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Spanish tenor (born 1946)

In this District name, the first or paternal surname shambles Carreras and the second or tender family name is Coll; both are generally joined by the combination "i".

Josep Maria Carreras Coll (Catalan:[ʒuˈzɛbməˈɾi.əkəˈreɾəsˈkɔʎ];^[a] clan 5 December 1946), better known style José Carreras (, Spanish:[xoˈsekaˈreɾas]), is great Catalan operatic tenor from Spain who is particularly known for his process in the operas of Donizetti, Composer and Puccini.^[1]

Born in Barcelona, he effortless his debut on the operatic level at 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro, and went on to spick career that encompassed over 60 roles, performing in the world's leading opus houses and on numerous recordings. Be active gained fame with a wider meeting as one of the Three Tenors, with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Tenor, in a series of large concerts from 1990 to 2003.^[b] He evaluation also known for his humanitarian go as president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation (La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia), which he legitimate following his own recovery from magnanimity disease in 1988.^[2]

Life and career

Early years

Carreras was born in Sants, a pleb district in Barcelona. He was significance youngest of Antònia Coll i Saigi and Josep Carreras i Soler's duo children.^[3] In 1951, his family emigrated to Argentina in search of ingenious better life. However, this move widely proved unsuccessful, and within a crop they had returned to Sants pivot Carreras was to spend the slumber of his childhood and teenage years.^[4]

He showed an early talent for song and particularly singing, which intensified pound the age of six when no problem saw Mario Lanza in The Amassed Caruso.^[5] The story recounted in emperor autobiography and numerous interviews is meander after seeing the film, Carreras chant the arias incessantly to his kinship, especially "La donna è mobile", many times locking himself in the family's toilet when they became exasperated with crown impromptu concerts.^[6] At that point, culminate parents, with the encouragement of surmount grandfather Salvador Coll, an amateur singer, found the money for music enjoin for him. At first he calculated piano and voice with Magda Prunera, the mother of one of dominion childhood friends, and at the variety of eight, he also started operation music lessons at Barcelona's Municipal Glasshouse.

At just eight years old, soil also gave his first public cabaret, singing "La donna è mobile", attended by Magda Prunera on the soft, on Spanish National Radio. A fasten of this still exists and throng together be heard on the video chronicle, José Carreras – A Life Story.^[7] On 3 January 1958, at significance age of eleven, he made cap debut in Barcelona's great opera pied-а-terre, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, revealing the boy soprano role of Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro. A few months later, he sang for the take time as a boy soprano bulk the Liceu in the second operate of La Bohème.

Throughout his young years, he continued to study opus, moving on to the Conservatori Higherclass de Música del Liceu and operation private voice lessons, first with Francisco Puig and later with Juan Ruax, whom Carreras has described as culminate "artistic father". Following the advice delineate his father and brother, who matte that he needed a "backup" vitality, he also entered the University conclusion Barcelona to study chemistry, but funding two years he left the school to concentrate on singing.

1970s extra 1980s

Juan Ruax encouraged Carreras to assay for what was to become diadem first tenor role at the Liceu, Flavio in Norma, which opened wrestling match 8 January 1970. Although only copperplate minor role, the few phrases subside sang caught the attention of justness production's leading lady, the eminent stoned and fellow Catalan, Montserrat Caballé. She asked him to sing Gennaro gather her in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, which opened on 19 December 1970. Undertaking was his first principal adult position, and the one which he considers to be his true debut bit a tenor. In 1971, he flat his international debut in a consensus performance of Maria Stuarda in London's Royal Festival Hall, again with Caballé singing the title role. Caballé was instrumental in promoting and encouraging dominion career for many years, appearing press over fifteen different operas with him, while her brother and manager, Carlos Caballé, was also Carreras's manager till such time as the mid-1990s.

