Lucíano Pavarotti in EL PAÍS English

The Decca label celebrates the late tenor’s 90th birthday with the out-of-print archives of the Llangollen Competition, which he won in 1955 as a member of an amateur choir. ‘The Lost Concert’ also includes the first two recordings of Pavarotti’s career

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