The Three Tenors

The Three Tenors were an operatic singing trio, termed a supergroup (a title normally reserved for popular music genre groups), active between 1990 and 2003 and consisting of Italian Luciano Pavarotti and Spaniards Plácido Domingo and José Carreras. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, on 7 July 1990, the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final, watched by a television audience of around 800 million. According to the FIFA, the image of three tenors in formal evening dress singing in a World Cup concert captivated the audience. The recording of this debut concert became the best-selling classical album of all time and led to additional performances and live albums. They performed to television audiences at three further World Cup Finals: 1994 in Los Angeles, 1998 in Paris, and 2002 in Yokohama. They also toured other cities around the world, usually performing in stadiums or similar large arenas to huge audiences. They last performed together at Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, on 28 September 2003.