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Worldwide Curtain Call To Honor Pavarotti

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The Associated Press

Published: September 30, 2007

ROME - Italy will mark the death of tenor Luciano Pavarotti with a series of concerts, film screenings, photographic retrospectives and other commemorative events at its cultural centers around the globe, the Foreign Ministry said.

The events begin the week of Oct. 6, a month after Pavarotti's death from pancreatic cancer.

They include video clips of Pavarotti interviews screened at the Italian cultural institute in Lima, Peru; concerts in Budapest, Hungary; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Lyon, France; a viewing of a 'Traviata' performance in Montevideo, Uruguay; and a series of Saturday screenings of Pavarotti operas in New Delhi.

In New York, a photographic exhibition and a series of concerts are planned, while in Seoul, South Korea, the National Opera is planning a commemorative evening, the ministry said in a statement.

The film footage, provided by RAI state television, has been dispatched to 90 Italian cultural institutions around the world 'to bring the most important moments of Pavarotti's international career to the largest public possible,' the statement said.

Pavarotti, who died at 71, was beloved by generations of operagoers and pop fans alike for his breathtaking high Cs, hearty renditions of popular folk songs such as 'O Sole Mio' and collaborations with pop singers including Bono, with whom he recorded 'Miss Sarajevo' in 1995 to raise money to help rebuild Bosnia.

During a career spanning four decades, Pavarotti was the best-selling classical artist, with more than 100 million records sold since the 1960s.

He had the first classical album to reach No. 1 on the pop charts.

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