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    The Private Lives of the Three Tenors

    The Private Lives of the Three Tenors is a gossip biography of tenorsPlácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and José Carreras by Marcia Lewis.[1][2][3][4][5] First published in 1996, the book received high-level publicity during a political scandal that involved Lewis's daughter Monica Lewinsky in 1998, as journalists compared Lewis' "hints" of an affair with popular opera singer, Plácido Domingo, to Lewinsky’s then-unproven allegations against U.S. President Bill Clinton.[6][7][8][9] Domingo insisted that he only knew Lewis socially.[8][6]

    Domingo controversy

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    Media controversy over Plácido Domingo concentrated on an early publicity proposal that Lewis wrote for her book: "How did the author, a glamorous Beverly Hills reporter, formerly with The Hollywood Reporter, get all the inside dope? She denies rumors she and Doming

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    The original Three Tenors

    Music has been an important part of the World Cup ever since The Three Tenors’ legendary performance 20 years ago.

    • On 7 July 1990, at the close of the World Cup in Rome, the three greatest tenors of the day, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti joined forces to perform to thousands of people in the ancient ruins at Caracalla.
    • Together with conductor Zubin Mehta, the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino they performed classics such as Leonard Bernstein’s Maria, 'O sole mio and of course Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot.

     

    • The concert raised money for Carreras’ Leukaemia Foundation and took place shortly after his recovery from the disease.
    • It was previously unthinkable that opera would feature at the biggest international football event, but The Three Tenors were instant hits and became a regular fixture at the World Cup, per

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      Who were the Three Tenors? A guide to Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras

      The soundtrack of everyone’s life in summer 1990 was Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini’s ‘Nessun’ dorma’.

      And, probably, the Three Tenors concert on 7 July, the eve of the World Cup sista of Italia 90: a light-hearted showcase of him, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras beautifully performing the great and the good of the tenor repertoire, individually and together.

      Who were The Three Tenors?

      The ménage à trois proved a huge, unexpected success. It spawned the biggest-selling classical album ever, and multi-million pound tours. It shook up classical marketing. Crossover albums, Vanessa-Mae, Sarah Brightman, Russell Watson, ‘stadium tenors’, ‘popera’... it’s The Three Tenors you should thank. Or blame.

      But despite subsequent accusations of selling-out, tax fraud, and inappropriate gum-chewing, The Three Tenors phenomenon remains how it felt that starry night at Rome’s Baths of Caracalla: a glorious c