Luciano Pavarotti is seen during the curtain call of Puccini's "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York Saturday March 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) NEW YORK -- Determined to end his great career with dignity, Luciano Pavarotti returned to the Metropolitan Opera one last time, his body and voice betraying the frailties of age, but his spirit gloriously intact. Few would have predicted two years ago that the beloved tenor, now 68, would be back on the Met stage Saturday night for the first of three farewell performances in Puccini's "Tosca." It was in May 2002 that Joseph Volpe, the Met's general manager, told a disappointed audience that Pavarotti had canceled what was...
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