I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just...
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow, I will always have to prove that I am not, at the worst, taking part in an advertising coup, and at best, that I do not indulge in a pastime.
Yes, with Pavarotti and Carreras, we make a lot of money through them.
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
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.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.
Then, starting from 1990, maturity asked for watchfulness in my choices.
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
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.
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
The lied does not ask for an especially high tessitura, but only for a normal one.
The high note is not the only thing.