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The 3 Tenors Christmas 2000
Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti

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    Cover
  • Cat.no: 201273 9
  • Cert: E
  • Running time: 81 minutes
  • Year: 2000
  • Pressing: 2000
  • Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)
  • Chapters: 27 plus extras
  • Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Languages: Songs sung in respective languages
  • Subtitles: None
  • Fullscreen: 4:3
  • 16:9-enhanced: No
  • Macrovision: Yes
  • Disc Format: DVD 5
  • Price: £19.99
  • Extras: Selected Discography, Artists' Biographies

  • Conductor:

      Steven Mercurio

    Director:

      David Mallet

    Producers:

      Dione Orrom and Mia Bongiovanni

    Audio Producer:

      Grace Row

    Cast:

      Jose Carreras
      Placido Domingo
      Luciano Pavarotti


The 3 Tenors Christmas, breaks with tradition for Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti as they normally only grace us with their presence when there's a world cup on, but here they perform an extra concert, recorded at Vienna's Konzerthaus.

Given the Xmas theme, that's all you get here with such traditionals as White Christmas, Let it Snow, O Tannenbaum, Jingle Bells, Amazing Grace, Silent Night and a tune Pavarotti wrote with Vittorio Benvenuti, Ave Maria, dolce Maria.

The concert closes with Lennon's Happy Christmas (War is Over).


There are 27 chapters and the listing is as follows :

    1. Programme Start
    2. White Christmas
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    3. Let it Snow
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    4. La virgen lava panales
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    5. O Tannenbaum
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    6. Ay! Para Navidad
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    7. Tu scendi dalle stelle
    - Pavarotti
    8. Carol of the Drum (The Little Drummer Boy)
    - Carreras, Domingo
    9. Ave Maria, dolce Maria
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    10. Wiegenlied
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    11. Jingle Bells
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    12. Children of Christmas
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    13. I'll be home for Christmas
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    14. Adeste fideles
    - Carreras, Pavarotti

    15. Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)
    - Domingo, Pavarotti
    16 Amazing Grace
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    17. Feliz Navidad
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    18. Silent Night
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    19. Pregaria
    - Carreras
    20. Winter Wonderland
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    21. Wiegenlied
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    22. Sleigh Ride
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    23. Susani
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    24. Un nuevo siglo
    - Domingo
    25. Dormi, o bambino
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    26. Happy Christmas (War is Over)
    - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
    27. Copyright warning (!)


The picture looks like a fairly decent NTSC conversion, but isn't quite as sharp as it could be. Artifacts are few and far between and the concert was filmed in 4:3 fullscreen. The average bitrate is 6.68Mb/s, occasionally peaking over 9Mb/s.

The sound works well with a full soundstage, even better in Dolby Digital 5.1, although a standard PCM Stereo option is available.


Extras :

These are rather pointless. The Selected Discography shows the covers from a number of Sony CDs featuring one, two or more of the artists on display, except barely any Pavarotti, while the Artists' Biographies allows two pages of large text per singer.

All the songs are sung in their native languages, with no subtitles surprisingly. The menus have some subtle animation and music over them.


Fans of the trio will no doubt look into this disc, but as most of it will be screened in a TV special on Saturday December 16th on BBC2 at 9pm, plus the fact that you won't play it many times after the festive period is over, is it worth £19.99?

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