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Opera greats
Opera is a popular genre of music, particularly for the older generation. Ilere we profile some of the opera greats who have left a mark in their chosen sphere:
Luciano Pavarotti
Known for the magical clarity of his voice and the ability to hit high Cs effortlessly, the late Pavarotti made his entry into the world of opera when he won a competition in 1961. Later he went on to perform across Europe before crossing the Atlantic in 1965 for a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in Miami which co-starred famed soprano Joan Sutherland in the eponymous role.
Other successes later, Pavarotti took a globed audience by storm when he performed the aria Nessun Dorma from Puccini's Turandot, which was chosen as the theme music for football's 1990 World Cup finals, held in his native Italy. He sung Nessan Dorma once again at the opening of the Olympics in TUrin in February 2006.
In recent years he performed along with two other leading singers: Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, known as the Three Tenors’and the annual Pavarotti and Friends concerts in Modena.
Maria Callas
Another captivating opera singer was Maria Callas, an American-born Greek soprano. This charismatic singer combined an impressive bel canto (often used nostalgically in its application to a lost singing tradition) with great dramatic skills. Callas' repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto
operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further on to the works ofVerdi and Puccini. Early in her career she waqs known for the music dramas of Wagner. Her immense talent garnered her the sobriquet of La Divina.
Another compliment came from Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor, who called her “The Bible of opera".
Along the way, Callas had to endure much mud slinging from the media, which publicised her temperamental behaviour, her supposed rivalry with Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis. However Callas had the last word: In 2006 Opera News wrote, “Nearly 30 years after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as artistand till one of classical music's best-selling vocalists."
Placido Domingo
Since the age of 16, Domingo has been an artiste on the go. His operatic debut was at Monterrey as Alfredo in La TYaviata. Later he spent two and a half years with the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv, singing in 280 performances of 12 different roles. His other successes were the title role in the US premiere of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the New York City Opera. His Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1968 as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur. He has subsequently taken centre stage there in more than 600 performances of 42 different roles.
And Domingo continues to enthrall audiences as he regularly appears at all the big opera houses of the world, including the Vienna State Opera, London's Covent Garden, Paris' Bastille Opera, the Washington National Opera.
His singing career has also taken him to opera houses in Milan, San Francisco, Chicago Los Angeles, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Madrid as well as the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals.
Jose Carreras
The Spanish Catalan tenor is one of the most prominent opera singers of his generation. Eminent in the operas ofVerdi and Puccini, he has played over 60 roles on the stage as
well as the recording studio. He gained fame as one ofThe Three Tenors in a series
of concerts that began in 1990 and continued until 2003.
A lesser known facet of Carreras is his humanitarian work as the president of the Jose Carreras International Leukemia Foundation, which he founded after his own recovery from the disease in 1988.