When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.