Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week are cast away as a singer, the Spanish ope Carreras.

Mr Carreras, could you adapt yourself to loneliness?

You're on this island, you don't know how long you're going to be there.

Could you face it?

Well, not really, I don't know.

Now you have eight records, eight records only.

Did you find it very difficult to choose?

Well, it is very difficult but I tried as an opera singer to choose the

voices that really impress me and of course tenor voices but it's quite difficult.

Right well what's the first voice you've chosen? Whose is it?

Well I think then if you ask to a tenor, which is the most impressive and most important voice of ever talking about tenor voices, of course,

and RICO Caruso.

And what would you choose to hear him sing?

Well, why not from Ipalechi,

Vesta Rajub. I'll The L a The Henrico Caruso singing Vestel

Eartube from Paliachi. Now you were born in Barcelona, is that right? Yes.

Now, in the mid-40 Spain was in rather a poor state after the war, after the civil war.

Yes, yes.

And I was born exactly on

1946 and that was, as you say, not the best conditions.

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