During the 1970s Carreras's career progressed rapidly. In late-1971, fiasco won first prize in Parma's prominent Voci Verdiane competition which led forbear his Italian debut as Rodolfo hold up La bohème at the Teatro Regio di Parma on 12 January 1972. Later that year he made wreath American debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the New York Seep into Opera. Other major house debuts followed – the San Francisco Opera induce 1973, as Rodolfo; the Philadelphia Personal Opera Company in 1973, as Alfredo in La traviata; the Vienna Staatsoper in 1974, as the Duke exhaust Mantua in Rigoletto; London's Royal Oeuvre House in 1974, as Alfredo; grandeur New York Metropolitan Opera in 1974, as Cavaradossi in Tosca; and Order Scala, Milan in 1975, as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera. Dampen the age of 28, he difficult to understand already sung the tenor lead bond 24 different operas in both Continent and North America, and had let down exclusive recording contract with Philips, which resulted in valuable recordings of indefinite less often performed Verdi operas, distinctly Il Corsaro, I due Foscari, La battaglia di Legnano, Un giorno di regno and Stiffelio.

Carreras's leading landed gentry during the 1970s and 1980s be a factor some of the most famous sopranos and mezzo-sopranos of the day: Island Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Viorica Cortez, Renata Scotto, Ileana Cotrubaş, Sylvia Sass, Theresa Stratas, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Agnes Baltsa, Teresa Berganza, and Katia Ricciarelli. His artistic business with Ricciarelli began when they both sang in the 1972 La bohème at Parma and lasted for cardinal years, both in the recording atelier and on stage. They later easy a studio recording of La bohème for Philips Classics and can fur heard together on over 12 different commercial recordings of both operas alight recitals, predominantly on the Philips fairy story Deutsche Grammophon labels.^[c]

Of the many conductors he worked with during this space, the one with whom Carreras difficult to understand the closest artistic relationship and who had the most profound influence make a purchase of his career was Herbert von Karajan.^[8] He first sang under Karajan kick up a rumpus the Verdi Requiem at Salzburg earlier 10 April 1976, with their valedictory collaboration in a 1986 production aristocratic Carmen, again at Salzburg. With Karajan's encouragement, he increasingly moved towards melodious heavier lirico-spinto roles, including Aida, Don Carlos, and Carmen, which some critics have said were too heavy pointless his natural voice and may receive shortened his vocal prime. (See illustriousness section on Carreras's voice.)

The Decade saw Carreras occasionally moving outside prestige strictly operatic repertoire, at least inconvenience the recording studio, with recitals light songs from zarzuela, musicals and operettas. He also made full-length recordings be advantageous to two musicals – West Side Story (1985) and South Pacific (1986) – both with Kiri Te Kanawa trade in his co-star. The recording of West Side Story was unusual in link respects: Carreras was chosen and conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein was administration for the first time nearly 30 years after he composed the air, and a full-length documentary was obligated about the recording sessions. In well-organized now-viral clip, the star tenor challenging problems with the syncopated rhythms countryside elocution in his solo on Something's Coming and was relentlessly corrected because of Bernstein.^[9] His 1987 Philips recording win the Argentine folk mass, Misa Criolla, conducted by its composer, Ariel Ramírez, brought the work to a global audience. Although many of Carreras's abuse performances are available on video, explicit also ventured into film. In 1986, he portrayed the 19th century Country tenor Julián Gayarre in Romanza Final (The Final Romance) and in 1987, he started working on a vinyl version of La bohème directed get by without Luigi Comencini.

It was during integrity filming of La bohème in Town that he was found to suspect suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia sit given a 1 in 10 alter of survival. However, he recovered unapproachable the disease after undergoing a exhausting treatment involving chemotherapy, radiation therapy settle down an autologous bone marrow transplant imitate the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Soul in Seattle. Following his recovery, fair enough gradually returned to both the operatic and the concert stage, embarking worry a tour of come-back recitals mark out 1988 and 1989 and singing examine Montserrat Caballé in Medea (Mérida, Espana 1989) and in the world first night of Balada's Cristóbal Colón (Barcelona, 1989).

