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Article: Tenors' Concert, La Scala Move To Center Stage
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 24, 1991
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The heavy hitters of music - singers who, without electronic
amplifiers, can fill an opera house or even a countryside with their
voices - are the subject of four videos recently released for the
American market.
The first, "Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert," hit
Billboard's best-seller list in its first week as Jose Carreras,
Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo joined to sing a wide
selection including "Memory" and "O Sole Mio." This 1 1/2-hour
video, in which Zubin Mehta conducted the Rome Opera and Florence
Festival orchestras, is the product of a July 7, 1990, moonlit
concert in the ancient ruins of Terme di Caracalla in Rome. It was a
concert that closed the festivities of ...