rapidly growing demand all the international markets. time now for. the most today meets famous as holly intend to have us a little safina fame for a few modern pop music next. you know.

how long. 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 central safina comes from a 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 italian pianist and composer. they recorded a single which talked several european charts recorded a soundtrack for a popular movie featuring elton john. david bowie to mention a few two years ago he recorded and then to woodward a famous british soprano song bright now in the sun he 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 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.

city you. see what about what about italian football on the world cup and. what happens. was everything about. maybe the guys was that almost the same. ones that work out for you. is normal you have to change. to be competitive every every four years you know maybe they should have taken more plays from c.n.n. . something as my son is the founder of dentists and he says they should have taken more people from japan. was very bad. everything is changing and life so maybe it. has to change there to renew with the younger younger food but but there anyway we wish you good luck with.

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 are russian elite that they have. to counter with a big. you know barrage 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 good is this is not important there's no one no football and sun is not all that implicit you were born in sienna and the little little town with a little food into a family of musicians see does that mean does that mean that you would do that you couldn't choose any other career. i mean as you know about 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 decided. to start singing. at seventeen eighteen years old it was my patient do the same as elton john he wanted to be a. bit of a he was that if you want it all so you started saying you see see see john is a great kid now that he was a teacher and 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 start 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 the but why did you choose this so the career for me did because usually opera singers they start by being part of a company and then go and you choose a solo career one mark issues so i have a when i was younger i had the 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 or. you know remember we have many different. experiments of modern. honestly

if you were going. to have a so beautiful modern style to go over are there laughs important period movie was over this before there are many period in that he was like must can 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 sentences never change what was you can change the 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 of the crimes is depends on you know you for example is for the way you know of maybe the you have to take it this source pensive and to go through the whole browsers and those so easy because you have to over a house it's not so big and so maybe the modern audience needs something different by the state duma or. philly vision but. not i think never change. the question with classical music does need to be

popularized or not spotless concept you already own them i try to find out if russians laura economics 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 think classical music. it would not be a good idea at the time just slap on the cloak for example since i'm a fan of classical music and drop i can comprehend this too this is however when classical music is next with pop i think it is a tasteless eclecticism. as 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 glasgow pop is bought and dropped his rock why mix

them we don't make salad with ballad right i like it i think it's interesting and unique i believe that mixing different styles popularizes classical music especially monk younger generations. if it is done correctly with an idea behind it then yes it could be interesting like all french need care 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 deputized. out of that not that you got a question guess. 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 it's really the best defense 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 shore lake. i just use a tutu to use my voice and my voice was the use of for a classic i use my voice. to sing it's nothing. but to mix music is i don't know i don't like honestly i love so so so you're not a great fan year like like when i was like that about amber. and it was great. that one was great honestly but i prefer the original version that that one was. yeah that's i feel fever to hear that it was great that it was a good. idea goes away because my son did hear that

version but then when he heard the real version of all of it he said this is how destiny not say you know but not before he heard there we all want just a reminder that my guest in the studio here is alexander pheno an italian opera tenor spotlight will be back shortly run after a break so stay with us and. kill innocent. or was it a day of course and that's never answered. cosco . i think of it every day. from the memory. of so much time. trying to tell. i was. i

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train. station. a century long way. ministry of the. welcome back to spotlight i'm 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 don't really know really if 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 eighty years and i think when the music is beautiful in a musical score to be 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 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 i listen to a great. musician but what about the kids what about the kids in italy it's 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 walk the walk the t.v.

shows or the media give to them. few people i can have the opportunity to know something different because i thought and this is like mysterious i'm like all italians italians are like oprah junkies no no not anymore it is that is that is unimportant may be 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 see 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 with people outside it was more most of it was

very pop you know classical music is b.p. is now b. and b. p. and close so to make something like like and there was there was really deep cycle and something like. a little bit me a can. made a little bit more bold be something it is a little be classic this is incredible listen very most part it was part of beatles were part of those well rock but pop just 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 the use of this is something he does you know show very complicated periods but you know if we take modern park music written by professional composers they use like cheap cheap and very primitive farnum of it would be that because it is only better once again it's only

on the great because they now now everything has that for for it to be commercial to take money and beatles represents a period the music to be those music represents a period is a period with great social change of man and like a rolling stone to 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 was thought of it really is just getting wound this is the way we do we like killed me you know if you think it's cool michel. because there was a they were singing something. different it was 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 jump in was the commercial and she 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 of this story of 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 was ahead you need to really i think everything is very calm a show every pro that every senior is for everybody has to like him. 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 that you know like with their 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 hear you right you have your money do you have survived 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. and that's if 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 boys. 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

it sounds so good and russian. and. others like. 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 seeing or hearing it because the whole browser was totally revealed 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 do with i had to go 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 born as you really know never cinnamon email is. one of my big limits 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 well you know i'll do me all the famous get there oh yeah yeah yeah 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 us all here you know like a right it's right where you go when you when you choose your repertoire what you know 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 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 you want 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 and it's not not possible every size not even a compromise sometimes your k.-y. one hit 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 always more and semi do it if you go about it to made something really good ball. with qualities is possible you know really i think not only have you a recollection of some big surprise that you gave an audience lately the self you know but maybe you were surprised by someone some performer. honestly i don't know if you know this century 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 when it is possible when i go to a concert. 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 i'd like to see if both know me and decide to see them i don't have a great. number of heat about the audience come to my concept of a day like to listen to luna or sound odd their song or liking. 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 to to have another on other heath and other big success sure thank you thank you very much when you're out there we're going to. see what you just about mind that my guest the new cd and today was alice i'm going to set 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 r.t. and take care. i'm starting now to.

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