Pavarotti was too ill to perform. The story goes that Ken Ehrlich, producer of the 1998 Grammys, approached Aretha in her dressing room with a cassette. In Ehrlich’s words: “When she heard it, she said, ‘Yeah, I can do this.'”

For one aria, the queen of soul became “royalty in the world of opera.”

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