Why 3 tenors and not 5 or 10?
Because someone had already gotten the idea and it worked. Three was a good number and at the time they were a hot ticket. However, because of vocal demand, we need more than one cast. We have 2 casts of the tenors. We are doing some of the biggest arias in the opera world which means that the tenors need to rest. So we alternate them so that they can rest their voices. We give them as much rest as possible because we have to take care of the talent. For the longest of times the classical music world has been dominated by women especially when it comes to blacks. How have you overcome that? We haven’t. It’s still dominated by women. You can barely name two working black tenors. What I originally had in mind was to launch people into another platform. But what I realized is that this is on a separate platform of its own. This whole project has become its own animal. The Three Mo’ Tenors are not just limited to one thing, which is opera but they are also performing in arias which they we
