Concert of Spanish opera singer Jose Carreras in Crocus City Hall on 21 December. Jose Carreras was born on 5 Born in Barcelona in December 1946. He showed musical talent from early childhood. His first appearance in public at the age of eight, playing "La donna è mobile" from the Spanish state radio. In 11 years, served as narrator in "El retablo de Maese Pedro" Falla (male soprano), then in another supporting role in the second act of La Boheme. Jose Carreras studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu. Debuted at the Liceu as Flavio in "Norma", where the title character of the famous Montserrat Caballé sang. Caballe noticed the talent of the young tenor, and contributed to the fact that he got the role of the first plan in "Lucrezia Borgia" by Gaetano Donizetti. Carreras sang again with Montserrat Caballe in 1971, when he. His debut on the London stage in "Mary Stuart," and later, in about fifteen productions In 1972 he made his debut on the American stage, performing the role of Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly". In 1974, in Vienna, he made his debut as the Duke of Mantua. Through 28 years Carreras sang the role 24 of the first schedule of the classical repertoire. In 1987, when Jose Carreras was in the world, the doctors seemed to him a terrible diagnosis: acute leukemia. Was only one chance in ten that the singer will be able to survive. The disease broke career artists for a year. The following year, makes Carreras José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation, an organization that raises money to fund research in the treatment of leukemia. Sales singers from about 60 concerts a year come into the fund. Starts at 21.00.
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