The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary

Now in paperback, the scandalous international sensation: brash, candid, and utterly hilarious, Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager tells all.

The name "Luciano Pavarotti" is as central to the world of opera as high C's and dueling sopranos. Pavarotti has had, quite inarguably, the most successful career in the history of the operatic profession, having gone from a once-reserved but brilliant tenor to a media-stupefying superstar. In The King and I, Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's publicist, manager, and friend for thirty-six years, reveals, in a fashion that is witty and bitingly frank, the truth about that white-hot career in all its delicious grandeur. Full of jaw-dropping anecdotes about the most famous divas and disputes of the past three decades, The King and I even features an afterword by the famed tenor himself. A one-of-a-kind read, The King and I is the ultimate backstage book about the greatest opera star ever.

Author: Herbert H. Breslin, Anne Midgette
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 10/11/2005
Pages: 334
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.50w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780767915083

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 58

About the Author
HERBERT BRESLIN has been a classical music publicist and manager for many of the greatest performers of our time for the past forty years.

ANNE MIDGETTE is a regular reviewer of classical music for the New York Times and has contributed to Opera News and many other music magazines.

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