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- <text id=92TT0368>
- <title>
- Feb. 17, 1992: Dueling Divi
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 17, 1992 Vanishing Ozone
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 87
- Dueling Divi
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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