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When we think of “crossover” music, our minds tend to go immediately to the early 1990s, when The Three Tenors swept up fans at football stadiums and other enormous venues around the globe with their charming, easygoing renditions of opera arias, Broadway standards, and Neapolitan popular songs. Since that trio of opera superstars created such a winning formula, a whole new generation of “popera” stars, like Il Divo, Andrea Bocelli, and Sarah Brightman, have captivated fans worldwide.
However, as Luciano Pavarotti and his colleagues Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras often said in interviews, what the Three Tenors achieved was a return to the days before there were such strict demarcations between "classical" and "pop" performances, when forebears such as Franco Corelli and Mario Lanza (the latter as much a movie idol as a recording legend) straddled both worlds with ease and elegance.
In the past twenty years, "lifestyle" compilation recordings have become extremely popular as well. Whether meant to help soothe listeners' stress or provide suggestions for wedding tunes, such thematic collections have found avid audiences and become very big business for many classical record labels.
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