Monday, 05.12.2016, 14:44
José Carreras it can also in the Spry pension age: The Spanish star tenor is the night before his 70. Birthday on 5. December, far more than 10,000 kilometres from his home in Tokyo on the stage.
So he can blow out the family candles, children and grandchildren jetting to the Opa afterwards. Carreras will be happy. “It is wonderful that I work in this age, and my feelings can be conveyed by the music,” said the singer, who overcame three decades ago, a leukemia, the German press Agency in an Interview.
he does not want to Stop. But the destiny tested Carreras knows – maybe better than some of the other – that “even the most wonderful things in life must come to an end”. He therefore launched in October in Germany, an international farewell tour, the “take two or three years”. Christmas and new year it will occur, for example, in China. There are maps for these concerts. The cops-son was in the hair of his mother load the customers with his voice and a few coins and a lot of praise was given, has become a global music icon.
nickname “Rigoletto”
born in 1946 in Barcelona, enthusiastic Small-José as a six-year-old for the Opera after he had seen with his father in the cinema the Film “The great Caruso” with Mario Lanza. In school, he trilled constantly Opera pieces, which is why the colleagues called him based on the Giuseppe Verdi Opera “Rigoletto”. Although they had music little idea, encouraged the parents of their son’s Talent and sent him to the Conservatory. As an 11-Year-old Carreras sang a small role in the Opera of his native city.
From then on it went uphill with the later co-founder of the legendary “Three tenors” rapidly. The plans to be a chemist, were briefly placed after the inclusion of the studies, ad acta. 1970 Carreras celebrated in Barcelona at the age of 24 made his debut as a professional singer. The Catalan country woman, Montserrat Caballé, which was regarded at the time as the best soprano in the world, recognized his talent and became a kind of mentor. As well as star conductor Herbert von Karajan, Carreras in the next few decades, closely
“believes Any Opera visitors, you sing just for him alone,”
The world was the Spaniard soon to feet. The narrow Tenor with the shy Smile began in the mid-1970s, including the Metropolitan Opera of New York, in London’s Covent Garden and the Vienna state Opera. On the Danube he tore in 1977, in collaboration with Karajan in the audience as Rudolf in Puccini’s “La Bohème” to charge for 35 minutes of Applause.
Carreras enthusiasts with the special Timbre, the emotional expressiveness and vulnerability of his voice, with its extraordinary mastery of the dramatic register. And also-and especially-with his personal charisma. Carreras revealed that Karajan had told him once: “do You Know why you’re so good? Because each Opera-goers thinks you sing just for him alone.”
shock-diagnosis of blood cancer
On the summit of success in the summer of 1987 and then the shock: Carreras cancer of the blood. The career seemed to end, and worse still, The chances of Survival were low, the Doctors wrote him. After a bone marrow transplant, he was able to defeat the disease. In 1988, he founded the Carreras Foundation to raise money in the fight against leukemia. In his annual TV charity shows in Germany, countless millions came together – and thousands of new Fans. 14. December transmits satellite.1 Gold the 22. Gala, among others with Chris de Burgh, Maite Kelly and Milow.
For Carreras, the disease is still present. But not only as something Negative. “I think a person who has in his life such hard moments, is more Mature and has different views and priorities,” says the man, whose mother died of cancer when he was only 17. According to the leukemia Carreras’ career reached many milestones. Around 1990, as the Verdi and Puccini artist was as one of the “Three tenors”, together with the Italian Luciano Pavarotti and fellow Spaniard Plácido Domingo, made an appearance at the soccer world Cup 1990 in Rome, known to a wider audience.
Standing Ovations at the Comeback
Many critics complain, Carreras’ voice was now only a pale reflection of earlier days. At the time of his Comeback to the Opera stage after more than eight years, the star tenor was to be celebrated in 2014 in Bilbao, at the world premiere of the Opera “El Juez” (The judge) by the Austrian composer Christian Kolonovits as the title hero with Standing Ovations and loud bravos.
The always modest Spaniard has also still “high-ranking” Fans. The Mexican star tenor Rolando Villazón (44) said: “When a singer moves me, then José Carreras. His singing, his style, for me, are exemplary.”
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