The Three Tenors

The Three Tenors is a name given to collabarative concerts of the three operatic tenors Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. The trio began their collaboration with a debut concert at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome held on the eve of the 1990 World Cup final in Italy, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The idea of the concerts was originally conceived by the Hungarian producer Tibor Rudas. The first concert was held to raise money for Carreras' foundation and also as a way for his contemporaries, Domingo and Pavarotti, to welcome their colleague back to the world of opera after his successful treatment for leukemia.

External links

• The Three Tenors - official site
• A Tenor Who Knows No Bounds - includes Domingo's thoughts on "purists" and the Three Tenors
• "A Requiem for Classical Music?" from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Regional Review - discusses the influence of the Three Tenors' success on the classical music market
• FTC press release on the "Tenors" antitrust action
• The Friends of José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation