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As always, it is difficult to date precisely the birth of an urban legend. The website Snopes.com records its first appearance in an email from 2005[1]. Since then, the legend spread widely throughout the world, mostly via emails, and is repeated as a true story on numerous websites in various languages. Asked by a journalist why he had decided to help his only rival and enemy, Plácido Domingo would have replied: "We cannot afford to lose a voice like that ..."

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  • As always, it is difficult to date precisely the birth of an urban legend. The website Snopes.com records its first appearance in an email from 2005[1]. Since then, the legend spread widely throughout the world, mostly via emails, and is repeated as a true story on numerous websites in various languages. Asked by a journalist why he had decided to help his only rival and enemy, Plácido Domingo would have replied: "We cannot afford to lose a voice like that ..."
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  • As always, it is difficult to date precisely the birth of an urban legend. The website Snopes.com records its first appearance in an email from 2005[1]. Since then, the legend spread widely throughout the world, mostly via emails, and is repeated as a true story on numerous websites in various languages. The story explains how Carreras, born in Barcelona, and Domingo, born in Madrid, became not only musical rivals but bitter enemies in 1984, concerning the political debate over Catalan autonomy. It went so far that both specified in their contracts that they would always refuse to perform together in any event. In 1987, when Carreras was diagnosed with leukemia, he had to go through several constraining treatments, including a bone marrow transplant, and was forced to travel to the United States once a month. Because he was also unable to sing under these conditions, Carreras' fortune quickly started to vanish. It was then that he discovered the Hermosa Foundation, based in Madrid and offering support to people suffering from leukemia. Thanks to that foundation, he recovered from his illness and returned to singing. Still according to the rumour, Carreras found out later that the Hermosa Foundation had been secretly created and financed by Domingo, with the sole purpose of helping him with his treatment. Domingo had chosen to remain anonymous to avoid humiliating Carreras by making him feel indebted to his enemy. Deeply moved by this gesture, Carreras interrupted a concert held by Domingo in Madrid, knelt at his feet to thank him and then begged for forgiveness. Their rivalry then turned into a great friendship, and together with Luciano Pavarotti under the name The Three Tenors, they held several very successful concerts to promote treatments against leukemia. Asked by a journalist why he had decided to help his only rival and enemy, Plácido Domingo would have replied: "We cannot afford to lose a voice like that ..."
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