Luciano Pavaorotti
12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007
Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti was born on 12 October 1935 on the outskirts of Modena, Emilia Romagna, Italy. His father Fernando was a baker and his mother, Adele Venturi, worked in a cigar factory. The family was poor and the four of them (Luciano had a younger sister called Lella) lived in a two room apartment. Fernando Pavarotti was a talented tenor but suffered from nerves so only ever sang as an amateur and never took it up as a career.
During World War II the family were forced to leave the city and headed into the nearby countryside where they rented a single room from a local farmer. While they were living there Luciano developed a keen interest in farming.
Although poor, Luciano Pavarotti enjoyed a very normal and happy childhood and like most young boys had a great love for sport, especially football. His love of music developed initially by listening to recordings his father had of Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Martinelli, Tito Schipa and Enrico Caruso who were all popular tenors at that time. When he was nine years old he joined the small local choir with his father. During his teenage years he regularly went to the cinema to watch Mario Lanza movies and then when he came home he would imitate him in the mirror. When he finished school he wanted to be a goalkeeper but his mother persuaded him otherwise and he trained to be a teacher instead.
He taught for two years but then decided to follow a musical career instead, although his father thought it was a risk and was reluctant to give his consent. Pavarotti began to study music seriously in 1954 (aged 19) and was taught in Modena by Arrigo Pola who was not only a well-respected teacher but also a professional tenor. Arrigo Pola taught Luciano Pavarotti without ever charging any fees.
Pavarotti joined a male voice choir in Modena and in 1955 the choir won first prize at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales. He said that this was the most important experience of his life and the thing which inspired him to become a professional singer.
Arrigo Pola moved to Japan so Pavarotti became a student of Ettore Camogalliani. Mirella Freni, an old childhood friend, was also studying under Camogalliani and she and Pavarotti went on to share the stage on numerous occasions and to make many recordings together.
Pavarotti had to support himself while he was studying and continued to work as a teacher for a while and then later as an insurance salesman. After six years of hard work and study he had only performed at a few recitals in small towns, all without pay. He developed a nodule on his vocal chords and after giving a disastrous concert in the Italian town of Ferrara he made the decision to give up singing. This decision seemed to trigger some kind of miracle and the nodule disappeared after which his voice was much improved. Pavarotti said "Everything I had learned came together with my natural voice to make the sound I had been struggling so hard to achieve". During this period he met his first wife Adua Veroni and they married in 1961.
In the same year he made his first significant appearance as Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia. Several other appearances in small, regional Italian opera houses were followed by his first international appearance in La Traviata in Belgrade. This was quickly followed by performances at the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House in London.
His really big break came in 1963 when Joan Sutherland, along with her conductor husband, Richard Bonynge, were looking for a young tenor to take on tour with them to Australia. One important factor was that the tenor would have to taller than Joan Sutherland and Pavarotti's large physique fitted the bill perfectly. The Australian tour went ahead with a staggering forty performances in two months. Later, Pavarotti gave Joan Sutherland the credit for his breathing technique that would sustain him throughout his career.
In 1965 he made his American debut in Miami with Joan Sutherland and in the same year he made his first appearance at La Scala in La Bohème with Mirella Freni.
Luciano Pavarotti went on to become one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time and managed to cross over into popular music gaining worldwide fame. As one of the Three Tenors he brought opera to a wide audience and used his fame and fortune to reach out and help the less fortunate through his charity work. He was deservedly classed as one of the finest tenors of the 20th century.
After 34 years of marriage he divorced his first wife, with whom he had three daughters. In 2003 he married his former personal assistant Nicoletta Mantovani. The couple already had a daughter and they had a second child, a son, who did not survive due to complications at birth.
Luciano Pavarotti died from pancreatic cancer on 6 September 2007, aged 71.
Selected Recordings
Key studio and live performances (chronological).
