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Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007)


Luciano Pavarotti was the best-selling classical singer and humanitarian known for his most original and popular performances with the 'Three Tenors' and 'Pavarotti & Friends'. He was born on October 12, 1935, in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy. He was the first child and only son of two children in the family of a baker... See full bio »

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Filmography

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2012 Quartet (performer: "Bella figlia dell'amore")
 
2007-2012 Banda sonora (TV series)
Episode #8.6 (2012) (performer: "Nessun dorma")
Episode #5.4 (2009) (performer: "Nessun dorma")
Episode #4.10 (2008) (performer: "O sole mio")
Episode #1.10 (2007) (performer: "Adiós a la vida")
 
2011 Metal Evolution (TV series documentary)
Pre-Metal (2011) (performer: "Questo o quella")
 
2011 Gent de paraula (TV series)
Episode #1.29 (2011) (performer: "Caruso")
 
2009 Tetro (performer: "Madama Butterfly: Ecco Son Giunte Al Somme Del Pendio" 1904 - uncredited)
 
2008 Two Lovers (performer: "O Lola ch'ai di latti di cammisa" 1890, "L'Elisir D'Amore: Una Furtiva Lagrima Act 2" 1831)
 
2007 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
Episode #2.10 (2007) (performer: "La donna è mobile")
 
2007 Les grands du rire (TV series)
Episode dated 6 October 2007 (2007) (performer: "Ti adoro", "Torri i sorriente", "Ave Maria", "La danza", "Nessun dorma")
 
2007 How to Catch a Millionaire (TV movie) (performer: "Nessun Dorma")
 
2004 Man on Fire (performer: "Nessun Dorma from Turandot")
 
2001 Grand Theft Auto 3 (Video Game) (performer: "Chi mi frena in tal momento", "Le Donna è Mobile")
 
2001 Twisted Metal: Black (Video Game) (performer: "Vesti La Guibba")
 
2000 The Family Man (performer: "La donna è mobile")
 
2000 The Sopranos (TV series)
Do Not Resuscitate (2000) (performer: "Non ti scordar di me" - uncredited)
 
2000 Sightings of Bono (video short) (performer: "Miss Sarajevo")
 
2000 The Three Tenors Christmas (TV special) (performer: "White Christmas", "Let It Snow", "O Tannembaum", "Ay! Para Navidad", "Tu scendi dalle stelle", "Ave Maria, dolce Maria", "Wiegenlied", "Jingle Bells", "La Virgen lava pañales" / "Ave Maria, dolce Maria")
 
2000 Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia and Tibet (TV special documentary) (performer: "Cielito lindo", "There Must Be an Angel", "I Knew I Loved You", "'O Sole Mio", "Funiculi, Funiculà")
 
1999 Analyze This (performer: "M'appari tutt'amor")
 
1998 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Alec Baldwin/Luciano Pavarotti, Vanessa Williams (1998) (performer: "Adeste Fideles" - uncredited)
 
1998 Three Tenors '98 World Cup Paris (TV special) (performer: "Quando Le Sere al Placido", "Granada", "Sous le Ciel de Paris", "Solamente Una Vez", "Maria, Mari", "Torero Quiero", "Parlami d'Amore", "Tu, Ca Nun Chiagne", "Manha de Carnaval", "Ti Voglio Tanto Bene", "Caruso", "Nessun Dorma", "'O surdato 'nnammurato", "Ay, ay, ay", "Lolita", "You'll Never Walk Alone")
 
1997 Marius and Jeannette (performer: "O' Sole mio !" / as L. Pavarotti)
 
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces (performer: "Nessun Dorma")
 
1996 Pavarotti & Friends for War Child (TV special) (performer: "New York, New York")
 
1994 The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 (TV special) (performer: "Pourquoi me réveiller", "Non ti scordar di me", "My Way", "Moon River", "Singin' in the Rain", "Ave Maria", "Nessun dorma", "America", "All I Ask of You", "Funiculì Funiculà", "Sous les ponts de Paris", "Aquarela do Brasil", "Marechiare", "Lippen Schweigen")
 
1994 Pavarotti Plus! Sixth Edition (TV special) (performer: "Recondita armonia", "Madre, non dromi?... Ai nostri monti", "Parigi, o cara", "Invan Alvaro", "O figli, o figli miei!... Ah la paterna mano", "Dio ti giocondi", "In un coupé?", "L'acque sante del Giordano", "Tra voi, belle", "Brindisi")
 
1992 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Episode dated 22 May 1992 (1992) (performer: "Ave Maria Op.52 No.1" 1825 - uncredited)
 
1991 The Metropolitan Opera Presents (TV series)
The Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Gala (1991) (performer: "Rigoletto: Act III", "La Bohème: O Mimì tu più non torni")
 
1991 Video Diaries (TV series documentary)
On the March with Bobby's Army (1991) (performer: "Nessun Dorma" - uncredited)
 
1987 Fatal Attraction (performer: "SELECTIONS FROM PUCCINI'S MADAMA BUTTERFLY" 1904)
 
1987 The Witches of Eastwick (performer: "Nessun Dorma")
 
1986 Castaway (writer: "NESSUM DORMA aria from Turandot")
 
1985 The Goonies (performer: "Una Furtiva Lagrima")
 
1984 Pavarotti in Concert at the Madison Square Garden (TV special) (performer: "'O Sole Mio", "Mamma", "Chitarra Romana", "Frà Poco a Me Ricover", "Questa o Quella", "Nessun Dorma!")
 
