Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti has died at age 71.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3563806&page=1
"His last public performance, singing the aria from Puccini's opera
"Turandot," Nessun Dorma, was at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, in February 2006 and his last full-scale concert was in Taipei in December 2005."
Nessun Dorma is the most beautiful tenor aria:
English translation provided by http://classicalmusic.about.com/
None must sleep! None must sleep!
And you, too, Princess,
in your cold room,
gaze at the stars
which tremble with love
and hope!
But my mystery is locked within me,
no-one shall know my name!
No, no, I shall say it as my mouth
meets yours when the dawn is breaking!
And my kiss will break the silence
which makes you mine!
(No-one shall know his name,
and we, alas, shall die!)
Vanish, o night!
Fade, stars!
At dawn I shall win
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RIP Pavarott
