Herbert Breslin’s tell-all biography of Luciano Pavarotti has been the talk of the opera world this year for its catty and bitter tone and mind-boggling revelations concerning the superstar tenor. But the book also represents the final public split between Pavarotti and the author, who spent decades managing the singer’s affairs, completely in the thrall of his stunning voice and outsized personality. “As Pavarotti got bigger in every way, Breslin’s adoration shrank. By the time of the Three Tenors, a pop phenomenon engineered not by Breslin but by the impresario Tibor Rudas, Breslin was miserable.”