José Carreras is 70 cavalier with outbreaks – Süddeutsche.de

Luciano Pavarotti found his Timbre to be the most beautiful of all tenors after the Second world war: José Carreras is 70. His conclusion after 46 Opera years: “It was a lot of fun.”

he is on a farewell tour, once again, sang some. He says he doesn’t know how long the goodbye will last. He wanted to visit all the cities where he once sang. And a few more. On Monday, May 5. December, is José Carreras 70 years old.

Two moments characterize the perception of his Person. The one is the leukemia diagnosis in the year 1987. The celebrated Tenor disappeared from the world’s Opera stages. And was cured by bone marrow transplantation.

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Then he returned, and was more famous than ever after he – and this is the second Moment – with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti the three tenors founded.

you sang in stadiums and at the FIFA world Cup that they deserved fairy-tale fees. And yet, a fraction remains. Never more, even if he appeared again in Opera productions, as in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s “Sly”, is the paradisiacal magic, you can feel, you hear older recordings of him.

Carreras threaded on the other. Made a career as a Lieder singer, notice approached the Pop and took a few adventurous things. Under the title of “Pure Passion” about the now with Text to put under the theme from the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s sixth Symphony, or a bizarre pastiche of “Tannhäuser”-Overture and the pilgrim’s chorus, with fantasy talented Text.

His last Opera role in 2014 – there it was again, the proud, the wise Catalan

Any other man would have forgiven such jokes never. However, Carreras is much too much a Gentleman, too fine a lot of, as this could take him, such a slip-up bad. Rather, it is not so, that you believe in you.

And then came the last Opera role, “El Juez” by Christian Kolonovits, a piece about the Franco dictatorship, the suffering of the family of the Carreras had. There it was again, the proud, the wise Catalan, incredibly seriously, brilliant. The world premiere was 2014 in Bilbao, and as he proved once again, to all, everything began Carreras then, to say goodbye to prepare.