On the Public Broadcasting Service's (PBS) "Great Performances" televised memorial "Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias," Charles Ward reports on Sept. 9, 2008 for the Houston Chronicle:

"...For the general public, Enrico Caruso and [Luciano ] Pavarotti defined what a tenor is, says English music critic Norman LeBrecht in Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias, a PBS Great Performances program honoring the first anniversary of his death...

"Director David Thompson uses seven arias to segment Pavarotti's career. Not all are arias — César Franck's Panis Angelicus, for one — but they serve as convenient hooks for organizing a survey of Pavarotti's life."