Opera phenom set for L.A. show

British opera phenom Paul Potts will make his Los Angeles concert debut March 26 at the Wiltern Theatre. Potts, a Welsh cellular phone store manager who became a household name overnight after he won the “Britain’s Got Talent” TV competition last year, will sing music from his debut album, “One Chance.”

Potts won the British TV reality show last June by singing “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s “Turandot.” The audience was whipped into a frenzy even as he began the first bars of the aria, made most famous by Italian superstar tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Potts’ Wiltern appearance is part of an 18-date North American leg of a world tour that also takes him to Europe, Asia and Australia over the next several months.

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-- Chris Pasles