Favourite Italian Arias (1966)
5 Arias from La Bohème, Tosca & Rigoletto
Bellini — Beatrice di Tenda (1966)
- Filippo Maria Visconti — Cornelius Opthof
- Beatrice di Tenda — Joan Sutherland
- Agnese del Maino — Josephine Veasey
- Orombello — Luciano Pavarotti
- Anichino — Joseph Ward
- Rizzardo del Maino — Joseph Ward
Donizetti — La Fille du régiment (1967)
- Marie — Joan Sutherland
- Tonio — Luciano Pavarotti
- La Marquise de Berkenfield — Monica Sinclair
- Hortensius — Jules Bruyère
- Sulpice — Spiro Malas
- Le Caporal — Eric Garrett
- La Duchesse de Crakentorp — Edith Coates
- Un paysan — Alan Jones
- Un notaire — Omar Gorde
Verdi — Messa da Requiem (1967)
- Joan Sutherland — Soprano
- Marilyn Horne — Mezzo-soprano
- Luciano Pavarotti — Tenor
- Martti Talvela — Bass
Arias by Verdi & Donizetti (1968)
Arias from Luisa Miller, I due Foscari, Un ballo in maschera, Macbeth, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il duca d'Alba, La favorita & Don Sebastiano
Richard Strauss — Der Rosenkavalier (1968)
- Die Feldmarschallin — Régine Crespin
- Oktavian — Yvonne Minton
- Baron Ochs von Lerchenau — Manfred Jungwirth
- Sophie — Helen Donath
- Herr von Faninal — Otto Wiener
- Ein Sänger — Luciano Pavarotti
- Annina — Anne Howells
- Valzacchi — Murray Dickie
- Leitmetzerin — Emmy Loose
- Ein Polizeikommissar — Herbert Lackner
- Der Haushofmeister der Feldmarschallin — Hubert Prikopa
- Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal — Kurt Equiluz
- Ein Notar — Alfred Jerger
- Ein Wirt — Anton Dermota
Donizetti — L'elisir d'amore (1970)
- Adina — Joan Sutherland
- Nemorino — Luciano Pavarotti
- Belcore — Dominic Cossa
- Dulcamara — Spiro Malas
- Giannetta — Maria Casula
Verdi — Un ballo in maschera (1970)
- Riccardo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Renato — Sherrill Milnes
- Amelia — Renata Tebaldi
- Ulrica — Regina Resnik
- Oscar — Helen Donath
- Silvano — José van Dam
- Samuel — Leonardo Monreale
- Tom — Nicolas Christou
- Judge — Pier Francesco Poli
- Servant — Mario Alessandrini
Verdi — Macbeth (1970)
- Macbeth — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Banco — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Lady Macbeth — Elena Souliotis
- Macduff — Luciano Pavarotti
- Malcolm — Riccardo Cassinelli
- Lady Macbeth's Attendant — Helen Lawrence
- Doctor — Raymond Myers
- Macbeth's Servant — John Noble
- Assassin — Leslie Fyson
- Herald — David Reed
- Apparitions — John Noble, Andrew Dance, Peter Marsland
Rossini — Stabat Mater (1970)
- Pilar Lorengar — Soprano
- Yvonne Minton — Mezzo-soprano
- Luciano Pavarotti — Tenor
- Hans Sotin — Bass
Tenor Arias from Italian Opera (1971)
Arias from Guglielmo Tell, I puritani, Il trovatore, L'arlesiana, La Bohème, Mefistofele, Don Pasquale, La Gioconda & Maristella
Verdi — Rigoletto (1971)
- Il Duca di Mantova — Luciano Pavarotti
- Rigoletto — Sherrill Milnes
- Gilda — Joan Sutherland
- Sparafucile — Martti Talvela
- Maddalena — Huguette Tourangeau
- Giovanna — Gillian Knight
- Il Conte di Monterone — Clifford Grant
- Marullo — Christian du Plessis
- Borsa — Riccardo Cassinelli
- Il Conte di Ceprano — John Gibbs
- La Contessa Ceprano — Kiri Te Kanawa
- Usciere di corte — John Noble
- Paggio della Duchessa — Josephte Clément
Donizetti — Lucia di Lammermoor (1971)
- Lucia — Joan Sutherland
- Lord Enrico Ashton — Sherrill Milnes
- Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood — Luciano Pavarotti
- Raimondo — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Lord Arturo Bucklaw — Ryland Davies
- Normanno Pier — Francesco Poli
- Alisa — Huguette Tourangeau
Puccini — Turandot (1972)
- Turandot — Joan Sutherland
- Calaf — Luciano Pavarotti
- Liù — Montserrat Caballé
- Timur — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- L'Imperatore Altoum — Peter Pears
- Ping — Tom Krause
- Pang — Pier Francesco Poli
- Pong — Piero de Palma
- Un mandarino — Sabin Markov
- Il Principe di Persia — Pier Francesco Poli
Puccini — La Bohème (1972)
- Mimì — Mirella Freni
