{"id":322813,"date":"2025-12-02T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/322813\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:23:08","slug":"pavarotti-statue-frozen-knee-deep-in-ice-rink-strikes-wrong-note-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/322813\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavarotti statue frozen knee-deep in ice rink strikes wrong note in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before it was opened on 29 November, Biancani posted a doctored image of Pavarotti&#8217;s statue playing ice hockey with the hashtag #DaiUnCinqueAPavarotti, which translates to &#8220;Give a high-five to Pavarotti&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect a town would allow this treatment of the memory and the image of a person who made Italy great around the world,&#8221; Ms Mantovani told local outlet Il Resto del Carlino. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She accused the council of making a &#8220;poorly executed, absurd decision&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The life-size bronze statue was officially unveiled in Pesaro in April 2024, with Ms Mantovani and the couple&#8217;s daughter, Alice, in attendance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple often holidayed in Pesaro, where Pavarotti had a villa and was an honorary citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before it was opened on 29 November, Biancani posted a doctored image of Pavarotti&#8217;s statue playing ice hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-322813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}