Isaac Salinas

On a trip to Tokyo, I purchased at Tower Records a CD of a certain Isaac Salinas. It was issued by Montilla Musical Industries under the number CDFM-3038. Salinas sings arias from I lombardi, Pagliacci, Adriana Lecouvreur, Fedora, Turandot, Macbeth, Tosca, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Martha, Il trovatore, Manon Lescaut, Otello, Cavalleria rusticana and Aida. It is quite an ambitious program. While the liner notes mention some places where the conductor Laszlo Rooth has performed, there is nothing about where Salinas has sung. There is some general blah blah on his artistic development.

After hearing the CD, one can understand that possibly Salinas has never sung anywhere and may have paid to have the CD issued. It is quite funny to listen to and can be used as a party record. If anybody knows more about him, please let me know.

Salinas was born in La Habana, Cuba on September 3rd, 1943. He has been a Mexican citizen since 1980 and sang at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Sala Ollín Yoliztl and the Sala Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City from 1981 to 1986. Salinas sang just a few performances, first small roles like Messaggero in Aida and Fléville in Andrea Chénier. In 1982, he sang the role of Don Fernando de Esponda in the world premiere of La güera by Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. In 1983, Salinas sang Pinkerton. In 1984, he sang Don José in a concert and Cavaradossi, and in 1986 again Don José. He also sang in the United States, Europe and South America.
In 1992, my father (who had an opera radio program) received a phone call from a friend and assessor of the owner of the Orfeón record company asking for a tenor to do a record of zarzuela romanzas. However, my father didn't know any good tenor to recommend. Just a few months later, that record company (Orfeón) hired Mr. Salinas and I don't know why, but he made the recordings and the story began.
Salinas was co-conductor of an opera radio program here in Mexico City, and he and the principal conductor Claudio Lenk very frequently put his wonderful voice?????? on the air.
Now, Mr. Salinas lives in Miami, Florida and is one of the voice teachers of an important university there.
As you can see, Mr. Salinas' career has been nothing important, and besides he was a lucky man to find people that know nothing about tenor voices. Don't you thing so? Yes, I do.