1982 Yes, Giorgio (performer: "If We Were In Love", "Excerpts from Turandot", "Una furtiva lagrima", "La donna e mobile", "Donna non vidi mai", "Nessun dorma", "Ave Maria", "O Sole Mio", "Santa Lucia", "Mattinata", "I Left My Heart In San Francisco", "Funiculi, Funicula")
 
1980 A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti (TV movie) (performer: "Mille cherubini en coro", "Agnus Dei", "Panis angelicus", "Gesu Bambino", "Pieta Signore")
 
Show ShowActor (24 titles)
1996 Andrea Chénier (TV movie)
Andrea Chénier
 
1996 Pavarotti on Miami Beach (TV movie)
 
1977-1994 The Metropolitan Opera Presents (TV series)
Canio / Duke of Mantua / Ernani / …
Il Tabarro/Pagliacci (1994) … Canio
Ernani (1983) … Ernani
Idomeneo (1982) … Idomeneo
Der Rosenkavalier (1982) … Italian Singer
Rigoletto (1981) … Duke of Mantua
 
1992 Weltstars singen Weihnachtslieder (TV movie)
Singer (voice)
 
1992 Don Carlo (TV movie)
Don Carlo
 
1991 L'elisir d'amore (TV movie)
Nemorino
 
1991 Un ballo in maschera (TV movie)
Gustav III
 
1990 Tosca (TV movie)
Cavaradossi
 
1990 Die Fledermaus (TV movie)
Party's Guest singer
 
1988 Il trovatore (TV movie)
Manrico
 
1988 La Bohème (TV movie)
Rodolfo
 
1988 Maria Stuarda (TV movie)
Leicester (voice)
 
1986 Un ballo in maschera (TV movie)
Gustavo III
 
1986 La Bohème (TV movie)
Rodolfo
 
1985 Aida (TV movie)
Radamès
 
1984 Un Ballo in Maschera (TV movie)
Riccardo
 
1982 Yes, Giorgio
Giorgio Fini
 
1982 La bohème (TV movie)
Rodolfo
 
1981/II Aida (TV movie)
Radamès
 
1979 La Gioconda (TV movie)
Enzo Grimaldi
 
1979 La bohème (TV movie)
Rodolfo
 
1976 I puritani (TV movie)
Arturo
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2010 Special Collector's Edition (TV series) (dedicatee - 1 episode)
Comparativa: La vida de Brian (2010) (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (74 titles)
2010 Legends (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Taff (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 3 January 2007 (2007) … Himself
 
2006 Joan Sutherland: The Reluctant Prima Donna (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Turin 2006: XX Olympic Winter Games (TV mini-series)
Himself
 
2005 Newsnight (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 12 September 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2004 Zu & Co Live at Royal Albert Hall (video)
Himself
 
2004 Arena (TV series documentary)
Himself
Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (2004) … Himself
 
2003 Dans la lumière (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 22 November 2003 (2003) … Himself
 
2000-2003 Wetten, dass..? (TV series)
Himself
Wetten, dass..? aus Graz (2003) … Himself
Wetten, dass..? aus Basel (2000) … Himself
 
2003 Parkinson (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 1 November 2003 (2003) … Himself
 
1994-2003 Charlie Rose (TV series)
Himself - Guest
Episode dated 3 October 2003 (2003) … Himself - Guest
Episode dated 5 September 1994 (1994) … Himself - Guest
 
2003 The Royal Variety Performance 2003 (TV documentary)
Performer
 
2002 Pavarotti canta Verdi (TV special documentary)
Tenor
 
2002 Pavarotti & Friends 2002 for Angola (TV special documentary)
Tenor
 
2001 2001 World Awards (TV movie)
Himself
 
2001 Pavarotti & Friends for Afghanistan (TV special documentary)
Tenor
 
1996-2000 Mundo VIP (TV series)
Himself
Show nº211 (2000) … Himself
Show nº110 (1998) … Himself
Show nº 16 (1996) … Himself
 
2000 Brigitte & Friends (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 28 May 2000 (2000) … Himself
 
1999-2000 Behind the Music (TV series documentary)
Himself
Ricky Martin (2000) … Himself
Duran Duran (1999) … Himself
 
2000 Festival di Sanremo (TV series)
Himself - Host
Episode #50.1 (2000) … Himself - Host
 
2000 The Three Tenors Christmas (TV special)
 
2000 Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia and Tibet (TV special documentary)
 
2000 Great Tenor Performances (video documentary)
 
1999 The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 22 October 1999 (1999) … Himself
 
1999 Michael Jackson and Friends: A Concert for Kosovo's Children (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
1999 Power Vision - Pop Galerie (TV series documentary)
Himself
Céline Dion (1999) … Himself
 
