Pavarotti's Last Performance "Nessun Dorma"

at 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, Turin, Italy

"broadcast to an estimated two-billion audience worldwide"

On a freezing February night in 2006, an ailing Luciano Pavarotti rose from his wheelchair at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics to give a resounding rendition of the aria Nessun Dorma, his final public performance before he died of cancer last September.

(This video is somewhat blurry, but it shows the ending where he holds the performance even after the music ends)

(This is a clearer video but doesn't show all of him after the music ends)