Pavarotti Festival: Screenings of The Three Tenors Concert, Pavarotti & Friends: The Duets, and Verdi Requiem Legends La Scala at Paramount Center, Bright Family Screening Room

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SAT, MAR 26 - 2:00PM
The Three Tenors Concert
Running time: 86 min
Magic was created in July 1990, when Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras met onstage at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome and became the Three Tenors. This greatest musical event ever is an awe-inspiring orgy of the greatest hits for the tenor voice. Zubin Mehta exquisitely captures the largeness of this bonanza through the grandiose orchestra.
SAT, MAR 26 - 7:00PM
Pavarotti & Friends: The Duets
Running time: 70 min
Pavarotti annually hosted the “Pavarotti and Friends” concerts in his home town of Modena in Italy, joining with singers from all parts of the music industry to raise money for several humanitarian causes.
SUN, MAR 27 - 1:00PM
Verdi Requiem Legends La Scala
Running time: 85 min
Originally performed at La Scala in 1967 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Toscanini’s death, this production with the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alla Scala was presented in Moscow, Montreal and New York, in addition to Milan. It was recorded on film (35mm) in 1967, with the young Luciano Pavarotti replacing Carlo Bergonzi.
Together with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Verdi's Requiem ranks as one of the two supreme achievements in 19th-century liturgical music. Verdi revered the great Italian author Alessandro Manzoni. When Manzoni died on 22 May 1873, Verdi wrote to his publisher expressing his desire to compose a Requiem Mass. It was premiered on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. From the hushed reverence of the "Requiem aeternam" to the raging fury of the "Dies irae", and from the overwhelming power of the "Tuba mirum" to the sobbing grief of the "Lacrimosa", the Requiem is a highly dramatic and emotional - though not theatrical - work. Verdi specified that it "must not be sung the way an opera is sung". A work of awesome grandeur, it projects a compelling sincerity and honesty, even though Verdi was a nonobservant Catholic.