Maestro Luciano Pavarotti was able to break down boundaries and prejudices, taking opera out of theatres to reach a vast and diverse audience. From large arenas to parks, his voice crossed genres, cultures and generations, transforming each performance into a bridge between different worlds. In particular, with his openness to crossover – meeting classical and popular music – he gave artistic dignity to traditional and contemporary songs, contributing decisively to the spread of music as a universal language.

The Luciano Pavarotti Foundation wanted to commemorate this extraordinary and unique artistic journey on the anniversary of the Maestro’s death, in the year in which he would have celebrated his 90th birthday.

Tribute was paid to the open-mindedness and generosity that always characterised the tenor – both in his personal and artistic life – leading him to welcome new ideas, new values and new people with a great spirit of inclusion, ideally embracing everything and everyone in a big hug and helping to build the musical culture we recognise today.

CROSSOVER NIGHT paid tribute to Maestro Pavarotti and the idea of music that he helped to spread: music understood as an art form with multiple variations, without labels and without boundaries, capable of accompanying the audience on an engaging and evocative journey, full of nuances and emotions.

The repertoire, rich in duets and intertwining sounds, ranged from Verdi to De André, from Morandi to Donizetti, from Mina to Puccini.

The stars of the evening were : soprano Eva Macaggi, tenors Paolo Delai and Francesco Lucii, pop singer Enrico Zoni and the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation Orchestra Ensemble.