OPERA greats José Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will perform at the new Scarborough Open Air Theatre’s opening gala performance tonight, and not surprisingly the 7.30pm event has sold out.
The Orchestra of Opera North and Huddersfield Choral Society will be taking part too and the compere will be the stentorian actor Brian Blessed.
Tonight’s concert will be one of only two British dates this year for Carreras and also will be the first time that Carreras and Dame Kiri have performed in concert together in Britain.
Spanish tenor Carreras’s repertoire spans more than 60 operas and his achievements include being commissioned to be the musical director of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and teaming up with Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti as The 3 Tenors.
New Zealander Dame Kiri was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Music award at the 2010 Classical BRIT Awards. She and Carreras worked together in 1990 when collaborating on a recording of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story.
Tonight’s concert will end with a firework display to mark the official opening of Europe’s largest open air theatre.
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