‘Pavarotti’ movie 2019: everything you need to know about Ron Howard’s biopic interviewed by Fernando Escovar of FabTV. Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard will paint an intimate portrayal of Luciano Pavarotti in a new biopic, featuring clips from the tenor’s iconic performances alongside never-before-seen footage. The trailer shows the iconic clip of The Three Tenors performing ‘Nessun dorma’ at the World Cup. Plácido Domingo, one of the world's greatest living tenors and a close of friend of Pavarotti’s, says in the trailer: “He would just open his mouth and everything was easy.”