Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

Sorrento's sea cliffs and luxury hotels have attracted notable people, including Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti.

Even with all the growing animosity Lucky Luciano couldn't leave out his old associate, Vito " Don Vito " Genovese who had his group of distributors including Anthony " Tony Bender " Strollo, Vincent " Vinnie Bruno " Mauro, Frank " The Bug " Caruso, Salvatore " Sam " Maneri, Vincent " Chin " Gigante and even Joseph " Joe Cago " Valachi who were all associated with the " Papalia-Agueci Network " of the Magaddino crime family of Buffalo and led by members, John " Johnny Pops " Papalia and Alberto Agueci of Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario.

Many famous figures have appeared on the broad stage of this stately hall, including William Booth, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Winston Churchill, George Gershwin, Glenn Gould, Vladimir Horowitz, Dalai Lama, Gordon Lightfoot, Luciano Pavarotti, Neil Young, Oscar Peterson, and Arturo Toscanini.

A version of Caruso sung by Luciano Pavarotti sold over 9 million copies, and another version was a track on Andrea Bocelli's first international album Romanza, which later sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

The list of renowned artists who have performed at the Academy reads like a " who's who " of the past century of performing arts history, with such greats as Marian Anderson, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Aaron Copland, Vladimir Horowitz, Gustav Mahler, Anna Pavlova, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Leontyne Price, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Sutherland, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, among many others.

* 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( b. 1925 )

* January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( b. 1897 )

* Luciano Bellosi " Per un contesto cimabuesco senese a ) Guido da Siena e il probabile Dietisalvi " Propsettiva 61, 1991 pp. 6 – 20 and " Per un contesto cimabuesco senese b ) Rinaldo da Siena e Guido di Graziano " Propsettiva 61, 1991, pp. 15 – 28

Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.

* Berio, Luciano, Rossana Dalmonte, and Bálint András Varga.

His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for prosecution.

Dewey led a successful investigation into Luciano's lucrative prostitution operation, eventually sending Luciano to jail with a 30 – 50 year sentence.

Caesar's invasion may well have led to the loss of some 40, 000-70, 000 scrolls in a warehouse adjacent to the port ( as Luciano Canfora argues, they were likely copies produced by the Library intended for export ), but it is unlikely to have affected the Library or Museum, given that there is ample evidence that both existed later.

While there he was a member of the Juilliard Ensemble under the direction of Luciano Berio, performing with them not only in New York but also the University of Hawaii and Dartmouth College.

Hartmann also provided a platform for the music of the young composers who came to the fore in the late 1940s and early 1950s, helping to establish such figures as Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Orff, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and many others.

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.

Lutenistic practice has reached considerable heights in recent years, thanks to a growing number of world-class lutenists: Robert Barto, Eduardo Egüez, Edin Karamazov, Nigel North, Christopher Wilson, Luca Pianca, Pascal Monteilhet, Lex van Sante, Ariel Abramovich, Evangelina Mascardi, Luciano Contini, Hopkinson Smith, Yasunori Imamura, Paul O ' Dette, Jozef van Wissem et alii.

* 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( d. 1962 )

* 1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer ( d. 1994 )

Scritti in onore di Luciano Cavalli, ed.

Luciano Berio: Two Interviews, translated and edited by David Osmond-Smith.

In addition to her own work, Crow has performed with The Rolling Stones and has sung duets with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Tony Bennet and Sting among others.

Yet conflicts between the so-called Darmstadt school, which included composers like Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Luciano Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig, soon arose, receiving explicit expression in Adorno's 1954 lecture, " The Aging of the New Music ", where he argued that atonality's freedom was being restricted to serialism in much the same way as it was once restricted by twelve-tone technique.

* March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts.

His successor was Cardinal Albino Luciano, who took the name John Paul.

* June 28 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire and writer ( d. 1995 )

* November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss ( d. 1962 )

Father Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá () ( August 28, 1810 – July 9, 1848 ), Catalan Spanish Catholic priest, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher.

On July 18, 1936, Luciano was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison, along with Betillo and others.

In early July 1949, police in Rome arrested Luciano on suspicion of involvement in the shipping of narcotics to New York.

On July 15, after a week in jail, police released Luciano without filing any charges.

Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.

A concert by the Three Tenors — Josep Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti — was held on 13 July 1997.

On July 18, 1936, Luciano received a 30 to 50-year sentence in state prison.

Judi Evans ( also credited as Judi Evans Luciano, born July 12, 1964 ) is an American Emmy Award – winning actress ,.

Not known for his eloquence, Riordan became the center of a media circus, due to a remark made July 1, 2004 to a 6-year-old girl, Isis D ' Luciano, in Santa Barbara.

In July, the new national provisional government named Luciano Garcia as the political chief of Texas.

In 1993, Rebekah Colberg along with Eugenio Guerra and Manuel Luciano, the Puerto Rican silver medalists that participated in the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana, handed the games torch to Puerto Rican basketball player Juan “ Pachín ” Vicéns during the official opening ceremonies of the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Colberg died on July 8, 1985 in her native town and is buried in the Old San Juan Cemetery, Cementerio Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis.

* Luciano Chiara ( July 2, 1910-June 10, 1969 in Palermo ) a mathematician,