Steve Schirripa's Hungry
Sun at 7:30pm/et
Get ready for the gastronomical ride of your life as The Sopranos’ star, Steve Schirripa, gives you a crash course in the Italian-American lifestyle!
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Pobre Millonaria
Mon-Fri, 5pm/et
The natural beauty of Panama and the bustling global trade center surrounding the Panama Canal set the scene for this first-class production featuring an international all-star cast. MORE
Paginas de la Vida Mon-Fri, 6pm/et
TLN brings you stories of love, passion, loss and joy written daily in the Pages Of Life, our new telenovela starting Oct 3rd.
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PAVAROTTI FOREVER: THE BEST OF “PAVAROTTI & FRIENDS”
TLN pays homage to one of the world’s greatest tenors with Pavarotti
Forever, a 5 part tribute series featuring the best of “Pavarotti & Friends” including performances by U2, Sting, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder, Enrique Iglesias, George Michael and many more.
Pavarotti was born in the Italian town of Modena in October
1935. Sports occupied much of his time and he earned his first local fame as a member of the town's soccer team. He first sang in the Modena chorus with his father, a fervent opera lover and
gifted amateur tenor.
His debut came in April 1961, in Puccini's popular opera "La
Boheme", at the opera house in Reggio Emilia. That success led to engagements throughout Italy and the world, where he
conquered audiences in Amsterdam, Vienna, Zurich, New York and London. His big break came in London thanks to another Italian opera great tenor Giuseppe
di Stefano, who dropped out of a performance of "La Boheme" in 1963. His American debut came in February 1965, in a Miami production of an opera by
Gaetano Donizetti, "Lucia di Lammermoor" with Joan Sutherland, the beginning of what would become an historic partnership.
In 1972, in a production of Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment" Pavarotti sang an aria containing nine
effortless high C's. The audience erupted in a frenzied ovation, and the young tenor's reputation soared beyond the confines
of opera and classical music.
In 1990 Mr. Pavarotti
joined Spanish stars Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras at the soccer
World Cup and introduced operatic classics to millions of football
fans around the world.
Sales
of opera albums shot up after the gala concert in Rome's Baths of
Caracalla was beamed to 800 million people, and strains of Puccini's
"Nessun Dorma" from his opera "Turandot" became as fixed a feature
of football mania as the usual more raucous chants.
While Mr. Pavarotti's stage star faded in his sixties, he found new personal life, leaving his wife of
37 years for an assistant 34 years his junior and younger than his three daughters. The black-bearded singer married
Nicoletta Mantovani after an acrimonious divorce.
Medical problems have beset "Big Luciano" in the final years of his career, forcing him to cancel
several dates of his marathon worldwide farewell tour. He underwent surgery in July, 2006, to remove a pancreatic tumour and
has not been seen in public since.
Pavarotti was born in the Italian town of Modena in October
1935. Sports occupied much of his time and he earned his first local fame as a member of the town's soccer team. 
