Outstanding performance by all. In tears well before the end.

Their voices complement each other perfectly. A joy to listen to.

One of the most beautiful sounds ever

1983, we are remembering the real operatic singing, which we are loving, most beautiful

I find myself getting out of breath as I listen to this. It is because I am holding my breath to be able to hear every note! Divine duet!

I was in heaven til an ad popped up half way through ! Beautiful rendition of perhaps the greatest duet in opera.

Due Titani del bel canto! Li amo...❤️❤️

Magnificent clear voices Domingo and Sherril.

An old video, but what a strong voice Placido Domingo had!

Divine! One of my all-time favourites.

What a luck we have !! so we can listen and loocking to this so perfect menuet !! Thank !!! THANK !!!

I grew up with Bjorling and Merill and that was the "best", but Domingo and Milnes teach me that there is no "Best". God and nature give us many "bests".

Milner was a gorgeous hunk...sang wonderfully too! Young Placido's career did pretty well!

two men with sensible musicality-just beautiful

Milnes y Domingo.como siempre suoerlativos.duo maravilloso

Thank you very much for uploading this ❤

quelles voix merveilleuses ... un rêve ...

Wow... everytime i see two great singers singing together i see some kind of competition to outstand, but this duet... i love how the melted their voices together

I am now a helpless, panting heap on the floor, so overcome am I by the soaring beauty and greatness of this.

Thanks, Wansob. The best videos. Milnes and Domigo. ¿What else? Brilliant. I started loving opera thanks to this singers, and that fantastic disc of duets they made years ago.. xx

The recordings of these 2 are out there for all to listen to and enjoy for years to come..

Precioso y la interpretación brillante como todas las de Milnes y Domingo. Bravo

Milnes played Scarpia in the 1976 movie of Tosca filmed entirely on location in Rome. Raina Kaibavanska (sp?) was Tosca, and Domingo played Caravadossi. Milnes was the most arresting, dramatic, and musical Scarpia of all, his voice at its peak, his acting magnificent. The movie itself is exrtremely well directed, beautifully cast.. and beautifully produced. I can no longer get it on youtube, but if anyone else can, look for it.

このコンサート全曲を、現代の技術で画質、音質ともに修復して、是非商品化して欲しい。後世に残すべき素晴らしい演奏です。

This duet is one of my favorites.

Che voci meravigliose e che musica melodiosa. Grazie!

Magnificos los dos en este precioso duo de los pescadores!, y Levine, estupendo director!...a pesar del deficiente sonido de la grabacion.

this is my favorite duet !!!

Breath taking performance. James Levine, Sherrill Milnes and the great Placido Domingo at their peak. Excellent! Thanks a million for the video.

Sublimely beautiful!

Magnifique duo , superbement interprété !!

Wonderful duet.

Just so v beautiful.

THIS piece was my introduction to The Three Tenors. Placido Domingo is truly a great person & artist.

Outstanding the voices...what a great Aria !

this is absolutely beautiful

Two outstanding opera singers. Such a joy to listen to them!

Perlų žvejai,labai gera opera ir geras duetas!

To me, this duet with Milnes and Domingo, made the most "sense" because of the English translations provided! These two drop-dead gorgeous men were acting their parts in synchronicity with the music, not just singing a wonderful piece of music. I have listened to all the other versions mentioned here, and can distinguish where some voices may have more preferable characteristics that others don't, but keep returning to this because the visualization that these two fine artist/singers/actors provide makes the scene alive and real with emotional meaning. Of course, that was Domingo's forte: in movies and on television, making opera accessible to all. It was really a golden age as well.

This is the best duet of the "Pearl Fisher" I have ever heard. These two voices are perfect together, also in other operas. Absolutely wonderful!!!!

OMG Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! What a fantastic pair these guys are! They rival jussi an robert with this duet!!! I defy anyone to say different!!! You are Brill WANSOB!

In the 1970's I bought an LP in London with this duet, it still is a treasure, then few years later 2003, I attended a Placido's concert in USA, NW Florida's Gulf Coast, the Concert of a Lifetime, which indeed it was.

Thank you for posting this - wonderful!

Excellent duo. Merci

Two of the BEST in their prime. Brava

Love the (2)harps, heavenly!

This is wonderful, not just the singing but the acting as well. Find Milnes and Domingo in Tosca with Milnes as Scarpia and Domingo as Caravadossi. They played off each other well, with Domingo a strong Mario, unlike other tenors. I also love James Levine. Bravissimi.

Oh, I'm so jealous you got to see him live!! I never got that chance! But I did watch him on PBS every chance I got, and I was very happy to see him perform on PBS's recent airing of the tribute to Pavarotti. Milnes has aged gracefully, and his voice is still powerful. He sang in an aria from Boheme. What a delight to see him again, even if only on TV! But yes, his Iago is the best. I remember watching him as he sang "Credo in un Dio Crudel". Gave me boosebumps!

@pdfan33036 I met Milnes at the Met and he is imposing in person as well. Very nice man:-)

This duet is always an arrow through my heart. My most humble suggestion is that all these wonderful artists have their own distinctive "signature " so that there is, perhaps, no "best" performance, afterall, but a matter of individual taste? After all, there are many superb chefs in New York and London ! A most pleasant dilemma. (Just having fun here. Don't really know if my main thought holds up under scrutiny or not)

Beau, beau etc.....!!!! J'aime.

