Opera World Loses a Leading Ambassador
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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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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung cancer, her manager said.
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John Danforth is resigning as US ambassador to the United Nations, bringing to an end his brief tenure in New York. His unexpected move comes during
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Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world's most beloved tenors, died Thursday.
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"Pavarotti was the last great Italian voice able to move the world"  A picture of Luciano Pavarotti is printed on the frontpage of an Italian daily newspaper, on display at a news stand in Modena, northern Italy, Thursday, Sept. via The South Mississippi Sun Herald
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Vienna State Opera Director Ioan Holender announced Wednesday that he will step down in three years instead of looking to extend his contract.
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US Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth has resigned, the US Mission to the United Nations said Thursday. He sent a letter Nov. 22 saying he wanted out at the end of the president&#39;s first term, to
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The director and anchor of the main news program at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset TV empire has been forced to step down, prompting fears of growing political pressure.
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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  - Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, died early on Thursday after a long battle with cancer, his manager Terri Robson said.
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One of the world's greatest singers, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, dies aged 71 after a battle with cancer.
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Opera singer Robert Merrill, famed for his appearances at the New York Yankees' stadium, has died.
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Luciano Pavarotti, whose effortless tenor voice and powerful stage presence dominated opera for decades, plans to bow out like a superstar with a 40-city tour that will end with his retirement.
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Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the  great post-World War II opera divas who Arturo Toscanini said  had the "voice of an angel," has died, a family friend said  Sunday. She was 82.
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Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi, who was a great rival to Maria Callas, dies in San Marino aged 82.
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Placido Domingo&#039;s eyes welled with tears as he sang before the World Cup soccer final in Berlin, remembering his Three Tenors colleague Luciano Pavarotti, who was recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer at a New York hospital.