When Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti got together in a concert to coincide with the last World Cup final, it was heralded as the musical event of the decade. Certainly the excitement it generated and the viewing figures it achieved seem to confirm this.

Now the world's greatest tenors return to sing together once more under the baton of Zubin Mehta. This concert was performed live last night to an audience of 56,000 at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles as a musical prelude to the World Cup final.
Details of the concert programme are shrouded in secrecy but it seems likely that each tenor will sing a selection of operatic arias and the American, Italian or Spanish songs with which they are particularly associated, including works by Bernstein,
Rogers and Hammerstein, Verdi and Puccini.

They will also perform medleys of popular music which have become a trademark of their collaboration since their 1990 concert and the rumour is that they will sing Nessun Dorma, the 1990 World Cup anthem, as an encore.

(Simultaneous Broadcast: with Radio 2)

Peter Barnard met the three tenors in training: See Feature page 28