Mercury Studios to Release ‘Pavarotti: The Lost Concert’ as Part of Global 90th Birthday Celebrations

By David Salazar

As part of the global Pavarotti 90 celebrations, Mercury Studios will release “Pavarotti: The Lost Concert,” a new documentary built around a rare rediscovery in the tenor’s career.

The 60-minute film highlights Pavarotti’s 1995 return to the Welsh town of Llangollen, where, as a teenager in 1955, he won his first major international competition singing with his father’s choir. Before leaving, he vowed to come back. He fulfilled that promise four decades later, at the height of his fame. That concert has remained unseen for nearly 30 years. Through restored footage, archival material, and new interviews, the film captures both the tenor’s first triumph and his emotional homecoming.

The documentary will premiere internationally at MIPCOM this fall, with Mercury also releasing a Blu-Ray edition of the concert later this year.

The release is part of Decca Classics’ celebrations of the famed tenor’s 90th birthday, which included the Oct. 10 release of “Novanta,” a 74-track retrospective.

The film was executive produced by Amy Freshwater, Hefin Owen of Rondo Productions, and Mark Wilkinson, with Sophie Deveson as Executive Producer and Amy Greer as Associate Producer.

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