Érase una vez...yo | Gerardo Kleinburg | TEDxPaseoSantaLucía

Fiction is purely human; it cannot be programmed. Fiction is a fundamental part of any creation. Gerardo Kleinburg was born creating with fiction; he understood the world through fiction. And his life is fiction. Gerardo opens our eyes and imaginations to pay tribute to fiction. He teaches us all its benefits and the transformative power it has on us and our environment. Gerardo Kleinburg has an extensive professional career as a music and opera critic in national and international media. At 28, he was the youngest critic to receive the Salzburg Festival's International Music Critics' Award. He was also the first non-European critic to win this award and the first Spanish-speaking critic to do so. At 27, he became the youngest general and artistic director of the National Opera Company in the history of Mexico, and he was responsible for Plácido Domingo's return to Mexican opera stages after a very long absence. He gave debuts to dozens of young Mexican singers, including Rolando Villazón. He is today the most prominent and sought-after Mexican opera promoter, the only one who systematically offers introductory talks on opera to young people and teenagers in public schools and in marginalized areas who have never had any contact with opera. He has taken these talks to places such as public high schools, marginalized areas, police academies, and soon, to inmates in prisons and jails throughout the country. He won the Mozart Medal, awarded by the Austrian Embassy in Mexico, for his work in opera. For 17 uninterrupted years, he hosted the only program broadcasting opera, both international and national, on Mexican television: “Escenarios,” aired on Canal 22 México. He has also hosted opera programs on Canal 11 and Canal 40. For 10 years, he was the music and opera critic for the newspaper Reforma. He was the director of the Cervantino International Festival and, along with Andrés Rodríguez and Marcelo Lombardero, the founder of OLA: Ópera Latinoamericana (Latin American Opera). She currently runs an artist promotion and booking agency that has presented at the Palace of Fine Arts. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx