| The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 | |
| Type: | Live |
| Artist: | the Three Tenors |
| Cover: | 3_Tenors_in_Concert_1994_(Carrears,_Domingo,_Pavarotti,_Mehta).jpg |
| Caption: | Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti, and Mehta |
| Released: | August 30, 1994 |
| Recorded: | July 16, 1994, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Opera, operatic pop |
| Length: | 01:13:22 |
| Label: | Atlantic / Teldec / Warner Music |
| Producer: | Tibor Rudas, Christopher Raeburn |
| Prev Title: | Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 is a live album by José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti with conductor Zubin Mehta. The album was recorded on July 16, 1994, at the Three Tenors concert in Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the chorus of the Los Angeles Opera on the night before the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final.[1] An estimated 1.3 billion viewers watched the concert as a television broadcast special across the world.[2]
This concert has been released on home video formats, and re-released on Streaming Video formats on 2019.
The AllMusic reviewer wrote that the singers displayed "vitality and pizzazz" during the concert. The reviewer remarked on the oddity of a concert by classical musicians held in a sports stadium, but nonetheless believed that the popularity of the tenors made the venue less "ludicrous". The reviewer also found them to be in "fine form" in regard to their singing and singled out certain numbers for praise: Domingo's "Granada," Carreras' "O souverain, o juge, o père," and Pavarotti's "Nessun dorma", as well as "La donna è mobile" and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", which all three men sang together.[3]
Tracks 7–10 are a medley titled "A Tribute to Hollywood", and Tracks 14–25 are a medley titled "Around the World", both arranged and orchestrated by Lalo Schifrin.
Not included in the album were these three numbers sung (between 11 and 12 above) at the concert:
| Chart (1994–2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Argentine Albums (CAPIF)[4] | 10 |
| Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi)[5] | 2 |
| Chart (1994–95) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium (Flanders)[6] | 34 | |
| Belgium (Wallonia) | 36 | |
| European | 1 | |
| France | 47 | |
| Germany | 2 | |
| Netherlands | 2 | |
| Norway | 19 | |
| Spain[7] [8] | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 3 | |
| UK[9] | 1 | |
| US[10] | 4 | |
| US Classical Albums | 1 |