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The tenor Plácido Domingo unveiled the commemorative plaque with which his name was given outdoor auditorium of the National Conservatory of Music. With tears in her eyes, the singer, recognized as one of the most remarkable voices of all time in the world of opera, thanked the institution for its recognition.
Domingo remembers his first opera functions in his career and who has developed in Mexico. "It's an emotion to receive this recognition because at the Conservatoire and at Palace of Fine Arts I started my career, here I gave my first performances in 1959. Now that I've reached almost 4,000 opera performances, you've learned me the way and I learned to walk very well, "said the singer.
He emphasized the importance of Mexican musicians during his training in our country as Carlos Chávez and Blas Galindo. "I was the son of singers, my dad always told me that he did not want me to sing, but that he was a musician; now, thank you for your words because I studied piano and orchestra direction.Here, I also studied with a dear friend, Eduardo Mata, who was a great chef and whom we remember with great affection ", was -he declares.
During a brief meeting with the press, he said that he was in Mexico to visit the victim. He was informed of this recognition and said that he would continue his career "as long as the body will last". "The race leaves you, but you do not leave it, I sing, I direct, I am always in theatrical life".
"We pay homage to one of the dazzling figures of the music scene, to whom we are united not only by admiration, but also by our affection," he said. Lidia Camacho, Director General of INBA.
Plácido Domingo enjoys international recognition as a singer, conductor, producer, composer and promoter of the arts. His professional career places him among the most renowned singers on the planet, since he has performed more than 135 lyrical characters, more than any other tenor in the history of music.
His discography exceeds 100 albums, including recordings that have won nine Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammys. The scope of his repertoire includes the full range of operas, from Mozart to Verdi, from Berlioz to Puccini and from Wagner to Ginastera. He has also recorded more than 50 videos and has three melodramatic films: La Traviata and Otelo, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and Carmen by filmmaker Francesco Rosi.
In 1990, with his colleagues Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras, he launched the show Los Tres Tenores, which features a program composed of operatic arias, Broadway songs, Neapolitan songs and pop music hits . called crossover (this hybrid genre that illuminates classical music and makes it reach a mass audience).
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