Great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti visits Prague on farewell world tour
The great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has sold over 100 million albums in a career spanning four decades. Czech music lovers will have a final chance to see him on Wednesday night, when he appears in Prague as part of his 40-date world Farewell Tour. Before he arrived in the Czech capital, Luciano Pavarotti explained why he thought audiences loved him so much.
Luciano Pavarotti will turn 70 later this year, but he says he won't be retiring completely when his Farewell Tour comes to an end. As the Three Tenors, he, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo recorded the biggest selling classical album of all time. Does Pavarotti think new names will emerge to replace this stellar generation?
"We are doing a tour around the world and then we will do probably two concerts a year after that, especially with the Three Tenors. We singers are very particular people with a very particular personality, so there will never be one like me or Placido or like any other, but it will be somebody with a personality."
Pavarotti's concert at the Sazka Arena may be his last in Prague, but it is not his first: he has given one previous performance here, in December 1996. While the Italian singer still has very fond memories of the Czech capital, he says he hasn't got any concrete plans for his visit to the city.
"I remember vividly this city, beautiful; Prague is such an incredible city, beautiful. I am a guy who doesn't like to make plans. I come to Prague, let's see what I can do, what I can see."
