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Luciano Pavarotti has died. Violinist.com, which includes a link to the tenor's last public performance, writes:
Luciano Pavarotti has gone to the great stage in the sky. He succumbed to pancreatic cancer this evening at the age of 71.
RIP Pavarotti
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