{"id":1272,"date":"2016-01-16T18:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymodenadiary.it\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2016-08-07T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T13:13:27","slug":"luciano-pavarottis-home-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymodenadiary.it\/en\/luciano-pavarottis-home-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Luciano Pavarotti’s home museum: visiting Big Luciano’s home, the great Maestro of Modena"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered the existence of\u00a0Luciano Pavarotti’s home museum<\/strong> almost by chance.\u00a0I was\u00a0curious and I decided to visit it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ m 37 years old, Luciano Pavarotti would have turned 80 last year.
\nThe great Maestro died in 2007 after a stellar career began in the ’60s,\u00a0that reached\u00a0its peak in the early ’90s.
\nI made this introduction\u00a0because in the ’90s, when Big Luciano became a TV star, known by the world, I was just a teenager.
\nI didn’t like the opera, although my grandfather was a big fan of this musical genre, and hearing about “the Modenese Pavarotti” was\u00a0almost “obvious”. I told this in order to explain why in the past I was not able to give him the value he deserves and I’m so sorry for that.<\/p>\n

Visiting Luciano Pavarotti’s home museum<\/em> was a great opportunity for me, also for this reason \u00a0This visit brought me closer to the great Maestro, making me find out what I didn’t know about him, making me discovering\u00a0his exceptional life.
\nI was impressed and recommend this visit, especially to my fellow citizens who maybe like me have taken for granted\u00a0this great talent.<\/span><\/p>\n

But know I don’t want to write about the details of Luciano Pavarotti’s life, except the ones that\u00a0struck me most.
\nIf you are interested to know more about his life, you can read it on Wikipedia<\/a> or visit the website of Luciano Pavarotti Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, created after his death.
\nI think that this\u00a0quote perfectly describes the person he\u00a0was:<\/p>\n

“I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to”.
\n(Luciano Pavarotti)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s come back to my visit at Luciano Pavarotti’s Home Museum.<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe house is located in the first countryside of Modena, in those area that\u00a0Big Luciano\u00a0had bought\u00a0in the mid- eighties, where he had built some stables and opened a riding school.
\nOn the website you can read:\u00a0“the villa has been designed following the instructions and drawings that the tenor gave to the architects and engineers who have supervised the construction. […] \u00a0The house keeps personal items that he loved and contains the memories of his days spent in the company of family, friends and young students. The visit to this house will will enable visitors to experience Pavarotti in the light of its most intimate and warm rooms, to approach gently to his memory knowing his daily habits, finding the man he was once behind the scenes”.<\/em><\/p>\n

For me it has been just that: the story of stories, the discover of Luciano Pavarotti as a person<\/strong>, first of all.<\/p>\n

The first room that you can visit is the beautiful\u00a0salon<\/em>\u00a0where the undisputed star is the beautiful piano over which are some photographs of Pavarotti together with some celebrities who become great friends of him in the years, as Bono of U2.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s there that\u00a0I discovered that Big Luciano was superstitious and he always looked for a curved nail<\/strong> to put in his pocket as a lucky charm before going on stage or that he chose a white handkerchief<\/strong>, which became one of his representative symbols, for the first exhibitions to better manage the tension and have something to tighten to control gestures.<\/p>\n

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In the second room, the study on the ground floor, I made another discovery: \u00a0around the 90s, for a short period, Pavarotti was also a painter.<\/strong>
\n“LUPA”<\/strong> is his signed, from the first letters of his name and surname. The paintings have bright colors, such as the colorful shirts he loved to wear that perfectly reflected his cheerful character, his positivity and will of live, which together\u00a0with a powerful voice, of a unique tone, led him to a worldwide success.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When you go up on the second floor, you really realize the international artistic value of the Maestro: prizes, awards, letters and a whole wall of photographs of him with the world celebrities.
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\nReading what international artists have dedicated to him make you understand how Pavarotti was considered a point of reference in the world able to make people meet, create new opportunities and artistic approaches.\u00a0As it was written by the great Frank Sinatra<\/em>, “my friend, My Way<\/em> is now assuredly Our Way”<\/em>.
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Luciano Pavarotti believed in<\/strong> popularizing opera by the record production.<\/strong> He wanted that this music could be accessible to everyone, even to those who could not afford a place in the theater. He was the one who opened\u00a0the way for\u00a0music cross-over<\/strong>, the mix of genres.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The dedications to Big Luciano not just come from famous people: colored sheets, full of thoughts for him fill the board at the\u00a0ground floor.
\nAt the end of the visit everyone has something of personal to say the Maestro. Everybody, without exceptions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Luciano Pavarotti was the perfect interpreter of the Italian “bel canto”, one of the most exquisitely tenor never existed.
\nA Modenese who has become a legend<\/strong> and who has always continued to consider Modena as his home.<\/p>\n

When you leave Pavarotti’s home, the voice of the audio – guide thank you saying : “Thank you for visiting Casa Pavarotti”<\/em> and then you can’t think and say “Thank you, Maestro, for everything”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My visit to Luciano Pavarotti’s home museum<\/strong> is also on Steller:<\/em><\/p>\n

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