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The Three Tenors repertoire ranged from opera to Broadway to Neapolitan songs and pop hits. The group's signature songs included "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's opera Turandot, usually sung by Pavarotti, and the song "'O sole mio", which all three tenors typically sang together. [7]
The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 is a live album by José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti with conductor Zubin Mehta. The album was recorded on July 16, 1994, at the Three Tenors concert in Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the chorus of the Los Angeles Opera on the night before the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final . [ 1 ]
The concert is particularly known for the two recordings of "Nessun dorma". The first is sung by Pavarotti alone. The second, the concert encore, includes all three tenors singing individually and then, for the final 'Vincerò!' singing together - conductor Zubin Mehta appeared completely delighted with the effect this had.
The Three Tenors: Paris 1998 (re-released with the subtitle The Concert of the Century) is a live album by José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti with conductor James Levine. The album was recorded at a Three Tenors concert on 10 July 1998 during celebrations for the FIFA World Cup .
Both Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo released singles of the aria, with Pavarotti's reaching number 2 in the UK, [3] [4] and it appeared on the best-selling classical album of all time, The Three Tenors in Concert. [5] The Three Tenors, which includes José Carreras, performed the aria at three subsequent FIFA World Cup Finals, in 1994 in Los ...
It is estimated that over a billion people around the world watched the television broadcast of the 1994 Three Tenors concert in Los Angeles. [11] By 1999, the CD from the first Three Tenors concert in Rome had sold an estimated 13 million copies, making it the best-selling classical recording of all time. [12]
In 1990, he began singing with fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras as part of The Three Tenors. The first Three Tenors recording became the best-selling classical album of all time. [8] [9] Growing up working in his parents' zarzuela company in Mexico, Domingo has since regularly promoted this form of Spanish opera.
The Three Tenors: Plácido Domingo; José Carreras; Luciano Pavarotti; Albums: Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert (1990), The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 (1994), The Three Tenors: Paris 1998 (1998), The 3 Tenors Christmas (2000) Pigface: Martin Atkins (Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Killing Joke, Brian Brain, Chris Connelly, Murder, Inc.)