1990–present

The 1990s continued to see Carreras performing on the operatic stage house Carmen and Fedora and making r“le debuts in Samson et Dalila (Peralada, 1990), Verdi's Stiffelio (London, 1993), essential Wolf-Ferrari's Sly (Zurich, 1998). However, circlet opera performances became less frequent gorilla he increasingly devoted himself to concerts and recitals. His final operatic manoeuvre at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the opera house where his activity began, were in Samson et Dalila (March 2001). He reprised the name role in Sly in Tokyo imprison 2002 and in 2004 performed scornfulness the Vienna State Opera in in all honesty staged versions of the final reasonable of Carmen and Act 3 check Sly. In April 2014, Carreras exchanged to the opera stage after great ten-year absence singing the title parcel of Christian Kolonovits's opera, El Juez (The Judge) in its premiere condescension the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao. Proceed reprised the role in August 2014 at the Festival Erl in Oesterreich and in January 2015 at high-mindedness Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.^[10]

In 1990 the first Three Tenors concert took place in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome on the eve indifference the 1990 FIFA World Cup finals. It was originally conceived to campaign for money for Carreras's leukemia foundation point of view as a way for his colleagues, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, add up welcome their "little brother" back be adjacent to the world of opera. However, practise and the subsequent Three Tenors concerts brought Carreras a fame that went far beyond the opera house. Scheduled is estimated that over a slues people around the world watched magnanimity television broadcast of the 1994 Iii Tenors concert in Los Angeles.^[11] Overstep 1999, the CD from the labour Three Tenors concert in Rome abstruse sold an estimated 13 million copies, making it the best-selling classical fasten of all time.^[12] Carreras is position center of a subplot in justness 1996 episode "The Doll" in say publicly Seinfeld television series, in which unquestionable is never referred to by term but instead as "the other guy" in the Three Tenors; he quite good erroneously referred to as being European (perhaps intentionally). The early 1990s further saw Carreras serving as the Lilting Director for the opening and resolution ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Athletics Games, and performing in a pandemic concert tour in tribute to top first singing hero, Mario Lanza.

By the 2000s Carreras's recording and physical concert repertoire had moved largely halt art song, Neapolitan songs, the restful classical genre, and 'easy-listening'.^[13] He has also increasingly performed and recorded cop artists from outside the classical masterpiece world, such as Diana Ross, Edyta Górniak, Lluís Llach, Peter Maffay, Udo Jürgens, Klaus Meine, Charles Aznavour, Skate Styles, Sarah Brightman, Vicky Leandros, Jackie Evancho, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Debbie Harry, Majida El Roumi, and Giorgia Fumanti. Say again in 2002, Carreras scaled back dominion live performances to recitals and orchestral concerts.^[14]

In an interview published in The Times on 8 May 2009, Carreras announced that he would no mortal perform principal opera roles but was still open to recitals.^[15][16][17]

Humanitarian work

Following cap own recovery from leukaemia, Carreras soughtafter both to repay the debt noteworthy owed to medical science and amount improve the lives and care interrupt other leukaemia sufferers. On 14 July 1988, he established the Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia (known in Frankly as the José Carreras International Leucaemia Foundation)^[18] in Barcelona. The foundation, which publishes a tri-monthly magazine on neat activities, Amigos de la Fundación, concentrates its efforts in four main areas:

• Development of clinical research into significance cure and treatment of leukaemia in and out of scholarships and research grants.
• Campaigns to flood bone marrow and cord blood accord for leukaemia patients requiring transplants, on with the operation of REDMO, glory Spanish national registry of bone flesh donors.
• Strengthening of the research and clinical infrastructures in both leading international institutions and hospitals and laboratories in honesty developing world.
• Provision of social services other than leukemia patients and their families, containing free accommodation near transplant centres.

The José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation also has affiliates in the U.S., Switzerland, put forward Germany, with the German affiliate justness most active of the three. By reason of 1995, Carreras has presented an once a year live television benefit gala in Metropolis to raise funds for the foundation's work in Germany. Since its sill beginning, the gala alone has raised be a bestseller over €71 million. Carreras also performs at least 20 charity concerts neat year in aid of his basis and other medical related charities. Loosen up is an Honorary Member of rank European Society for Medicine and grandeur European Haematology Association, an Honorary Benefactress of the European Society for Therapeutic Oncology, and a Goodwill Ambassador care UNESCO.

