Ainhoa ??lives at so many revolutions that she seems more like a test pilot than a soprano. “Let’s talk, ask, ask, then I’m going to rehearse and this week I have a lot of stories, I get into a lot of trouble and…” She is one of the most brilliant guests at the 17th edition of the Escaparate Awards –annual gala of the homonymous magazine founded by Mario Niebla del Toro and which brings together the cream of Seville– and in which she shared a table with Christian Louboutin . She will return to Madrid from Seville to perform at the Teatro Real and throughout October she will sing against the abandonment of animals, she will travel to the Teatro Cervantes in Almería and will participate in the Mujeres World Fest in Tenerife. Afterwards, the Christmas recitals will come.
The soprano goes with her batteries charged: she is one of those who experience how the course really begins in September, not in January. “I don’t know if it’s because we’re saying goodbye to summer, but I feel like this is a difficult time because we get hit after the holidays and relaxing: school is coming, the kids, the uniforms…” Mother of two children, although already grown (Sarah is 22 years old and Iker, 13), she knows how complicated it is to raise a family when you spend half your life on the AVE or between airports. She couldn’t have done it without help:
“For just over 20 years I have had a person with me. She came in very young and although she still looks that way, she is completely part of the family. I have never had service at home, I have always had help, no service. The history of servility does not suit me. When I was little, my mother was in the hairdresser, my father also worked outside and we had a person who helped us at home. Her name was Feli, she was from Tamames (Salamanca) and she always shared the table with everyone. Today, someone helps me at home, but no service.
Between concerts, the soprano continues her rehabilitation. She still suffers the consequences of a serious septicemia contracted two years ago. 2021 was an especially unfortunate year for her: contagion from covid, an edema that left her in a wheelchair, her fourth divorce, a complicated renal colic that kept her hospitalized for a month, then a cyst in her throat… The most serious thing was the infection in the blood that he contracted with colic: because of it, he has lost a finger on his hand and another on his toe. No one would say that she has been through so much in such a short time seeing her today brimming with energy:
“Now I dose myself more but when you go back to the market you can’t go halfway. There are times when I am a little more relieved and I use them to study and catch up; At other times I study between ‘bocao and bocao’ because a lot of projects come together. Our life has always been like this. But I’m very lucky to have been able to return because it honestly didn’t look good. “I am very well, very happy and full.”
In reality Ainhoa ??is an optimist by nature. This is how he takes his new physiognomy: “The thing about the fingers is a secondary thing because without fingers I can continue singing. If she were a pianist she would have been a huge misfortune, but since she was a singer, then the hand and the feet will wait; I have some surgery pending and they will wait. I came out a little burned from so many operations in a few months and today I won’t go into an operating room even to fix an eyelash (laughs). So go retro! I am very gesticulating, you see that I gesticulate a lot, and I still use my hands: if I have been right-handed for 56 years, I cannot become left-handed in one and a half, so I put my right hand everywhere, whether it hurts me or annoys me and I pick up suitcases with the same panache I used to pick them up before. The thing is that I have in my brain what I was before, although physically sometimes I have to tell myself ‘stop the car, you can’t go that fast.’ But the impetus in the brain, the one I have always had.”
After four failed relationships, he has no desire to try again. “I’m very hungover. It’s not that I don’t trust myself, it’s that I am as comfortable as I am… Because I have never been in a situation like this, independent and alone for a long time, and I truly enjoy my life, my things, my children. I don’t have to argue with anyone about whether I’m leaving or not, who’s in charge of what… Now I’m on my own and the truth is that it’s much better (laughs). Let’s see who takes away this power and this total freedom that I have now. If it has to come, it will come, but honestly I am not looking for it nor do I intend to look for it.”
