The 62nd Opera Festival, in Wexford, was true to form in unearthing rarely heard works.

Wexford Festival Opera will mark a significant milestone with a typically elegant programme of events, says Nicki ffrench Davis.

LUCIANO Pavarotti’s vibrant high C notes and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar.

THOUGH the legacy of great creative artists assumes a permanent place in the consciousness of humanity until relatively recently the work of great performing artists died with them. They left nothing but memories.

Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high Cs and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world’s most beloved tenors, died today, his manager said.

Luciano Pavarotti has sung his last opera on stage after more than four decades of the high Cs that transformed him from an insurance salesman to perhaps the most widely-beloved classical singer ever.

Rock stars are the opera divas of the 21st Century, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti said in Berlin today.

FALSETTO, not fees, was on the curriculum yesterday for Tánaiste Mary Harney when she launched this year’s Wexford Opera Festival.