Pesaro, 22 April 2024 – Perhaps he loved Pesaro like his Modena. Maybe even more, Luciano Pavarotti. And now the city pays homage to him: because on Saturday at 7pm in Piazzale Lazzarini, it will place a statue of the great tenor. Two steps away from that Rossini theatre which was inaugurated with one of his concerts, after 14 years of closure, in 1980.
“It will be placed in such a way – he says the Councilor for Culture Daniele Vimini – at the intersection with via Curiel, in a position in perspective of the fountain so that it can greet and welcome with its presence the people of Pesaro and visitors almost as if to invite them to the theatre”.
The statue will be in bronze ad natural heighta tribute to this “extraordinary artist never forgotten and much loved by the people of Pesaro, proud to be able to show those who reach the city, walking on the sand of lido Pavarotti, the villa cthat the tenor chose as a good retreat among the greenery of the San Bartolo park, overlooking the sea”, continues Vimini. Who then thanks “heartily the family we are expecting at Saturday’s appointment, for the generosity with which they embraced the project”.
If it is true that this city was the birthplace of Renata Tebaldi and he is buried in the central cemetery Mario Del Monacoanother great tenor very close to the city and a student of Rossini, it is also true that the fame of Luciano Pavarotti it was on a planetary level. A Hollywood star.
Happened in Pesaro perhaps at home in the early sixties with the wife Adua and children who are still young, Luciano Pavarotti did not miss a summer, having finished his concerts in the greatest theaters in the world. Hence the purchase of Villa Giulia in Baia Flaminia, which over time also became a reception venue for friends and famous singers such as Sting, Lucio Dalla and Zucchero when he organized it in the early nineties ‘Pavarotti and Friends‘. And part of the royalties from those concerts, equal to 225 thousand dollars, were donated to the Berloni foundation which housed thalassemia patients in the ward led by Guido Lucarelli. A gesture of great generosity from him.
Pavarotti represented so much for the city that it then awarded him honorary citizenship in 1986 which was followed by a concert by the tenor in Piazza del Popolo on the occasion of the opening of the Rossini Opera Festival. Another concert of his in 1996 for the inauguration of the then Bps palas in Torraccia. To get the figure of Pavarotti’s global popularity it will be enough to say that a photographic agency in New York, linked to the Times, called Carlino, offering a disproportionate sum to have a photo of Pavarotti while he was bathing in his swimming pool at Villa Giulia. He didn’t want to be filmed in costume. Pavarotti was all this, and now the city pays him this great tribute because there are only two large statues, that of Rossini at the conservatory and the one of him from Saturday in Piazza Lazzarini.
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