Seats Still Available for ‘Three Tenors’ Concert : Music: If you’re willing to shell out $300 to $1,000 for the Carreras/Domingo/Pavarotti outing, Dodger Stadium’s ticket office would like to hear from you.

If you don’t want to wait for the TV broadcast, the record, the video, or the books, there’s still time to buy seats to hear tenors Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti at Dodger Stadium on July 16--if you’re willing to pay between $300 and $1,000.

Set for the evening before the World Cup championship soccer match, “Encore! The Three Tenors” brings the celebrated singers and conductor Zubin Mehta together for the first time in the United States.

More than 40,000 seats in the stands, at $15 to $150, were sold out months ago through Dodger Stadium’s ticket office and phone sales, say promoters of the event.

Event organizers would not release exact figures for what is still available, but they say some tickets for seats on the stadium field are for sale at $300, $500 and $1,000, plus service fees of $10 to $12 each.

About 1,000 of these high-end tickets were added to existing inventories recently when they were returned by what concert general manager Wayne Baruch calls “one institutional buyer.”

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As with other international events, batches of tickets often are held back for visitors. An informed source says World Cup presenters simply overestimated the appeal of high-priced concert tickets to out-of-town purchasers.

Most local brokers say they have no tickets for this event, although they say they may have some available closer to the concert date. Callers were referred to Dodger Stadium.

Very expensive tickets remain available, too, for the civic-minded. Invitations have just gone out for a post-concert dinner at Dodger Stadium benefiting the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. While dinner tickets are also being sold separately, a $5,000 donation to the foundation includes a $1,000 concert ticket, while a $2,500 donation includes a $500 ticket. All funds from the dinner, which Taylor is set to host, would go toward building a new facility in South Central Los Angeles providing shelter and medical care for HIV patients.

Not to worry if you can’t go, however. Records, videos and PBS broadcasts are definitely in the works. Public television officials, for whom taped broadcasts of the 1990 concert have been among the top fund-raisers ever, are hoping to repeat history.

The concert will air live in some markets, including San Diego. But Los Angeles and Orange County television viewers won’t be able to see it until the following evening, since it will be blacked out locally.

Event producer Tibor Rudas says he does not think it would be fair “to people who pay a fortune” to go to Dodger Stadium when they could have watched it at home. Boxed sets with video, audio and program book probably will be out in mid-October. There’s even a “making of” documentary video expected out sometime early next year.

London Records advertises that the recording of 1990’s “Three Tenors” concert, held in Rome during that year’s World Cup finals, was “the world’s No. 1 classical bestseller” with more than 10 million copies sold. Officials at Warner Music Group, which acquired worldwide TV/radio, record and commercial video rights for the 1994 concert, say they hope to do even better.

Records and videos are advertised for Aug. 30 delivery. Meanwhile, due out on newsstands around the world July 1 is the official, $10 pre-concert program. San Francisco-based Collins Publishers expects a first run of about 300,000 copies of the 70-page program, printed in the United States, Asia and Europe in five languages.