Divos

When the Historia de la opera analyzes the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, all the names that appear in this book will have a special chapter as representatives of four intersecting generations. On the one hand, that of Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Josep Carreras or Teresa Berganza; on the other, that of Renée Fleming, Barbara Hendricks and Roberto Alagna, together with those who have also strongly marked the first two decades of the new millennium, such as Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Sondra Radvanovsky, Carlos Álvarez, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Javier Camarena, Rolando Villazón or, later, Philip Jaroussky and Jakub Jozef Orlinsky. On stage they all feel, in their strength and fragility, authentic divos. But also, from outside, figures like Peter Gelb or Gerard Mortier, true magicians, have been able to transform, from their bold vision of culture, a show like opera, so that it can survive in the future. Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, as a musical chronicler, has known all of them closely and often interviewed them. Together they make up a passionate, lucid and controversial vision of the world of art and music. They all address their values and philosophies of life, their careers, politics, love, certain hobbies, passions, excesses and follies, their glories and declines... A collective portrait where the human dimension of these divine beings bordering on tragedy and They also know how to laugh at themselves and what surrounds them without leaving anyone indifferent.