A Lost Concert by Pavarotti Comes to Light in 1995 in the Village of Wales Where He Decided to Be a Singer

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Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena in 1935, but his first feat as a singer took place far from Italy. Specifically in Llangollen, a picturesque little village in western Wales that still keeps a steam train line active. Until there he traveled in July 1955 to participate in the Contest of Male Choirs of Eisteddfod. He was then 19 years old and his name was among the members of the Società Corale Gioachino Rossini of Modena, an amateur group co…