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Luciano Pavarotti and manager split
Luciano Pavarotti has split with his longtime manager and publicist, Herbert Breslin. "We no longer work for each other," Breslin said Thursday. "We've had enough. I've had enough." Breslin had represented Pavarotti since 1967, six years after the singer's professional debut. He said their relationship ended Tuesday. Breslin helped Pavarotti become popular outside the classical music world, using television to help the tenor sell out arenas and stadiums. "Most of Pavarotti's appearances haven't been operas or recitals," his London-based spokeswoman, Terri Robson, said Thursday. "He's been doing less and less. Herbert's work has been limited to Pavarotti's opera and recital appearances. Luciano has two other offices, and most of his work has been coming out of Italy, not New York." Pavarotti, 67, hasn't appeared in an opera performance since singing in Puccini's "Tosca" at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, in London last Jan. 22. He canceled his last two scheduled appearances at New York's Metropolitan Opera, also in "Tosca," in May. He sang the dress rehearsal but caught the flu and said he was too congested to sing. Pavarotti has said he intends to retire on Oct. 12, 2005, his 70th birthday. According to his Web site, his next scheduled performance is with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras in a Three Tenors concert at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 28. The concert had been scheduled for Jan. 5, but was postponed because Pavarotti's companion, Nicoletta Mantovani, is expected to give birth to twins next week. Pavarotti has been living with Mantovani, who is in her early 30s, since 1996. He has three children from his marriage to Adua Veroni.
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