Last Concert: The Three Tenors 'Live' in Bath
The Three Tenors Live in Bath
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The DVD comprises the main part of the magnificent and special 2-hour plus evening with the Three Tenors, as well as some of the background and history surrounding the concert, and the city of Bath, England.
It contains a half-hour record of the events surrounding the concert, followed by the main hour-long live Three Tenors concert that evening, featuring 'It is Well with My Soul', and classics like Nessun Dorma, La Donna Mobile and many others. Also featured are songs like Jerusalem, Land of Hope & Glory, etc. by the Bath Camerata & Bath Abbey Choir.
It also contains the sponsor, Francis Yeoh's 15-minute introduction and 'testimony'. (See David Pawson's description of the events, below.) This was the VERY LAST TIME the 'Three Tenors', Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, ever performed together.
Date of Performance: 7 August 2003 (later premiered on BBC4)
Place: The Bath Royal Crescent, City of Bath, England
One VVIP guest wrote:
‘You may have seen the Bath concert on BBC4… its sponsor [was] a Malaysian businessman [Francis Yeoh] who laid it on to mark his first acquisition of a British concern (Wessex Water). 14 000 sat before a huge stage in the crescent itself and another 20 000 watched on huge screens in a nearby park. Admission was free for all... Apart from the magnificent music, including items by Bath Abbey, and the final firework display, [t]he programme began with a 15-minute testimony by Francis Yeoh...
'The climax was a rendering by tenors and choir of Spafford’s hymn: “It is well with my soul” written by an American businessman [and lawyer] after his son died and all his daughters were drowned (“when sorrows like sea billows roll”) in a shipwreck on their way across the Atlantic to support a Moody and Sankey crusade here. A great-granddaughter, Lady Cope, who resides in Bath, sat with us and heard the hymn sung live for the first time (none of this was known when it was selected for the concert). She and Lord Cope are keen Christians and still support the Spafford Home for Arab and Israeli orphans in Jerusalem, which has looked after 35 000 children so far...
'An unforgettable evening, full of interest and inspiration…’
Francis Yeoh once heard ‘It is Well with My Soul’ sung by tenors in a church in the US. Eventually this gave him a great desire to hear it being sung by ‘the’ Three Tenors, which became possible once he met Pavarotti (who opened Yeoh’s island resort, Pangkor Laut, now one of the world’s top holiday resorts).
Once plans for the ‘Three Tenors in Bath’ concert got under way, Yeoh asked Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras to perform the hymn. They refused: ‘We don’t do hymns,’ Pavarotti said. But when Yeoh said it’s so important to him that they sing it that he’d cancel the concert if they don’t, they finally agreed. What clinched it, was Yeoh telling the Tenors the story of the song, which brought tears to Pavarotti.
You'll hear many Three Tenors classics performed, of course – actually, all their favourites, requested by crowds around the world.
Pavarotti, about Domingo and Carreras: "For me, every time I meet these two gentlemen and share the stage with them it is an incredible experience."