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I come to Beijing on June 10.

With a long line... list.

- List of things. - Uh, of problem.

First problem is food for Pavarotti.

It's the first problem for us.

- Uh, for... We're foreign. - Oriental.

Oh, yes.

And then we have other problem.

There's no way of finding anything out

because there's not one word in Chinese that has any...

resemblance to any language that we speak,

for... with the European background.

You can't get anything.

They also think completely differently.

See, as this is an official visit

between China and Italy,

the decision was made by the Ministry of Culture

and we are entrusted to the... all the details.

The whole agency is...

uh, working for this, uh...

China Tour of Mr. Pavarotti.

Did you have a good flight?

Very good flight.

Sensational.

- Grazie. - Grazie.

Mr. Pavarotti will broadcast

your performance to all Chinese people.

I am very happy to be here

and for us, all of us, it's completely new.

- Uh-huh. - And we hope to...

are going to enjoy.

And I hope for,

especially that the public is going to enjoy.

Because that is why we are here.

Hello.

- Yes, yes. - Mr. Pavarotti.

No, I'll... I'll wait for the lady.

Maestro Luciano Pavarotti.

The... the, uh...

No accordion or guitar.

- But we have to prepare. - Really?

Why not?

They weren't gonna bring them to general.

- Why? - They don't have everything.

Well, we have. I'm sure we do.

No, no. We don't have.

We will have in China.

For tomorrow. That if we can't come,

and, uh, with the approval of the Chinese,

please do not assume that I'm giving you approval,

because I don't have that right,

to come and shoot the encores.

Today, to unplug one projector

- and plug in... - Yeah. Si.

- another projector, - Mm-hm.

We had to ask permission to the general manager of the theater.

And we have thousands of problems

concerning your agency.

I don't hear anything.

You on monitor?

- There is none. - Okay, I'm here.

Well, can you hear from there?

I cannot even hear.

We must discuss about tickets for tomorrow.

I don't have any tickets now. If I have them, I will...

- put that, them to you, - Yes, yes.

- Free of charge. - I'm sure of that.

So I have to consult somebody else.

- When will you... - To see whether they have any.

When, when you can give me the answer?

For Mrs. Pavarotti.

Tomorrow afternoon.

Tomorrow afternoon.

- Tomorrow afternoon. - Yeah.

It's late.

Too late.

Bravo, bravo, bravo.

- Very good. - Brava.

Bellissimo. Brave. Brave.

I remember vividly that I was very... a very...

Not a quiet boy.

It was... It was... alive. Alive kids.

Always jumping here and there. Never under control of anybody.

So my grandmother

always said to me,

"Be careful to the horses."

Because the horses were the,

the major vehicle that we found at the time on the streets.

I remember that when we,

I saw a car, it was running behind a car.

It was one car every, probably two or three hours.

Incredible.

More or less, it's like that here.

That's a pretty girl. We have the...

We have that kid tonight.

Yeah, everything looks good.

Oops!

Dear god.

Jesus. It's so hot in here.

Uh, these should be the shirts.

To the stage, please.

I could take some out for you.

Okay?

I thought to myself then,

I, I should have been ready to accept any kind of reaction.

From the worst reaction to the best reaction.

Of course, a bit surprised.

And we were very, very lucky.

- Very happy to meet you. - How do you do?

- Very well. - Were you expecting...

- No, I... - ...such response?

I was not expecting such response, because, uh,

they told me then, uh...

Chinese people are very quiet.

And I was very, very shocked to see

such an incredible, warm reception.

Uh...

Excuse me, we have to talk.

Sorry, sorry. That's me. That's me.

I have to talk to the press and then...

Give me the ballpen.

You have three or four hundred years of history

of this European opera.

Starting from Verdi, from Caccini alone.

Since the world, the whole world like these operas,

why shouldn't we not like them?

Really, we have a big audience now.

He's the famous tenor.

This is big sensation.

I like him very much.

And, uh...

I often...

I often hear his voice.

Uh...

On the record.

And... mm...

They know there's a very

fine tenor by the name of Pavarotti.

This big, huge, you know...

physique. And, and...

very big beard, you know?

That... that's always remembered by the common people.

Ciao.

Uh, we begin together.

I conduct, uh, eh?

Don't rush.

So, lenta. Yeah.

Before, no.

Let me show you a copy of this.

Give me my glasses, please.

Oh, that is wrong.

This is wrong.

Just at the end.

Nice play.

What? What?

Okay.

Ah.

So your face looks very beautiful

when it has this makeup on.

They say it's gorgeous.

Ask, ask them

if he is going to make love to the girl he wants.

She's sitting right next to him.

Right out this room.

