World renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti is dead at age 71 after an extended bout with cancer. The program remembers the singer with a performance by Aretha Franklin.

Luciano Pavarotti, whose powerful tenor brought opera to the masses and almost unprecedented pop stardom to an opera singer, died early this morning at his villa in Modena, Italy. He was 71.

Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He was one of "The Three ...