Published on Sep 8, 2016

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Genre: Musicals

Dates: Sunday, November 20, 2016

Venue: Poly Theatre

Prices: 280, 480, 680, 880, 1280, 1680, 2016

Features: After his triumphant comeback to the opera stage, legendary Tenor José Carreras will come to Beijing during his final world tour. A Life in Music promises to be a very special and unforgettable night filled with raw passion and emotion.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

As one of the world’s opera grandees, the Spanish tenor Jose Carreras has been acclaimed as one of great operatic vocal artists of the last 50 years.

A musical child prodigy, Carreras has enjoyed half a century of adulation. He has mesmerised audiences worldwide with a voice of extraordinary beauty, one that processes great lustre, dramatic tone, and dynamic intent.

He will long be remembered for his musical collaboration with two other great world tenors, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo.

Known worldwide as The Three Tenors, they achieved an almost rock star status. Touring and stepping up to the world’s biggest stages, the three transformed and reenergized opera, turning it into an unprecedented global phenomenon, and showing that opera can be a lucrative art form.

Currently embarking on an extensive musical odyssey of the world, Carreras’ Final World Tour, A Life in Music, will see him performing in Beijing, on Sunday November 20th at the Poly theatre in what promises to be a highly charged and emotional concert.

Carreras will be accompanied in concert by the China National Opera Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Spanish conductor David Gimenez.

Gimenez has an exceptional understanding of the human voice. He collaborates regularly with Carreras, as well other numerous notable world vocal artists, such as Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, and Bryn Terfel.

Carreras will also be joined on the concert podium by the Irish soprano Celine Byrne, whose compelling and thrilling performances have won her the universal acclaim of audiences and critics across the opera world.

“It is a great honour for me to perform in Beijing during my final World Tour! My musical programme for my concert will consist of opera, operetta, and songs. It is a very personal choice and I do hope that people will like it because the melodies are so wonderful!”

“In all these songs it is the passion, the emotion, a feeling in my heart and soul that I attempt to express with my voice. It is my musical ode to life,” said Carreras.

Apart from his opera and concert performances, Carreras dedicates much of his time to the Jose Carreras Leukemia Foundation, which he established after he was successfully treated for leukemia in 1988. To date the foundation has raised more than 250 million euros.

Carreras intends, when he retires from performing, to fully devote himself to his foundation and its work in the fight against leukemia, “to try to give some hope to people who are suffering from the disease.

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