James Galway Invited Luciano Pavarotti On Stage to Mock Him – Nobody Was Ready For What Luciano Did

London, April 1985. James Galway, the Man with the Golden Flute, had joked on national television that a tenor is just a big pair of lungs in a tuxedo, and that Pavarotti couldn't hold a note on a flute for three seconds. Weeks later, in the middle of his concert at the Royal Festival Hall, Galway playfully invited any "big Italian tenors" in the audience to come up and prove him wrong. He didn't know Luciano Pavarotti was sitting in a box above the stage. Pavarotti walked down, borrowed the golden flute, and did something nobody was ready for. And then he played a melody that Galway had been carrying with him, on a mysterious cassette tape, for eight years. #LucianoPavarotti #JamesGalway #Flute #MusicLegends #Pavarotti