 00:40:18,659
You know, Luciano never packed
a suitcase in his life.

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He was very demanding.

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God forbid his handkerchiefs
weren't where they were supposed to be.

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You know, I mean,
it was difficult at times.

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I had to take care of his schedule,
who he was supposed to meet,

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when his rehearsals were,
and I was singing with him.

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The relationship was so all-encompassing

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because I was the friend,
the student, the secretary.

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He was my mentor,
my teacher, my... my love.

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I never thought that I would end up
in a relationship with Luciano.

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But it was hard to see
where to draw a line.

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I remember a recital, and I was backstage,

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00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:08,251
you know, holding his water
and his hot tea or whatever,

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00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:09,902
and all of a sudden, it's like, you know,

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00:41:09,926 --> 00:41:13,761
he dragged me out on the stage
to sing La bohème, the duet.

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00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:43,874
Luciano always said
there are no great teachers

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00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,417
or no great students.

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It's the meeting of the two, together.

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One of the execs in my office

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00:42:25,626 --> 00:42:27,834
came to me and showed me an article

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00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,504
that the maestro
had just sold out Madison Square Garden.

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00:42:31,591 --> 00:42:34,129
And I thought,
"Hmm. That looks interesting."

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00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:39,256
Most of my life at that point
was based around rock and roll concerts.

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00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:45,929
I had just booked six nights
at Earls Court for Bruce Springsteen

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00:42:46,022 --> 00:42:47,263
and paid the deposit.

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00:42:47,690 --> 00:42:49,773
And then I got a phone call

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00:42:49,859 --> 00:42:51,942
from Bruce's manager to say

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00:42:52,028 --> 00:42:54,896
that Bruce doesn't want to do
an arena in London.

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00:42:54,989 --> 00:42:58,448
So I was stuck.
I was in for half a million pounds.

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00:42:58,534 --> 00:43:00,821
So I set about everybody in my office

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00:43:00,912 --> 00:43:03,495
looking for an alternative
to put into Earls Court.

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00:43:03,581 --> 00:43:05,789
And then this chap came into my office

447
00:43:05,875 --> 00:43:09,334
and showed me this article,
and I just said, "Get him."

448
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:12,705
Herbert Breslin.

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00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:19,007
So we tracked down
Herbert Breslin, who was his manager,

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00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:21,555
who refused point-blank to speak to me.

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00:43:23,142 --> 00:43:29,810
And he said, "Why on earth would I
want to talk to a rock and roll promoter?"

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00:43:29,899 --> 00:43:32,482
And he kind of emphasized
the "rock" and the "roll."

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00:43:32,568 --> 00:43:37,359
And I said, "I don't know, really.
I produce concerts. I'm quite good at it."

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00:43:43,913 --> 00:43:46,155
I kept faxing over offers,

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00:43:46,249 --> 00:43:51,461
till the point where the offer was so good
that he finally picked the phone up

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00:43:51,546 --> 00:43:53,538
and he said, "Can we meet?"

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00:43:56,259 --> 00:44:00,720
So I arranged a lunch in my office.
We sat down, we started talking,

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00:44:00,805 --> 00:44:05,641
and I realized very early on
that Breslin was a diva.

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00:44:05,726 --> 00:44:07,137
Was a real diva.

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00:44:07,854 --> 00:44:10,312
But Pavarotti was different.

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00:44:12,608 --> 00:44:17,069
The first concert that we put on together,
I took my parents backstage,

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00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:18,646
and they were so excited to meet him.

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00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:21,356
And he literally chucked everybody
out of the dressing room.

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My mother came out just streaming tears.

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00:44:27,456 --> 00:44:29,656
And I thought, "Oh, my God,
what's happened?"

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00:44:31,794 --> 00:44:36,209
He had sat my mum and dad down,
and sang an aria to them.

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00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:49,305
They told me what happened.
I was quite taken aback, to be honest.

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00:44:50,605 --> 00:44:56,693
He had this knack above any other person
I'd ever met in my life

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00:44:56,777 --> 00:44:59,690
of making people feel he was their friend,

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00:45:00,615 --> 00:45:02,356
that they were special.

471
00:45:27,475 --> 00:45:28,827
What time is it, please?

472
00:47:11,579 --> 00:47:14,196
It was a miracle, no doubt.

473
00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:17,582
From that day, just say, "My dear,

474
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:20,376
the life is the most important
thing you have.

475
00:47:20,963 --> 00:47:22,374
Let's start again."

476
00:47:37,146 --> 00:47:39,638
About that time, I worked for PolyGram,

477
00:47:39,732 --> 00:47:42,566
which was one of the biggest
record companies in the world.

478
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:44,813
And we bought Decca Records.

479
00:47:45,571 --> 00:47:47,779
And Pavarotti
was one of their biggest assets.

480
00:47:51,327 --> 00:47:53,239
Almost immediately, we found out

481
00:47:53,329 --> 00:47:55,491
that Pavarotti had been recording
for someone else

482
00:47:55,581 --> 00:47:58,949
while he was under a huge contract
exclusively to Decca.

483
00:47:59,043 --> 00:48:01,410
And I was told to go and tell him off.

484
00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:07,420
I was a nothing little pip-squeak
in the company,

485
00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:10,844
and it was also my first meeting
with the maestro.

486
00:48:11,180 --> 00:48:13,492
So I went to his room at the Savoy
and knocked on the door,

487
00:48:13,516 --> 00:48:15,849
and he said, "Oh, come in. Sit down."

488
00:48:15,935 --> 00:48:17,642
It was obviously quite intimidating.

489
00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:22,055
So I said,
"Maestro, I've come to tell you off."

490
00:48:22,149 --> 00:48:24,436
And he said, "What, what?
Why? What, what?"

491
00:48:24,527 --> 00:48:27,611
I said, "Well, have you been recording
for someone else?"

492
00:48:27,696 --> 00:48:32,066
And he said, "Yes, yes, my wife's company.
I make wonderful records for them."

493
00:48:32,410 --> 00:48:34,151
I said,
"Well, look, you're not allowed to."

494
00:48:34,245 --> 00:48:36,157
He said,
"What do you mean, 'not allowed to?'"

495
00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:39,911
I said,
"Because you are under exclusive contract,

496
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,493
and you are only, only allowed to record

497
00:48:43,587 --> 00:48:45,267
for the Decca record company,
no one else."

498
00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,292
"So, this is the meaning of 'exclusive'?"

499
00:48:50,386 --> 00:48:53,879
I said, "Yes, that is exclusive.
Yes, you cannot do it. You must not."

500
00:48:55,641 --> 00:48:57,803
"Ah," he said. "Life is too short."

501
00:48:59,019 --> 00:49:00,260
So I went back to the office,

502
00:49:00,354 --> 00:49:03,062
and they were all desperate to know
what the maestro had said.

503
00:49:03,149 --> 00:49:05,766
"What did he say?" I said,
"Well, he said, 'Life's too short.'"

504
00:49:06,277 --> 00:49:07,813
"What did you say?" I said,

505
00:49:07,903 --> 00:49:10,343
"Well, I couldn't think of anything to say
'cause he's right."

506
00:49:11,991 --> 00:49:14,654
So, we went
and we bought his wife's company

507
00:49:14,743 --> 00:49:15,950
for a modest amount of money,

508
00:49:16,036 --> 00:49:18,278
and he was happy, his wife was happy,
everyone was happy.