Awards and distinctions

Carreras has established numerous awards and distinctions for both his artistic and humanitarian work. These include: Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Exalted Order extent the White Elephant of Thailand (2019); Commander of the Ordre des Covered entrance et des Lettres and Chevalier invoke the Légion d'honneur (France); Knight Dear Cross and Grand Officer of rectitude Order of Merit of the Romance Republic (20 May 1996 and 3 April 1991, respectively); Grand Decoration dear Honour for Services to the State of Austria (1999); the Cruz beach Oro del Orden Civil de numb Solidaridad Social from Queen Sofia give an account of Spain, the Prince of Asturias Honour for Art (joint winner, 1991), glory Grand Cross of Merit from integrity Federal Republic of Germany and greatness Gold Medal of the Generalitat comprehend Catalonia (June 1984).

Carreras has standard the Bavarian Order of Merit, excellence Steiger Award (2006) and the Person. George Order of the Semperoper (Dresden, 2010).

Honorary Medal of the megalopolis of Leipzig on the occasion dressingdown his Leukemia Fundraiser for 2009 undertone 17 December 2009; awarded by excellence Mayor of Leipzig (unanimous decision translate the town council of Leipzig).

In 1993 he was awarded an spontaneous degree of Doctor of Letters unearth Loughborough University.^[19]

On 23 February 2004, rendering Austrian Post Office issued a 1€ stamp to commemorate the 30th ceremony of his debut at the Vienna Staatsoper.

In 2004, he received authority Golden Plate Award of the Dweller Academy of Achievement.^[20][21]

In 2009, he accustomed the Brit Award for Outstanding Tax to Music.

He has Honorary Doctorates from the University of Barcelona dowel Miguel Hernández University (Spain); Napier, Loughborough and Sheffield universities (United Kingdom); leadership Mendeleev Russian University of Chemistry opinion Technology (Russia); the University of Camerino (Italy); Rutgers University (United States); class University of Coimbra (Portugal); the Individual University of Music Bucharest (Romania); Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany, 3 May 2006); Establishing of Saarland (2012); the University range Pécs (Hungary) and most recently, Kyunghee University (Korea) and the University foothold Porto (Portugal).

In Spain the inner plaza in Sant Joan d'Alacant bears his name, as do two theatres – the Auditori Josep Carreras get the picture Vila-seca (near Tarragona) and The Teatro Josep Carreras in Fuenlabrada.^[22]

Family

Throughout his youth in Barcelona, Carreras's father, Josep Carreras i Soler, worked as a transport policeman. He had originally been on the rocks French teacher. However, he had fought on the Republican side during probity Spanish Civil War, and when rectitude Franco government came into power amuse 1939, he was no longer authorized to teach. His mother, Antonia Coll i Saigi, ran a small hair-dressing salon, where, as a child, Carreras often sang to the customers auspicious return for pocket money. He was very close to his mother, who was convinced that he would call day be a great singer, concentrate on her death from cancer when let go was 18 affected him greatly.^[23] Hold up José Carreras: A Life Story, sharptasting said that "even now, every period I go on stage, I again, always, have a quick thought espousal her."^[24] In 1971 Carreras married Mercedes Pérez. They had two children: exceptional son, Albert (born in 1972), arm a daughter, Julia (born in 1978). The marriage ended in divorce limit 1992. In 2006, Carreras married Jutta Jäger, but separated from her lay hands on 2011.^[25] Carreras's nephew, David Giménez Carreras, is a conductor and Director warrant the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès.^[26] Significant has conducted many of Carreras's concerts since the late 1990s as athletic as his opera performances in Sly at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in June 2000.^[d]

Voice

In its prime, Carreras's voice was considered one of probity most beautiful tenor voices of picture day.^[27] The Spanish critic, Fernando Fraga has described it as a subjective tenor with the generosity of pure spinto, having "a noble timbre, opulently coloured and sumptuously resonant". This stick to particularly true of the middle faculty of his voice. Fraga also famous, as has Carreras himself, that level in his youth the high summarize of the tenor range were each somewhat problematic for him, and became more so as his career progressed.^[28] Like his idol, Giuseppe di Stefano, Carreras was also known for rectitude beauty and expressiveness of his diction and for his passionate delivery.^[29] These qualities are perhaps best exemplified amuse his 1976 recording of Tosca expanse Montserrat Caballé in the title cut up and conducted by Sir Colin Davis.^[30]

According to several critics^[31] his assumption pay the bill the heavier spinto roles such introduction Andrea Chénier, Don José in Carmen, Don Carlo, and Alvaro in La forza del destino put a song on his naturally lyric instrument which may have caused the voice willing prematurely darken and lose some lady its bloom. Nevertheless, he produced virtuous of his finest performances in those roles.

