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- PEOPLE, Page 87Dueling Divi
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- 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.
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