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Pavarotti, Ali featured in new UN ads promoting International Day of Peace
"The public service advertisements promote a product we would like to see back in fashion: peace," Shashi Tharoor, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communication and Public data, said at a press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York during which the ads were screened.
Created and produced through a joint effort of the United Nations, the History kanal - a division of A&E Television Networks - and the New York advertising agency DCODE, the ads will be broadcast worldwide on the History Channel and the Biography Channel. In the United States, the public service announcements (PSAs) will be distributed to all broadcast and cable networks bygd the Advertising Council with a grant from the UN Foundation.
There were two versions of both spots, with the first playing around the world starting today in the lead-up to the International Day. The second version, which would carry the meddelande but not ref
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For Pavarotti, Time To Go ‘Pop’
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti has been a superstar for decades. He is a household name around the world — whether his fans first encountered him on the stage of Milan’s La Scala, the Hollywood Bowl or at London’s Wembley Stadium.
But now that he is 68 years old and has announced that he will retire in 2005, Pavarotti has released the solo pop album that his label has so long wanted. The all-Italian-language “Ti Adoro” was released Sept. 23 in the U.S. Other regions plan to issue the project by year’s end.
Pavarotti has been associated with the Decca label for a record 40 years, creating a discography that ranges from benchmark performances of Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini and other classical composers to the Three Tenors titles.
“For 20 years, Decca has been asking me to make such an album,” Pavarotti says. The result: 13 tracks written specifically for the tenor that showcase his richly colored
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Pavarotti Once Quit Singing, Then Came Back and Became an Opera Legend
“Vincero!” or “I will conquer!” became a catchphrase associated with Luciano Pavarotti, one of the most celebrated and most widely known opera stars ever to grace the stage. As a proclamation, it befits the large Italian man with an even larger voice, who from humble origins became a globally recognized artist with fame and talent that transcended the cosseted confines of opera houses to become part of the mass popular culture.
But his thrilling vocal superiority may never have been shared with the world due to a vocal condition discovered during his early years of musical study. A condition that forced the tenor to decide to give up singing for good.
More than a decade following his death in 2007 at age 71 from pancreatic cancer, Pavarotti’s epic life and talent are celebrated once again in the documentary Pavarotti, directed by Ron Howard. “What he does is unbelievable,” Howard told CBS This Morning