Il Divo to recreate the quality of Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo. Cowell conducted a worldwide search for young singers who were willing to embark on the project, a search that lasted nearly three years, from 21 January 2001, until 16 December 2003, when the fourth member, American tenor David Miller, was signed. Prior to "Il Divo", Miller and his European counterparts Spanish baritone, Carlos Marín, Swiss tenor Urs Bühler and French pop singer, Sébastien Izambard were each enjoying moderate success in their own right. The first album ""Il Divo"", was recorded in February 2004 in Sweden, with the Quiz
Spalding Amateur Dramatic And Operatic Society need for new scenery flats for the Dramatic Section led to the suggestion of a pantomime performance to raise funds. Ex-members maintain the S.A.D.O.S. experiment. Spalding Amateur Dramatic And Operatic Society Spalding Amateur Dramatic & Operatic Society of Spalding, Lincolnshire is the oldest Amateur Theatre society in England. The South Holland Centre is the current venue for performances. In 1866 a group of Spalding Gentlemen formed an Amateur Society for the performance of plays, some of which must have been musical plays as accounts show charges of £5 5s for an orchestra. In 1928 an Operatic Society was formed to