Luciano Pavarotti - the world's best known tenor - died at his home on Thursday, 6 September, in Modena, aged 71. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
Already famous in the opera world, he rocketed to planetary superstardom when he, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sang at Rome's Caracalla Baths during the 1990 soccer World Cup in Italy.
Pavarotti emerged on the international operatic stage at Covent Garden, London, in 1961 when he stepped in as a replacement for Giuseppe di Stefano in La Boheme. His last public singing performance was at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin in February 2006.