509
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,582
It was a life lesson.

510
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:25,956
Those people that infect you

511
00:49:26,046 --> 00:49:29,414
with understanding the difference
between a business life

512
00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,591
and a human life are rare.

513
00:49:48,652 --> 00:49:50,372
During the '80s, he started working

514
00:49:50,446 --> 00:49:54,315
with a Hungarian promoter, Tibor Rudas,
and things just got bigger.

515
00:49:57,745 --> 00:50:02,911
I was the vice president of
the first casino opened in Atlantic City.

516
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,367
I built a theater for them, and I used

517
00:50:05,461 --> 00:50:10,172
practically every contemporary artist
known in the United States.

518
00:50:10,799 --> 00:50:14,793
Sinatra. Diana Ross. Anybody.

519
00:50:16,805 --> 00:50:20,094
It was funny because
the manager was actually Herbert Breslin,

520
00:50:20,184 --> 00:50:21,891
and Herbert wouldn't let you do anything.

521
00:50:21,977 --> 00:50:24,435
And then Tibor Rudas
took him out into the arenas,

522
00:50:24,522 --> 00:50:26,434
and he wanted him to do everything.

523
00:50:35,991 --> 00:50:41,111
Tibor made a career with Luciano,
taking him into stadiums,

524
00:50:41,205 --> 00:50:42,867
various capitals of the world.

525
00:50:49,421 --> 00:50:55,042
Suddenly, in between my relationship
which was just beginning with Breslin,

526
00:50:55,135 --> 00:50:57,718
I get a phone call from Tibor Rudas.

527
00:50:57,805 --> 00:51:01,139
He said, "Anything you do from here on in,
you work for me, got it?"

528
00:51:01,225 --> 00:51:03,387
I said, "Okay."

529
00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:14,937
Once Tibor got in the picture,
the whole financial picture changed.

530
00:51:15,948 --> 00:51:20,033
That was certainly an important point
in the development of Luciano's career.

531
00:51:20,119 --> 00:51:21,655
He was branching out.

532
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:25,447
Everything became more geared
towards mass appeal.

533
00:51:28,419 --> 00:51:31,253
It's important to remember
that there's a huge tradition

534
00:51:31,338 --> 00:51:35,173
of opera stars
as huge popular entertainers.

535
00:51:35,259 --> 00:51:38,093
The opera stars of their day
were the movie stars of today.

536
00:51:38,178 --> 00:51:40,044
There's an exact link.

537
00:51:40,139 --> 00:51:42,847
And so Pavarotti
is picking up on a tradition

538
00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:45,425
that's very much embodied
by Enrico Caruso, say,

539
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:49,229
who was the first and one of
the greatest recording stars of all time.

540
00:52:02,786 --> 00:52:08,453
Caruso was this unbelievably,
globally popular tenor

541
00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:11,660
who would attract
hundreds of thousands of people

542
00:52:11,754 --> 00:52:13,916
wherever he went,
just to catch a glimpse of him,

543
00:52:14,006 --> 00:52:15,838
forget about seeing him perform.

544
00:52:16,592 --> 00:52:19,505
Pavarotti was the kind of
Caruso of his age.

545
00:52:23,057 --> 00:52:25,424
And finally this evening, opera in China.

546
00:52:25,517 --> 00:52:30,308
The great Italian tenor, Pavarotti.
ABC's Jim Laurie is in Beijing.

547
00:52:30,814 --> 00:52:34,649
The Western Opera Company
had never been to China.

548
00:52:34,735 --> 00:52:37,819
Enter the imposing figure
of Luciano Pavarotti

549
00:52:37,905 --> 00:52:39,862
in his first tour of China.

550
00:52:39,948 --> 00:52:42,531
Three weeks in which
to embrace the Chinese.

551
00:52:43,035 --> 00:52:46,824
I am very happy to be here.
For all of us, it is completely new.

552
00:52:46,914 --> 00:52:51,375
And I hope especially that the public
is going to enjoy it.

553
00:52:52,086 --> 00:52:54,624
Mao Zedong had departed from the scene

554
00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:57,626
not much before we went to China.

555
00:52:57,716 --> 00:53:03,053
And Luciano took the full opera company,
a press crew and everybody.

556
00:53:03,138 --> 00:53:07,633
The Chinese did not have
a classical music tradition.

557
00:53:09,103 --> 00:53:11,846
It was totally foreign to their culture.

558
00:53:24,535 --> 00:53:28,996
I was a little kid,
and here comes this wonderful Italian guy,

559
00:53:29,081 --> 00:53:32,370
pretty big guy,
but with the most beautiful smile.

560
00:53:32,459 --> 00:53:34,200
I would say, uh, Pavarotti,

561
00:53:34,294 --> 00:53:38,379
when he smiles
with this white handkerchief,

562
00:53:38,465 --> 00:53:39,922
the whole world opens for him.

563
00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:47,884
Pavarotti, before his visit,

564
00:53:47,975 --> 00:53:50,467
we know who he is, but...

565
00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:53,804
we don't know so much about opera.

566
00:53:54,690 --> 00:53:57,899
He certainly gave the Chinese audience

567
00:53:57,985 --> 00:54:02,275
their first inspiration
on how to understand opera.

568
00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:47,652
Huh?

569
00:54:51,914 --> 00:54:55,533
In 1986, in China, I had just turned 30.

570
00:54:56,502 --> 00:54:59,461
Luciano was still married,

571
00:54:59,546 --> 00:55:03,506
and I knew that I had to make a break
from my relationship with Luciano.

572
00:55:06,094 --> 00:55:07,335
So I did make a break.

573
00:55:10,474 --> 00:55:13,433
It was a painful moment for me.
It was a painful moment for him.

574
00:55:16,355 --> 00:55:20,690
I did not speak to Luciano for years
after I went my own way.

575
00:55:24,112 --> 00:55:26,320
At that time, the late 1980s,

576
00:55:26,406 --> 00:55:30,741
Pavarotti is the single most recognizable
operatic figure of the last 50 years.

577
00:55:32,621 --> 00:55:36,114
But, over the course
of the next few years,

578
00:55:36,208 --> 00:55:39,326
Luciano wasn't focused
on the opera anymore.

579
00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:41,272
From my perspective,
it was a picture of somebody

580
00:55:41,296 --> 00:55:43,458
who was a little bewildered, I think.

581
00:55:44,299 --> 00:55:46,211
And had a big monkey on his back,

582
00:55:46,301 --> 00:55:48,588
in terms of a big career
and a lot of responsibilities

583
00:55:48,679 --> 00:55:51,171
and not a lot of clarity
about where he was going with it.

584
00:55:53,392 --> 00:55:55,805
Everything was really very difficult,

585
00:55:56,270 --> 00:56:00,765
but I still have to go on the stage
to act for the night for the public.

586
00:56:01,733 --> 00:56:06,228
I am putting the white makeup
of the clown on the face.

587
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:12,030
I watch myself in the mirror,
and I say, "It is the life.

588
00:56:12,953 --> 00:56:15,070
You have to go out.

589
00:56:15,873 --> 00:56:20,664
You have to laugh,
even if you have the death in your heart.

590
00:56:20,752 --> 00:56:24,041
You have to try to enjoy
the people like every night."

