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Awards
Pavarotti to take belated lifetime prize at Classic BRITs
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 18 September 2013
This year’s Classic BRITs will pay homage to Luciano Pavarotti via a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award.
The late opera star was, in fact, first invited to take the prize back in 2007, but his death that year meant he never got to pick it up in person. Presumably it’s taken the BRITs team six years to forgive him for the no-show. His widow, Nicoletta Mantovani-Pavarotti, will accept the award on his behalf at the Mylene Klass-compered ceremony on 2 Oct.
Chiming in at the same time, Co-Chairmen of the Classic BRITs board, Decca Records President Dickon Stainer and Avie Records MD Barry McCann say: “The Classic BRITs Lifetime Achievement Award is reserved for those artists that have truly made an impact on the world with their music and performances, and Luciano Pavarotti is arguably the most deserving of all. We are so thrilled that six years after our original invitation, this award can finally be bestowed”.
