The Three Tenors: Paris 1998

The Three Tenors: Paris 1998
(Left to right) José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and James Levine
Live album by
The Three Tenors
Released18 August 1998
Recorded10 July 1998,
Paris
Genreopera, operatic pop
Length1:14:16
LabelAtlantic / Warner Music
ProducerTibor Rudas,
Christopher Raeburn
The Three Tenors chronology
The Three Tenors in Concert 1994
(1994) 		The Three Tenors: Paris 1998
(1998) 		The Three Tenors Christmas
(2000)
Singles from The Three Tenors: Paris 1998
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

The Three Tenors: Paris 1998 (re-released with the subtitle The Concert of the Century) is a live album by José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti with conductor James Levine. The album was recorded at a Three Tenors concert on 10 July 1998 during celebrations for the FIFA World Cup. The concert took place in front of the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. The Orchestre de Paris accompanied the singers. The audience at the live concert numbered around 150,000 people.[2] A sound system and large screens were placed along the Champ de Mars for the crowds further back to see and hear the performance.[2] Producer Tibor Rudas claimed prior to the concert that 2 billion viewers were expected to watch the televised performance worldwide.[3]

As in their two previous recorded concerts in Rome in 1990 and Los Angeles in 1994, Spanish tenors Carreras and Domingo and their Italian colleague Pavarotti performed a variety of operatic arias, Neapolitan songs, zarzuela romanzas, art songs, and popular music. Atlantic Records and Warner Music jointly released the audio version of the concert on 18 August 1998, while Universal Music and Decca Records released the video album on VHS and DVD. The album went gold in the United States and France.[4][5]

  1. ^ Erlewine, Steven Thomas. The 3 Tenors: The Concert of the Century (Paris 1998) – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Dauncey, Hugh; Hare, Geoff (2014). France and the 1998 World Cup: The National Impact of a World Sporting Event. London: Routledge. p. 194. ISBN 978-1135228620.
  3. ^ Swed, Mark (July 10, 1998). "The Three Tenors' Cup Runneth Over". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
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