She waved to the crowd before heading inside.The couples year-old daughter, Alice, was the official hostess of the wedding, and like her mother, wore a rose Armani dress and little pink ballet slippers, Pavarottis publicist Terri Robson said.Pavarotti, 68, and Mantovani, 34, have been living together since 1996, when their love story took gossip columns by storm.Mantovani had worked for Pavarotti during summers when she was a university student, and she now produces his Pavarotti Friends concerts as well as other events.The church of a singer Pavarotti had said days before the wedding that for him, getting married in a theater was appropriate because Im getting married in the church of a singer.For the ceremony, the tenor wore a three-piece dark suit, red tie and white hat.During the wedding, which was performed by Modena Mayor Giuliano Barbolini, Andrea Bocelli sang the Ave Maria, and the IDMC gospel choir of London, a childrens choir of Modena and a chamber music orchestra performed.The guest list included Sting and his wife, Trudy Styler, Bono and his family, designers Donatella Versace and Alberta Ferretti, actress Gina Lollobrigida, tenor Jose Carreras and Italian soccer star Alessandro Del Piero.After the ceremony, well-wishers tossed rice on the smiling newlyweds as they ducked out of the theater and into a waiting car.
Lavish reception The couple and their 500 or so guests continued the festivities in a tented reception at a nearby park, where they were greeted with flutes of Dom Perignon champagne and hors doeuvres of caviar, mozzarella and tomato and salami and prosciutto, witnesses said.At one point during the reception, Bono took to the microphone and sang, the witnesses said.For dinner, guests dined on cream of potato soup with truffles; cannelloni pasta stuffed with ricotta cheese, almonds and bacon; veal with artichokes and vegetables; and fruit and ice cream. Italian barolo and brunello wines, as well as a selection of different breads, rounded out the meal, which was capped by an operatic sized wedding cake, the witnesses said.About 100 children were also on the guest list, and they had their own special meal and were entertained during the reception by clowns, a carousel and puppet shows.The bride and groom are planning a long honeymoon, but only after Pavarotti gets through two upcoming performances: a concert in Moscow in a few days and a charity gala in Leipzig, Germany on Thursday.Pavarotti has three children from his marriage to Adua Veroni, who managed his multimillion-dollar business affairs. About Visit Today Store Today Apps Terms of Service Privacy policy Do Not Sell My Personal Information CA Notice Coupons Contact Careers Closed Captioning SiteMap Advertise Ad Choices 2020 NBC UNIVERSAL. He also warned that there was likely to be a battle over the singers will, in particular over an apartment he owned in New York. ![]() A notary was quoted as saying that 50 per cent of the singers estate, estimated at 200m, would go to his first three daughters and only 25 per cent to Nicoletta. He said Nicoletta has been tormenting me, shes isolated me, my friends never come to see me any more. Shes always thinking about money, she brings documents and makes me sign them. She threatens to prevent me from seeing Alice their four-year old daughter. You know how its going to end, Lidia Either I put a bullet in my head or were going to separate. Adua and Nicoletta came face to face they were in the same hotel. Pavarotti called me at two in the morning to say, Lidia, those two are going to kill each other, do something, please. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post.
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