Personally Speaking Leone Magiera a Full Life of Passion and Pasta - My Friend Pavarotti

The Sunday Telegraph London (August 31, 2008)

Author: Leone Magiera

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The lightning cracks outside the window were terrifying. We were on a tiny

12-seater plane, from Romania back to Italy, and seemed to be flying straight into the middle of a storm. At one point, the turbulence got so bad that our air hostess gripped her rosary and started praying. It was then, amid all this panic, that Luciano Pavarotti piped up: 'OK, there's nothing for it. If we're going to die, I want to die eating.' He promptly grabbed an unopened packet of chocolate biscuits and wolfed down the lot.

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Personally Speaking Leone Magiera a Full Life of Passion and Pasta - My Friend Pavarotti

Somehow we did make it home safely, and Luciano lived to eat another meal. He wasn't just the greatest tenor of all time, but probably the greatest eater, too. I ended up conducting him in more than 1,000 concerts, all over the world, yet I first met him more than 50...

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