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Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
Don’t you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
My strength is my enthusiasm.
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
The public is a part of my real life.
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
The high note is not the only thing.
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
I feel at home in an orchestral score.
But I won’t deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
