Singing from the Soul: Carreras By Jose Carreras
Singing from the Soul: Carreras
The Intimate, High-Stakes Inside Story of Operatic Mastery, Strategic Musical Execution, and the Triumph over Life-Threatening Adversity
The Intimate, High-Stakes Inside Story of Operatic Mastery, Strategic Musical Execution, and the Triumph over Life-Threatening Adversity
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Singing from the Soul: Carreras
- Author: José Carreras
- Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd, London
- Publication Date: 10 October 1991
- ISBN-10: 0285630350
- ISBN-13: 9780285630352
- Edition Details: First UK Hardcover Edition, First Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher’s premium cloth-bound hardcover casing with crisp spine titles and matching structural endpapers.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 280 pages. Generously enhanced with an exclusive central repository of high-contrast black-and-white family snapshots and full-page professional theatrical performance photography mapping his historic stage breakthroughs.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used - Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original hardcover binding presents in an exceptional, collector-grade preservation state. The cloth boards remain flat, clean, and defensively square at all corner tips. The binding is completely unyielding, showing no vertical spine-lean, internal structural collapse, or core structural degradation.
- Interior: The internal text block is tight, crisp, and robustly bound. All 280 pages are exceptionally clean, bright, and completely intact. The leaves remain entirely free of traditional user highlighting, underline instructional notes, library processing stamps, owner name inscriptions, or folded dog-ears. A beautifully maintained copy that has been cared for over the years.
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The Dust Jacket: Used - Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition Detail: The original illustrated paper dust jacket is present, whole, and completely intact under a protective Cellophane cover. The jacket faces show only some very limited signs of standard vintage storage wear along the outer margins, keeping its bold design elements and striking photographic contrast bright and presentation-ready.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Originally written in the 1980s and meticulously updated for this 1991 printing following his miraculous return to global prominence, Singing from the Soul stands as a definitive, first-person exposure of one of the finest operatic tenors of the 20th century. Focusing on the foundational first part of his life and career, José Carreras delivers a straightforward, narrative-driven account of his journey, showing that the sheer flamboyance and sensory heights of the operatic stage are traits reserved for performance rather than his actual reserved personal lifestyle.
Carreras strips away the polished mystery of celebrity to show a man deeply dedicated to his craft, having chosen opera as his absolute life focus at the young age of six. He outlines the strategic precision behind his performance, explaining how every single note he sings is intentionally delivered to fulfill its structural meaning within the music. Bypassing sentimentality, the text covers his early breakthroughs into elite international loops, his iconic roles across global opera houses, and his harrowing, high-stakes battle against leukemia that nearly ended his life at the apex of his powers. Fully enhanced with private snapshots and professional stage plates, this premium first-edition hardcover collectible copy is a vital used collectible book that serves as an essential primary historical record for music historians and biography purists alike.
Author Profile: José Carreras
José Carreras (born Josep Maria Carreras i Coll) is a Spanish operatic tenor, an international musical icon, and a monumental giant of modern cultural history. Renowned globally for his distinctively warm, lyric voice, exceptional phrasing, and raw dramatic intensity, his long public career fundamentally shaped the contours of the classical music landscape. Most famous as one of The Three Tenors alongside Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo, his historic performances and mass stadium concerts transformed opera into a global cultural phenomenon that captured the hearts of millions.
Following his triumphant survival of acute leukemia in the late 1980s, Carreras established the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation, translating his global athletic fame into a powerful vessel for medical philanthropy and scientific research. His unique perspective as an absolute master of technical game aesthetics who commanded international media loops ensures his literature carries profound authority, providing readers with an authentic primary historical record polished with a highly compatible, straight-forward tone.
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