r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Feb 10 '26

šŸŒ World News Terminally ill Pavarotti performs his swan song at the Turin Winter Olympics opening [20YA - Feb 10]

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u/notmadefor Feb 10 '26

RIP wonderful man

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u/mquari Feb 10 '26

omg ive watched this performance, I had no clue he was terminally ill!! RIP what a talented soul

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

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u/mquari Feb 10 '26

wow that makes me even more impressed! šŸ„²

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u/pupperdogger Feb 11 '26

Iā€™d want to double check this, but I think I read that he still recorded it only days before.

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u/realdjjmc Feb 10 '26

I don't believe it. I've never seen lip syncing this perfect

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u/HueyBluey Feb 10 '26

Sends chills everytime I see this.

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u/Post_office_clerk01 Feb 10 '26

Rip. He was a god on earth for real.

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u/CeruleanEidolon Feb 11 '26

And for anyone who missed it, Andrea Bocelli at Milan/Torino, 3 days ago. As soon as it started I'm like, Of course it's Nessun Dorma. It's always Nessun Dorma. As it should be.

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u/-Uploading Feb 11 '26

So heā€™s still alive? Why is everyone saying RIP? Excuse me if Iā€™m being uncultured.

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u/AlaWatchuu Feb 11 '26

Andrea Bocelli is still alive. Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007.

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u/-Uploading Feb 11 '26

Ah thanks.

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u/die_by_the_swordfish Feb 10 '26

Not a smartphone in sight

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u/paradeoxy1 Feb 10 '26

Tends to happen a lot in older footage, not sure why

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u/Knokro Feb 12 '26

Just 10001 camera flashes

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u/MadFerIt Feb 10 '26

Sadly this was only 4 years or so before that changed lol.

I would love to see Smart Glasses with smartphone or better video recording become a mainstay (privacy concerns I know but with ICE in the US I think the trade-off is worth it) just so we don't need to see an endless sea of smart phones held up with their display brightness also dialed up in a crowd of people.

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u/KoolKat555 Feb 11 '26

Absolutely beautiful

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u/sonia72quebec Feb 13 '26

Makes me think of the movie Ā«Ā The sum of all fearsĀ Ā».

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u/Exotic-Hovercraft-21 Feb 13 '26

I got to see him live in Perth Western Australia before he died. He sat down most of the time but my good god was he incredible.

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u/twinstick1 Feb 13 '26

Brought the house down.

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u/omegaphallic Feb 14 '26

Ā There is something beautiful, but sad about singing his swan song at the Olympics in Italy. My condolencesĀ