José Carreras

José Carreras occupies a privileged position in the music world. Born in Barcelona, he studied music in his hometown and began his professional career in 1970 in the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona in Nabucco and Lucrezia Borgia. His meteoric musical career resulted in early debuts at the world's most prestigious opera theatres and festivals, including the Theatre alla Scala of Milan, the New York Metropolitan Opera House, San Francisco Opera, the Vienna State Opera, London's Royal Opera House, the Oper of Munich, Chicago's Lyric Opera, and the Festivals of Salzburg, Aix en Provence, Edinburgh, and Verona. Carreras has collaborated with the most renowned orchestra conductors including Herbert von Karajan (an artistic and personal relationship that lasted over twelve years and included performances in Salzburg, Berlin, and Vienna), Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Colin Davis, Giuseppe Sinopoli, James Levine, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leonard Bernstein, and Zubin Mehta. His repertoire includes over 60 operas and operatic films and an extensive discography with over 150 recordings, that include 50 complete operas, oratories, popular, and classical recitals. He has given frequent recitals in the world's most famous halls: Carnegie Hall and the Avery Fisher Hall in New York; the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall in London; the Salle Pleyel in Paris; the Musikverein and Konzerthaus of Vienna and the Grosses Festspielhaus of Salzburg in Austria; the Philharmonie Berlin and the Philharmonie and the Herkulessaal in Munich in Germany; Suntory Hall and NHK Hall in Tokyo; the Palau de la Música of Barcelona and the Teatro Real of Madrid in Spain; and the Accademia Santa Cecilia of Rome; and was also one of the internationally acclaimed 3 Tenors with Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo.