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how long yellow was. an oddity. and today my guest in the studio is. sufi now. he is on the list of the most beautiful people according to people magazine he's performing in the world's best offers. sometimes he also works with music but does classical music really need to be in the minutes to survive in the twenty first century the famous italian tenor is here to talk about. the

central safina comes from the telling family with a strong singing tradition at an early age she discovered a passion for singing and by the age of nine decided to dedicate himself to. his interests became broader bands like you to genesis and inspired him to experiment as a result started recording successful albums alongside a famous italian pianist and composer. they recorded a single lunar which top several european charts recorded a soundtrack for a popular movie moulin rouge featuring elton john. david bowie to mention a few two years ago he recorded in the famous british soprano song a bride now a son who was busy performing at concerts in russia for several months already today he's in spotlight to tell what inspires him in this country so much he just cannot stop seeing. how alexandro fellow

very much very much for being for being with. me here well first of all i'm not asking you what's your favorite food. my favorite. city. what about what about italian football on the world cup. what happens. i think it was everything about. maybe the guys i was there almost the same. ones that work out for you so you. know you have to change. to be competitive every every four years you know maybe they should have taken more plays from c.n.n. . some says my son is

a fan of juventus and he says they should have taken more people from japan. was very bad. everything is changing in their lives so maybe a. team has to change there to renew with the younger yeah good food but but there anyway we wish you good luck with. football but not. you know not as good as italy while in opera russia sometimes maybe even better than italy so-so. i think both are russian elite that they have. to counter with a big. you know in classical music you know so so it means you don't really have to have warm skies and blue blue seas and no no no no no no you have good ideas and all that but is this is not important there's no one no football and sun is not

all that implicit you were born in c.n.n. and the little little town with a little book club into a family of musicians see does that mean does that mean that you would do that you couldn't choose any other career. as another musician family but my my father was a big fan and he tried to seeing for doing something year in all that and no no no i shoes and shoes and my father helped me to introduce myself in a musical life so i started to study music and i was nine i didn't start to see get nine nine it was a just for force that the music ground on and then i decided i was so bad in piano so i decided. to start singing. at seventeen eighteen years so that was my patient do the same as elton john he wanted to be obvious to people so that if you got it wrong so you started saying you see see see john agree ok now

there was a teacher and they keep it i changed many teachers because my first teacher wasn't even music school interviews me it was very important to me in this kind of study and then i was in florence conservatory you and i am a good teacher and then i start to. read some i completely shown and i changed my teachers i had the opportunity to visit many countries many famous acts seen her and saw my studies. it's private. but why did you choose this so lucre it really did because usually he opera singers they start by being part of a company and then you go and you choose a solo three one ma issues so i have when i was younger i had to put good quality and so i i didn't decide to be a solo by that i have the correct characteristics to be solo and i never think

about something different. opera is considered to be very conservative you don't see do you think it is concert to do. can it sound money. we have many different. experiments of modern. honestly if you put in order to have a so beautiful modern style and i go over are there laughs important maybe it was over this time before their magic period they knew that he was a like. muskaan you put cine like eros i was tchaikovsky in that there was great composers here. where do you think opera classic opera looks survive in the twenty first century see it we'll see if we can win the league like. every

great oh no these it isn't the coming of stuff that you buy to put in your new bedroom going to new dining room it's something that it's something for the museum. anybody listening to listening to blink to have to know what it is part. of that you know i want you mike out of my mind now i have a lot of a russian composer. i think it went something is great in music and sculpture in painting be great the four center says never change what was you can change their way to to perform so you don't think that we are witnessing a crisis of classical music today no but the cries of the parents i know from the quality of the music a big prizes depends on you know you for example is for the weight and all of that maybe the big ticket is so expensive and to go to the whole browsers and those so

easy people be able to browse it's not so big and so maybe the modern audience needs something different by the state duma or c d o philip vision but. not i think never change. the question with classical music does need to be popularized or not spotlights concept you already on the web try to find out if the russians line connection of different music genres let some of them. had their day i'll try to find out if people in this country support an idea of mixing different styles of music but see them like a mixture of pop rock and classical music. so it might be a good idea to dynasty funny clothes for example since i'm a fan of classical music and drop i can comprehend this too this it's however one classical music is next with pop i think it is

a tasteless eclecticism. that it depends on how well it's done however i don't think that classical music should be mixed with both for example because the cost of the music is perfect within its original form. i don't like when classical music is mixed with other styles glasgow is plastic of pop as bald and dropped as rock why mix that we don't make salad with bad right i like it i think it's interesting and unique i believe that mixing different styles popularizers classical music especially among younger generations. is that if it is done correctly with an idea behind it then yes it could be interesting like has done in country of a grocer for example however sometimes mixing of styles is done very incorrectly and in that case it was done mainly for public shock and the taj. out of that was that you got a question guest was that if you started mixing different styles of music why is it more profitable. they're all for the ball the more profitable side to make money

off of the boat as the only they'll be to see honestly is more profitable so simple it really is a bit expensive because of the discography is a big crisis honus lee i don't like to mix different kind of music sound i never i never made a modern iraq version of. not kreiger or surely. i just use a tutu to use my voice and my voice was the use of for a class if i use my voice. to sing it's not in pop. but to mix music is i don't know i don't like honestly so so sorry you're not a great fan yeah like like when the girls like that about amber. and it was great. p.g. they leave that one was great honestly but i prefer the original version that that

one was. yeah. yeah that was great that was a good. idea goes away because my son did hear that version and then when he heard the real version of the he said this is how destiny see not you know but not before he heard the real one just a reminder that my guest in the studio here is alexander in an italian opera tenor spotlight will be back shortly run off to a break so stay with us and. kill innocent. or was it. this of course and that's never ends.

