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The Three Tenors in Concert 1994

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Released
  
August 30, 1994

Artist
  
The Three Tenors

Genre
  
Operatic pop

Length
  
01:13:22

Release date
  
30 August 1994

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Recorded
  
July 16, 1994, Los Angeles

Label
  
Atlantic / Teldec / Warner Music

Producer
  
Tibor Rudas, Christopher Raeburn

The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 (1994)
  
The Three Tenors Paris 1998 (1998)

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album

Awards
  
Porin Award for Best Foreign Classical Music Album

Similar
  
The Three Tenors albums, Operatic pop albums, Other albums

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. An estimated 1.3 billion viewers watched the concert on television across the world.

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic reviewer wrote that the singers displayed "vitality and pizzazz" during the concert. The reviewer remarked on the oddity of a concert by classical musicians held in a sports stadium, but nonetheless believed that the popularity of the tenors made the venue less "ludicrous". The reviewer also found them to be in "fine form" in regard to their singing and singled out certain numbers for praise: Domingo's "Granada," Carreras' "O souverain, o juge, o père," and Pavarotti's "Nessun dorma", as well as "La donna è mobile" and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", which all three men sang together.

Track listing

Tracks 7–10 are a medley titled "A Tribute to Hollywood", and Tracks 14–25 are a medley titled "Around the World", both arranged and orchestrated by Lalo Schifrin.

Omissions

Not included in the album were these three numbers sung (between 11 and 12 above) at the concert:

Personnel

  • José Carreras, vocals
  • Plácido Domingo, vocals
  • Luciano Pavarotti, vocals
  • Zubin Mehta, conductor
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Los Angeles Opera Chorus
  • Lalo Schifrin, arranger
  • David Hewitt (Remote Recording's Silver Truck), sound recorder
  • Songs

    1Ô Souverain - Ô Juge - Ô Pere5:01
    2Amor - vida de mi vida3:22
    3Pourquoi me réveiller2:39

    References

    The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 Wikipedia