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In the 1980s, opera's most famous tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, had attracted a huge audience at a Madison Square Garden concert. But even that triumph was eclipsed by the Three Tenors arena concerts--the most successful concert presentations in the history of classical music. In this excerpt from their new book, The King and I, Herbert Breslin and Anne Midgette describe the jealousy, greed and chaos behind the Three Tenors phenomenon.
Luciano's success in Madison Square Garden got me dreaming. I dreamed of other ways to present classical music to a mass audience. I dreamed of putting on Handel's oratorio Messiah at Madison Square Garden, with dancers enacting ...