MUSIC

Singing in Soviet Benefits: Tenor Luciano Pavarotti will sing in a series of earthquake benefit concerts next month, beginning at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Entitled “Overture for a New Europe,” the benefit series will help pay for earthquake relief in Soviet Armenia. Proceeds from the concerts will go towards the construction of a $30-million hospital in Spitak, Armenia, a town devastated by earthquakes in December, 1988. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, are expected to attend the May 3 concert at the Bolshoi. Pavarotti will also perform May 4 and May 6 at other Moscow theaters and May 8 in Leningrad. The tenor last toured the Soviet Union 15 years ago.