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He was certainly THE male operatic voice of my lifetime and filled a space -- physically and vocally -- like no other. Pavarotti, who has passed away from pancreatic cancer, also was perhaps the first opera singer to go truly mainstream. I don't think Callas ever achieved that level of name familiarity on the street, nor did his fellow tenors of the Three Tenors. When I was learning Italian at the University of California many years ago, the lecturer could teach verb conjugations with a favourite sentence like "Luciano Pavarotti mangia molti spaghetti" and be guaranteed we'd all laugh. This, long before he gained even more general familiarity with his rendition of Nessun Dorma. Pavarotti brought many new listeners to the beauties of opera, who would undoubtedly otherwise never have gone there. He also rivetted those who were already fans. I grew up in an opera-loving extended family and clearly remember the first time I heard his name. I was probably in the preteen age bracket and at either a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner when we would get together with my father's sister's family. I can still hear my uncle and aunt going on about That Voice of this amazing tenor to my mother and father and putting on a record (yes, it would have been a record) and them all commenting on its strength and purity. I love opera but am still pretty much a neophyte; I know most of the great arias because they formed the background to my childhood, along with Gilbert & Sullivan, but it was the latter I knew better and loved dearly even when small. It is only in recent years that I have begun to have favourite voices and favourite operas, and to be a regular listener to the Saturday at the Met broadcasts carried on Lyric FM. On that programme there's often a witty and light hearted panel during one of the intervals with opera experts who might be asked to identify various opera voices. The experts are amazing, and usually get the voices right. I would be pathetic at that task, but there's one I know I could always pick out -- Luciano. That full blast, that power and control, the abiity to hold and hold those notes -- unmistakeable. Gli angeli li canteranno a sonno. Sonno bene, Luciano.