The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
From Placido Domingo
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
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.
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.
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
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