It was the year 2012 and the Mazatlan baritone José Adán Pérez appeared in the frame. He was seen as “Pedro” around his house, on the stage of the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
He was determined, friendly, funny and at a dizzying pace he took over the role of Figaro in the opera El barbero de Sevilla, by Rossini, produced by the National Opera Company, under the stage direction of Benjamín Cann.
But how could he not function so confidently, if he had already made his debut in Donizetti’s Elixir de amor, with the New York Opera Company; if he had already ‘made’ that same Figaro in Italy. Even, and perhaps this was the most caliber of his artistic career at that time: having been part of the cast of the opera El Postino, adapted from the homonymous film by Mexican composer Daniel Catán, sharing the stage with Plácido Domingo, whom he already knew , because the Spanish tenor had given him the opportunity to join the Domingo-Thornton Program for Young Singers at the Los Angeles Opera.
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And José Adán Pérez almost began speaking about the aforementioned Figaro, in the program Entre Sonidos y Silencios, invited by Aldo Rodríguez, as part of the digital bar of Radio UAS, also included in the virtual billboard of the General Coordination of Extension of Culture .
“For me it was something wonderful to be able to sing this role at the Palacio de Bellas Artes; and to be able to sing it as I usually do: with that liveliness, with that dynamic, as Rossini sometimes requests; He demands it of a lyrical baritone to be able to sing this opera, that he has that speed, because the character requires it; sometimes there are directors who want me to go a little slower; I always prefer him to go, but lightning fast ”.
Creditor of the Exemplary Sinaloense award, also recognized as Ambassador of the Arts for the World, by the land of his love, Mazatlán, José Adán Pérez, connected from New York, gave way to a wealth of anecdotes about his life , which included the story of that boy who learned to play violin, piano and guitar, or that of the young man who moved between being an Engineering student at the Tecnológico de Monterrey and a member of the Angela Peralta Choir, which led him to meet Antonio González and Enrique Patron de Rueda, the latter being the one who encouraged and recommended him to refine his taste for music, in Mexico City, with maestro Manuel Peña.
And so other names, other circumstances and his own development as a Systems Engineer in the General Motors company were mentioned, until the day of the lace arrived, the moment in which he began to carry out international operatic studies.
With the vivacity and energy that characterizes him, José Adán Pérez dedicated particular enunciations to his meeting with the tenor Plácido Domingo, when Aldo Rodríguez asked him what it had been like to work with him: “It has always been a marvel, it has always been a teacher that his support is with any of the young people with whom he has to share the stage, or with whom he shares a score ”.
And he added: “My debut in Los Angeles was at the hands of maestro Plácido; he was the conductor in that La Bohême performance, in which I sang the role of Marcello, along with a great friend as well, David Lomelí, a tenor from Monterrey ”.
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“Always, always, being able to learn from Maestro Domingo has been something very important.”
And he said that the first time he saw him on stage, live, it was one of the times that Luisa Fernanda sang in the zarzuela; then in Wagner’s opera La Valquiria, on an occasion when the tenor suffered from the flu and yet came out ahead with a push.
“Always see how he manages his energy, how he manages his voice to be able to carry out a function, even so, with that flu that he was suffering, these are things that remain for one of education, of seeking to be professionals.
Enthusiastic and spirited, he also spoke about his participation in the Classical Music Grammys, where they paid tribute to Plácido Domingo; the time he directed him at a zarzuelas gala, as well as other encounters, such as greeting him, when possible, at the Metropolitan in New York.
“He also has a lot of fun with the things I’m doing: if I’m singing with a Sinaloan band, if I’m in Mazatlán, if I’m singing in Japan, or doing charity acts … there is always an opportunity to talk between the two of them. and it celebrates me all the way I have fun, ”he said.
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