rapidly growing dim on international markets. now it's time for our interview show spotlight we're going to of meet famous italian tenor of the sun josephine a famed for youth fusing i should say opera and modern pop music that's up next.

hello yellow was. an oddity i'm going off 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 subtle safina comes from 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. but his interests became broader bands like you to genesis and inspired him to

experiment as a result started recording successful albums alongside a famous hotel and pianist and composer. they recorded a single 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 and then the famous british soprano song bright now a listener is 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 saying. how alexander 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.

what about what about italian football on the world cup and. what happened this. was everything about. maybe the guys it was that almost the same. ones that work out well for you or 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. . as my son is a fan of juventus and he says they should have taken more people from japan. was very bad. everything is changing and so maybe a. team has to change their story new with the younger yeah good football player

anyway we wish you good luck with. russia is not. good football but not shows. you know not as good as italy while in opera russia sometimes maybe even better than italy so so. i think both a need 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 skies and blue blue seas and no no no no no no you have good ideas and all that good is not important there's no one no football and sun is not all that implicit you were born in sienna and a little little town with a little. into a family of musician c. does that mean does that mean that you would do so 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 sing at 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. start singing. at seventeen eighteen years so that was my patient do the same as elton john he wanted to be that is to have the will that if you want it all so you started c c c john is a great now does it teach you they keep it i changed many teachers because my first teacher was a music school interviews me it was very important to me in this kind of study and then i was in florence conservatory oh and i am a good teacher and then i started. to read some

completely shown and i changed my teachers i had the opportunity to visit many countries many famous acts seen her and saw my study. as private. but why did you choose this so the three of really did because usually opera singers they start by being part of a company and then go and you choose a solo three one mark issues so i ever 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 listen opera is considered to be very conservative if you don't see it do you think it is can certainly do. can it's own money. we have many different. experiments of more than. honestly

if you were going. to have a so beautiful modern style go over are there laughs important maybe it was over this before the romantic period in 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 like one 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 that when something is great in music and sculpture in painting be great the four sentences 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 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 may be the ticket this source pensive and to go through 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 or cd of filler vision but. not i think never change. the question with

classical music does need to be popularized or not spotless concept you lady on the web try to find out if russians lie 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 at the time to slap on a cloak for example since i'm a fan of classical music and drop i can comprehend this to this it's however when 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 classical music is perfect within its original form. i don't like when classical music is mixed with other styles glasgow is passable pop is bald and dropped his rock why

mix down we don't make salad with ballad right i like it i think it's interesting and unique i believe that mixing different styles popularizers classical music especially monk younger generations. if it is done correctly with an idea behind it then yes it could be interesting like has done in country for grosso for example however sometimes mixing of styles is done very incorrectly and in that case it was done mainly for public shock and the tossed. out of that was that if you got a question guess. was that as 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 the boat as the only they'll be to see honestly is more profitable so something is better 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 cry good or shore lake. i just use a tutu to use my voice and my voice it was the use of for a class if i use my voice for. you to sing it's nothing. but to mix music i don't know i don't like honestly i low so so sorry you're not a great fan. like when it goes like that about amber. and that was great i was the d.g. that gives that one was great to see but i prefer the original version that that one was. yeah i said i feel. the hear that it was great that it was a good. idea goes away because my son did hear that version then when he heard the real version of the he said this is how destiny

not you know but not before he heard the real one just a reminder that my guest in the studio here is alexander payne an italian opera tenor spotlight will be back shortly run after a break so stay with us and. kill innocent. or was it. this of course and that's never and. on the song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. fired from the memory. of so much time i'm just here trying to tell. i was. i was ashamed that i. i was

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train. station. a century long the way. the mystery of the golden train. welcome back to spotlight on al going off in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is. famous italian at tenor and opera. singer and also pop 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. it and i would really like you to rock music or when i was younger i used to love all bands like you two and simple minds was my period in all

eight years and i think when the music is beautiful in a musical score to be have 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 that sometimes not such thing as good music there's formats 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 if i listen to a great. musician one of the kids what about the kids in italy they do the only 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 then this is like a serial type like all italians italians are like oprah junkies no no not anymore. that is an important maybe the most important with france and russia and germany the most important. musical contrary about that we don't have an absolutely good school music education. when we sing about classical and pop. what makes music pop popular like a member of the reason something else won't say when it was composing was pop. because verdi was talking it would be months or 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 of 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 it was part regal's 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 these are videos or something he does you know show very convoluted periods but you know if we take modern park music written by professional composers they use like cheap cheap and very primitive farnum of why be that because it is only better once again it's only on

the great because in our now everything is there for ford to be commercial to to take money and be those represents a period the music the beatles music represent a period is a period with great social change of man and like rolling stones be those today we're seeing in something the important there where it's changing the music because if you're listening. to what it was before the be those who are still going to be it really is just getting you this is the way we do we live kill me you know everything in school may show. because there was a they were singing something. different it was a national from the very beginning and it. was totally different there was a big change a man in the so city society in the musical it's all going to be going to joplin was the commercial and she was my beatles 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 like 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. in honestly i think of the great musician great singer something really good doesn't like two hundred i know what the girls are thinking now and of lots of young people lots of your fans are female and looking at me in the ear and like with their great hair and say ok you guys you earned your movie and now you accuse us of being

commercial we all know money to pay off for me i hear you right now your money would have survived but i am 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. and that's it you were thought of the reason of such a phenomena that 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 rock of old ball. and then even in england states and sounds good in english i think. a little 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 oprah puccini sounds good any talent but i was thinking. and

sounds so good and russian. and. others like. see the. song and many others what's your favorite stage your favorite audience where what where in opera you know about the best memory i have in. over a house and i was seeing or hearing it because it. was a was totally revealed and open after many years and it's so beautiful and senior public is very hot this is great you know you did you did lots of do have to do with elton john and 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 too many years and i think obama is

a really no never seen him in email is a. friend of my legs are a man here in moscow he's a musician he wanted to make a duo with. one of the great well without jimmy oh you know i'll jimmy all the famous get there oh yeah yeah yeah he sent him an email he has for and he said ok let's do it. so. i'll ask my producer to give you two to give these ok ok i don't want to try when you when you when you choose your repertoire what you know here's what's your main concern what's. you want to sing or what the audience wants to listen to no no no no what i want to see it in my repository i understood you don't choose because you have to see what your personality and your voice and permit do to to see no i don't i don't sing award my audience i want to to to listen to them 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 when you when you have to to to work with a big record company you have to made some compromise you know is that part is not only is it possible to surprise modern audiences with something. to surprise a is oh it's more it's i mean if you go but made something really good. with qualities it's possible you know really i think not only have you a recollection of some big surprise that you gave it in advance lately yourself you know maybe you were surprised by someone some performer. i don't know if you know this century is 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 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 it's not easy and i i don't have a great. number of heat about the the audience come to my concept or they they like to listen to luna or some other songs that i like to go on and so i'm very happy to 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 to have another on other heath and other big success sure thank you thank you very much when you're out there god said it was good and even that's even just about mind that my guest in this either 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 and party and take their place finish here starting mountain.

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