- Rodolfo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Musetta — Elizabeth Harwood
- Marcello — Rolando Panerai
- Colline — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Schaunard — Gianni Maffeo
- Benoit/Alcindoro — Michel Sénéchal
- Parpignol — Gernot Pietsch
- Sergente dei doganieri — Hans-Dieter Appelt
- Doganiere — Hans-Dietrich Pohl
Bellini — I puritani (1973)
- Elvira — Joan Sutherland
- Lord Gualtiero Valton — Gian Carlo Luccardi
- Sir Giorgio Valton — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Lord Arturo Talbo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Sir Riccardo Forth — Piero Cappuccilli
- Sir Bruno Roberton — Renato Cazzaniga
- Enrichetta di Francia — Anita Caminada
The World's Favourite Tenor Arias (1973)
- E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)
- La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Carmen)
- Se quel guerrier io fossi … Celeste Aida (Aida)
- Quel trouble inconnu … Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (Faust)
- Recitar! ... Vesti la giubba (Pagliacci)
- M'apparì (Martha)
Pavarotti in Concert (1973)
Items by Bononcini, Handel, Scarlatti, Bellini, Tosti, Respighi & Rossini
Puccini — Madama Butterfly (1974)
- Madama Butterfly — Mirella Freni
- B.F. Pinkerton — Luciano Pavarotti
- Goro — Michel Sénéchal
- Suzuki — Christa Ludwig
- Sharpless — Robert Kerns
- Il commissario imperiale — Hans Helm
- Lo zio Bonzo — Marius Rintzler
- Yakuside — Wolfgang Schneider
- Il principe Yamadori — Giorgio Stendoro
- Kate Pinkerton — Elke Schary
- L'ufficiale del registro — Siegfried Rudolf Frese
- La madre di Cio-Cio-San — Evamaria Hurdes
- La zia di Cio-Cio-San — Erna Maria Mühlberger
- La cugina di Cio-Cio-San — Martha Heigl
Donizetti — La favorita (1974)
- Alfonso — Gabriel Bacquier
- Leonora — Fiorenza Cossotto
- Fernando — Luciano Pavarotti
- Baldassare — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Don Gasparo — Piero de Palma
- Ines — Ileana Cotrubas
- Un cortigiano — Bruno de Franceschi
Donizetti — Maria Stuarda (1974)
- Maria Stuarda — Joan Sutherland
- Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra — Huguette Tourangeau
- Roberto, conte di Leicester — Luciano Pavarotti
- Giorgio Talbot — Roger Soyer
- Lord Guglielmo Cecil, Gran Tesoriere — James Morris
- Anna Kennedy, nutrice di Maria — Margreta Elkins
Verdi — Luisa Miller (1975)
- Il conte di Walter — Bonaldo Giaiotti
- Rodolfo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Federico — Anna Reynolds
- Wurm — Richard van Allan
- Miller — Sherrill Milnes
- Luisa — Montserrat Caballé
- Laura — Annette Céline
- Un contadino — Fernando Pavarotti
O Holy Night (1976)
Songs and carols by Adam, Stradella, Franck, Mercadante, Schubert, Bach/Gounod, Bizet, Berlioz, Yon & Melichar
Mascagni — Cavalleria rusticana (1976)
- Turiddu — Luciano Pavarotti
- Santuzza — Julia Varady
- Lucia — Ida Bormida
- Alfio — Piero Capuccilli
- Lola — Carmen Gonzales
Operatic Recital — Pavarotti & Ricciarelli Live (1976)
Arias and duets from La traviata, Aida, Macbeth, La forza del destino, I lombardi, Il corsaro, Falstaff & Otello
Operatic Recital — Pavarotti & Freni Live (1976)
Arias and duets from La traviata, Werther, I vespri siciliani, La Gioconda, La Fille du régiment, L'elisir d'amore, L'Africaine, Mefistofele & L'amico Fritz
Verdi — Il trovatore (1977)
- Manrico — Luciano Pavarotti
- Il Conte di Luna — Ingvar Wixell
- Ferrando — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Leonora — Joan Sutherland
- Azucena — Marilyn Horne
- Ruiz — Graham Clark
- Ines — Norma Burrowes
- Un vecchio zingaro — Peter Knapp
- Un messo — Wynford Evans
Operatic Duets (1977)
Duets from La traviata, La sonnambula, Linda di Chamounix, Otello & Aida
Bizet (1977)
Au fond du temple saint — from Les Pêcheurs de perles
Leoncavallo — Pagliacci (1977)
- Canio — Luciano Pavarotti
- Nedda — Mirella Freni
- Silvio — Lorenzo Saccomani
- Tonio — Ingvar Wixell
- Beppe — Vincenzo Bello
- Contadini — Pacho Panocia, Fernando Pavarotti
Le Grandi Voci dell'Arena di Verona Vol. 2 Live (1977)
Una furtiva lagrima & Nessun dorma!
