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ROME — Luciano Pavarotti, in severe pain months before his cancer diagnosis, lip-synced his last performance, according to the maestro who conducted the aria at the opening ceremony of the Turin Olympics.
The late tenor’s manager said Monday that the bitter cold made a live performance impossible at the 2006 Winter Games. The conductor, Leone Magiera, reveals in a book that the rousing rendition of “Nessun Dorma” was prerecorded as “it would have been too dangerous for him to give a live performance.”
Magiera, who worked with Pavarotti for years, said the tenor suffered from sharp pains months before being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pavarotti, 71, died in September.
