His death certificate states that he was born in 1931, not 1938 as indicated in the references quoted below.
De la Morena studied singing for two years with Angeles Ottein. However, he switched to medicine, which he studied at the University of
Madrid. He graduated as psychiastrist.
During that time, he further studied singing with Carlos Jiménez Díaz.
In 1957, he made his debut on the radio program José Nieto, and in 1959/60, he made musical movies with the director
Agustín Navarro.
15 bajo la lona (1959) with Carlos Larrañaga, Ángel Aranda, Luz Márquez, Alfredo Mayo,
Antonio Ozores, Manuel Peiró, Jesús Colomer, Pedro Beltrán, Mauricio Lapeña
El cerro de los locos (1960) with
with Antonio Ozores, Mercedes Alonso, Pepe Rubio, María Luisa Merlo, José Luis López Vázquez, Teresa del Río,
Mauricio Lapeña, Ricardo Tundidor
He made an international career on stage, concert podium, radio and movies.
In 1962, he made his debut at the San Carlo in Naples as Don Carlo. He sang the same role in Genève (1962 with Consuela Rubio,
Gabriel Bacquier, Raphael Arië, Suzanne Sarroca), and Paris (1963 with Suzanne Sarroca, Nicola Zaccaria, André Huc-Santana,
Geneviève Serres, Louis Quilico).
He sang in Tosca with Renata Tebaldi (Parma, Regio) and in Nabucco (A Coruña, Teatro Colón,
with Manuel Ausensi, Claudia Parada, Mario Parenti).
In 1965, he sang Radames in Philadelphia, and in 1966 Gabriele Adorno at the São Carlos in Lisbon, where he suddenly lost his
voice so that he gave up his career.
He went back to medicine first in a clinic in Madrid, then in Chicago and finally in Brownsville, Texas.
He recorded only one official LP for Montilla.
Reference 1: Kutsch & Riemens
Reference 2: Joaquín Martín de Sagarmínaga: Diccionario de cantantes líricos españoles, 1997
