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Aretha Franklin performed at the last minute at the 1998 Grammy Awards when Pavarotti fell ill and had to cancel his appearance.#ArethaFranklin #Pavarotti -
Violinist Nicola Benedetti Reveals Pressures from "Cut-Throat" Music Industry on BBC [AUDIO]
Joining various other prominent competition winners, Benedetti, who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year title in 2004 and has often been the U.K.'s highest-selling classical musician, has told BBC Radio Four that she was pushed too hard, too fast in the aftermath... -
Lang Lang, Hans Zimmer, Pavarotti Win Big at Classic Brit Awards 2013 [FULL LIST]
They might have been on strike at Carnegie Hall, but across the pond in Blightly, the Classic Brit Awards still steamrolled ahead. A massive production--filmed for mainstream, primetime TV (the ITV1 channel)--it was a cast of... -
Classic Brit Awards 2013 to Honor Luciano Pavarotti for Lifetime Achievement
While quite how excited an artist can get about an award after their demise is debatable (at best), perhaps depending on one's religious views, the U.K.'s Classic Brits have announced that they will bestow a posthumous award on Luciano... -
Classicalite's Five Best: Luciano Pavarotti Recordings
Essential recordings from the much-missed great Italian tenor, as Decca marks 50 years of his international career... -
Decca Invites Pavarotti Fans to Record Their Versions of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma"
"Nessun Dorma" indeed--"none shall sleep"--in many opera-loving households this month, as Luciano Pavarotti's record company, Decca, marks 50 years since the late, great Italian tenor's international debut with a remarkable online...
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