A Legitimate Sadness

This afternoon I was driving home from getting my nails done and I guess NPR was playing some sort of tribute to Luciano Pavarotti - something from the 3 Tenors, I believe - and I tuned in just in time to hear the great voice singing Nessun Dorma from Turnadot. (If you're not familiar, this is the song the British "Got Talent" winner sang and Michael Bolton once famously mutilated on an awards show of some kind.) I had to pull over the car because I started crying so profusely. Nothings saddens me more than the loss of a great talent.

I wish NPR's remembrance of Pavarotti on Thursday had focused more on how he brought opera out of the elite opera houses and into the living rooms of the masses, rather than how he eventually became so difficult to work with. I would think that, of all the media outlets, public radio would most appreciate this contribution that he made to the art. I think I'm going to write them and tell them that.