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Three Voices and a Cello: Reading the Credits of Virtuosos’ “My Way”

Domingo, Carreras, Qudaibergen, and HAUSER share a program number, with orchestra and named creative credits. Distinguish the featured instrumental voice from the three singers.

By Only Advert · October 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Three Voices and a Cello: Reading the Credits of Virtuosos’ “My Way”

The Virtuosos “My Way” performance brings together Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Dimash Qudaibergen, and HAUSER, but it is not simply a four-singer lineup. Three featured voices share the song with a cellist, supported by orchestra. That difference gives the collaboration a more useful identity than a headline counting famous names.

Dimash’s official news site places the performance within the 2025 tenth-anniversary Virtuosos final. The official video credits identify Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eugene Kohn, and arranger Sergio Kuhlmann. These names help explain how the featured performers belong to a larger musical production.

The cello can carry a foreground voice

An instrumental soloist can be central to a vocal performance without singing the words. A cello can present melodic material, connect vocal passages, or respond to a sung statement. Those are functions to follow across the arrangement rather than reasons to count the cellist as another vocalist.

Domingo, Carreras, Dimash, and HAUSER — My Way (Virtuosos, 2025)
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The distinction also helps with the term “soloist.” It can describe a featured instrumental contribution as well as a singer. The surrounding orchestra may provide support while a named musician takes the foreground, and that foreground can pass between instrumental and vocal parts.

The arranger and conductor have separate credits

CreditWhat it identifies
Featured singersThe named vocal participants in the performance.
HAUSERThe featured cello participant.
Sergio Kuhlmann, arrangerThe credited musical treatment for Virtuosos.
Eugene Kohn, conductorThe credited leadership of the ensemble performance.

An arranger shapes a particular treatment of existing material; a conductor works with performers in realizing the music. Those functions should not be collapsed into songwriting. Likewise, the prominence of a featured artist does not erase the orchestra’s contribution or supply a complete account of the arrangement.

The program’s own upload is another document

The second selection comes from Virtuosos itself and identifies the same four featured artists. It gives the performance a direct program source. Another official upload can make a number easier to locate without establishing that the musicians performed it again for a separate occasion.

Virtuosos — My Way (official program performance)
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Follow a handoff between a sung phrase and an instrumental passage. Retain the melody’s direction as attention shifts. That continuity is what can make several distinct performers feel like participants in one statement rather than a succession of unrelated demonstrations.

Behind-the-scenes footage changes the question

The final item is explicitly labeled behind the scenes by Virtuosos. It is a companion to the presented performance, not a replacement for hearing its complete musical progression. It can show aspects of preparation while remaining a selected piece of filmmaking.

Virtuosos — My Way (behind the scenes)
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A preparation feature does not disclose every rehearsal, production choice, or conversation. Keep its visible details attached to the activity it actually shows. The public credits remain the dependable framework for naming the larger team.

A collaboration does not need a new group name

The occasion brings these musicians together under Virtuosos’ program. That does not, by itself, establish a newly formed permanent ensemble or a succession to an earlier famous lineup.

The useful description is already specific: three featured singers, a featured cellist, an orchestra, and a credited arrangement within a named program. Following those distinct responsibilities makes the performance easier to understand without turning its gathering of artists into an unsupported career narrative.

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