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PEOPLE, Page 75The Kid's All Right
By MICHAEL QUINN
Not too long ago, honey-toned tenor LUCIANO PAVAROTTI made
the decidedly unlikely claim in an American Express commercial
that he went unrecognized in hotels. But if you don't recognize
him in the his latest ads, you have a good excuse -- the
three-year-old shown is 53 years and hundreds of pounds away
from the most popular opera singer since Caruso. The image of
the infant Pavarotti appears on posters for his June concert in
a most unoperatic venue: the East Hall of the Atlantic City
Convention Center (capacity for the evening: 12,000), where Miss
America was crowned last fall. The event is sponsored by that
well-known cultural institution, the Trump Taj Mahal
casino-hotel. The best seats in the house are going for $150.
From New York City's Madison Square Garden to Rome's World Cup
soccer matches, such monster recitals have become almost
commonplace for Pavarotti. They may turn purists pale but
certainly help shake off opera's elitist reputation.