591
00:57:38,205 --> 00:57:40,447
How can you stay in front of an audience

592
00:57:40,540 --> 00:57:43,283
and say something
if you don't believe in it?

593
00:57:45,504 --> 00:57:49,919
There is no bluff in this profession.
This is not a poker game.

594
00:57:50,008 --> 00:57:51,624
It is a chess game.

595
00:57:52,594 --> 00:57:54,961
And if you lose,
you don't have any excuse.

596
00:58:10,529 --> 00:58:16,196
José was a very young tenor,
and the doctors say that he has leukemia.

597
00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:19,911
And he was one year out of the stage.

598
00:58:21,248 --> 00:58:24,116
José Carreras,
one of the world's most popular singers,

599
00:58:24,209 --> 00:58:27,919
spent ten months undergoing
intensive treatment in Barcelona

600
00:58:28,005 --> 00:58:29,962
and in a specialist clinic in Seattle.

601
00:58:30,841 --> 00:58:34,551
Luciano called me
in my hospital in Seattle.

602
00:58:34,636 --> 00:58:37,219
"Teacher..." He always
called me always "teacher."

603
00:58:37,305 --> 00:58:40,639
"Teacher, how are you doing?
Get well soon.

604
00:58:40,726 --> 00:58:42,467
I don't have competition otherwise."

605
00:58:44,604 --> 00:58:48,564
After that, I had the idea,
maybe we could do a concert

606
00:58:48,650 --> 00:58:51,734
that, uh, puts me back onstage.

607
00:58:56,199 --> 00:59:01,069
In those days, the three of us
used to live in the same building

608
00:59:01,163 --> 00:59:05,703
in Central Park South,
and we had a common friend.

609
00:59:06,084 --> 00:59:08,827
He came to Luciano and me and said,

610
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,663
"What would you feel of doing
a concert with JJosé?"

611
00:59:12,424 --> 00:59:16,464
The idea was that, since all three tenors
really love football

612
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:19,261
and the World Cup
was going on at the same time,

613
00:59:19,347 --> 00:59:23,466
to get them there at the eve
of the finals, they will all agree.

614
00:59:24,561 --> 00:59:27,349
July in Rome is the scene
of an historic concert.

615
00:59:27,439 --> 00:59:30,523
Three of the world's greatest tenors
on the same stage for the first time:

616
00:59:30,609 --> 00:59:32,976
Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo

617
00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:35,312
and the recently critically ill
José Carreras.

618
00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,067
I feel... It's almost...
The feeling is that, eh?

619
00:59:41,161 --> 00:59:42,161
Yeah.

620
00:59:42,245 --> 00:59:45,579
I thought they will have arguments
who will sing which aria.

621
00:59:45,665 --> 00:59:47,406
There's so much repertoire.

622
00:59:48,376 --> 00:59:51,039
So we all rehearsed it on the spot.

623
00:59:58,512 --> 01:00:02,426
One of us suggested,
"Why don't you do this one and I do that?"

624
01:00:02,516 --> 01:00:05,054
And there was no... no... no argument ever.

625
01:00:11,149 --> 01:00:14,938
So, we divide some of the numbers.

626
01:00:15,028 --> 01:00:18,521
So, to pick, you know,
between the saddest and so and so.

627
01:00:51,982 --> 01:00:54,645
I think a good way
to know a person

628
01:00:54,734 --> 01:00:56,566
is sharing the stage with him.

629
01:00:56,653 --> 01:00:59,942
You know what kind of determination,
you know what kind of fears

630
01:01:00,031 --> 01:01:03,365
he's bringing to every performance.

631
01:01:31,980 --> 01:01:34,222
Uh, the moment of being on the stage,

632
01:01:34,316 --> 01:01:36,103
there was the competition.

633
01:01:36,193 --> 01:01:39,186
It was okay, like,
"Anything you do, I can do better."

634
01:02:07,891 --> 01:02:11,760
That feeling was
in the spirit of the moment, you know?

635
01:02:12,229 --> 01:02:15,722
"Boy, what a phrase you did.
Now let me do this one."

636
01:02:35,543 --> 01:02:38,786
It was fantastic in the artistic side,

637
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:42,339
but in the personal side,
believe me, it was even better.

638
01:03:18,003 --> 01:03:21,246
We were going to leave Luciano
to sing "Nessun dorma"

639
01:03:21,339 --> 01:03:23,331
because it was his signature aria.

640
01:03:24,968 --> 01:03:28,052
But, uh, we end the program,

641
01:03:28,138 --> 01:03:31,427
and we don't have more music,
and we don't know what to do,

642
01:03:31,516 --> 01:03:37,228
and I say to Luciano, "Why we don't do
the 'Nessun dorma' the three together?"

643
01:03:38,064 --> 01:03:40,272
And we did this version,

644
01:03:40,358 --> 01:03:43,226
which is something
that was, uh, very special.

645
01:05:46,693 --> 01:05:50,312
It's kind of hard
to overstate what an impact that had.

646
01:05:50,405 --> 01:05:52,317
It was like a tidal wave.

647
01:06:01,082 --> 01:06:04,325
The Three Tenors transformed three guys
into the biggest band in the world.

648
01:06:09,340 --> 01:06:10,860
All of a sudden, classical departments

649
01:06:10,884 --> 01:06:13,046
were the hottest departments
in the record business.

650
01:06:19,684 --> 01:06:22,768
Rudas took on the Three Tenors,
you know, worldwide.

651
01:06:22,854 --> 01:06:24,345
Also, things catapulted after that.

652
01:06:29,110 --> 01:06:31,978
By this point,
Breslin was already sidelined.

653
01:06:32,071 --> 01:06:34,779
Rudas was the Svengali behind all of it.

654
01:06:35,992 --> 01:06:40,487
Pavarotti became the global rock star.

655
01:06:40,580 --> 01:06:43,163
Cut above anybody else.

656
01:06:49,547 --> 01:06:52,836
There were a number of times
when he was difficult.

657
01:06:52,926 --> 01:06:55,134
He had his moments, kicking and screaming,

658
01:06:55,220 --> 01:06:57,031
"I don't want to perform,"
and all the rest of it.

659
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:00,493
Please, please, please, please, please.

660
01:07:00,517 --> 01:07:02,161
Just make my part.

661
01:07:02,185 --> 01:07:03,185
Okay.

662
01:07:16,491 --> 01:07:20,485
We'd had a very infamous
kind of hurricane in London,

663
01:07:20,578 --> 01:07:22,570
where a lot of trees were blown down.

664
01:07:22,664 --> 01:07:25,748
I went to see the Royal Parks Authority

665
01:07:25,833 --> 01:07:29,543
and said, "We would love to do
a concert with Pavarotti."

666
01:07:30,129 --> 01:07:33,293
And I suggested
that we raise a sum of money

667
01:07:33,383 --> 01:07:36,797
towards planting trees to replace
the trees that have been knocked down,

668
01:07:36,886 --> 01:07:38,405
which, of course, went down brilliantly.

669
01:07:38,429 --> 01:07:39,429
They loved it.

670
01:07:39,514 --> 01:07:42,348
Luciano Pavarotti,
seen here planting a tree

671
01:07:42,433 --> 01:07:45,141
for the Prince of Wales'
Royal Parks Tree Appeal.

