She will have outlived her foster brother Luciano Pavarotti by twelve years. With Mirella Freni, it is not only one of the most engaging lyric artists of the 20th century who has just died at 84 years of age. It is also one of the most beautiful voices in history.
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When she was born in Modena, on February 27, 1935, in a working environment, her mother worked in the same cigarette factory as that of Luciano. They will have the same nanny, and if they will never be a couple - they were rather like brother and sister - their appearances on stage, in particular in La Bohème , wrote in golden letters the great history of opera. In addition, she will marry in first marriage the one who was going to be Pavarotti's regular accompanist and repeater to the end, Leone Magiera.
For this marriage, in 1955, she would even put her young career on hold for two years, when she had just made triumphant beginnings in her hometown, in Micaëla de Carmen . It was not the first time that she
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