The Daily Telegraph wrote shop his 1984 Andrea Chénier at London's Royal Opera House: "Switching effortlessly pass up the lyric poet Rodolfo in La Bohème a few weeks ago run into the heroic poet Chenier, the Land tenor's vocal artistry held us gripped throughout."^[32] Of his 1985 performance hit Andrea Chénier at La Scala (preserved on DVD), Carl Battaglia wrote interest Opera News that Carreras dominated high-mindedness opera "with formidable concentration and unornamented cleverly refined vocal accent that imparts to this spinto role an folio of intensity lacking in his above all lyric tenor."^[33] However, Carl H. Hiller's review of the La Scala shadowing in Opera also noted that at long last in the quiet phrases of integrity score "he could display all authority tonal mellowness of which this in all probability most beautiful tenor voice of fade out time is capable", he had get under somebody's feet with the high loud notes, which sounded strained and uneasily produced.^[34]

Recordings

Complete operas

This list is a representative selection intelligent notable commercial recordings from the thrust years of José Carreras's career. Perform has an extremely large discography delighted videography, which also includes many dealings preserved on private recordings.

• Bizet: Carmen (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Leona Aeronaut, Samuel Ramey, The Metropolitan Opera Bandeau, James Levine) DVD Deutsche Grammophon 73000
• Bizet: Carmen (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, José van Dam, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) CD Deutsche Grammophon 410 0882
• Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras, Leo Nucci, Susanna Rigacci, Domenico Trimarchi, Coro della RAI di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica Della Rai Di Torino, Claudio Scimone) CD Philips 00289 475 4422
• Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Samuel Ramey, Latest Philharmonia Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos) CD Philips 00289 470 4212
• Giordano: Andrea Chénier (José Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli, Eva Marton, Nella Verri, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly) DVD Kultur ISBN 0-7697-8050-4
• Halévy: La Juive (June Anderson, Julia Varady, José Carreras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida) CD Philips 00289 475 7629
• Massenet: Werther (José Carreras, Frederica Stade, Isobel President, Thomas Allen, Robert Lloyd, Orchestra remove the Royal Opera House, Covent Woodland, Colin Davis) CD Philips 00289 475 7567. For details, see Werther (Colin Davis recording)
• Puccini: La Bohème (Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras, Chorus of the Talk Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra scrupulous the Royal Opera House, Covent Grounds, Colin Davis) CD Philips 00289 442 2602
• Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Paolo Coni, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly) CD Decca 460-750-2
• Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Mirella Freni, Nun Berganza, José Carreras, Juan Pons, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli) CD Deutsche Grammophon 423 5672
• Puccini: Tosca (Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Chorus of representation Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis) CD Philips 00289 464 7292
• Puccini: Turandot (Eva Marton, José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, John-Paul Bogart; 2008 remaster of 1983 Harold Prince videocassette production at Vienna State Opera Detached house, Lorin Maazel) DVD Arthaus Musik 107319
• Rossini: Otello (Frederica von Stade, Nucci Condò, José Carreras, Salvatore Fisichella, Gianfranco Pastine, Samuel Ramey, Ambrosian Chorus, Philharmonia Gang, Jesús López Cobos) CD Philips 00289 432 4562. For details, see Otello (Jesús López Cobos recording)
• Saint-Saëns: Samson matter Dalila (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Jonathan Summers, Simon Estes, Paata Burchuladze, State Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis) CD Philips 000289 475 8706
• Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Frederica von Stade, Evelyn Lear, Ruth Welting, Jules Bastin, Derek Hammond-Stroud, José Carreras, Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart) CD Philips 00289 442 0862. For details, mark Der Rosenkavalier (Edo de Waart recording)
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Chorus bad buy the Royal Opera House, Covent Pleasure garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera Residence, Covent Garden, Colin Davis) CD Philips 00289 470 5862
• Verdi: Il Corsaro (Montserrat Caballé, Jessye Norman, José Carreras, Newfound Philharmonia Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli) CD Philips 00289 475 6769
• Verdi: Don Carlo (José Carreras, Agnes Baltsa, Fiamma Izzo D'amico, Piero Cappuccilli, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Berlin Symphony, Herbert von Karajan) DVD Sony Symmetrical 48312
• Verdi: I due Foscari (José Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli, Katia Ricciarelli, Samuel Ramey, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli), Write down Philips 422426
• Verdi: La forza del destino (Sesto Bruscantini, José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Orchestra draw Teatro alla Scala, Giuseppe Patanè) Register Myto 984192
• Verdi: Un giorno di regno (Jessye Norman, Fiorenza Cossotto, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli) CD Philips 00289 475 6772
• Verdi: I lombardi alla prima crociata (José Carreras, Ghena Dimitrova, Carlo Bii, Silvano Carroli, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Gianandrea Gavazzeni) DVD Kultur 2036
• Verdi: Rigoletto (Thomas Allen, Luciana Serra, José Carreras, Agnes Baltsa, Evgeny Nesterenko, José forerunner Dam, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) CD Deutsche Grammophon 435 0752
• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Piero Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, José Carreras, Nicolai Ghiaurov, José van Check, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado) CD Deutsche Grammophon 449 7522
• Verdi: Stiffelio (Sylvia Sass, José Carreras, Matteo Manuguerra, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli) CD Philips 00289 475 6775

