An advance to this next Christmas... THE THREE TENORS AT CHRISTMAS (2008) The absolute album to celebrate holidays. From DECCA a grandiose compilation of operatic Christmas carols and arias by the three greater performers of the century: Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. The best of the best selected from a 35 year time span (1968-2002). Enjoy a brilliant xmas album in lossless. Editorial Reviews This brand-new compilation brings together three of the greatest opera singers of our time: Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras. This generously filled CD includes both holiday and religious favorites, guaranteed to put everyone in a festive mood. From O Come, all ye faithful and O Holy Night to Agnus Dei and Panus Angelicus everyone s favorite is included. With their soaring voices and burnished tones, the Three Tenors are some of the most recognizable voices in opera and together they bring their unique talents to this holiday season. Wikipedia The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the late Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang in concert under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla, in Rome, Italy, on July 7, 1990 – the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final. Zubin Mehta conducted the orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the orchestra of Teatro dellOpera di Roma. History: Italian producer Mario Dradi conceived the idea of the first concert in 1990 in Rome. It was held to raise money for Carrerass foundation, the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation. It was also for his friends Domingo and Pavarotti a way to welcome Carreras back into the world of opera after his successful treatment for leukemia. The three subsequently sang together in concerts produced by Hungarian Tibor Rudas and other producers, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to coincide the final match of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, at the Champ de Mars under the Eiffel Tower during the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and in Yokohama for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. They also tourned other cities around the world, usually performing in stadiums or similar large arenas. Following the big success of the 1990 and 1994 concerts, The Three Tenors opened a world tour of concerts during 1996-1997 period. In 1996 they performed at Kasumigaoka Stadium in Tokyo, at Wembley Stadium in London, at Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna, at Giants Stadium outside of New York, at Ullevi Stadium in Goteborg, at Olympic Stadium in Munich, at Rheinstadion in Dusseldorf and at BC Place in Vancouver on New Years Eve. In 1997 concerts followed at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, at Skydome in Toronto, at Pro Player Stadium in Miami and at Camp Nou in Barcelona. The tour was scheduled to end in Houston with a final concert which was eventually canceled due to very low ticket sales. Besides the 96-97 world tour, The Three Tenors gave in addition two benefit concerts one in Modena the home town of Pavarotti in summer 1997 and one in Madrid the home town of Domingo in the following winter, in order to raise money for the rebuilding of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as well as for the Queen Sofia Foundation. A second series of concerts outside of the FIFA World cup events held again in 1999 including cities like Tokyo, Pretoria and Detroit followed by a Christmas concert in Vienna on December the same year. In 2000 the Three Tenors performed again live in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Hamburg, Cleveland, Sao Paulo and Chicago and in 2001 in Seoul and Beijing inside the walls of the Forbidden City. The last Three Tenors concert took place in 2003 in Bath. The concerts were a huge commercial success, and were accompanied by a series of best-selling recordings, including Carreras-Domingo-Pavarotti: The Three Tenors In Concert (which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling classical music album), The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994, The Three Tenors: Paris 1998, The Three Tenors Christmas, and The Best of The Three Tenors. Zubin Mehta conducted the performances in 1990 and 1994. The Paris concert was conducted by James Levine. The Three Tenors repertoire ranged from opera to Broadway to Neapolitan songs and pop hits. The groups signature songs included Nessun dorma from Puccinis opera Turandot, usually sung by Pavarotti, and the ballad O Sole Mio, which all three tenors typically sang together. The Three Tenors-phenomenon was applauded by many for introducing opera to a wider audience, but some opera purists rebuked them, saying opera was not music for the masses. Some[who?] critics believe that the presentation of opera in stadiums such as Wembley, with heavy amps, contributes little to the understanding and appreciation of opera as a Gesamtkunstwerk (complete art work) as Wagner conceived it. I understand the complaints of the purists, Domingo told an interviewer in 1998. But I do not want the purists to go to the Three Tenors. Legal issue: The success of the Three Tenors also led to antitrust action by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Warner Bros. and Vivendi Universal. It found that they had conspired not to advertise or discount the albums of the Rome concert (released by PolyGram, later taken over by Vivendi) and of the Los Angeles concert (released by Warner Bros.) in order to protect sales of the jointly released album of the Paris concert. Imitations: The success of the Three Tenors formula led to various imitations, such as the Irish Tenors, Tenor Australis, The Canadian Tenors, the Ten Tenors, Three Tenors and a Soprano, the Three Sopranos, Three Mo Tenors, Les Contre-Ténors (Andreas Scholl, Dominique Visse, Pascal Bertin), the 2012 Chinas Three Tenors tour (Wei Song, Dai Yuqiang, and Warren Mok), Il Divo and Yiddish and Canadian Anglican trios of religious singers both called the Three Cantors. In 2000, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton and Danny Aiello starred in the motion picture comedy OFF-KEY, loosely inspired by the Three Tenors. Stephin Merritt, Dudley Klute, and LD Beghtol have acted occasionally under the name The Three Terrors. The Brazilian samba singers Moreira da Silva, Bezerra and Dicró produced in 1995 the album Bezerra, Moreira e Dicró - Os 3 Malandros in Concert, portraying a satirical imitation as the three malandros, Portuguese slang for bohemian rascals. Another satirical Three Terrors, produced in June 2010, by Latma features singers who resemble Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bashar Assad singing joyfully about using terrorism to conquer the world from Tennessee to Teheran. In popular culture: Throughout the Seinfeld episode The Doll, José Carreras is repeatedly referred to as the other guy. In The Simpsons episode Homer of Seville, Homer becomes an opera star and gives advice to Plácido Domingo, while referring to him as his third favorite of the Three Tenors. The Animaniacs cartoon Three Tenors and Youre Out featured the trio performing at Dodger Stadium. The Canadian sketch comedy series Royal Canadian Air Farce parodied The Three Tenors in a sketch.
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