Pavarotti Cancels Appearance; Rookie Steals Show
from the passing-the-baton dept.
Scheduled to appear in the Metropolitan Opera’s final event of the season, in what had been billed as the final performance of his career, Luciano Pavoratti called in sick Saturday, so a 33-year-old Sicilian named Salvatore Licitra sang the role of Mario Cavaradossi from Puccini’s Tosca in his place – and brought down the house. Who says stuff like that only happens in the movies?