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singer is it true is it true that you're a great fan. of rock rock'n'roll hard rock music i like i really really does you see i like. it and i would really like you to rock music or when i was younger i used to love bands like you two and super mario was my period in all eighty years and i think when the music is beautiful in a musical score to the ever every kind of music or music can be nice but but still you do listen to both i mean to to to to classical music to rock music i mean listening to good music what about what about the tendency that that people are not listening to good music this is sometimes not such thing as good music this form that people are listening to to to to trendy music rather than the radio and i don't know i cannot decide which is the good music for me my favorite music is

classic i still i listen to a great. musician but what about the kids what about the kids in italy. only a needle is in italy is really crazy is not music education is not a good school and they do they don't like. people listen to what the what the t.v. shows or the media give to them. is a few people i can have the opportunity to know something different because i thought and this is like a serial type like all italians italians are like oprah just. he's not no not anymore he's that is isn't important he may be the most important with french in russia and germany the most important. musical country about that we don't have an absolutely good school music education now.

when we see about classical and pop. what makes music pop popular like a member of the real something else won't say when it was composing hope or was pop. because verdi was talking with people that said it was more most of it was very pop now classical music is b.p. is now b. and b. p. and close so to make something like like under bush i like the deeds something like. a little bit me a can. made a little bit more bold be something it is a little bit classy this is incredible listen very was part of my year it was part of the eagles were part of those well rock but pop today because beatles didn't have any musical education at all at first but you know if you if you look at the

songs the rounds the music is is is pretty complicated to me because they usually there's a something he does you know show very convoluted periods you know if we take modern park music written by professional composers they use likes cheap cheap and very primitive farnum up it would be that because if there was a better once again of the on the it'll sell so great because now now everything is there for for it to be commercial to to take money and beatles represents a period the music and the beatles music represent a period is a period with green. so show the change a man and like a rolling stones be those they were seeing in something important they were changing the music because if you're listening you listen what it was before the be those who was thought of it really is just getting you this is the way we do we will have killed me you know if anything school may show be those who was there

were seeing it something. different it was the actual from the very beginning and. was totally different there was a big change of man in the so city society in the music old school going to joplin was too commercial and the issue was maybe those were ok now what's. happening to popular music today do you think do you think we need the sort of a big social change or like a shake up of the whole society to to to start writing good music again maybe maybe i think they're the story music because everything now is commercial and it's made especially will let football maybe i don't know because to talk about that really you have you need to know the real situation what happened you need to really i think everything is very calm a show every pro that every scene is for everybody has to like and.

honestly i think of the great musician great singer something really good doesn't like two hundred and i know what the girls are thinking now and lots of young people lots of your friends are female and i'm looking at me and i even want to have gray hair and say ok you guys you earned your movie and now you accuse us of being commercial we don't owe money to set up for me i have you know right now you know money to survive i'm no reach and sure i work for ford to take money but i never try to do something so. easy and i try to i just. sign my saying. my music. that's it the thought of the reason of such a phenomena like rock music rock n roll music sounds best in english opera sounds best in italian why because of the spirit type work there's something in the in the lead we saw a melody of the latter

a rock n roll born in an england states and sounds good in english i think all over the world you know the language and the state of mind of the composer and the language is part of that music see maybe maybe but honestly i sing many telling over puccini sounds good any talent but i was thinking. and sounds so good in russian. and. others like. underground and see the. song many others what's your favorite stage your favorite audience where what where in opera you know the best memory i have in. more of a house and i was singing on hearing it because the whole browser was totally revered and open after many years and it's so beautiful and senior

public is very hot this is great you you did you did lots of do have to lead the we would elton john i had all certainly right in the shitter jennifer lopez is it true you still dreaming of making do with bono see really i like a lot to you to the many years and i think born as you really didn't you know never see them an email is a. friend of my legs are a man here in moscow he's a musician he wanted to make a duo with the with one of the great well without jimmy oh you know i'll do me all the famous good generally yeah yeah. yes he sent him an e-mail he has for and he said ok let's do it. so. i'll ask my producer to give you two to give easily here you know like a right it's right where you go when you when you choose your repertoire. what you know here's what's your main concern what you want to sing or what the audience

wants to listen to my son all know what i want to see have been my repository i understood you don't choose because there you have to see what your personality and your voice that permits you to to see no i don't i don't see what my audience i want to to to listen to from me and i always try to choose what i really feel what i really like it's not not possible every size not even a compromise sometimes your k.-y. when you know when you when you have to to to work with a big record company you have to made some compromise is that paul is not only is it possible to surprise modern audiences with something. to surprise a is well it's more it's i mean if you go about two made something really good and simple and with qualities it's possible you know really i think i've only have you

a recollection of some big surprise that you gave lately yourself you know maybe you were surprised by someone some performer. honestly i don't know if you know this century city is not the time for being surprised in the size you say it. is always always so we think it's impossible to to do something new to suit by somebody but there's always something new when you when you listen when you feel something new and it's possible when i go to a concert. the the the performer usually has some old songs that are recognizable so that people say oh i know that song and then he puts new songs so what's more important for for a performing artist as yourself to to to introduce new songs need new words new music or to perform record lows at least i think both know me and the study see i

don't have a great. number of heat about the audience come to my concept of a they like to listen to or sound odd are songs that i like in door and so i'm very happy to tune to perform this kind of song and i try. recording i'm starting to record a new album i try to to give something new hoping opening to two to have another on other heath and other big success sure thank you thank you very much when you're out there were going to. see what you just about mindset that my guest in the studio today was alice cybersex a lot of famous italian temper and that's it for now from all of us here will be back tomorrow with more until then stay on r.t. and take a pastry michiru i'm starting mouth. these

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