GREAT PERFORMANCES marks the first anniversary of the passing of one of opera's most cherished voices with Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias.

Combining archival and rarely seen performance footage with fresh reminiscences by friends and colleagues, the 83 minute musical feast offers a concise yet compelling look at the tenor's meteoric career trajectory. From soccer-playing son of a Modena, Italy, baker to onstage partner of "La Stupenda," world-renowned soprano Joan Sutherland, from media darling to truly one-of-a-kind superstar, it is a story writ as large as the great one himself.

The seven arias, and the chapters they represent in the singer's life, are:

1) "Che gelida manina," from Puccini's La Boheme, the opera that marked Pavarotti's debut and shown here in a rare 1965 performance from Modena with Mirella Freni.

2) "Pour mon ame," from Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, the work he toured with Joan Sutherland. Its famous aria and nine astronomical high notes he detonated from the stage at Covent Garden earned him the sobriquet King of the High Cs.

3) "Panis Angelicus," the haunting Cesar Franck work he sang as a youth in Modena with his father. The duet affords a visit to his beloved hometown and a chance to recall friends there and participation in the city's renowned Rossini Chorale.

4) "Questa o quella," from Verdi's Rigoletto, marking the beginning of the Pavarotti media blitz.

5) "Nessun dorma," from Puccini's Turandot, the aria he makes his own and immortalizes in the first Three Tenors concert.

6) "E lucevan le stelle," from Puccini's Tosca, underscores the last years and final Met performance.

7) "Ingemisco," from the Verdi Requiem.