So the opportunity not only to crown a summer of top-league football with a unique concert but also to raise money for the leukaemia charity supported by Carreras (who had suffered from the disease) could not be passed up easily. Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, besides being the three most celebrated tenors of their generation, were also ardent football fans. Yet Pavarotti‘s transformation from hero of the operatic world to household name wasn’t just confined to the UK.Īs the tournament – coincidentally played out in Italy, the country that gave the world opera – reached its climax, another event took place in Rome that was to alter the general perception of classical music for ever: The Three Tenors in Concert.
The version chosen was sung by Luciano Pavarotti and in the course of a few charged weeks a star became a superstar. In the UK, the BBC selected the aria “Nessun dorma” from Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, as the theme music for its coverage.
The World Cup was taking place, and at the heart of this maelstrom of heightened emotion, High Art fused with Popular Culture as never before. Ln the summer of 1990 the world was gripped by football fever.
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