Luciano Pavarotti as Tonio Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Luciano Pavarotti as Tonio.
Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment
Luciano Pavarotti
, (born October 12, 1935,Modena, Italy—died September 6, 2007, Modena), Italian operatic lyric tenor who was considered one of the finest bel canto opera singers of the 20th century. Even in the highest register, his voice was noted for its purity of tone, and his concerts, recordings, and television appearances—which provided him ample opportunity to display his ebullient personality—gained him a wide popular following.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.