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...Hungary. Behind that will be an instant park made from 30 truckloads of assorted greenery -- amid which two four-story-high waterfalls will come plashing down. Except during the performance. In deference to the three supertenors who will make up the dream program -- Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti -- the cascades will be stilled. This Saturday's concert (to be aired live on PBS and repeated the next night) may mark the final of the World Cup, but will anyone in Los Angeles be thinking about soccer...
Tenors are notorious for their vanity, and it has been assumed that these three must be rivalrous. But their insistence that they are in fact good colleagues has the ring of truth to it. Domingo, 53, and Pavarotti, 58, especially, have huge careers, more work than they can possibly handle. The evidence of good fellowship can be found on the 1990 video, in the medley that closes the concert and is at the heart of its success (there will be two of them this time). Says Carreras, 46: "The audience loves most the things that seem to happen spontaneously...
...medley -- composed of show tunes and popular chestnuts -- is divided so that the three men toss the melody back and forth, each singing part of every song. There is some mild one-upmanship: Domingo sustains a high note, it seems, for several bars; Pavarotti's eloquent eyebrows start working overtime. But the songs meld seamlessly, and that is the result of cooperative effort...
...along well: financial. When they signed contracts for the Rome concert, neither they nor their management teams foresaw the extraordinary revenues that the event would generate. The singers accepted a flat fee from Decca, with no royalties. Economically, it was a disastrous decision. Music-industry sources have it that Pavarotti, who records exclusively for Decca, used his clout to sweeten his deal once it was clear that the album was going through the roof. When word leaked to the others, Domingo, who free-lances primarily with Sony and BMG, was said to be especially peeved...
...hype. A music video that will air around the world shows the singers gleefully kicking around a soccer ball and singing what the backers hope will be the new Nessun dorma: the brindisi, or drinking song, from Verdi's La Traviata. (The promoters have not forgotten their prize song; Pavarotti will sing it just before the final medley...