Rossini — Petite Messe solennelle (1977)
- Mirella Freni — Soprano
- Lucia Valentini-Terrani — Mezzo-soprano
- Luciano Pavarotti — Tenor
- Ruggero Raimondi — Bass
Puccini — Tosca (1978)
- Floria Tosca — Mirella Freni
- Mario Cavaradossi — Luciano Pavarotti
- Il barone Scarpia — Sherrill Milnes
- Cesare Angelotti — Richard van Allan
- Il sagrestano — Italo Tajo
- Spoletta — Michel Sénéchal
- Sciarrone — Paul Hudson
- Un carceriere — John Tomlinson
- Un pastore — Walter Baratti
Donizetti — Requiem (1979)
- Viorica Cortez — Contralto
- Luciano Pavarotti — Tenor
- Renato Bruson — Baritone
- Paolo Washington — Bass
’O sole mio / Favourite Neapolitan Songs (1979)
13 songs by Tosti, Cannio, Gambardella, Anon, Pennino, D'Annibale, Tagliaferri, De Curtis, Di Capua & Denza
Rossini — Guglielmo Tell (1979)
- Guglielmo Tell — Sherrill Milnes
- Arnoldo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Matilde — Mirella Freni
- Gualtiero — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Melchthal — John Tomlinson
- Jemmy — Della Jones
- Edwige — Elizabeth Connell
- Un pescatore — Cesar Antonio Suarez
- Leutoldo — Richard van Allan
- Gessler — Ferruccio Mazzoli
- Rodolfo — Piero de Palma
- Un cacciatore — John Noble
Verismo Arias (1979)
Arias from Fedora, Mefistofele, Adriana Lecouvreur, Iris, L'Africaine, Werther, La fanciulla del West, Manon Lescaut & Andrea Chénier
Verdi — La traviata (1979)
- Violetta Valéry — Joan Sutherland
- Alfredo Germont — Luciano Pavarotti
- Giorgio Germont — Matteo Manuguerra
- Flora Bervoix — Della Jones
- Annina — Marjon Lambriks
- Gastone — Alexander Oliver
- Barone Douphol — Jonathan Summers
- Marchese d'Obigny — John Tomlinson
- Dottore Grenvil — Giorgio Taddei
- Giuseppe — Ubaldo Gardini
- Commissionario — William Elvin
- Domestico di Flora — David Wilson-Johnson
Bellini — La sonnambula (1980)
- Amina — Joan Sutherland
- Elvino — Luciano Pavarotti
- Il conte Rodolfo — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Teresa — Della Jones
- Lisa — Isobel Buchanan
- Alessio — John Tomlinson
- Un notaro — Piero de Palma
Ponchielli — La Gioconda (1980)
- La Gioconda — Montserrat Caballé
- La Cieca — Alfreda Hodgson
- Enzo Grimaldo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Alvise Badoero — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Laura — Agnes Baltsa
- Barnaba — Sherrill Milnes
- Zuane — John Del Carlo
- Isepo — Regolo Romani
- Pilota / Prima voce dalla laguna — Neil Jenkins
- Seconda voce dalla laguna — Geoffrey Shaw
- Cantore — Stephen Varcoe
- Barnabotto — Rodney Macann
Boito — Mefistofele (1980)
- Mefistofele — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Faust — Luciano Pavarotti
- Margherita — Mirella Freni
- Marta — Nucci Condò
- Wagner — Piero de Palma
- Elena — Montserrat Caballé
- Pantalis — Della Jones
- Nereo — Robin Leggate
Live from Lincoln Center (1981)
Arias, duets and trios from Ernani, Norma, La Bohème, La Gioconda, I Masnadieri, La donna del lago, Otello, Il Trovatore & Beatrice di Tenda
Yes, Giorgio (soundtrack) (1982)
Arias from L'elisir d'amore, Rigoletto, La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut & Turandot. Songs by Leoncavallo, Gambardella, Di Capua, Schubert & Cor
Gala Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Live (1982)
