This legendary concert of Luciano Pavarotti in Hyde Park, 1991, was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of Pavarotti's operatic career. The Guardian wrote that there had not been ‘such a brouhaha for a free concert’ since the concert given by The Rolling Stones in 1969.

Attended by 120,000 fans, including Lady Diana, Prince Charles, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Michael Caine and premier John Major, Luciano Pavarotti thrilled the electrified audience with a popular programme from Verdi to Puccini (‘Nessun dorma’), from Mascagni and Leoncavallo to Bixio (Mamma) and Di Capua (’O sole mio), which is now available for the first time available on Blu-ray, digitally remastered!

Cesare Andrea Bixio

La mia canzone al vento

Mamma

Francois Borne

Fantaisie brillante sur des airs de Carmen

Eduardo di Capua

O sole mio

Ernesto de Curtis

Non ti scordar di me

Torna a Surriento (Come back to Sorrento)

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Pagliacci

• Don, din, don, suona vespero (Bell chorus)
• Vesti la giubba (Act 1)

Pietro Mascagni

Cavalleria rusticana

• Intermezzo

Jules Massenet

Werther

• Pourquoi me reveiller

Giacomo Meyerbeer

L'Africaine

• O paradiso

Giacomo Puccini

Manon Lescaut

• Donna non vidi mai
• Tra voi, belle

Tosca

• E lucevan le stelle (Act 3)
• Recondita armonia (Act 1)

Turandot

• Nessun dorma (Act 3)

Giuseppe Verdi

I Lombardi

• La mia letizia infondere

I vespri siciliani

• Overture

Luisa Miller

• Overture
• Quando le sere al placido (Act 2)

Nabucco

• Va pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew slaves)

Richard Wagner

Lohengrin

• Treulich gefuhrt ziehet dahin (Bridal chorus)