As someone who saw him at the Met many times, I can attest that the love flowed in the house back and forth over the footlights from the audience to him and from him to the audience like the ocean. It was very palpable.
Thank you so much for this wonderful clip. I met Luciano in 1990, as John Sutherland was a close family friend. All he wanted to talk to me about was Mathematics, while I was star-struck and struggling to make a sound, hahah. I have very fond memories of one of the kindest, honest, warmest persons I have ever met.
Luciano Pavarotti in an interview with Michael Parkinson