Herbert breslin luciano pavarotti biography
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The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary
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The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary
Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager and friend tells all. "All."
"The King and I" is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, "the greatest career in classical music." During that career, Breslin moved Pavarotti out of the opera house and onto the concert (and the world) stage and into the arms of a huge mass public. How he and Pavarotti changed the landscape of opera is one of the most significant and entertaining stories in the history of classical music, and Herbert Breslin relates the tale in a brash, candid, witty fashion that is often bitingly frank and profane. He also provides a portrait of his friend and client--"a beautiful, simple, lovely guy who turned into a very determined, aggressive, and somewhat unhappy sup
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Herbert Breslin
American music industry executive
Herbert Breslin (1 October 1924 – 17 May 2012[1]) was an American music industry executive. He was influential in the careers of several musicians since the 1960s, the foremost of these being the tenorLuciano Pavarotti, with whom he started his career.[2]
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[edit]Breslin was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. He served in the army during World War II. After the war, he attended City College of New York and after graduation, he became a high-school teacher and also began writing advertising copy for small businesses. After submitting samples of his writing to several large corporations, he accepted a position as a speechwriter for the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, where he became a member of the company's public-relations staff.
He began his career as a publicist and met Luciano Pavarotti, also a former teacher, when both men were only beginning their careers in 1