The 3 Tenors Christmas 2000

• 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
  

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  Conductor:

  Steven Mercurio

Director:

Producers:

Audio Producer:

Cast:

Jose Carreras
Placido Domingo
Luciano Pavarotti

The 3 Tenors Christmas,breaks with tradition for Carreras, Domingo and Pavarottias they normally only grace us with their presence when there’s a world cupon, 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 asWhite 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 (!)

I have since found out that the content on this DVD was shot in 16:9 andso is cropped to 4:3 for this release, since the BBC showed it in widescreenformat. Hence, I shall be marking the score down.Quality-wise, the picture looks like a fairly decent NTSC conversion, butisn’t quite as sharp as it could be. Artifacts are few and far between.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.

All the songs are sung in their native languages, with no subtitlessurprisingly. 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 willbe screened in a TV special on Saturday December 16th on BBC2 at 9pm, plus the factthat you won’t play it many times after the festive period is over, is itworth £19.99?

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