Occupation: Conductor Birth: January 21, 1941
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there..
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?.
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction..
In the last century, everybody was singing lower..
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day..
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently..
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles..
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City..
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do..
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years..
Singing becomes a form of therapy..
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it..
The public is a part of my real life..
What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to….
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen..
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows..
But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life..
Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian reperto….
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career..
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 a….
I feel at home in an orchestral score..