“It’s still moving for me to go on stage,” says José Carreras, who will celebrate his 75th birthday tomorrow.
Nevertheless, the opera star from Spain, who said goodbye to the Vienna State Opera in September, is now thinking of the end of his career: “It’s time I retired. I’ll be singing for another year or two.”
The tenor made his debut in his hometown of Barcelona at the age of eleven. Thereafter, Montserrat Caballé and Herbert von Karajan became his mentors. From the mid-1970s he sang on all the major stages of the world and fascinated the audience with his special timbre and soulful expressiveness. The shock came in the summer of 1987: the star suffered from blood cancer, which he defeated thanks to a bone marrow transplant. Carreras also achieved fame with Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo as one of the “three tenors”. The twice divorced singer is the father of two children.
Source: Nachrichten