Arias from Tosca, Macbeth, I lombardi, Luisa Miller, Lucia di Lammermoor, L'arlesiana & Turandot, and one song by De Curtis
Verdi — Un ballo in maschera (1982)
- Riccardo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Renato — Renato Bruson
- Amelia — Margaret Price
- Ulrica — Christa Ludwig
- Oscar — Kathleen Battle
- Silvano — Peter Weber
- Samuel — Robert Lloyd
- Tom — Malcolm King
- Judge — Alexander Oliver
- Servant — Peter Hall
Mattinata (1982)
14 songs by Caldara, Ciampi, Bellini, Giordani, Rossini, Gluck, Tosti, Donizetti, Leoncavallo, Beethoven & Durante
Giordano — Andrea Chénier (1982)
- Andrea Chénier — Luciano Pavarotti
- Maddalena — Montserrat Caballé
- Carlo Gérard — Leo Nucci
- Incredibile — Piero de Palma
- Contessa de Coigny — Astrid Varnay
- Madelon — Christa Ludwig
- Bersi — Kathleen Kuhlmann
- Roucher — Tom Krause
- Pietro Fléville — Hugues Cuénod
- Fouquier-Tinville / Majordomo — Neil Howlett
- Mathieu — Giorgio Tadeo
- Abbé — Florindo Andreolli
- Schmidt — Giuseppe Morresi
- Dumas — Ralph Hamer
- News-boy — Carlo Tadeo
Mozart — Idomeneo (1983)
- Idomeneo — Luciano Pavarotti
- Idamante — Agnes Baltsa
- Ilia — Lucia Popp
- Elettra — Edita Gruberová
- Arbace — Leo Nucci
- Gran sacerdote di Nettuno — Timothy Jenkins
- La voce — Nikita Storojew
- Trojan Men — Yoshihisa Yamaji, Nikolaus Hillebrand
- Cretan Women — Gabriele Fontana, Margaretha Hintermeier
Mamma (1984)
Songs by Bixio, De Curtis, Buzzi-Peccia, Gastaldon, Cesarini, Kramer, Rivi, D'Anzi, Di Lazzaro, De Crescenzo, Martuzzi, Califano & Arona (arranged by Henry Mancini)
Bellini — Norma (1984)
- Norma — Joan Sutherland
- Pollione — Luciano Pavarotti
- Adalgisa — Montserrat Caballé
- Oroveso — Samuel Ramey
- Clotilde — Diana Montague
- Flavio — Kim Begley
Passione (1985)
12 songs by Valente & Tagliaferri, Costa, Nardella, Fusco, De Curtis, Di Capua, Mario, Lama & Cardillo
Verdi — Aida (1986)
- Aida — Maria Chiara
- Amneris — Ghena Dimitrova
- Radamès — Luciano Pavarotti
- Amonasro — Leo Nucci
- Ramfis — Paata Burchuladze
- Il re — Luigi Roni
- Un messaggero — Ernesto Gavazzi
- Sacerdotessa — Madelyn Renée
Verdi — Ernani (1987)
- Ernani — Luciano Pavarotti
- Elvira — Joan Sutherland
- Carlo — Leo Nucci
- Silva — Paata Burchuladze
- Giovanna — Linda McLeod
- Riccardo — Richard Morton
- Jago — Alastair Miles
Volare (1987)
16 songs by Modugno & Treppiedi, Denza, Bixio, Sibella, D'Anzi, Bonagura, Pavarotti, Mascheroni, De Curtis, Ruccione, Mascagni & Ferilli (arranged by Henry Mancini)
Pavarotti at Carnegie Hall Live (1987)
Songs by Scarlatti, Stradella, Schubert, Guida, Liszt, Tosti & Sibella; arias from Martha, Il duca d'Alba, Rigoletto & Eteocle e Polinice
Berlioz — Requiem (1989)
Verdi — Rigoletto (1989)
- Il duca di Mantova — Luciano Pavarotti
- Rigoletto — Leo Nucci
- Gilda — June Anderson
- Sparafucile — Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Maddalena — Shirley Verrett
- Giovanna — Vitalba Mosca
- Il Conte di Monterone — Natale de Carolis
- Marullo — Roberto Scaltriti
- Borsa — Piero de Palma
- Il Conte di Ceprano — Carlo de Bortoli
- La Contessa Ceprano — Anna Caterina Antonacci
- Usciere di corte — Orazio Mori
- Paggio della Duchessa — Marilena Laurenza
Donizetti — L'elisir d'amore (1989)
- Adina — Kathleen Battle
- Nemorino — Luciano Pavarotti
