Not a lot of big acts make it to Tulsa.

Pavarotti did.

Luciano Pavarotti started his farewell tour here in 2005. After the tour he retired, never to perform again.

He died this week.

Frank Sinatra played here in 1994. After Tulsa he made only two more stops on his tour. After that he retired, never to perform again.

He died in 1998.

Enrico Caruso performed here in 1920. A few weeks later he started coughing up blood. He died of pneumonia eight weeks later. Legend has it that he caught the pneumonia in Oklahoma.

Tulsa is hard on singers. Or, at least, Italian ones.

(Thank you Tulsa World.)