In brief

Opera star marries longtime partner

MODENA, Italy - Tenor Luciano Pavarotti married his longtime partner and producer Nicoletta Mantovani on Saturday in a celebrity-studded wedding and a song-filled, champagne and caviar reception that featured clowns and a carousel.

Hundreds of fans gathered outside Modena's main theater, the Teatro Comunale, to watch the bride, dressed in a dusty rose-colored Armani gown and toting a bouquet of pink roses, arrive for the nuptials with her father. She waved to the crowd before heading inside.

The couple's year-old daughter, Alice, was the official hostess of the wedding, and like her mother, wore a rose Armani dress, Pavarotti's publicist Terri Robson said.

Pavarotti, 68, and Mantovani, 34, have been living together since 1996. 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 wedding guest list included Sting and his wife, Trudy Styler, Bono and his family, designer Donatella Versace and tenor Jose Carreras.