What a beautiful duet ! Two of the most beautiful voices of today !

What a heavenly voices !!! the best !!!

Incredible rendition of one of the most beautiful Tenor-Baritone-Duets in opera!!! Plácido is and will be forever... THE GREATEST!!!!

Gracious, I remember this very duet (and Verdi´s no less beautiful "Don Carlos" duet) sung by these two singers on GDR TV. I was 15, came across Placido Domingo for the first time - and was enchanted forever.

The first time I heard this, it was Bjorling and Merrill, and I loved it - and still do. But Milnes and Domingo do a beautiful job of it - and no matter whether it's the one or the other, I am always in tears by some moments into the piece of music. I suppose that for me, as a native French speaker, it's as much WHAT they're singing about - the importance of being friends, and being faithful - that gets me. I just flat enjoy both of the versions, and so should we all. We are so lucky to have the means to remember these performances. What both sets of singers do is LISTEN to each other - and Milnes and Domingo, IMHO, are two of the absolute best "acting singers" that ever graced a stage. You can believe them.

Thank you :-))

Milnes is still the most badass baritone ever.

This is great

Domingo is so young. Sigh.

Perfection.

The pearl fishers, Au font du temple saint by Bizet

me emocione hasta las lagrimas

thanks so much for posting!

Je crois que mon plus grand regret en matière d opera est de n avoir pu assister à ce concert de 1983...j en pleure à chaque fois..

Sublime.

memorable

Of the 3 Three Tenors I have always loved Domingo for his rich tones and expressiveness. We miss him at Washington National Opera as a performer and artistic director. He was as warm and charming as his voice having had the opportunity to have talk to him on several occasions at WNO!!! Mario Lanza is my other favorite tenor

Glorious

6ft 2 I believe, though he looks taller. He wrote an essay on Rigoletto in David Hamilton's The Metropolitan Encylopedia and he mentioned his height and how he had to bend(is that the right word?) his knees to play the part. He says the same thing in his Homage to Verdi documentary. And you are right, they are gorgeous- just one of the reasons while I love them as much as I do- especially Milnes(quite possibly one of the most handsome male singers in opera)

Très belle interprêtation.

EXQUISITO DUO

Sheer bliss!! Thank you so much! But it's 'Pearl FISHERS' - these guys were diving to the bottom after OYSTERS, in which they hoped to find PEARLS, which could be a hazardous occupation

Their voices are so beautiful together. Best tenor/baritone combo EVER!

Sublime!

Placido was so young and handsome there, and he was a tenor then.....

it is a heavenly voice !!!

Tremendous performance

Their duet from Verdi's Don Carlo, recorded in the early 70s, tops even this. I know its hard to believe. But just listen.

Utterly fabulous!!

Stunning! Heaven on earth isn't it : )

Vorrei proporre l'ascolto del medesimo brano cantato da Jonas kaufmann e Dimitri Horostowskj...secondo me una meraviglia 💞💯🙏. R.I.P. caro Maestro Dimitri 🙏

These two are fantastic with each other!

Bravo

One of the best arias ever, the duet of tenor and baritone is sublime ! I must say though, having been to the actual opera and unfortunately read the translations, I was disappointed.

James Levine, cond., Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. James Levine who has been the Met's conductor since 1971 when he was a mere brown-haired child is just stepping down this year, 2016. What a wonderful career. Is the commentator/announcer Milton Cross?

I'm so jealous that you got to meet Sherrill Milnes!! He's been my opera idol for 25 years!! And yes, this was a wonderful aria -- Miles and Domingo. I remember watching this program on PBS back in the 80's. I love these two wonderful singers! Miles sang Iago to Domingo's Otello, with Renata Scotto singing Desdemona, many years ago. They got me hooked on opera.

In ciuda numeroaselor critici, aceasta este o versiune care a intrat in istorie , iar eu personal ma bucur si imi place aceasta istorie!

Au font du le temple from Bizet opera Le chercher de pearle!

precioso

Absolutely stunning... its so interesting that Sherril Milnes sings this so beautifully and in tune. When he doesn't artificially darken his sound its absolutely stunning. Pity he spent most of his career singing Verdi, because his voice is actually very delicate sounding here. ]

bliss...... is all i have to say

❤❤❤

WHY do they sing so perfectly ?? Just because they are not only Singers but also Musicians (I mean Conductors) !! Let’s think about it .......

OMG this is over 30 years old.

Wow! This just gorgeous.

The Kraus-McDaniel version is still the best -- clear, clean, they let the music evoke the emotions. Altogether beautiful.

C'est en tout cas très beau !

Ho adorato Sherrill Milnes come il Barone Scarpia nel film Tosca: il Te Deum, secondo me, è davvero memorabile. E poi incarnava, anche fisicamente, il ruolo del malefico...

Che strano questi tre signori li conosco da quando incominciai a comprarmi le opere complete per essere preparata e capire meglio la musica tante opere la prima volta che le ascoltavo non tutte mi piacevano subito e poi le riprendeva con questo sistema ora le conosco e apprezzo molto se vi può interessare per me Milnes è il baritono ed è il migliore parlo delle mie opere Placido lo conosciamo e certe opere come la Manon di Puccini è fantastico mentre Levines non era per me all altezza dei ns direttori europei vi ho stancato un po' per arrivare a dirvi che però ora Dmitri è Lui il più grande grazie ivana