- Aha! - That's...

This is the lover.

- Right out the city. - The lover?

They say even the king, he has three main concubines,

six others standing by,

and seventy-two that are...

He picks where he... every single night if he...

No, don't.

I made this for you.

No, no, I know.

But this way, he only has this one girl.

She's what?

She's supposed to be very beautiful.

Yes, that is true.

He's different from others

because other warriors,

they have a lot of concubines, and...

- Yeah. - Many, many lovers.

And, but this one only has one.

Yeah.

He's a boring guy.

Oh, my god.

Oh, my lord.

Wait. Right on top.

Right on the top.

Okay.

- Right on top. - Put it.

Okay.

- Amazing. - Amazing.

We, Orientals, Chinese, our culture

is very different from the viewers.

- Yeah. - Italian, European, you know.

But...

since we are teaching European music,

European singing,

and, you know,

have you any suggestion, how can we get...

into the tradition of the Italian music.

If you are talking about, um, production of voice...

Well, that's one part of it.

But I think, you are doing very well, because, um...

If I speak Italian...

- Uh-huh. - The same you.

- Sounds very natural. - Very natural.

Yeah.

You have been here performing concerts and opera.

And those performances were telecast.

One hundred or two hundred million people...

...listening, watching you.

So you have so big a number of audiences.

Yeah, yeah.

And they know your name. Pavarotti.

In Chinese, "Pavalotti".

-"Pavalotti"? - Yeah, yeah.

So, everybody knows you.

And, I think, from this occasion,

a lot of new singers coming up.

- Yeah. I, hope. - Yeah.

- They are craving to begin. - Yeah.

- Encouraged. - I hope, I really hope.

I saw that the young singer

are very enthusiastic

- at the concert and the opera. - Oh, yes.

Very, very beautiful. Great atmosphere.

Very, very touching atmosphere.

- They all like. - They're very pure.

Something very, very, very pure.

Very untouched.

Untouched from any, I think, jealousy.

It is something very rare to found.

And I'm very, very deeply impressed.

Yes, I am.

Thanks.

I was a winner in the Pavarotti competition

in Philadelphia.

And Mimi is my first major role.

I was very excited because I'd never been to Europe before,

much less China.

And, um, working with Luciano,

he's so smart.

Every minute on stage with him is like a voice lesson.

This has been... It's just incredible.

The whole experience.

God.

You see, this... That, that, that's rest in my mind,

this is rest.

Than an entire culture is putting to me...

because if I am an Italian,

I say, "Okay, I want to improve my situation."

What is improving your situation?

Improving your situation is,

have more money, have better house,

have better this, have better that.

That, I don't think is for these people.

And so I am probably, I don't found the word.

Probably, they know the word.

And the word is...

First of all, I think is to be free to decide,

and that, I think, they reach it.

And second is to, to be better. How?

Uh, you don't know.

I hear many people to say,

if you come in 20 years,

we will found that the street full of, of, uh, of car,

full of motorcycle, a lot of noise.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure, because...

the culture and the mentality of these people

is certainly different

than the culture and the mentality of...

You are American, and me, I'm an Italian.

Bravi, bravi, bravi.

The secretary general of the Communist Party,

Mr. Hu Yaobang...

...received the Western opera star, Luciano Pavarotti

at a special luncheon reception in Beijing.

Mr. Hu Yaobang has had the very great honor

to invite Mr. Pavarotti

to sing in the Great Hall of the People.

The central meeting place

for the paramount leaders

of the Communist Party and State.

Mr. Pavarotti's, uh, performance in the Great Hall of the People

is, um, very important and special occasion.

And even we, as the reception group,

is honored

to have him performing there.

All we know now...

is that he's been invited by the Ministry of Culture

to do a big concert in the Great Hall of the People

which will be the first time

a Westerner has ever given a concert.

And it's like ten thousand people.

Enormous, fabulous.

It's gonna be a great honor and everything like that.

Only five minutes.

Why can't they leave it on while they're loading in?

Because they adjust him. The light...

But they adjust it later?

I don't think so.

Who can we talk to about adjusting it late?

When he comes out,

he will be very upset to see

all of the centerpiece stage in front of him.

He wants to play to the audience.

It's...

There's plenty of light...

for the platform. That is not the problem.

It's the sound that's the problem.

I have it pointed there.

Uh, besides, can you use their amplification?

- No, absolutely not. - No. Not.

It is important that we always use

the same system

that we use for Luciano,

because that is the sound that we and he are always using.

If we cannot hang this feature cluster,

we cannot do the show in here

for the reasons that I had described before.

That's it. Keep the cable coming in.

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Grazie. Grazie.