Performers at previous Olympic opening ceremonies had occasionally synched to recordings of their own performance , such as the tenor Luciano Pavarotti at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , due to his pancreatic cancer . Then nine-year-old Eleonora Benetti also lip-synched to a previous recording of the Italian National Anthem . The Sydney Symphony Orchestra appeared to perform at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , but the music spectators heard was entirely pre-recorded , with some of the music pre-recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony