Michael Bolton on recording an album during the pandemic and keeping his voice in shape

When you’re a tenor and you’re going to hit big high notes, you kind of want to do that all your life. One of the most important things I did was kind of by accident. I got invited to sing with Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, his hometown in Italy, and he was my favorite tenor. I hadn’t studied opera. I don’t read music. I write it, but I don’t read it. . . . But Luciano was so gracious and so generous. And I told him I had been studying him, and he smiled ear to ear and I said, “I don’t know what I’ve been doing with my voice all these years.” And he said, “Oh, if you do not sell as many records as you have then you’re doing the wrong thing with your voice. Come, let’s rehearse.”