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Spanish tenor Jose Carreras was greeted by cheers and applause on his return to London’s Royal Opera House on Tuesday after a three-year absence caused by his fight against leukemia. Carreras, 42, won at least 10 standing ovations--the first before he even began his two-hour recital--as a packed house clapped, cheered, stamped and showered the stage with flowers. Carreras was diagnosed in 1987 as suffering from leukemia.