1999 The 41st Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
1999 Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Himself - Musical Guest
Alec Baldwin/Luciano Pavarotti, Vanessa Williams (1998) … Himself - Musical Guest
 
1992-1998 Great Performances (TV series)
Himself
Pavarotti: My World (1995) … Himself
Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor (1992) … Himself
 
1998 Biography (TV series documentary)
Himself
Enrico Caruso: Voice of the Century (1998) … Himself
 
1998 The Best Is Yet to Come (video)
Himself
 
1998 Three Tenors '98 World Cup Paris (TV special)
Himself
 
1998 Céline Dion: Let's Talk About Love (TV documentary)
 
1997 Diana: The Nation's Farewell (TV movie)
Himself
 
1997 Pavarotti's Triumphant Return to Wales (TV movie)
Himself
 
1996 The Three Tenors at Giants Stadium (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
1991-1996 The Metropolitan Opera Presents (TV series)
Duke of Mantua / Himself / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party
James Levine Gala (1996) … Himself
The Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Gala (1991) … Duke of Mantua / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party
 
1996 Pavarotti & Friends for War Child (TV special)
Himself - Tenor
 
1995 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Himself - Guest
Episode #3.231 (1995) … Himself - Guest
 
1995 Pavarotti & Friends Together for the Children of Bosnia (TV documentary)
Himself - Tenor
 
1994 CBS This Morning (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 26 September 1994 (1994) … Himself
Episode dated 30 August 1994 (1994) … Himself
 
1994 The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 (TV special)
Tenor
 
1994 Pavarotti Plus! Sixth Edition (TV special)
Tenor
 
1994 Pavarotti & Friends 2 (TV documentary)
Himself - Tenor
 
1993 Cue the Music (TV series)
Himself
 
1993 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 15 December 1993 (1993) … Himself
 
1978-1993 Good Morning America (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 25 June 1993 (1993) … Himself
Episode dated 12 February 1980 (1980) … Himself
Episode dated 15 December 1978 (1978) … Himself
 
1993 The 1993 World Music Awards (TV special)
Himself - Performer
 
1993 Pavarotti in Paris (TV movie)
Himself
 
1992 A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song (TV documentary)
Singer of Gesu Bambino
 
1992 Pavarotti & Friends (TV special documentary)
Tenor
 
1991 The 100th Telecast: Pavarotti Plus! Live from Lincoln Center (TV special documentary)
Tenor
 
1990 Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
1990 Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert (TV documentary)
Tenor
 
1987 Distant Harmony (documentary)
 
1987 Luciano Pavarotti: Gala Concert (TV special)
Tenor
 
1986 The Verdi Requiem (TV special)
Tenor
 
1976-1985 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 17 March 1985 (1985) … Himself
Episode dated 14 September 1979 (1979) … Himself
Episode dated 22 March 1976 (1976) … Himself
 
1984 Pavarotti in Concert at the Madison Square Garden (TV special)
Himself - Tenor
 
1983 The Metropolitan Opera: Centennial Gala (TV special)
Himself
 
1982 Pavarotti & Friends (TV special)
Himself
 
1981 The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Original Song
 
1980 A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti (TV movie)
Himself
 
1980 Omnibus (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 15 June 1980 (1980) … Himself
 
1980 Today (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 11 February 1980 (1980) … Himself
 
1978-1980 Live from Lincoln Center (TV series)
Himself
Pension Fund Benefit Concert (1980) … Himself
 
1973 Jack Paar Tonite (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 17 October 1973 (1973) … Himself
 
1967 Messa da Requiem von Giuseppe Verdi (TV special)
Tenor
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (27 titles)
2012 The Great Pretender (video documentary)
Himself
 
2006-2012 60 Minutes (TV series documentary)
 
2008-2012 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2011 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2010 No me la puc treure del cap (TV series)
 
2010 Legenden (TV series documentary)
 
2007-2010 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
 
2010 The South Bank Show (TV series documentary)
 
2008 Catalunya.cat (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2008 Génération duo (TV movie)
Himself
 
2007 Les grands du rire (TV series)
 
2007 De wereld draait door (TV series)
 
2007 13 heures le journal (TV series)
 
2007 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)
 
2007 La tele de tu vida (TV series)
 
2007 Great Performances (TV series)
 
2006 The Best of the Royal Variety (TV series)
 
2006 The Queen
Himself (uncredited)
 
2006 Live from Lincoln Center (TV series)
 
2004 Hitlisten des Nordens (TV series)
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
 
2002 Saturday Night Live Christmas 2002 (TV movie)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2000 The Natural History of the Chicken (documentary)
Himself
 
1991 60 Minutes: The Entertainers (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1982 Verdi (TV mini-series)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Tv commercial for Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank (1998-1999)

Publicity Listings:

2 Print Biographies  | 7 Interviews  | 61 Articles  | 4 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

Official Site | See more »

Alternate Names:

Die drei Tenöre

Height:

5' 10¾" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

As of his 70th birthday, October 12, 2005, he was the most famous living operatic tenor. See more »

Trademark:

Powerful singing voice See more »

Nickname:

Big Luciano See more »

Star Sign:

Libra