Acclaimed as one of the greatest tenors in the world, Plácido Domingo will be celebrating his fifty-year-long carreer Saturday with a concert in Guadalajara, Mexico. The performance is part of the inaugural activities of the Auditorio Metropolitano in the state capital of Jalisco. Domingo will be singing for an audience of more than 11,500. The tenor will be joined by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Aguascalientes, one of the most prominent Mexican ensembles.

Fifty years have passed since he young singer began to delight audiences with Zarzuelas, a Spanish genre of operetta. “Around this time fifty years ago, I began to sing and to face audiences every four or five days, and sometimes more often,” said Domingo, speaking about the celebration. “It is difficult to arrive to a place, but it is even more difficult to remain in it. I give thanks to God for all these years because I am still singing, I mean, I don’t know what will happen, it is very uncommon,” he said.

in recent years, the opera icon has made incursions into conducting, career that he hopes to continue beyond the end of his singing activities. Domingo is the general director of the Los Angeles Opera, post he has held since 2000.