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- PEOPLE, Page 72He Throws His Weight Around
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan. Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- A sword cracked at the wrong time, and one singer nearly
- tripped while running across the stage. But last week critics
- were hailing Luciano Pavarotti's directorial debut at Venice's
- Teatro La Fenice in Gaetano Donizetti's difficult opera La
- Favorita. Originally invited to perform, not to be boss, the
- singer had brashly told Teatro officials, "I will come, but not
- to sing. I want to direct." At the curtain calls, however,
- Pavarotti was humility itself, bowing to the audience with hands
- folded in front of him like a bashful schoolboy. Said the
- astonished star of his experience: "Technicians and singers were
- actually following my orders!" It helps when the director can
- belt one out louder than most of the cast.
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