Operatic tenor Placido Domingo has led tributes to musical legend Luciano Pavarotti who passed away today.
London, Sept 6 : Operatic tenor Placido Domingo has led tributes to musical legend Luciano Pavarotti who passed away today.
Domingo performed with the late Italian composer, and Jose Carreras in the 'Three Tenors' concerts for over a decade.
He said that he still remembers 'that unmistakable special timbre from the bottom up to the very top of the tenor range'.
The 66-year-old also fondly recollected Pavarotti's 'wonderful sense of humour'.
"I also loved his wonderful sense of humour and on several occasions of our Three Tenors concerts we had trouble remembering we were giving a concert before a paying audience, because we had so much fun ourselves," the Mirrro quoted Domingo, as saying.
Mourning the death of Pavarotti, Brit singer Russell Watson, who performed with Pavarotti in 2001, dubbed him "the greatest tenor there's ever been'
"He influenced me in my early days and got me singing classical music," Watson told BBC One's Breakfast programme. "He was very flamboyant, a true artist, but a very generous man," Watson said.
Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland, who often performed with Pavarotti, said that 'it was incredible to stand next to it and sing along with it'.
"He will not be forgotten. I am very sorry to hear he is gone," Dame Joan said.
Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, around 250 miles North of Rome, where he was surrounded by family and friends.
Pavarotti underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in New York in July 2006, and cancelled all public appearances since then.
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