Ron Howard’s ‘Pavarotti’ offers a tenor for the masses
My favorite moment in Ron Howard’s documentary Pavarotti is when we see the great Italian tenor singing in the shower. For those of us who think we sound like Luciano Pavarotti while soaping up, this sequence is quite a comeuppance. Shower or no shower, only Pavarotti sounds like Pavarotti.
Howard’s engaging portrait of the great tenor occasionally verges on the hagiographic. But
