As one of the Three Tenors, Luciano Pavarotti helped to bring opera to the masses. Now, the two surviving members of the musical trio are to fulfil the late maestro of Modena’s ambition to perform at one of the world’s great historical sites.

Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras will take to the stage next weekend in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra for a £5,000ahead charity concert celebrating Pavarotti’s life.

The two tenors will be joined by Roberto Alagna, the French opera star, his wife Angela Gheorghiu, the soprano, and Andrea Bocelli, the blind Italian singer. The concert, which was conceived by Nicoletta Mantovani, Pavarotti’s widow, and Princess Haya of Jordan, will be attended by 500 guests.

They are likely to include Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai who is married to Princess Haya.

Adua Veroni, Pavarotti’s first wife, who the opera singer left for Mantovani, his former assistant, is not believed to be attending.

The star’s death from pancreatic cancer last September, aged 71, followed several years of ailing health.

At the height of his career, Pavarotti and the late King Hussein of Jordan, a close friend and father of Princess Haya, discussed the possibility of using Petra’s sandstone buildings as a backdrop for a concert. Now the Jordanian authorities have given permission for such an event to take place.

Friends and family will be involved in a memorial ceremony on Saturday outside Petra’s treasury building, while the concert will be staged nearby on the site of a bedouin camp the following day.

Money from the concert will be used to fund United Nations relief programmes in Afghanistan and local charities in Jordan.

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