A picture of world renown Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti appears on the giant screen as a recording of him singing 'Nessum Dorma' is played in tribute, Saturday Sept. 8, 2007 in Wembley Stadium, London. Pavarotti's funeral is taking place in Modena, Italy Saturday before the England versus Israel Euro 2008 Group E qualifying soccer match at Wembley Stadium in London, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. The opera great died Thursday in his home on Modena's outskirts after battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year. He was 71. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
The coffin of late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti leaves the Modena's Duomo, Italy, after the funeral service, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. (AP Photo)
The Italian acrobatic flight team pass over the Modena's cathedral, northern Italy, after the Luciano Pavarotti funeral, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. (AP Photo)
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (L) pays homage to late tenor Luciano Pavarotti in Modena's Duomo, 07 September 2007. Tens of thousands of mourners including many from the worlds of politics and entertainment are gathering in the small town of Modena to bid a final farewell to Italy's opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti.(AFP/Pool)
Luciano Pavarotti performs at the Bercy arena in Paris in 2005. Thousands of mourners led by top political figures and stars of the entertainment world have attended the funeral of opera legend Pavarotti.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)
Cover of the 1990 concert in Rome left-right Domingo, Carreras, Mehta, Pavarotti
The Three Tenors is a name given to a consort of singers who held concerts under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s: Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. The trio began their collaboration with a concert at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome held on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final in Italy, on July 7, 1990, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The idea of the concert was originally conceived by the Italian manager/producer Mario Dradi, to raise money for Carreras's foundation and also as a way for his contemporaries, Domingo and Pavarotti, to welcome their friend and colleague back to the world of opera after his successful treatment for leukemia.
