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Getting the world's three greatest tenors-Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras-to risk their reputations and submerge their famous egos by appearing on the same stage seemed preposterous. It happened only because Domingo and Pavarotti wanted to help Carreras, financially drained after a battle with leukemia. Yet when the musical titans gathered before 6,000 people at Rome's Baths of Caracalla one July night in 1990, operatic history was made...
That-a LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, he's-a so crazy! At a London press conference to announce a charity concert in Hyde Park, the tenor revealed that he hopes to duet with some special guests--more special even than Placido Domingo and that other tenor guy. "I have spoken to MADONNA and Paul McCartney," said Pavarotti, 65. "I would love to sing with them, as they are the best--and I'm not bad myself--but we don't know yet if that will happen. Madonna has a very clear idea. She promised she would come if we could sing together...
...start streaking Placido Polanco or hard-hitting Fernando Tatis at third base...
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...
...mouthed, bullet-headed, forever-tan egomaniac" publicist, adds a touch of much needed vulgarity to the usually cordial dialogue. For him, everything the press writes isn't worth "a thimble-full of rat's piss." Always mentioned in the same breath as the faltering Mr. P is the superhuman Placido Domingo (everyone's second favorite tenor.) Hoelterhoff describes Domingo's unfailing energy, which allows him to conduct a matinee performance of one opera, star as lead role in another opera that evening, then hop on a plane to the other side of the country to fill...