Pavarotti (2019)

Luciano Pavarotti: Self

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• Luciano Pavarotti : I was very lucky to have my father singing in the church. Even for a little boy, by imitation, you always *do* what your father is doing. So, he was my teacher.

• Andrea Griminelli : We went up to the Amazon in the jungle. Thankfully, I had my video camera. There was this theatre in the middle of nowhere. And I realized this was a pilgrimage. And Luciano said, "I want to sing on the stage where Caruso sang 100 years ago." You know, we had nothing organized. We arrive in front of the theatre and it was completely locked up. Nobody was there. We found somebody to open it. And somebody came up and said, "Who is it?" And he said, "I am Luciano Pavarotti!"

  Luciano Pavarotti : [on stage singing "A Vucchella"]  From the Amazon with love.

• Luciano Pavarotti : I was a teacher for an elementary school. My father says, "Listen, now you study, you go to the city, and you become Professor." Because, my father did not succeed as a tenor. He knows how difficult it is, even with the beautiful voice. And, I say, "Okay, if you say so. I will do that." My mother says, "No, I think when I hear my son sing, I have something in my heart." I say, "Mama, you say that because you are my mother. Come on." "No, no, no. No, because I don't say that when I hear your father." She made me do exactly what I want and I think for what I was born to do.

• Luciano Pavarotti : I'd like to be remembered as a man who took opera to the people. I'd like for people to say that I sang Favorita to Otello, that I have an incredibly wide repertoire. I'd like for people to say that I never pursued doing new opera just for the sake of doing it. These are all positive things for a singer.

• Luciano Pavarotti : I was born during the war, so, I am carrying that. Always. But, I was a very lucky boy; because, I was raised in the most beautiful place. My father was a baker and a tenor.

• Luciano Pavarotti : The opera is love, hate, death. It is very important. With a little makeup you can become another person. The opera is something fake, that, little by little, on stage, it become true.

• Luciano Pavarotti : I always think I can do better than I do.

• Joseph Volpe : He was a nervous wreck before every performance. He would always say, "I go to die."

  Luciano Pavarotti : [archival footage]  We go to die.

  Joseph Volpe : And he would always go on living after the performance.

• Luciano Pavarotti : How can you sing in front of an audience and say something if you don't believe in it. There is no bluff in this profession. It is not a poker game. It is a chess game. And if you lose, you don't have any excuse.

• Plácido Domingo : We end the program and we don't have more music. And we don't know what to do. And I say to Luciano, why we don't do the "Nessun Dorma" the three together? And we did this version, which is something that was - very special

  José Carreras : [singing]  And my kiss shall break the silence, Which makes you mine

  Plácido Domingo : Depart, oh. night! Fade away, you stars! Fade away, you stars!

  José Carreras : At dawn I will win!

  Luciano Pavarotti : I will win!

  Luciano Pavarotti , Plácido Domingo , José Carreras : I will win!

• Luciano Pavarotti : [archival footage from stage at the Hyde Park Concert, July 30, 1991]  The next aria is from the same opera I have sung now, "Manon". The title of the aria is "Donna non vidi mai". It mean, I have never seen a woman like that. And with your permission, I would like to dedicate to Lady Diana.

  [singing] 

  Luciano Pavarotti : I have never seen a woman, Such as this one! To tell her, "I love you", My soul awakens to a new life...

• Luciano Pavarotti : Everything was really very difficult. But, I still have to go on the stage to act for the night, for the public. I am putting the white make-up of the clown on the face. I watch myself on the mirror and I say, "It is the life. You have to go out, you have to laugh, even if you have dead in your heart. You have to try to enjoy the people like every night.

  [singing] 

  Luciano Pavarotti : Change into laughs, the spasms of pain, Into a grimace the tears of pain, Laugh clown, for your love is broken, Laugh about the pain, That poisons your heart.

• Bono : [archival footage - interview]  It's true that the maestro here has been haunting me and he has like a spirit been in this building long before he arrived here in person. And we made a piece called "Miss Sarajevo". We hope to - we will perform this song in Modena. On what is the date?

  Luciano Pavarotti : [patting the back of Bono's head]  The twelfth of September.

• Luciano Pavarotti : [singing]  Dici che come il fiume, Come il fiume, L'amore giungerà, L'amore...

• Luciano Pavarotti : I hope that you are always in love with me and if you don't love me today, there is always tomorrow.

• Luciano Pavarotti : I would not exist if I don't trust people.

• Plácido Domingo : I was conducting "Tosca" and I will never forget Luciano singing as a noble character... At the end of the opera, Cavaradossi, he knows that he's going to die.

  Luciano Pavarotti : [singing]  Gone forever is my dream of love, Time has fled, and I die in despair! I die in despair, But never have I loved life so much, Loved life so much.