- Belcore — Leo Nucci
- Dulcamara — Enzo Dara
- Giannetta — Dawn Upshaw
Carreras, Domingo & Pavarotti in Concert — 3 Tenors (1990)
Arias from L'arlesiana, L'Africaine, Tosca, Das Land des Lächelns, La tabernera del puerto, Andrea Chénier & Turandot. Songs by De Crescenzo, Cardillo, De Curtis, Lara, Bernstein & Lloyd Webber
Verdi — Il trovatore (1990)
- Manrico — Luciano Pavarotti
- Il Conte di Luna — Leo Nucci
- Ferrando — Francesco Ellero d'Artegna
- Leonora — Antonella Banaudi
- Azucena — Shirley Verrett
- Ruiz — Piero de Palma
- Ines — Barbara Frittoli
- Un vecchio zingaro — Roberto Scaltriti
- Un messo — Enrico Facini
Verdi — Otello (1991)
- Otello — Luciano Pavarotti
- Desdemona — Kiri Te Kanawa
- Jago — Leo Nucci
- Cassio — Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- Emilia — Elzbieta Ardam
- Lodovico — Dimitri Kavrakos
- Montano — Alan Opie
- Roderigo — John Keyes
- Herald — Richard Cohn
Verdi — La traviata (1991)
- Violetta Valéry — Cheryl Studer
- Alfredo Germont — Luciano Pavarotti
- Giorgio Germont — Juan Pons
- Flora Bervoix — Wendy White
- Annina — Sondra Kelly
- Gastone — Anthony Laciura
- Barone Douphol — Bruno Pola
- Marchese d'Obigny — Jeffrey Wells
- Dottore Grenvil — Julien Robbins
- Giuseppe — John Hanriot
- Commissionario — Mitchell Sendrowitz
- Domestico di Flora — Ross Crolius
Pavarotti in Hyde Park Live (1991)
Arias from L'Africaine, I lombardi, Luisa Miller, Werther, Tosca, Pagliacci, Manon Lescaut & Turandot. Songs by Bixio, De Curtis & Di Capua
Leoncavallo — Pagliacci (1992)
- Canio — Luciano Pavarotti
- Nedda — Daniela Dessì
- Silvio — Paolo Coni
- Tonio — Juan Pons
- Beppe — Ernesto Gavazzi
Puccini — Manon Lescaut (1992)
- Manon Lescaut — Mirella Freni
- Des Grieux — Luciano Pavarotti
- Lescaut — Dwayne Croft
- Geronte — Giuseppe Taddei
- Edmondo — Ramón Vargas
- Un musico — Cecilia Bartoli
- Il maestro di ballo — Anthony Laciura
- L'oste / Un comandante — Federico Davià
- Il sergente — James Courtney
- Un lampionaio — Paul Groves
Pavarotti & Friends 1 Live (1992)
Songs by Franck, Zucchero, Dalla and 1 aria from Rigoletto — with Sting, Zucchero, Neville Brothers, Aaron Neville, Suzanne Vega, Mike Oldfield, Brian May, Bob Geldof & Patricia Kaas
Verdi — Rigoletto (1993)
- Il Duca di Mantova — Luciano Pavarotti
- Rigoletto — Vladimir Chernov
- Gilda — Cheryl Studer
- Sparafucile — Roberto Scandiuzzi
- Maddalena — Denyce Graves
- Giovanna — Jane Shaulis
- Il Conte di Monterone — Ildebrando d'Arcangelo
- Marullo — Dwayne Croft
- Borsa — Paul Groves
- Il Conte di Ceprano — Yannis Yannissis
- La Contessa Ceprano — Heidi Grant Murphy
- Usciere di corte — Robert Maher
- Paggio della Duchessa — Elyssa Lindner
Pavarotti in Central Park Live (1993)
Arias from Luisa Miller, Lucia di Lammermoor, L'arlesiana, Werther, Tosca & Turandot. Songs by Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Bixio, Ellington, Bridges, Di Lazzaro, Sibella, Denza, Bizet/Borne, De Crescenzo & Di Capua
My Heart's Delight Live (1993)
Arias from Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, La Bohème, Cavalleria rusticana, Carmen, L'amico Fritz, Die lustige Witwe, Das Land des Lächelns, Porgy & Bess, Manon Lescaut & La traviata, and songs by Lara, Bixio and Di Capua
Pavarotti & Friends 2 Live (1994)
