Now that Luciano Pavarotti often shares a stage with the likes of Celine Dion, it’s easy to forget that he and Herbert Breslin truly did create perhaps the greatest career in opera history. When Breslin first met the Modena baker’s son in the late sixties, Pavarotti was singing in minor European theaters, a young (and even then overweight) tenor with a beautiful voice, a broad smile, and an innate charisma. What he lacked was an agent to marshal those gifts into a marketable package. Breslin was an interloper in the classical-music world, a product of corporate America.”