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Home Other The Three Tenors Christmas Concert in Vienna [1999, full]The Three Tenors Christmas Concert, recorded live at the opulent Konzerthaus in Vienna, on December 23, 1999, the three most popular male vocalists of the 1990s and early 2000s opera: Luciano Pavarotti, Plcido Domingo, and Jos Carreras.

The Three Tenors were an operatic singing trio, active between 1990 and 2003, and termed as a supergroup (a title normally reserved for rock and pop groups)[1] consisting of Italian Luciano Pavarotti and Spaniards Plcido Domingo and Jos Carreras. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, on 7 July 1990, the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final, watched by a global television audience of around 800 million.[2] The image of three tenors in formal evening dress singing in a World Cup concert captivated the global audience.[3] The recording of this debut concert became the best-selling classical album of all time[4] and led to additional performances and live albums. They performed to a global television audience at three further World Cup Finals: 1994 in Los Angeles, 1998 in Paris, and 2002 in Yokohama.[3] They also toured other cities around the world, usually performing in stadiums or similar large arenas to huge audiences.[5][6] They last performed together at an arena in Columbus, Ohio, on 28 September 2003.

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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 ballad "O Sole Mio", which all three tenors typically sang together.[7]

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,[14] at the Champ de Mars under the Eiffel Tower during the 1998 FIFA World Cup,[15] and in Yokohama for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.[16][17] Nearly 50,000 people attended their 1994 concert at Dodger Stadium and around 1.3 billion viewers worldwide watched it.[18]

A second series of concerts outside of the FIFA World cup events held again in 1999 including cities like Tokyo, Pretoria and Detroit[26][27] followed by a Christmas concert in Vienna in December the same year. In 2000 the Three Tenors toured again performing live in San Jose, California, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Cleveland and So Paulo. However, the production had to cancel two planned concerts for this tour; one in Hamburg on 16 June due to difficulties in finding a suitable orchestra and conductor, and another one in Albany, New York on 22 July due to poor ticket sales. The later one was replaced by the Brazilian concert in So Paulo.[28][29][30] One more benefit concert was given by The Three Tenors in December 2000 in Chicago to donate the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.[31] In 2001 two more concerts were given in Asia: one in Seoul and one in Beijing inside the walls of the Forbidden City.[32] Finally in 2003 they performed in Bath at the Royal Crescent[33] and later in September the same year they gave their last Three Tenors' concert, which took place at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.[34] A Three Tenors reunion concert was scheduled to take place on 4 June 2005 at the Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico, but because of Pavarotti's health problems, he was replaced by Mexican pop singer Alejandro Fernndez.[35]

For their initial appearance together in Rome in 1990, Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti agreed to accept relatively small flat fees for the recording rights to their concert, which they then donated to charity. Their album unexpectedly reaped millions in profits for Decca Records, causing some resentment on the part of the tenors, who officially received no royalty payments. As reported in the press, Domingo suspected that the record company paid Pavarotti on the side, in order to keep one of their top contracted artists content.[18][41] Pavarotti denied this, insisting: "We got nothing."[18] Years later his former agent and manager Herbert Breslin wrote that Pavarotti had indeed secretly received $1.5 million that the other two tenors, who were not under contract to Decca, did not receive.[42] For subsequent concerts and recordings, the singers were much more careful in assuring financially advantageous contractual terms for themselves.[43]

The Three Tenors also encountered trouble with the German government. In 1999, two of the three singers paid an undisclosed fine to the German government as part of an out-of-court settlement for tax evasion.[47] In addition, the German government accused the tenors of owing large back-taxes. Their concert organizer and promoter, Matthias Hoffmann, who was in charge of their taxes at the time, was sentenced to jail time for his role in the alleged tax evasion.[48]

On December 23, 1999, The Three Tenors performed their only Christmas concert together in Vienna, Austria. This concert featured a mix of sacred and popular Christmas songs with The Three Tenors singing separately, in duets, and as a trio.

And Carreras, for whom it all started, is still performing as a tenor. According to Wikipedia, his last appearance in a fully-staged opera was in 2002. Some critics have suggested that his voice was going long before he fell ill with leukemia; Carreras seemingly had problems sustaining the high notes required of tenors; unfortunately, the same accusation was leveled about Pavarotti. In his prime, though, Jos Carreras was considered to have had one of the finest tenor voices of his generation. Carrera nowadays makes appearances either singing Neapolitan songs at recitals or with special guests in concerts representing other musical genres, ranging from Sarah Brightman to Debbie Harry.

A particular highlight in the history of "Christmas in Vienna" was the appearance of the three tenors in 1999. Christmas in Vienna almost disappeared when the incidents in New York in the USA in September 2001 brought a break for "Christmas in Vienna". The music industry was also in crisis during these years.

Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays with a recording of a live concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus on December 23, 1999. There will be music never before recorded by three tenors together: selected songs from around the world, accompanied by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio and the Gumpoldskirchen Children's Choir.

Mark Weiger, oboe, from Burlington, VT, is a full professor of music at the University of Iowa where he teaches oboe and chamber music. Since coming to Iowa in 1988 he has performed as a soloist throughout the U.S., Canada, England, Mexico, Brazil, Austria, France and Italy, presented two Carnegie Hall recitals, been a finalist in nine international competitions, was the Second Prize winner in the New York International Competition and the First Prize winner in the Queens Philharmonic Concerto Competition in New York City. He has performed double concertos with Chicago's principal oboist, Ray Still, and presented solo recitals with such notables as Ronald Roseman, Marc Fink, and Bert Lucarelli. In 1996-97 Weiger became the first solo oboist to serve as an Artistic Ambassador. As such, he has presented recitals in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, India, Greece, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In 1998 his CD Oboe on Road was released through Centaur. In 1999 his CD of Grand Sonatas for Oboe was released through Crystal. In 2000 his CD Romantic Melodies for Oboe will be released on Eroica. Weiger can also be heard on CRS, Eroica and Green Mountain labels. 2351a5e196