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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Remember where you were when..., September 10, 2007
This is one of those events, whether musical or otherwise, that comes along once a generation. The result is that everyone remembers where they were when....
In my case, I was pottering around at home, blissfully unaware of anything, when my Dad phoned me and said "Turn on your TV - three guys are singing beautifully." I did, and the rest is history.
I'm a professional musician and can't pull out bits or say where people were better than others. Pavarotti was aureate and majestic, his great bulk filling the space, singing with his entire face....Jose Carreras wonderfully intense and sensitive, like the younger brother, keen to impress and seeking approval (later bravely to fight his own health battles)....and Domingo was mischievous and competitive.
Zubin Mehta held the whole event together brilliantly, part authoritative, part conspiratorial. In the magical setting of Caracalla, the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
It was the best jam session ever, and if you haven't seen it, you've been deprived. If you have, you'll want it again.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewing the Australian format of the DVD, October 14, 2007
All the good things that have been said about the (long previously available) US format of this DVD are true for this one too. This was the concert that made opera popular, and Pavarotti a household name (Domingo and Carreras each got to be "one of the other three tenors" - until much later). And the reason it did that was primarily due to a) their song choice - including popular numbers such as Tonight, from West Side Story, for instance, broke down the perceived divide between opera singers and the average music listener; and b) the mischievous playfulness of Domingo and Carreras' reply to Pavarotti's fioratura in the encore - along with Pavarotti's astonishment and hearty spontaneous laughter in response. These might be opera singers, but they were having fun, and the audience, live and televised, had fun with them.
I've been waiting for more than a decade for this DVD to come out, continually frustrated by trying to order the other format only to be told "it won't work in Australian DVD players. My only gripe is that they changed the cover - why should we Aussies not be able to have the orignal cover too?
Watching it with the benefit of nearly 20 years hindsight, perhaps what it shows most clearly is how developed Pavarotti's voice was at that time compared with Domingo and Carreras, both of whom have since become much more equal competition for Luciano. That said, nothing hides the sheer magic of Pavarotti as a singer. Long may the DVDs live as a testimony to him. Vale Luciano!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just to clarify..., March 9, 2009
I'm not going to repeat what others have said about this concert - we already know they're brilliant.
I just wanted to clarify what's in this DVD as compared to other Three Tenors DVD's:
This is a 2-disc box set, which contains the original concert (1.5 hours) plus a 1-hour documentary on the tenors. It also contains extras, a karaoke "extra", and other bonus material.
I hope this helps - if you want to own this classic on DVD, I definitely think the box set is worth the extra dollar.
Enjoy!
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