# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-carreras
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:20:54.530Z

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name: "José Carreras"
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description: "One of the Three Tenors who took opera out of the opera house. Carreras spent decades singing Verdi and Puccini in the world's great halls, then joined Domingo and Pavarotti for stadium-scale concerts that turned arias into global events."
tagline: "Spanish tenor (born 1946)"
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birthDate: "1946-12-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Barcelona in 1946, he walked onto an operatic stage at 11 to sing in a Manuel de Falla piece. The debut opened a path through more than 60 roles in the standard repertoire — Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini — performed in leading houses and captured on recordings. In 1988 he was diagnosed with leukemia; he recovered, and the experience led him to establish an international leukemia foundation that he still leads. Two years later came the first Three Tenors concert with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, a format they repeated through 2003, bringing his voice to audiences who'd never bought an opera ticket.