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From the Vienna State Opera Arthaus presents a timeless document of great opera. Lorin Maazel and a dream cast of distinguished singers, among them the young Eva Marton and José Carreras in his mid-thirties, perform a celebrated staging of Puccini’s Turandot. Puccini’s last opera tells the story of the battle of the sexes against an exotic backdrop. The work tells the story of the beguilingly beautiful and cold yet seductive Chinese princess, Turandot.

Even as these God-given talents age and reunite, tenors Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti deliver the goods to an adoring French audience accompanied by the Orchestra de Paris under the baton of James Levine. This inspiring DVD captures the live-in-Paris concert and is complemented by a behind-the-scenes documentary and interviews with the three stars.

On the evening of 7 July 1990 an "impossible dream" came true: the three most famous tenors in the world joined forces with an orchestra of two hundred musicians against a backdrop of the majestic scenery of ancient Rome. In the famous Baths of Caracalla on a brilliant starlit night with a full moon rising, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, together with Maestro Zubin Mehta, presented an evening of arias, songs and medleys which was unique in musical history. For the six thousand fortunate people who crowded into Caracalla that evening and the television audience of eight hundred million it was an experience never to be forgotten. But few at the time could have realised the full historical significance of the concert and the profound effect it would have on the popular perception of classical music. The concert has been broadcast and rebroadcast again and again and has always been received with undiminished enthusiasm. The album has sold more copies than any other classical recording ever, and its overwhelming popularity led to a repeat concert to coincide with the 1994 World Cup final in Los Angeles, followed by a world tour spanning the four continents of Asia, Europe, America and Australasia. The concert also became the first-ever classical release to appear on DVD video. With the unique combination of studio-quality pictures plus 5-channel surround sound, this release of the "Three Tenors" offers the most faithful document yet of that remarkable moment in musical history.

Recorded live on stage on the eve of one of the world’s greatest sporting events, The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 re-unites four of classical music’s premiere and most popular talents. The legendary tenors José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, together with conductor Zubin Mehta, celebrated the finale to soccer’s 1994 World Cup with a concert described as “probably the biggest single musical event in history”.