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Placido Domingo
January 21, 1941 -
Nationality: Spanish
Category: Musician
Subcategory: Spanish Musician

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

   

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

   

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

   

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

   

The high note is not the only thing.

   

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

   

The public is a part of my real life.

   

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

   

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

   

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

   

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

   

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

   

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my 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 all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

   

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

   

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

   

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

   

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

   

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