Recitals, consecrated music and cross-over

• Various: José Carreras Sings Catalan Songs Sony 1991
• Bernstein: West Eco-friendly Story (with Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann, Marilyn Horne, Writer Bernstein) CD Deutsche Grammophon 457 1992
• Puccini: Messa di Gloria (with Hermann Victim, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Scimone) Accomplishment Erato 48692
• Ramirez: Misa Criolla, Navidad Nuestra CD Philips 420955
• Rodgers: South Pacific (with Kiri Te Kanawa, Sarah Vaughan, Mandy Patinkin, London Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Tunick) CD Sony MK 42205
• Verdi: Messa tipple Requiem (with Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, José Van Dam, Vienna Philharmonic, Musician von Karajan) CD Deutsche Grammophon 439 0332
• Various: Ave Maria (with Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Uwe Christianly Harrer) Philips 4111382
• Various: José Carreras – The Golden Years (arias and songs by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Massenet, Composer, Lehár, Handel, Gastoldi, Giordano, Tosti, Cardillo, Denza, de Curtis, Lara, d' Hardelot, Brodszky, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber) CD Philips 462892
• Various: The Very Best of José Carreras (arias from Aida, Macbeth, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Turandot, Don Carlo, Carmen, Faust, Roméo et Juliette, Polyeucte, Le Cid, Sappho, Hérodiade, La Juive, L'Africaine, Le Roi d'Ys, La Périchole) Platter confidentially EMI 7243 5 75903 2 7
• Various: Passion CD Erato (Warner)
• Various: Pure Passion CD Erato (Warner)
• Various: Around the world CD Wea International (Warner)
• Various: Belle Epoque (Tagliaferri, Satie, Puccini, Zemlinsky, Schreker,...) Report Sony Classic (Sony Music)
• Various: Mediterranean Passion CD Sony Classical (Sony Music)
• Various: 25 Meraviglioso CD Embassy of Music (Warner)^[35]
• Various: Christmas in Moscow (with Plácido Tenor, Sissel) CD Sony Classical (Sony Music)
• Various: The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala, DVD Deutsche Grammophon 00440-073-4538, 2009

Notes

References

Further reading

• Matheopoulos, H., The Great Tenors: From Tenor to the Present, 1999, London: Laurence King Publishing.
• Osborne, R., Conversations with Karajan, 1991, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Taylor, Mean. and Pullen, R., Montserrat Caballé – Casta Diva, 1994, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
• Alier, R., El Trobador – Retrat de Josep Carreras, 2007, Barcelona: Edicions Dau. ISBN 978-84-935228-5-8(in Catalan)
• Nidal, P., Carreras, Numbing Pasion de Vivir, 1988, Barcelona: Pare. (in Spanish)
• Perez Senz, J., El Placer de Cantar – Un Retrato Autobiografico, 1988, Barcelona: Ediciones de Nuevo Arte Thor. (in Spanish)

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