672
01:07:45,770 --> 01:07:48,183
This evening,
the Prince and Princess Diana

673
01:07:48,273 --> 01:07:51,766
will join an estimated 250,000 people

674
01:07:51,859 --> 01:07:56,229
to celebrate the 30th anniversary
of Pavarotti's professional debut.

675
01:07:56,322 --> 01:07:59,941
A lot of the Royal Family came.
Most of the cabinet came.

676
01:08:00,034 --> 01:08:02,367
So it was a pretty star-studded event.

677
01:08:04,622 --> 01:08:08,616
The day of the concert,
I open the window, and it's raining.

678
01:08:08,710 --> 01:08:12,829
And I say to my agent, "Let's go home,"
because nobody's going to come.

679
01:08:16,175 --> 01:08:20,260
It was like somebody was throwing
buckets of water just down from the sky,

680
01:08:20,346 --> 01:08:21,928
and it just never stopped.

681
01:08:23,266 --> 01:08:24,493
Well, we are in England,

682
01:08:24,517 --> 01:08:26,850
so, of course,
it was umbrellas everywhere.

683
01:08:30,023 --> 01:08:33,391
The maestro got to the second aria.

684
01:08:33,484 --> 01:08:36,318
People were holding up their umbrellas.
People behind couldn't see.

685
01:08:36,404 --> 01:08:39,397
They were shouting,
and there was this noise going on.

686
01:08:39,490 --> 01:08:44,702
I literally rushed onstage,
grabbed the microphone, and I just said...

687
01:08:53,463 --> 01:08:57,582
And the first person to jump up
was Princess Diana,

688
01:08:57,675 --> 01:09:00,167
who had a guy behind
standing with an umbrella.

689
01:09:00,261 --> 01:09:01,572
She said, "Take the umbrella down."

690
01:09:01,596 --> 01:09:04,714
And there was this ripple effect
all the way back through the audience.

691
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,434
Everybody put their umbrellas down,
and the concert carried on.

692
01:09:10,063 --> 01:09:12,225
The next aria...

693
01:09:12,315 --> 01:09:15,979
the next aria is from the same opera
that I have sung now, Manon.

694
01:09:17,153 --> 01:09:22,148
The title of the aria
is "Donna non vidi mai."

695
01:09:23,368 --> 01:09:25,951
This mean, "I have never seen
a woman like that."

696
01:09:26,537 --> 01:09:28,745
And with your permission,

697
01:09:29,624 --> 01:09:31,536
I would like to dedicate to Lady Diana.

698
01:10:19,799 --> 01:10:23,042
It was something magical,
that connection between the two of them.

699
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,586
Like it was out of a fairy tale.

700
01:10:54,292 --> 01:10:56,534
I brought Princess Diana backstage.

701
01:10:57,879 --> 01:11:01,043
They were kind of giggling,
the pair of them. It was really funny.

702
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:05,547
The Royal Family, they may attend events,

703
01:11:05,636 --> 01:11:07,798
but they don't normally
come to dinners afterwards.

704
01:11:08,473 --> 01:11:11,716
But I invited Princess Diana
to come along,

705
01:11:11,809 --> 01:11:14,472
and much to everybody's amazement,
she said yes.

706
01:11:21,110 --> 01:11:24,103
At dinner, the maestro
sat next to Princess Diana,

707
01:11:24,197 --> 01:11:25,654
and they just hit it off famously.

708
01:11:31,245 --> 01:11:33,532
They became really, really good friends,

709
01:11:33,623 --> 01:11:35,785
and they both had
a wicked sense of humor as well.

710
01:11:36,876 --> 01:11:38,395
They agreed to do things together,

711
01:11:38,419 --> 01:11:41,503
and subsequently, we did another concert
for the Red Cross.

712
01:11:44,550 --> 01:11:46,862
All of a sudden,
it was less about him as a singer

713
01:11:46,886 --> 01:11:49,003
and more about charity.

714
01:11:52,558 --> 01:11:55,801
His focus changed.
He was always generous,

715
01:11:55,895 --> 01:11:59,730
but he became completely obsessed
by what he could do for others.

716
01:12:04,529 --> 01:12:06,507
He wouldn't just put money into a charity.

717
01:12:06,531 --> 01:12:09,774
He wanted to know that it was building
a school or a health center.

718
01:12:10,701 --> 01:12:12,909
Always around children in the communities.

719
01:12:14,163 --> 01:12:16,325
That goodness resonated out of him.

720
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:18,750
And it's almost like,

721
01:12:18,835 --> 01:12:21,794
"I've reached a stage in my career
where this is what I'm able to do now."

722
01:12:25,299 --> 01:12:29,760
The tears of Luciano Pavarotti.
An emotion never felt onstage before.

723
01:12:30,096 --> 01:12:32,088
But the place where he performed
without a script,

724
01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:36,016
libretto or his big tenor voice
today is an unusual stage:

725
01:12:36,102 --> 01:12:38,344
the center for bone marrow transplant
at Pesaro.

726
01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:43,057
Pavarotti is surrounded by
many children from all over the world,

727
01:12:43,150 --> 01:12:45,563
and here they've ended
a long journey towards hope.

728
01:12:45,653 --> 01:12:47,653
Here they've managed to defeat
a rare blood disease

729
01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:50,235
with a transplant
that has made the center of Pesaro

730
01:12:50,324 --> 01:12:51,906
one of the most qualified in the world.

731
01:12:52,618 --> 01:12:54,701
Pavarotti's visit coincides
with the delivery

732
01:12:54,787 --> 01:12:57,495
of a check for $300,000 to the foundation.

733
01:12:58,916 --> 01:13:02,159
This is the first act of a project
that will be followed by a charity concert

734
01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:04,586
given for Pavarotti International
in Modena.

735
01:13:06,632 --> 01:13:10,251
One afternoon, I get a phone call
from Rudas, and he said,

736
01:13:10,344 --> 01:13:14,008
"So, Pavarotti's gonna have
all you rock people playing with him

737
01:13:14,098 --> 01:13:16,761
in his farm in Modena,
and you're going to pay for it."

738
01:13:16,851 --> 01:13:19,468
Plunk. Hello?

739
01:13:22,481 --> 01:13:25,724
Rudas called back and said,
"He wants to do a concert.

740
01:13:25,818 --> 01:13:29,437
Not my idea. It's your world.
You deal with it. You pay for it."

741
01:13:29,530 --> 01:13:31,522
I said, "What are you talking about?"

742
01:13:35,578 --> 01:13:38,446
We make a charity
with pop singer in Modena.

743
01:13:38,539 --> 01:13:42,203
I always found myself
very happy to do this thing.

744
01:13:43,669 --> 01:13:46,878
He took ownership
of this one charity concert every year.

745
01:14:01,103 --> 01:14:04,471
He would turn up on the day,
not quite sure who was gonna be there.

746
01:14:05,441 --> 01:14:07,169
And I think
they sometimes didn't know

747
01:14:07,193 --> 01:14:10,357
who was flying in the night before,
were there any rehearsals.

748
01:14:10,905 --> 01:14:12,487
And it would never start on time.

749
01:14:13,532 --> 01:14:15,273
But it always had
something magic about it.

