A conspicuous aspect of Lucky Pavorotti’s extraondinary career as an astonishingly sweet- voiced opera singer has been his legendary but largely failed battle of bulges everywhere.
While he has had his weighty ups and downs, he has spent most of his career on the high up side – so much so that his knees have lately objected to supporting the rest of his gifted hulk.
Now, however, he has finally knocked off some of his pasta-infused body tile, or, more exactly, he had it nipped off.
Sadly, the man who has given us all so much vocal delight over the decades developed pancreatic cancer, which was described by an attending physican as a “tumorous mass.”
Fortunately, as a great boon to his healthy continuance and a lesser one to his smaller size, it was entirely removed.
While he agreed, no doubt painfully, to cancel performances for the rest of the year, when he finally does stand up he may, if he manages to keep his mouth shut while he recuperates, arise a slightly lesser man.
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