Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy - My Favorite Opera for Everyone CD

I remembered dawdling into Hong Kong Records one summer day in 1995, aimlessly looking for something to buy with a HKD100 cash coupon.I thought I could easily settle that with one of Faye Wong's compilations, one which I have accidentally broken in halves, but they ran out of stock.

That brought me to the section of classical music, and ultimately, "Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy - My Favorite Opera for Everyone" CD was the item I checked out with. The apparent reason I chose that CD was firstly, it was just over $100, secondly simply because the critics was claiming the tenor to be "The best ever, no one quite like him".

After all these years, the one that caught my attention out of the Three Tenors is the less famous Plácido Domingo. His live performance of the song "Perhaps Love" has become my all time favourite lullaby.I want to thank Luciano's huge existence, without him, I would not come to learn to appreciate operas.

It is a sorrow to hear yet another helpless story of a Cancer case. With Pancreatic cancer, it is usually fatal with only a 4% 5-year survival rate. Up to 80% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die within the 1st year.

I do believe Luciano will live forever through his magnificant voice, but as his voice finally falls silent, it literally will be the end of the "Three Tenor era". However, this CD I have, might be worth thrice as much!

Below is the lovely lyrics of the song Perhaps Love, one that has really caught me and my tears.

Perhaps love is like a resting place

A shelter from the storm

It exists to give you comfort

It is there to keep you warm

And in those times of trouble

When you are most alone

The memory of love will bring you home

Perhaps love is like a window

Perhaps an open door

It invites you to come closer

It wants to show you more

And even if you lose yourself

And don`t know what to do

The memory of love will see you through

Oh, love to some is like a cloud

To some as strong as steel

For some a way of living

For some a way to feel

And some say love is holding on

And some say letting go

And some say love is everything

And some say they don`t know

Perhaps love is like the ocean

Full of conflict, full of pain

Like a fire when it's cold outside

Or thunder when it rains

If I should live forever

And all my dreams come true

My memories of love will be of you

Words and music by John Denver