750
01:14:16,202 --> 01:14:18,239
For me, it was very difficult

751
01:14:18,329 --> 01:14:22,824
'cause I can't say pop
and opera singer in the same time.

752
01:14:22,917 --> 01:14:24,408
No. Never.

753
01:14:48,734 --> 01:14:52,273
Luciano wasn't focused
on the opera anymore at that point,

754
01:14:52,363 --> 01:14:54,049
and there were critics around
who were shocked,

755
01:14:54,073 --> 01:14:56,156
and the opera world was kind of left cold.

756
01:14:57,743 --> 01:15:00,451
I received some criticism
from people then.

757
01:15:00,538 --> 01:15:02,245
Probably they don't understand,

758
01:15:02,331 --> 01:15:06,120
or probably they want to put
a dagger in my body.

759
01:15:06,210 --> 01:15:10,045
And, uh, I'm telling you
with all my power, I don't care.

760
01:15:11,716 --> 01:15:14,584
Pavarotti & Friends concerts
every year became,

761
01:15:14,677 --> 01:15:16,669
you know, far more important in his life.

762
01:15:16,971 --> 01:15:20,135
And after the first time,
Nicoletta came on the scene.

763
01:15:26,647 --> 01:15:28,730
The first day we met
actually was here,

764
01:15:28,816 --> 01:15:30,102
practically where we are now.

765
01:15:31,944 --> 01:15:36,314
I was very young. I was, like, 23,
and I was studying natural science.

766
01:15:37,366 --> 01:15:40,450
And, uh, like most of the students,
during summertime,

767
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:43,279
I was always looking
for little jobs around, you know,

768
01:15:43,372 --> 01:15:44,988
to try to pay for school.

769
01:15:48,711 --> 01:15:50,355
Nicoletta worked at the horse show,

770
01:15:50,379 --> 01:15:52,541
and she knew nothing about opera.

771
01:15:54,717 --> 01:15:56,278
I don't think
she particularly liked opera,

772
01:15:56,302 --> 01:15:59,466
but the chemistry between them was magical
right from the beginning.

773
01:16:02,224 --> 01:16:03,785
Luciano, since the beginning,

774
01:16:03,809 --> 01:16:07,723
told me that the previous relation
was finished, since long time.

775
01:16:09,273 --> 01:16:10,684
So I never felt guilty, you know?

776
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,643
I never felt it to be
the reason of something.

777
01:16:16,447 --> 01:16:20,031
At the beginning, we told everybody
that I was the assistant.

778
01:16:20,618 --> 01:16:22,780
But, um, that was not true.

779
01:16:23,662 --> 01:16:28,782
It's not easy to say I have a relation
with a man 34 years older.

780
01:16:30,169 --> 01:16:31,876
The attack was strong.

781
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:36,214
But Luciano was my great defender,
you know?

782
01:16:36,926 --> 01:16:39,043
He was always protecting me.

783
01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:43,846
Not much after we were together,

784
01:16:43,933 --> 01:16:46,767
I found out to be sick
of multiple sclerosis.

785
01:16:51,148 --> 01:16:54,767
And that was, uh,
a very difficult moment for us.

786
01:16:55,861 --> 01:16:56,861
I realized, I said,

787
01:16:56,946 --> 01:16:59,689
"You know, I don't think
I can be with you anymore."

788
01:17:02,284 --> 01:17:05,072
And he was incredible,
because he said something

789
01:17:05,162 --> 01:17:07,620
that really brought me tears even now.

790
01:17:07,706 --> 01:17:08,742
He said, "You know...

791
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:13,327
until now, I loved you,
but from now on, I adore you."

792
01:17:20,594 --> 01:17:23,553
"We will be together,
and we will fight the sickness."

793
01:17:28,102 --> 01:17:31,470
And I think this is what love does,
you know... makes you feel better.

794
01:18:33,918 --> 01:18:37,582
He said, "You know,
you have to watch your sickness now,

795
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:39,207
like an opportunity.

796
01:18:39,298 --> 01:18:41,631
Not like something bad
that happened to you."

797
01:18:42,009 --> 01:18:45,377
And I think he got his vision of life
when he was very young.

798
01:18:47,014 --> 01:18:49,301
After the war, when he was 12 years old,

799
01:18:49,391 --> 01:18:52,429
he had a form of tetanus
from playing outside.

800
01:18:53,103 --> 01:18:54,514
And he almost died.

801
01:18:57,900 --> 01:19:00,358
I was in coma for two weeks.

802
01:19:00,444 --> 01:19:04,108
And I always hear the people
that they come to visit me,

803
01:19:04,198 --> 01:19:06,030
and they say, "Well, the priest arrived."

804
01:19:07,743 --> 01:19:11,657
It was the reason
that I am an optimistic person.

805
01:19:12,289 --> 01:19:15,453
Because, when you come out
from something like that,

806
01:19:15,542 --> 01:19:18,455
you are definitely a survivor.

807
01:19:20,673 --> 01:19:27,295
Somebody would just say
to himself in this dramatic moment,

808
01:19:27,388 --> 01:19:31,177
if I just say,
"I'm going to make it. I will enjoy life.

809
01:19:31,267 --> 01:19:36,262
I will enjoy the sun, the sky,
the tree, everything."

810
01:19:38,983 --> 01:19:41,441
Luciano said,
"Now, when you see a sunset,

811
01:19:41,527 --> 01:19:43,814
you really feel the sunset inside of you."

812
01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:50,112
And he was right,

813
01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:53,991
because even the perception
of the important things in life change.

814
01:19:54,623 --> 01:19:57,161
You stop making drama for little things,
you know?

815
01:19:57,251 --> 01:19:59,709
Because, you know that the real drama
is something else.

816
01:19:59,795 --> 01:20:03,914
You understand that you need to feel it
and to live it, you know?

817
01:20:13,559 --> 01:20:15,642
Nicoletta is an extremely bright person,

818
01:20:15,728 --> 01:20:17,469
and she just got on with it.

819
01:20:17,563 --> 01:20:20,977
And she became very, very instrumental
in Pavarotti & Friends.

820
01:20:23,944 --> 01:20:26,152
After the second concert,

821
01:20:26,238 --> 01:20:29,151
Luciano invited a lot of musicians
from the pop world.

822
01:20:30,659 --> 01:20:33,117
But I want to make it bigger, you know?

823
01:20:33,203 --> 01:20:36,537
So I started from the band
I like most in my life.

824
01:20:46,008 --> 01:20:49,627
Luciano started to call my home in Dublin.

825
01:20:51,472 --> 01:20:53,680
Hello? I'm Mr. Pavarotti.

826
01:20:55,434 --> 01:20:56,891
You have Luciano Pavarotti,

827
01:20:56,977 --> 01:20:59,720
the greatest singer on Earth,
maybe who ever existed,

828
01:20:59,813 --> 01:21:03,102
calling you at home
to try and get us to write a song.

829
01:21:04,318 --> 01:21:06,355
We called Bono for ages.

830
01:21:06,445 --> 01:21:11,031
He became friend of the housekeeper
of Bono because she was Italian.

831
01:21:12,534 --> 01:21:15,151
Our housekeeper, Theresa,
he just got to know her.

832
01:21:16,455 --> 01:21:18,287
He'd ring and say, "Is God at home?"

833
01:21:18,916 --> 01:21:21,329
The technique was one of humility,

834
01:21:21,877 --> 01:21:24,745
which is, of course,
a very mischievous trick.

