Page last updated on: September 17, 2008
THE JOSÉ CARRERAS GALLERY
on tour...
July - September 2008
July 6 Lingen, Germany - open-air concet in the Lingener Marktplatz. In the photo (right) Carreras on the big screen while concert-goers watch him on stage.
Photo from InfoKontor, 07.07.2008
July 10 Monza, Italy - concert at the Villa Reale with soprano Valeria Esposito and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Miguel Ortega. Proceeds from the concert went in part to the José Carreras' International Leukemia Foundation and the Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor di Milano in aid of stem cell research.
Photo by Silvia Arosio for Dietro Le Quinte, 11.07.2008
July 18 Differdange, Luxembourg - concert in the Aréna du Centenaire with soprano Ofelia Sala, David Giménez conducting.
Photo by Claude Piscitelli
July 20 Timisoara, Romania - concert in the Strandul Tineretului with sopranos Sabina Puértolas and Alexandra Coman, David Giménez conducting. Following the concert interval, the Order of the Knights of Malta presented Carreras with the Order's Grand Medal of Merit for his artistic and humanitarian achievements (photo right).
Photo from Imperiumi
August 7 Ibiza, Spain - Carreras takes time off from his busy concert schedule to attend jet-setter Magda Pozzo's birthday party (photo right). Pozzo's father is the owner of Udine, the Italian First Division football team.
Photo from La Vanguardia, 09.08.2008
August 23 Magdeburg, Germany - concert in the Domplatz
with soprano Ofelia Sala, David Giménez conducting.
with soprano Ofelia Sala, David Giménez conducting.
Magdeburg performance photo by Jens Wolf Basis
September 7 Naples, Italy - concert in the Piazza del Plebiscito to inaugurate the Piedigrotta Festival with soprano Valeria Esposito and the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti conducted by David Giménez. Carreras dedicated the performance, which was attended by 60,000 people to the memory of Luciano Pavarotti. In the photo (right), Carreras during the pre-concert press conference.
Photo by Agenfoto Napoli
September 11 Rotterdam, Holland - concert with tenor Alessandro Safina and guest soprano Sabina Puertolas in the Ahoy Arena. The "Il Novecento" orchestra was conducted by Sascha Goetzel.
September 13 London, UK - BBC Proms in the Park in London's Hyde Park with soprano Leslie Garrett. In the photo (right), Carreras during the concert rehearsal.
Photo by Mark Allan
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