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PEOPLE, Page 87Dueling Divi
By MICHAEL QUINN
Even rarer than a great opera singer is a great opera
feud. But aficionados of such backstage backbiting are now being
treated to a full 15 rounds between two world-class tenors, Jose
Carreras and Alfredo Kraus. As artistic director for the Summer
Olympics, Barcelona-born Carreras has organized a huge
lip-synced ceremony starring Spanish opera greats. Conspicuous
among the uninvited: Canary Islander Kraus, whose supporters say
he was snubbed by Carreras out of professional jealousy.
Carreras insists he is honoring Kraus' ridicule of the similarly
massive, miked -- and Kraus-less -- operatic extravaganza that
closed the 1990 soccer championships in Rome. The Spanish
Minister of Culture has offered to intervene. There are
currently no plans to send in U.N. peacekeeping troops.