Pavarotti's Fake Performance At 2006 Olympics

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Pavarotti’s Fake Performance At 2006 Olympics

Today it emerged that the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti lip-synched his last performance, the opening ceremony of the Turin Winter Olympics, because he was in severe pain a few months before being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The bitter cold also made it impossible to sing, his manager said. What is especially crazy about this performance is that the entire orchestra behind him is only pretending to play. Video, tracked down by Gawker's Richard Blakeley, after the jump.

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