The Tg1 special on December 25 at 11:45 p.m. by Leonardo Metalli is an exclusive document. Filmed between Italy and the United States, it tells the true story of the king of tenors, Luciano Pavarotti. Elementary school teacher with a passion for singing, inherited from his father Fernando Panettiere in Modena since 1940 and amateur tenor of the Corale Rossini.
It all started in the bakery where Luciano helped his father, his mother Adele worked in the tobacco factory and his sister Gabriella wanted to be a sports teacher. From the testimonies of his family members to the video footage recovered with past/present storytelling, the documentary shows everything as if time had never passed. The Oratory, Trump’s closest friends, football and tennis; the passion for horses. The unknown side of Big Luciano, from his travels to cuisine, from restaurants to favorite dishes. The secret stories with the two families. Four daughters, two wives Adua and Nicoletta; ten secretaries, women often protagonists of his decisions.
His second life in the United States, more than thirty years in New York since his legendary debut in 1972 at the Metropolitan Opera House, where he is still considered a legend. An award given by the Italian American Association in Washington DC, the NIAF National Italian American Foundation, in memory of the artist is on display in the house-museum in Modena, where the tenor lived until his last days. Today the tenor’s house is visited by thousands of foreigners and Italians. A place that houses the memorabilia that tell its story and that this documentary previews.
And then his interpretations from the least known to those that have made him famous in every corner of the planet. A film with unpublished documents such as the first musical encounters with the three tenors Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras, directed by Zubin Metha, which would become an unprecedented worldwide success. His sympathy, constant jokes and favorite artists from Bono Vox to Sting and Tony Renis, the latter author of the duet with Celine Dion. And again Zucchero, who convinced him to hear Bocelli for the first time, and wrote Miserere. Pavarotti’s pop breakthrough was the birth of “Pavarotti and Friends”. Then the meeting with the tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who sang with Pavarotti as a child. Finally the voice of Stefano Accorsi talking about his Modena.
The documentary will be translated for the English channel Rai and for the international audience that followed Big Luciano.
