At the time of his 75th birthday the legendary bass-baritone José van Dam looks back on his life and career with Jon Tolansky and discusses some of the wide-ranging repertoire in which he was so highly acclaimed. We hear him sing music by Berlioz, Gounod, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Saint-Saëns, Charpentier, Debussy, Hahn, Ravel, Poulenc, Enescu and Messiaen.