Luciano Pavarotti said Friday he will make his first performance at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Next month's concert will help raise money for earthquake rebuilding in Soviet Armenia.
The Italian tenor said he will give the first in a series of benefit concerts, entitled Overture for a New Europe, in the Soviet Union.The concerts, organized by Italy's Emilia Romagna region, will help pay for the construction of a $30 million hospital in Spitak, Armenia, a town devastated by earthquakes in December 1988.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, are expected to attend the May 3 concert at the Bolshoi, organizers said. Pavarotti will also perform May 4 and May 6 at other Moscow theaters and May 8 in Leningrad.