Edited for Wheelhouse Creative / DISTANT HARMONY reveals a recent, vanished China and soon engulfs us in the Chinese people's rapturous response to Luciano Pavarotti at his vocal peak / Pavarotti’s visit in 1986 was a Ministry of Culture experiment in “openness” / Classic Peking Opera had been the form here for centuries, and so Pavarotti and La Bohème were the very new kids on the block / As a building audience of 150 million watched his concerts on television, paramount leader Hu Yaobang summoned Pavarotti to the Forbidden City and invited him to sing in the Great Hall of the People, the ultimate venue and accolade, in front of an audience of ten thousand / It would be the finale, his closing concert