Joy and I recently saw the Ten Tenors as part of a Broadway series we’re attending here in town in an effort to set aside time for us to get out together without the kids every now and then. I didn’t enjoy the concert as much as the Wynton Marsalis concert we saw a few weeks earlier, but parts of it were quite good. The somewhat heavily stylized opera bits were nice enough, and their covers of various well-known rock songs were certainly entertaining. The covers included Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees), The Boxer (Simon and Garfunkel), Who Wants To Live Forever (Queen), and Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen again). As you might expect, Bohemian Rhapsody was the crowd pleasing favorite of the night. In between the opera and the covers, though, they performed a number of songs that were basically overwrought adult contemporary numbers, none of which were particularly engaging or interesting. So all in all certainly not the greatest concert in the world, but still a nice evening for Joy and I to spend together.
