Italy has announced it will pay tribute to Luciano Pavarotti with a series of concerts, exhibitions and video screenings beginning the week of Oct. 6, a month after the tenor died battling pancreatic cancer.

The country's state broadcaster, RAI, has assembled video footage of the Modena-born singer's performances as well as interviews with Pavarotti over the years.

The events paying tribute to late tenor Luciano Pavarotti will take place around the world.
(Associated Press)

The footage has been sent to 90 Italian cultural institutions around the world "to bring the most important moments of Pavarotti's international career to the largest public possible," according to a government statement.

In addition to a concert series in New York, tribute performances have been scheduled for France, Denmark, Hungary and South Korea.

Other events include the screening of videos of Pavarotti's operas in New Delhi and a look back at the tenor's life through a photo exhibition in New York.

Arguably the modern opera world's most recognizable figure and dubbed the "King of the High Cs" for his apparent ease achieving the difficult note, Pavarotti was a best-selling classical artist who sold more than a 100 million albums over his four-decade long career.

He continued to his extend his reach to new audiences through new genres, including pop and Italian folk, and fundraising collaborations with contemporary artists such as The Spice Girls and U2 lead singer Bono.

Throngs of mourners paid tribute to Pavarotti after his death, with officials estimating that tens of thousands of people filed past his body while it lay in state.

Family, friends and admirers also packed the streets of Modena and its main cathedral for his funeral.

With files from the Associated Press