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Castaway
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A Spanish operatic tenor, renowned for his powerful voice and operatic performances.
On the island
Eight records
if you ask to a tenor which is the the most impressive and most important voice of ever, talking about tenor voices, is of course Enrico Caruso.
A very light Rossini song, the famous Tarantella, La Danza.
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I think he's somebody who changed a little bit the the way to sing. I think he's a an incredibly sensitive singer and uh fantastic voice.
I think that's an incredible voice, an incredible singer, and every opera lover uh knows that b Bjoling is probably with as I said before, with Caruso and and Distefano, the most beautiful voice.
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in my opinion, the the greatest Mozart specialist on the last twenty years or thirty years and is also one of the most beautiful voices with a purity and with a style
the exponent of the Belcanto opera, I mean the Belcanto music... sung by, in my opinion, the the greatest Belcanto singer, which is Moncelad Caballier.
Symphony No. 6 in A minor (Andante moderato)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
I'm a big Mahler fan. And it's also very difficult to choose from all the Mahler production a a piece or a symphony or whatever. But I think the number six, the the Dante, the third movement, it's something very special
Mario! Mario! Mario! (Act I Duet)
Maria Callas and Giuseppe Di Stefano, conducted by Victor de Sabata
I think that's the most exciting recording of an opera never done.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:36Could you adapt yourself to loneliness [on the island]?
Well, not really, I don't know.
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3:11How did you become interested [in music]?
Well, that's a a funny story. I went to the cinema with my family when I was a child to see this beautiful film called The Great Caruso by Mario Lanza... after seeing this uh this film, the day after I start to sing at home... and then uh they decide then I had a musical inclination and they sent me to the conservatoire to study.
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4:38You also studied chemistry. You didn't know which way to go?
No, well, I I always was thinking to be an opera singer and I study music, as I said, and and piano and voice a little bit later. But because my brother, my oldest brother, he start a little very small chemical plant. They decide well, you never know with uh with artistic career, it's better if to have something sure, you know. And for that reason I start in Barcelona at the uni at the university, studying chemistry.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Painting: Las Hilanderas (The Spinners) by Diego Velázquez
Probably that would be the Picture from Velafkev called uh Las Islanderas. I don't know in English how that uh it
Presenter asks
What was the worst experience you've had in an opera production?
Uh well, uh no s not involved in an opera production, but I remember being a spectator in a theater... in Italy exactly then that was a performance of Ippaliacci and the Bariton... did two or three cracks in the famous... A flat... and he got boo, but very loud, incredible. And then after... he managed to stop the audience, and he say very loud in Italian. Are you booing me? Well, wait wait for the tenor.
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25:47How well could you look after yourself on a desert island? Are you a practical man?
No, no, no, I'm... Terrible I mean, uh I don't know if it's because I have to live always in hotels and and and traveling around and I cannot do anything by myself.
“when you are very young and an artist like Montserrat Cavalier say to you, Well, I think you have a a talent, I think you have a beautiful voice, I think you can make a beautiful career that gives you an an incredible, a tremendous moral support.”
“professionally speaking I'm I'm a very lucky man, but I think also it's because it's lucky to be a tenor. Every opera has a a important tenor role, that means probably it's much easier for a singer to make a career if he's a tenor.”
“I think ev everybody does [use recordings of great singers of the past], but somebody cannot admit it. I don't know why. I think it's a great help for us. And you learn things you have to do and you learn things you never have to do.”
“to be alone, that's I'm really afraid about that, really. And I will find a solution. I don't know how, but uh really”