Songs by Di Lazzaro, Mancini, Mario, Morante, Di Capua, Pavarotti/Benvenuti, Kamen and duets from Lucia di Lammermoor & La traviata — with Nancy Gustafson, Andrea Bocelli, Andreas Vollenweider, Bryan Adams & Giorgia
Pavarotti Plus Live (1995)
Arias, duets & ensembles from Tosca, Il trovatore, La traviata, La forza del destino, Macbeth, Otello, La Bohème, I lombardi & Manon Lescaut
Verdi — Inno delle nazioni (Hymn of the Nations) (1995)
Pavarotti & Friends together for the Children of Bosnia Live
Songs by Cherubini/Centonze, Duran Duran, U2/Eno, Zucchero, De Curtis, Schubert, Denza; arias from Turandot & Pagliacci — with Zucchero, Jovanotti, Nenad Bach, Simon Le Bon, Gam Gam, Brian Eno, Bono, The Edge, Dolores O'Riordan, Meat Loaf, Michael Bolton & The Chieftains
Pavarotti & Friends for War Child Live (1996)
Songs by Clapton, Kander/Ebb, Ligabue, Bach/Gounod, Lara, Yon & John/Taupin and a duet from Don Giovanni — with Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Joan Osborne, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, Zucchero, Ligabue, Jon Secada, The Kelly Family, Litfiba, Solis Quartet & Edoardo Bennato
Verdi — I lombardi (1996)
- Arvino — Richard Leech
- Pagano — Samuel Ramey
- Viclinda — Patricia Racette
- Giselda — June Anderson
- Pirro — Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
- Un priore — Anthony Dean Griffey
- Acciano — Yanni Yannissis
- Oronte — Luciano Pavarotti
- Sofia — Jane Shaulis
Mascagni — “Suzel buon dì” (from L'amico Fritz) (1997)
Live Recital (1997)
Songs by Beethoven, Bellini, Tosti & Donizetti and arias from Rigoletto, L'arlesiana, L'elisir d'amore, Tosca, L'onestà negli amori & Griselda
Pavarotti & Friends for the children of Liberia Live (1998)
Songs by Bon Jovi/Centonze/Giannetti, Testa, Cannio, Ramazotti/Cassano/Cogliati, Stanard/Centonze/Spice Girls, Daniele, De Curtis, Bernstein, Wade, Stevie Wonder and a chorus from Nabucco — with Bon Jovi, Spice Girls, Trisha Yearwood, Celine Dion, Stevie Wonder, The Corrs, Vanessa Williams, Pino Daniele, Florent Pagny, Natalie Cole & Zucchero
The 3 Tenors 1998 (1998)
Arias from Maristella, Fedora, El gato montés, Black Orpheus, La del soto del Parral, Carousel and Turandot. Songs by Lara, Grieg, Domingo Jr, Dalla, Giraud, Di Capua, Bixio, De Curtis, D'Hardelot, Cannio, Osman, Buzzi-Peccia, Schubert, Falvo & Cardillo
Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala & Kosovo Live (1999)
Songs by Carey/Afanasieff, Bixio, Lloyd Webber, Richie/Bergman/Afanasieff, Di Capua, Hawkins/Darnell, Mascheroni, Zero, Preston/Fisher, Jackson/Richie and an aria from Das Land des Lächelns — with Mariah Carey, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Boyzone, B.B. King, Lionel Richie, Gianni Morandi, Joe Cocker & Zucchero
Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia & Tibet Live (1999)
Songs by Anon, Eurythmics, Malgoni, Chapman, Di Capua, Skunk Anansie, Bizet, Denza, Antonacci, Bonfa & Lennon/McCartney — with Enrique Iglesias, Aqua, Eurythmics, Savage Garden, Irene Grandi, George Michael, Skunk Anansie, Tracy Chapman, Mónica Naranjo, Caetano Veloso, Biagio Antonacci & Zucchero
Ti adoro (1999)
Songs by Musumarra, Mioli, D'Urbano/Centonze, Centonze/Smith, Bellentani/Zanni/Centonze, Vuletic, Giannetti/Nanni, Rota, Bennato, Bellentani/Prandi, Zimmer & Dalla
