R.I.P.

Vladimir Nabokov's son Dmitri trained to be an opera singer - ironic as his pop was notoriously uninterested in music - and he had his debut in a 1961 performance of La Bohème. The press turned out in fair numbers to see the first performance of the son of "the author of that dirty book." However, as Brian Boyd puts it in his Nabokov biography, "that proved a lucky break not so much for Dmitri as for another singer . . . a young tenor named Luciano Pavarotti."

And that's my post on Pavarotti. All done now.