Rest In Peace. Resto nella pace.
Luciano Pavarotti's farewell tour two years ago brought the famous tenor to theatres and concert halls from Iceland to New Zealand.
The tenor was due to play in New Zealand late in 2005, and a single interview had been granted to a daily paper. It led to me travelling to Merano, in the Italian Alps, for an audience with the world's best-known tenor.
To a music writer more used to interviewing indie bands in central London watering holes, it was a glimpse into a far more genteel arm of the music business, and the respect the classical world afforded living legends like the man dubbed "Maestro".
Preparations for the interview took weeks to sort out.
There were rumours it may take place in London. Then it would be at Pavarotti's home in Modena (I had my fingers crossed it would be over one of Pavarotti's legendary lunches).
Finally, management decided, it would be at his favourite spa, a hotel in the Tyrolean hideaway, near the Austrian border.
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Per la mia più cara madre.Ti amo per sempre…Il dio è con voi.
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