835
01:21:26,757 --> 01:21:31,001
He had turned our housekeeper
into his consigliere.

836
01:21:32,554 --> 01:21:34,887
Because, at breakfast, dinner and tea,
she was like,

837
01:21:34,973 --> 01:21:36,680
"Have you got that song done for him?"

838
01:21:36,767 --> 01:21:39,976
Bono said, "I... I don't have a song.
I have no idea."

839
01:21:40,062 --> 01:21:43,555
And Luciano said, "God will inspire you."

840
01:21:46,777 --> 01:21:48,689
I remember it was Easter coming up,

841
01:21:48,779 --> 01:21:52,147
and he said,
"Ah, God will sing him something."

842
01:21:53,033 --> 01:21:54,990
And I woke up with the melody.

843
01:21:55,577 --> 01:21:58,490
I mean, it really did happen like that.

844
01:21:59,832 --> 01:22:02,825
My father put a love of opera in me,
for sure,

845
01:22:02,918 --> 01:22:07,754
so I just imagined it was my father, Bob,

846
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,082
singing in the shower.

847
01:22:11,009 --> 01:22:15,174
And then Edge came in,
his father being a tenor also.

848
01:22:15,889 --> 01:22:18,256
And he said, "Yeah,
but he'll want a higher note to hit."

849
01:22:19,226 --> 01:22:22,390
After we wrote the song
and recorded the song,

850
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:26,439
we thought it would be the end of this,
you know, just to give him the song.

851
01:22:26,984 --> 01:22:28,976
Oh, no, just the start.

852
01:22:30,696 --> 01:22:33,905
He then started to petition
our housekeeper, Theresa,

853
01:22:33,991 --> 01:22:37,029
"We need them in Modena.
They now have to play the song."

854
01:22:37,119 --> 01:22:39,236
And I explained,
we definitely couldn't play Modena.

855
01:22:39,329 --> 01:22:41,729
The band couldn't do it.
We were in the studio at the moment.

856
01:22:42,458 --> 01:22:44,825
And before I could say no,

857
01:22:44,918 --> 01:22:47,285
he said, "Well, look,
I'm on my way to the studio."

858
01:22:48,380 --> 01:22:52,340
And I said, "No, we're in Dublin."
He says, "I am in Dublin."

859
01:22:58,682 --> 01:23:00,264
So, there's a knock at the door.

860
01:23:00,350 --> 01:23:04,936
He arrives with a fucking... camera crew

861
01:23:05,731 --> 01:23:09,145
to say, "Now you can tell the people
that you're coming."

862
01:23:10,194 --> 01:23:13,028
How could you say no to that?
You couldn't. He knew that.

863
01:23:13,572 --> 01:23:15,655
Welcome to Dublin.

864
01:23:15,741 --> 01:23:17,903
- Thank you.
- And this is Brian.

865
01:23:17,993 --> 01:23:19,053
- Brian Eno.
- Hello, Brian.

866
01:23:19,077 --> 01:23:20,263
- Hi. We met.
- Ciao.

867
01:23:20,287 --> 01:23:22,199
We met already.

868
01:23:22,289 --> 01:23:25,453
Is it true that,
uh, this song about Sarajevo?

869
01:23:26,627 --> 01:23:33,215
Uh, it's true that, uh, the maestro here
has been haunting me and, uh...

870
01:23:33,300 --> 01:23:35,758
...he has, like a spirit,

871
01:23:35,844 --> 01:23:40,430
uh, been in this building,
uh, long before he arrived here in person.

872
01:23:40,516 --> 01:23:45,181
And, uh, we made a piece
called "Miss Sarajevo."

873
01:23:45,270 --> 01:23:49,935
We hope to perf...
We will perform this song in Modena on...

874
01:23:50,025 --> 01:23:52,225
- What is the date?
- The 12th of September.

875
01:23:55,739 --> 01:24:00,609
Luciano is
one of the great emotional arm wrestlers.

876
01:24:01,203 --> 01:24:03,490
And he will break your fucking arm.

877
01:24:03,580 --> 01:24:07,199
And so we ended up in Modena, of course.

878
01:24:25,310 --> 01:24:30,681
♪ Is there a time
For keeping your distance? ♪

879
01:24:30,774 --> 01:24:34,142
♪ A time to turn your eyes away? ♪

880
01:24:35,028 --> 01:24:40,695
♪ Is there a time
For keeping your head down? ♪

881
01:24:40,784 --> 01:24:44,152
♪ For getting on with your day? ♪

882
01:24:44,746 --> 01:24:48,035
♪ Here she comes ♪

883
01:24:48,125 --> 01:24:50,788
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

884
01:24:51,461 --> 01:24:54,044
♪ Heads turn around ♪

885
01:24:54,548 --> 01:24:57,416
♪ Here she comes ♪

886
01:24:59,970 --> 01:25:02,804
♪ To take her crown... ♪

887
01:25:02,889 --> 01:25:06,724
I remembered myself
when we were bombed here in the last war.

888
01:25:11,690 --> 01:25:15,684
The gun machine.

889
01:25:15,777 --> 01:25:18,394
The war, the sound of all the night long.

890
01:25:21,158 --> 01:25:22,899
To see hanged people.

891
01:25:22,993 --> 01:25:24,512
- You saw that?
- Oh, yes.

892
01:25:24,536 --> 01:25:27,654
I don't want to say every day, but almost.

893
01:25:28,498 --> 01:25:31,161
It was quite something for a kid.

894
01:25:33,086 --> 01:25:38,377
♪ Dici che come il fiume ♪

895
01:25:38,759 --> 01:25:42,799
♪ Come il fiume ♪

896
01:25:42,888 --> 01:25:48,134
♪ L'amore ♪

897
01:25:48,226 --> 01:25:50,684
♪ Giungerà ♪

898
01:25:52,731 --> 01:25:59,695
♪ L'amore ♪

899
01:26:04,785 --> 01:26:09,280
♪ E non so più pregare... ♪

900
01:26:09,373 --> 01:26:14,960
He was crushed by injustice,
and the war deeply offended him.

901
01:26:15,712 --> 01:26:21,925
He just had this sense in him
that he better use this other currency

902
01:26:22,844 --> 01:26:24,124
and try to do something with it.

903
01:26:28,809 --> 01:26:31,768
He wanted to go to Bosnia
to help the children,

904
01:26:32,521 --> 01:26:35,559
to give them a hope for the future,

905
01:26:35,649 --> 01:26:38,062
because Luciano was one of those children.

906
01:26:38,151 --> 01:26:39,858
♪ Is there a time... ♪

907
01:26:39,945 --> 01:26:42,062
We tried to make something,

908
01:26:42,155 --> 01:26:46,069
a kind of music conservatory
where the kid go there to sing.

909
01:26:46,159 --> 01:26:47,616
It was the most important thing.

910
01:26:48,078 --> 01:26:51,412
This is for Bosnia.
It's for the kid of Bosnia.

911
01:26:58,588 --> 01:26:59,588
Grazie.

912
01:27:09,307 --> 01:27:14,803
Bono! Bono! Bono! Bono!
Bono! Bono! Bono!

913
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:23,353
We went to Barbados
every year, you know, for one month.

