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Pavarotti & Friends was a series of benefit concerts hosted by Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti between 1992 and 2003 in his home town of Modena, Italy.Proceeds from the events were donated to humanitarian causes including the international aid agency War Child [1] and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. [2]
Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Liberia is a live album by Luciano Pavarotti, with each track featuring a different artist. In June 1998, Pavarotti hosted a benefit concert in his home town of Modena , Italy, as part of the Pavarotti & Friends concert series.
Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo is a live album by Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti and a variety guest artists, recorded at a benefit concert of the same name held in Parco Novi Sad, Modena, Italy on 1 June 1999. [1]
Pavarotti donated the proceeds from some of these concerts to Afghan, Angolan and Iraqi refugees. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1995 the concert was for the children of Bosnia affected by the war. The event featured artists such as Meat Loaf and Bono , the Edge and Brian Eno (performing as Passengers ) and was attended by Diana, Princess of Wales .
Luciano Pavarotti OMRI (/ ˌ p æ v ə ˈ r ɒ t i /, US also / ˌ p ɑː v-/, Italian: [luˈtʃaːno pavaˈrɔtti]; 12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.
The concerts were a huge commercial success, [34] and were accompanied by a series of best-selling recordings, including the original Carreras-Domingo-Pavarotti in Concert, subsequently reissued as The Three Tenors In Concert (which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling classical music album), [4] The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 ...
"Miss Sarajevo" was first performed 12 September 1995 at the annual Pavarotti & Friends concert in Modena, Italy. Bono, the Edge, and Eno joined Pavarotti on stage, with a complete orchestra, to premier the new Original Soundtracks 1 future single. All three dressed in black suits and white shirts and this was one of very few occasions where ...
Between 1992 and 2003 was the regular cast of the charity concerts Pavarotti & Friends organized by Luciano Pavarotti, where also performed along Pavarotti and B.B. King, for the children in Bosnia, Liberia, Guatemala, Kosovo, Cambodia, Tibet, Angola and Iraq. In 1992 Fornaciari released the million selling album Miserere.