Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti has died in hospital, aged 95.
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Italian scriptwriter Ugo Pirro, who co-wrote two Oscar-winning films, dies at the age of 87 in Rome.
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Robert Merrill, whose powerful baritone voice was featured for decades at both New York's Metropolitan Opera and Yankees baseball games, and who helped spread an appreciation of opera to a broader U.S. audience, died at home on Saturday.
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Sir Malcolm Arnold, the first British composer to win an Academy Award, died Saturday at the age of 84 after a short illness, his companion said.
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PETER CAVE: The world-renowned Italian soprano, Renata Tebaldi, has died at the age of 82. Stricken with polio at the age of three, she was unable to take part in more strenuous activities, and instead became interested in music.
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Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras lead tributes to opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who has died aged 71.
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About 50,000 mourners paid  tribute to Luciano Pavarotti at his funeral in his hometown on  Saturday and Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Italy was &quot;sad  but proud&quot; to salute one of the greatest tenors in opera  history.
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Acclaimed Italian opera singer has died at the age of 82. Her doctor said she died at home in San Marino following a long illness.
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Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world's most beloved tenors, has died, his manager told The Associated Press. He was 71.
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MODENA, Italy - Luciano Pavarotti received a final, tearful standing ovation after a recording of the great Italian tenor singing a duet of "Panis Angelicus" with his father was played during a somber funeral service yesterday in his hometown cathedral.
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Luciano Pavarotti, 71, who died last night of pancreatic cancer at his home in Modena, Italy, combined a lustrous lyric tenor voice with a radiant and expansive personal charm to win the largest and most diversified audience ever accorded an opera singer.
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Gian Carlo Menotti, the Italian composer and arts impresario who founded the Two Worlds Festival based in Spoleto and Charleston, South Carolina, died on Thursday, friends said.
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Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Italy's La Scala, died Sunday. She was 82.
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ROME An Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York&#39;s Metropolitan Opera and Italy&#39;s La Scala has died at her home in San Marino -- a tiny republic in Italy.
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"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life." &#151; Luciano Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, in a statement on the opera superstar's death this week at age 71.
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Il grande tenore aveva 71 anni, ed era malato di tumore al pancreasLa sua Ã¨ stata una carriera lunghissima, durata 46 anni, e costellata di grandi successi                                            Luciano Pavarotti Ã¨ morto il mondo Ã¨ in lutto
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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose unique, pristine voice and charisma brought opera to the masses, died of cancer on Thursday aged 71.