"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:24:26 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:09:17 +0100, "Keith G"

wrote:


He's gone and we'll miss him, even if he was never our
*favourite*...




True. He was never to my taste in tenor singing, but certainly a
great
spectacle. Bel Canto has always been more my thing than Can Belto.


*Belto* indeed - the 'Cornetto Song' has just ended on Carsick FM!!

(Getting in my car a while back I was greeted with Pav's Nessun Dorma
and it's been Pav all the way - if nothing else, what a *performer*
he
was!!)




That thing must have hung round his neck like an albatross. Suppose
it
made him a rich man, though.

It brought him the "wider audience" recognition that few classical
artists can even dream of.


In one of the online articles I read about him, he stated the Three
Tenors Concert (*them* not *he*) brought 'opera' to an audience of 1.5
(or was it 1.8?) *billion* people!