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The first time that I heard Jose Carreras sing was during a Public Broadcasting presentation of The Three Tenors concert recorded at the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The Fisher Theater is small, probably less than 1500 seats and he stood on the stage all alone and sang for 60 minutes with only a piano to accompany him. Compared to Pavarotti and Domingo he was small and almost frail. I remarked to my wife that he reminded me of Niles Crane from the TV series "Frasier". My wife was amused. Still Carreras put every ounce of his strength into every song so that you could see the veins on his head stand out. Only a few years earlier, in 1987, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and given only a ten percent chance of surviving. He underwent an extensive series of treatment including chemotherapy, radiation therapy and a bone marrow transplant.
There are rumors that Pavarotti and Domingo helped pay off his enormous hospital bills and that The Three Tenor |