A Catalan tenor José Carreras (born December 5, 1946) is a far-famed opera singer much admired for his Verdi and Puccini roles. He enjoys dandy fame across his participation in "The Three Tenors" concerts with Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo.

Carreras was innate inside Barcelona and exhibited musical talent from the immature age. At age eight, he as well gave his number one public performance, singing "La Donna e Mobile" on Spanish national radio. At eleven, he appeared at a Liceu as a boy soprano inside the role of the storyteller in Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro & an urchin in the 2nd work of La bohème.

Within his teens, Carreras exposed at a Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo. He manufactured his debut at a Liceu when Flavio within Norma, coming to the attention of the famous soprano Montserrat Caballé, who sang a name part. She invited him to sing inside the production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, his first major breakthrough.

Carreras too sang by owning Caballé within his 1971 London stage debut at age 24, the concert performance of Maria Stuarda. Around subsequent years, them singers sang within other than 15 different operas together.

Around 1972, he processed his Our contries debut when Pinkerton around Madame Butterfly. Inside 1974, he processed his debut at a Vienna State Opera when the Duke of Mantua, as Alfredo around La Traviata at the Royal Opera House and as Cavaradossi around Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera. A as a consequence month, Carreras manufactured his debut at La Scala as Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera. Per age of Twenty-eight, Carreras experienced sung a lead tenor inside twenty-xxiv different operas.

Within 1987, at a height of his career, Carreras was diagnosed by owning intense lymphoblastic leukemia and was given a Single within Tenner risk of survival. Fallowing enduring all but a year of coarse of action including radiation, chemotherapy, & an autologous bone marrow transplant, he was entity to resume his cantabile career.

Within 1988, he founded a José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation, a charity which gives funding to cancer of the blood locate & the registration of bone marrow donors.

Within 1990, hundreds of hundreds to thousands of population in a area of the world watched the 3 Tenors give a concert at the opening of the World Cup in Rome. It was originally conceived to raise money for Carreras' foundation & likewise as a way for his colleagues, Domingo & Pavarotti, to welcome their colleague back to the globe of opera.

Additionally to opera, Carreras likewise performs lightly genres like zarzuela. He as well appeared inside & recorded West Side Story.