Luciano Pavarotti Is Dead at 71

Luciano Pavarotti at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 2002.
Pavarotti whose ringing, pristine sound set a standard for operatic tenors of the postwar era, died early this morning at his home in Modena, in northern Italy. He was 71.

The full story from the New York Times here........

R.I.P Luciano. What a loss.............