by Paulo Clóvis Schmitz
“Conductors, musicians, composers and critics from all latitudes surrendered to this genius artist who made discipline the springboard for his worldwide recognition. Another son of Urussanga who was unaware of the tenor’s story, filmmaker Yves Goulart, ended up becoming by chance another disseminator of Aldo Baldin’s work, when he lived and produced a film in New York, in 2009.”
“‘Baldin’s particularity is that he migrated from one style to another with mastery, unlike many singers who invest their careers in just one genre’, says filmmaker Yves Goulart. ‘Furthermore, he prepared to do what he wanted, which I make it clear in the film title A Life for Music. He played the cello very well, read sheet music, gave lessons and overcame his own limitations with discipline and many years of study’, he highlights.”
“The director made an operatic documentary, as if it were a sequence of acts about the tenor’s life and career, and showed his humble origins in an agricultural region to the success he achieved in the most celebrated concert halls on the planet. The story is told in the first person, from a tape recorded two days before he died, and by testimonies of musicians, friends and family members. He seemed to foresee what was coming, even though he believed he would produce his own autobiography.”