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| | Nathan Granner, Daniel Montenegro and Mauricio O'Reilly, The American Tenors |
 | | I confess that I sort-of liked the original idea of "The Three Tenors," that blockbuster concert originally recorded almost fourteen years ago that featured Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Careras on the same concert stage, belting out concert versions of opera arias and popular songs, frequently together. |
 | | Well, I was always surprised that a "Three Sopranos" never took flight -- imagine the drama of Kathleen Battle, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Renee Fleming sharing a stage -- or, perhaps, instrumentalists: "Three Fiddlers," maybe, or "Three Trumpeters." Those never came to pass, though; what we got were essentially variations on the "Three Tenors" idea. |
 | | The singing is nice enough; these guys are decent tenors, even if it's kind of hard to tell, since the main point is to do lots of belting and not a lot of shading. |
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