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What makes opera run? In recent years, much of the horsepower has come from the mighty two-cylinder engine of Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, whose "Three Tenors" concerts with Jose Carreras are the most profitable road show in the modern history of classical music. It has been more than a decade since the Metropolitan Opera gave an opening-night performance without one or the other performing. But few tenors sing past 60, and both men are fast approaching the inevitable end of their dual tenure at the top of the operatic heap...
...DOES PAVAROTTI...
...found,including a man named Peter Kazaras who is a busyopera singer in New York. So I e-mailed him andasked "Are you the real Peter Kazaras?" and hewrote back, "Yes, I'm the real Peter Kazaras, andwhy would anyone want to imitate Peter Kazaraswhen they could imitate Pavarotti or PlacidioDomingo." So the next I emailed him and asked himif he would hear me sing. He said yes, and so Iwent to sing there, and he gave me a great, greatresponse and invited me to see a dress rehearsalfor Billy Budd at the Met the next day. So thenext...
Keeping on the subject of "larger than life" singers, Hoelterhoff manages to continually weave in the story of everyone's favorite tenor, Lucianno Pavarotti. Told with a tinge of sympathy and pity, she traces the last moments of a tenor past his prime, who has constant memory lapses and has to transpose all of his arias down to avoid the dreaded high Cs, yet desperately does not want to leave the public spotlight. Like Bartoli, even Mr. P (as Hoelteroff affectionately calls the Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed...
Choral concerts are planned for every evening, with organizers hoping to sign up the incomparable Three Tenors--Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti--for a New Year's Eve Concert of Hope in Manger Square...