| | Bellissimo! From Pavarotti to Loren, a great start |
 | | These people even had the guts to make a lounge act out of the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron, which began as a flash of flame on the stadium's floor and circled the stage before shooting up the tallest torch in Games history to an explosive ignition. |
 | | That warm-up act in the little (35,000 seats) old soccer stadium was possible because the closer was Pavarotti, the magnificent tenor whose staging included a Belgium-sized red curtain and a chandelier only NASA could have engineered. |
 | | The casting director leaned heavily on a veteran lineup of crowd-pleasers, from Pavarotti and Loren to non-Italian Peter Gabriel, who left Genesis in 1974 and never quite recovered. |
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