José Carreras / Reviews

...the 1994 sellout "Three Tenors" concert at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, an extravaganza beamed to 1.3 billion television viewers worldwide, four years after the trio's smash debut in the ruins of ancient Rome, which generated the largest-selling classical recording of all time.

The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 was an astonishing success on every level. Well before Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti got to their grand-slam encores — the Verdi arias "La donna è mobile" and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Brindisi)" (which Atlantic Records had released as a single before the live date, and which went immediately to No. 1 on the European charts), followed by Puccini's "Nessun dorma" — all the hard work had paid off.