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Aired: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11-12PM ET
By host Tom Ashbrook:
Luciano Pavarotti, the most widely popular singer in opera history, is dead at 71.
The son of a baker and a cigarette maker, he was a joyful, exuberant tenor heard by millions -- many of whom may never have paid attention to opera before.
He was the glorious "King of the High C," and also a rascal, a media star who was known to lip-sync and cancel performances by the dozen. But he was great.
This hour On Point: Luciano Pavarotti's operatic legacy.
| · | Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for The Washington Post and former artistic advisor and creative chair for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | | · | Anne Midgette, classical music critic for The New York Times and co-author, with Pavarotti's longtime manager Herbert Breslin, of "The King and I," a tell-all book about Pavarotti's career | | · | Martin Bernheimer, music critic at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982, now a critic for The Financial Times and Opera magazine. |
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