914
01:27:23,447 --> 01:27:24,779
That was our rest.

915
01:27:26,324 --> 01:27:29,408
That moment was really a bad moment

916
01:27:29,494 --> 01:27:32,532
because, at that point,
the relationship became public.

917
01:27:39,337 --> 01:27:42,421
In every Italian opera,
there's the scena madre.

918
01:27:42,507 --> 01:27:46,501
That's the dramatic scene where the hero
comes face-to-face with potential tragedy.

919
01:27:47,095 --> 01:27:50,429
These days in Modena, almost everyone
has something to say

920
01:27:50,515 --> 01:27:53,929
about Pavarotti's scena madre
and how it will play itself out.

921
01:27:54,019 --> 01:27:56,352
It's disgusting.

922
01:27:56,438 --> 01:27:59,681
At the age of 60,
he shouldn't do such things.

923
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,357
Well, he was the most famous Catholic

924
01:28:02,444 --> 01:28:05,152
in the most Catholic of all countries.

925
01:28:05,238 --> 01:28:07,400
Divorce at that time was unthinkable.

926
01:28:08,033 --> 01:28:11,492
So they would devote
quite a lot of the paper to it.

927
01:28:12,621 --> 01:28:15,455
In Italy, this story played out for years.

928
01:28:16,208 --> 01:28:17,685
These days,

929
01:28:17,709 --> 01:28:19,075
there are no real marriages.

930
01:28:19,169 --> 01:28:21,081
Men have four or five wives.

931
01:28:21,171 --> 01:28:22,412
There is no respect.

932
01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:28,839
So, at the beginning, I spent,
unfortunately, my life trying to show

933
01:28:28,929 --> 01:28:30,170
that it wasn't like that.

934
01:28:30,263 --> 01:28:34,132
I should've said, "You are wasting time."
They will still think like that.

935
01:28:54,287 --> 01:28:56,825
And while Mrs. Pavarotti is in seclusion,

936
01:28:56,915 --> 01:29:01,455
her lawyer says all the family hopes
is that Luciano tires of it all.

937
01:30:07,360 --> 01:30:10,819
It was bad because,
uh, I was suffering myself.

938
01:30:13,408 --> 01:30:15,570
But my wife suffered more.

939
01:30:20,081 --> 01:30:22,118
But they understand that I fell in love.

940
01:30:25,587 --> 01:30:28,295
He caught it in the neck
for Pavarotti the pop star.

941
01:30:28,381 --> 01:30:32,466
And now falling in love...
...he caught it in the neck again.

942
01:30:32,552 --> 01:30:35,010
But he was owning up to his humanity.

943
01:30:35,889 --> 01:30:40,600
The grandiosity of the voice
completely disguised

944
01:30:40,685 --> 01:30:43,473
the fact that he could be
extremely humble.

945
01:30:44,022 --> 01:30:45,979
And that was a shock to me.

946
01:30:46,483 --> 01:30:48,941
And we ended up becoming great friends.

947
01:30:50,028 --> 01:30:54,147
And then she got pregnant.
I thought, "Wow."

948
01:30:57,452 --> 01:30:59,535
The incredible thing,
that they were twins.

949
01:30:59,621 --> 01:31:02,785
So we were so happy, you know?
We had double the happiness.

950
01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:07,709
We had a very complicated, uh, pregnancy.

951
01:31:07,796 --> 01:31:11,039
There was, um,
kind of a tumor called molar.

952
01:31:11,132 --> 01:31:15,376
The doctor said, um, in America,
said that I should give up.

953
01:31:17,347 --> 01:31:19,134
No way.

954
01:31:19,224 --> 01:31:22,763
So I found a doctor in Italy, said,
"You know, there are just five, um,

955
01:31:22,852 --> 01:31:24,434
cases like that in the world,

956
01:31:24,521 --> 01:31:27,229
and they were all... ended badly."

957
01:31:28,316 --> 01:31:30,524
So I said,
"I want to try anyway," you know?

958
01:31:31,736 --> 01:31:33,318
Eventually, they had twins,

959
01:31:33,989 --> 01:31:36,231
obviously, and unfortunately,
what happened...

960
01:31:38,243 --> 01:31:40,986
Riccardo was lost. He was stillborn.

961
01:31:42,998 --> 01:31:44,705
We lost my son.

962
01:31:45,583 --> 01:31:47,040
Very sad day.

963
01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:51,579
But we have Alice, so still a blessing.

964
01:31:52,841 --> 01:31:57,677
All the love that we should have
for both of them is on her.

965
01:31:59,180 --> 01:32:02,264
Obviously, it was incredibly difficult
at first. And she was tiny.

966
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:13,984
Right from the start of her life,
you know, she was hanging on.

967
01:32:14,070 --> 01:32:15,070
She was strong.

968
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:51,226
I remember his wedding.

969
01:32:51,316 --> 01:32:55,185
These people from the Emilia region,
they know how to enjoy life.

970
01:32:55,862 --> 01:32:59,355
The Vatican forbade him
from marrying Nicoletta in a church,

971
01:32:59,449 --> 01:33:02,066
so, of course, they got married
in the opera house.

972
01:33:03,036 --> 01:33:04,743
And Alice became his angel.

973
01:33:14,297 --> 01:33:15,959
- Ah!
- Ah.

974
01:33:18,510 --> 01:33:20,923
I was filming every little detail.

975
01:33:21,012 --> 01:33:22,878
Because she was such a joy for us,

976
01:33:22,972 --> 01:33:25,885
you know, and that we wait
for Alice for such a long time.

977
01:33:39,239 --> 01:33:41,356
Some month before we had Alice,

978
01:33:41,449 --> 01:33:44,487
Luciano became grandfather
for the first time.

979
01:33:45,912 --> 01:33:49,030
For him, it was very important
to have the family together.

980
01:34:06,015 --> 01:34:09,179
Everything that happened
could not be an ending, you know?

981
01:34:10,061 --> 01:34:11,893
We had to start living again.

982
01:34:39,299 --> 01:34:42,133
I learned to love people.

983
01:34:42,218 --> 01:34:44,961
But you cannot, you know, say "learned,"
because you are born

984
01:34:45,054 --> 01:34:46,866
- with this kind of thing inside you.
- Right.

985
01:34:46,890 --> 01:34:50,429
But I keep going on
trusting blindly everybody,

986
01:34:50,518 --> 01:34:52,288
- and, uh, most...
- So, even today?

987
01:34:52,312 --> 01:34:54,165
- Even today. Why?
- You're a trusting person?

988
01:34:54,189 --> 01:34:56,109
- Are you joking? I will...
- Well...

989
01:34:56,191 --> 01:34:58,671
I will...
I will not exist if I don't trust people.

990
01:35:10,455 --> 01:35:12,572
I remember getting
a call from Nicoletta,

991
01:35:12,665 --> 01:35:15,078
and I went over to see Pavarotti,
and he said,

992
01:35:15,168 --> 01:35:18,286
"I want to do 40 concerts or thereabouts
around the world.

993
01:35:18,630 --> 01:35:22,465
Not in a rush.
And I want to open a school.

994
01:35:23,426 --> 01:35:25,713
And go back to the opera house."

995
01:35:27,430 --> 01:35:30,013
He said, "You've been with me
for a long time,

996
01:35:30,099 --> 01:35:31,715
and you never let me down.

