Three Tenors by Candlelight - 14th November, Edinburgh

PROGRAMME

Rossini – Overture to The Barber of Seville

De Curtis – ‘Torna a Surriento’

Lehár – ‘Lippen schweigen’

Lehár – ‘Wien wird bei Nacht erst schön’

Donizetti – ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ from L’elisir d’amore

Verdi – ‘La donna è mobile’ from Rigoletto

Franck – Panis angelicus

Schubert – Ave Maria

Di Capua – ‘’O sole mio’

Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana

Verdi – ‘Libiamo’ from La traviata

Mozart – Overture to The Marriage of Figaro

Denza – ‘Funiculì, funiculà’

Lehár – ‘Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume’

Cilea – ‘È la solita storia’ from L’arlesiana

Lehár – ‘Dein ist mein ganzes Herz’ from Das Land des Lächelns

Puccini – ‘E lucevan le stelle’ from Tosca

Schubert – Ständchen

Puccini – Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut

Puccini – ‘Nessun dorma’ from Turandot

A brand-new show for 2026, The Three Tenors presents some of the greatest operatic arias ever written to showcase the brilliance of the tenor voice.The Three Tenors phenomenon was born in Rome in 1990, on the eve of the World Cup, when three superstar tenors brought opera to a vast global audience and created one of the best-selling classical albums of all time. This programme captures that same sense of occasion, celebrating the power, romance and excitement of the great tenor repertoire.Spanning opera, song and operetta, the programme ranges from the sunlit warmth of Neapolitan classics such as Torna a Surriento and ’O sole mio to the great showstoppers of Italian opera, including the famous drinking song from La traviata and the instantly recognisable La donna è mobile from Rigoletto. Also featured are some of opera’s other best-loved arias, including Donizetti’s Una furtiva lagrima and Puccini’s E lucevan le stelle, alongside the elegance and charm of Viennese operetta favourites by Lehár.Sacred works including Franck’s Panis Angelicus and Schubert’s Ave Maria bring moments of stillness and reflection, before the evening builds to one of the most thrilling climaxes in all opera: Puccini’s Nessun dorma.