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Placido Domingo
Spanish
Musician
About the author
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Singing
#Therapy
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Day
#Talking
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#God
#Career
#Tomorrow
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Artist
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Nothing
#Orchestras
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Man
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Preparation
#Voice
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
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 repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Old
#Voice
This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Life
#Singing
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Singing
#Voice
#Opera
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Career
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Public
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Possibilities
#Wrong
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Theater
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
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.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Singing
#Voice
#Charm
#Colors
I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Father
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Will
#Career
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Money
#Motivation
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Singing
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Years
#Space
#Fortune
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Money
#Performance
#Opera
My strength is my enthusiasm.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Strength
#Enthusiasm
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Being
#Energy
#Stress
I feel at home in an orchestral score.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Home
This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Games
#Career
#Beginning
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Years
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Destiny
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Public
The high note is not the only thing.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Press
#Financial
The public is a part of my real life.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Life
#Public
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Now
#Public
#Years
#Future
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
Placido Domingo,
Spanish
Musician
#Voice
#Health