At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
But when you enter an Opera role or you sing a song which has a story, yes, it's the soul that expresses itself.
Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.
For lunch I only have a little pasta with olive oil and parmesan, and a salad and perhaps a banana before the concert.
I am always living very good moments.
I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.
I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.
I never sing in the shower, but sometimes I sing in the bathroom, since bathrooms usually have great acoustics.
I think the second to be true, because the soul is the center and the source of all these emotions, it's the start of singing, it's inside us; the voice is the instrument, but it's the brain that gives the orders for our actions, so I strongly believe that singing starts in the soul.
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
I've always said that music is like literature.
I've recorded an album with certain pieces of classical music, by composers like Chopin, Albinoni, Brahms.
I've thought that there is a kind of music for every occasion. It depends on the circumstances and the person's state of mind.
If you sing respecting the style and the composer, the audience and the critics will judge if you are suitable for that role.
In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.
It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.
Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
Luciano wants to try a more experimental, trippy sound... Y'know, fifteen minutes of silence followed by wind chimes and then a loud gong. Really screwed up stuff.
Music isn't only a profession.
My hobbies? I like collecting art deco objects, and I'm a loyal fan of the FC Barcelona soccer club.
No, the vocal exercise is much more mechanic, you are not performing a role, you are not a character, you are not an interpreter who expresses himself musically, textually and dramatically.
Other characters I love are Andrea Chenier, Alvaro from La Forza del Destino... Tenors are lucky, because they can choose from a very wide range of roles.
Personally, every time a person who has Leukemia is transplanted, so he will be cured and very probably totally healed and restored to full health thanks to our initiatives, I feel an enormous satisfaction, and I really feel useful, while in singing many other can do what I do.
That would give me great pleasure because Italy is the country so close to my heart.
The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.
We are singing with feelings and emotions, our soul is the whole of this feelings and emorions.
When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
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