997
01:35:31,809 --> 01:35:33,675
And you're not gonna
let me down now, are you?"

998
01:35:33,770 --> 01:35:36,558
And I said, "No. It's gonna be fantastic."

999
01:35:41,402 --> 01:35:45,897
Pavarotti, at his best,
he was just a gorgeous, glorious singer.

1000
01:35:45,990 --> 01:35:49,825
He rode on that for a long time,
past his heyday and past his best,

1001
01:35:49,911 --> 01:35:52,073
into roles that weren't so great for him.

1002
01:35:53,081 --> 01:35:56,074
You know, the voice, it was interesting,
but, you know, it just...

1003
01:35:56,167 --> 01:35:58,250
his voice doesn't ping like it used to.

1004
01:35:58,336 --> 01:36:00,953
He made each of his high C's.
He was straining a bit.

1005
01:36:01,464 --> 01:36:02,750
He was trying very hard,

1006
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:06,208
but it didn't come out the way he and I
would have liked it to come out.

1007
01:36:07,595 --> 01:36:10,963
I remember somebody saying to me,
"Oh, no, I saw him in the great days.

1008
01:36:11,057 --> 01:36:12,548
It was a whole different thing."

1009
01:36:13,059 --> 01:36:16,143
I just think,
"You don't know anything, do you?

1010
01:36:16,229 --> 01:36:17,789
You don't know anything about singing."

1011
01:36:18,147 --> 01:36:24,735
The reason why he is great
is because he has lived those songs,

1012
01:36:24,821 --> 01:36:29,191
and you can hear them
in every crack of his voice.

1013
01:36:31,077 --> 01:36:34,491
You have to break your heart again
and again and again to sing those songs.

1014
01:36:35,206 --> 01:36:38,620
It really pisses me off
when people miss that.

1015
01:36:40,003 --> 01:36:43,872
Because these are well-known songs.
What can you bring to them?

1016
01:36:44,841 --> 01:36:48,209
The only thing you can bring to them
is your entire life.

1017
01:36:49,012 --> 01:36:52,676
A life that's been lived,
the mistakes you've made,

1018
01:36:52,765 --> 01:36:53,972
the hopes, the desires...

1019
01:36:54,058 --> 01:36:59,929
that's... all that stuff
comes crashing into the performance.

1020
01:37:29,302 --> 01:37:32,261
I was conducting Tosca,

1021
01:37:32,347 --> 01:37:36,887
and I will never forget
Luciano singing as the noble character.

1022
01:37:44,233 --> 01:37:45,895
At the end of the opera,

1023
01:37:45,985 --> 01:37:49,478
Cavaradossi,
he knows then he's going to die.

1024
01:38:57,849 --> 01:39:03,186
Bravo!

1025
01:39:22,039 --> 01:39:24,827
Bravo!

1026
01:39:41,851 --> 01:39:44,639
Opera star Luciano Pavarotti
is in the hospital.

1027
01:39:45,354 --> 01:39:48,768
Last year, doctors discovered
he had pancreatic cancer.

1028
01:39:48,858 --> 01:39:51,475
He underwent surgery for it in New York.

1029
01:39:51,569 --> 01:39:54,061
His spokesman says
Pavarotti was taken to the hospital

1030
01:39:54,155 --> 01:39:56,488
in his hometown in Italy two days ago

1031
01:39:56,574 --> 01:39:58,861
but isn't saying anything
about his condition.

1032
01:39:58,951 --> 01:40:00,533
Pavarotti is 71.

1033
01:40:06,459 --> 01:40:08,826
We didn't know,
but he was already sick.

1034
01:40:09,879 --> 01:40:13,668
And I kept crying,
and he was trying really to...

1035
01:40:13,758 --> 01:40:16,045
to tell me that everything will be okay.

1036
01:40:18,012 --> 01:40:22,382
Because his frame of mind was like that...
believing... believing in life.

1037
01:41:06,352 --> 01:41:09,186
Giuliana called me
and said her father was in the hospital.

1038
01:41:09,272 --> 01:41:11,685
And then I got on a plane,
and I went to see him.

1039
01:41:12,817 --> 01:41:17,608
The thing that really saddened me
about Luciano was he felt cheated.

1040
01:41:18,906 --> 01:41:20,738
He was madder than hell.

1041
01:41:21,492 --> 01:41:23,324
He'd just married Nicoletta,

1042
01:41:23,411 --> 01:41:26,495
and he was leaving her
and their daughter alone.

1043
01:41:30,042 --> 01:41:32,500
Our daughter was very young.
Was four and half.

1044
01:41:32,587 --> 01:41:36,797
And I always ask him,
"Why don't you write something to Alice?"

1045
01:41:37,675 --> 01:41:41,965
And he said, "No,
because if I write something,

1046
01:41:42,054 --> 01:41:43,614
then she will stay with this for her...

1047
01:41:43,639 --> 01:41:46,803
all her life, and she will not
be able to speak to me.

1048
01:41:47,143 --> 01:41:50,352
It's not right. She has to be free.
Completely free, you know?

1049
01:41:50,438 --> 01:41:52,976
I don't want to impose anything, you know?
She must be free."

1050
01:46:04,650 --> 01:46:09,236
♪ Nessun dorma ♪

1051
01:46:10,114 --> 01:46:14,449
♪ Nessun dorma ♪

1052
01:46:17,496 --> 01:46:22,662
♪ Tu pure, o Principessa ♪

1053
01:46:22,751 --> 01:46:27,371
♪ Nella tua fredda stanza ♪

1054
01:46:27,464 --> 01:46:32,050
♪ Guardi le stelle ♪

1055
01:46:32,136 --> 01:46:37,006
♪ Che tremano d'amore ♪

1056
01:46:38,058 --> 01:46:43,725
♪ E di speranza ♪

1057
01:46:45,316 --> 01:46:50,311
♪ Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me ♪

1058
01:46:50,404 --> 01:46:54,148
♪ Il nome mio nessun saprà ♪

1059
01:46:54,241 --> 01:46:55,698
♪ No, no ♪

1060
01:46:55,784 --> 01:47:00,700
♪ Sulla tua bocca ♪

1061
01:47:00,789 --> 01:47:04,874
♪ Lo dirò ♪

1062
01:47:05,252 --> 01:47:11,089
♪ Quando la luce ♪

1063
01:47:11,175 --> 01:47:18,093
♪ Splenderà ♪

1064
01:47:22,770 --> 01:47:27,640
♪ Ed il mio bacio scioglierà ♪

1065
01:47:27,733 --> 01:47:31,727
♪ Il silenzio ♪

1066
01:47:32,279 --> 01:47:38,446
♪ Che ti fa mia ♪

1067
01:47:51,256 --> 01:47:55,170
♪ Dilegua, o notte ♪

1068
01:47:55,260 --> 01:47:59,971
♪ Tramontate, stelle ♪

1069
01:48:00,349 --> 01:48:02,341
♪ Tramontate ♪

1070
01:48:02,434 --> 01:48:04,471
♪ Stelle ♪

1071
01:48:04,770 --> 01:48:10,607
♪ All'alba vincerò ♪

1072
01:48:11,402 --> 01:48:14,395
♪ Vincerò ♪

1073
01:48:15,239 --> 01:48:20,735
♪ Vincerò ♪