Ticket details announced for tenor's Oct. 27 recital

José Carreras, best known as the youngest member of the Three Tenors, will sing a solo recital Oct. 27 in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Tickets will go on sale Monday through Ticketmaster.

Mr. Carreras, accompanied by pianist Lorenzo Bavaj, will appear under the auspices of Magicworks West, a concert presenter he has worked with for several years. The Dallas performance is one of a pair of recitals he will give in October, according to Bruce Granath, a spokesman for Magicworks West. He will sing in Denver on Oct. 29.

Mr. Carreras has sung in Dallas before. In 1974, at the beginning of his international career, he sang the role of Gennaro in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia with the Dallas Opera. His fellow members of the Three Tenors, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, have also sung in Dallas, though the three have never appeared here together.

The 52-year-old Mr. Carreras, who was born in Barcelona, Spain, first gained attention in the operatic world in 1971 when he won the International Verdi Singing Competition in Parma, Italy.

By 1974 he was singing in major opera houses, and his career flourished throughout the 1970s and early '80s. He has sung more than 60 operatic roles, reportedly has a recital repertoire of more than 600 pieces and has made more than 150 recordings.

In the late 1980s he had a near-fatal encounter with leukemia, an experience that led him to establish the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation and do charitable work that has won him awards from a number of medical organizations.

In 1990 Mr. Carreras, Mr. Pavarotti and Mr. Domingo appeared in their first Three Tenors program. In this and a series of other joint concerts, they have been heard by television audiences estimated at more than 3 billion.

Tickets for the Dallas program, with repertory to be announced later, will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster outlets. Prices range from $45 to $150. Call 214-373-8000 or 972-647-5700.

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