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José Carreras
real name Josep Maria Carreras Coll
Spanish tenor
Spain · b. 1946-12-05
José Carreras is credited on 1,896 releases across 328 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,896
Credits
328
Albums
7
Decades active
27
In collections
Biography
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Better known as José Carreras, is a Spanish operatic tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini.
Born 5 December 1946, in Barcelona, Spain. He made his debut on the operatic stage at 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro, and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles, performing in the world's leading opera houses and on numerous recordings.
He gained fame with a wider audience as one of the Three Tenors, with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, in a series of large concerts from 1990 to 2003.
He is also known for his humanitarian work as president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation (La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia), which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,896 releases · 328 albums · active 1968–2025
- Performance · 2,810
- Other credits · 44
Studios: Terme Di Caracalla · Watford Town Hall · Abbey Road Studios · Wiener Musikverein
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Verdi
- Puccini
- Montserrat Caballé
- Carreras
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Sarah Brightman
- Leonard Bernstein
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