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hello yellow walked. into the show. 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 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 top 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 a bright time 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 seeing. how alexandro fellow very much very much for being for being with. you to invite 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 and. what happened. was everything about. maybe the big guys i was there almost the same. ones that work out for us 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. . 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 in their lives so maybe

a. team has to change there to renew with the younger yeah good food but but there anyway we should good luck which. 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 russia a need 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 no you have good ideas and all that but is not important there is no one no football and sun is not all that implicit you were born in sienna and a little little town with a little food into a family of musicians see 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 in all but and no no no i should i choose a 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 good nine nine it was a just poor force that the music ground on and then i decided that 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 added to that he was that if you want it all so you started so you see. john is a great ok now there was a teacher. 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. but why did you choose this so lucre if you did because usually opera singers they start by being part of a company and then go and you choose a solo three one ma issues so i have a 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 concerned. can it sound money or. you know remember we

have many different. experiments of more than one honestly if you were going. to have a so beautiful modern style go over are there laughs important maybe it was over this time before they were making period in that he was like must can you put cine like irrational 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 like. every great oh no please 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 his

car. got 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 for centuries 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 a big prizes depends on you know you for example is for the weight and all of it may be 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 or cd or philly vision but.

not i think never change. the question with classical music does need to be popularized or not spotless cards have you already on them i tried to find out if russians live 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 in classical music. it might be a good idea at the time to see the 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. yes it depends on how well it's done however i don't think that classical music should be mixed with pop for example because classical music is perfect within its original form. i don't like when classical music is mixed

with other styles classical as glasgow pop is bald and rock as rock why make sounds we don't make salad with ballad right but i like it i think it's interesting and unique i believe that mixing different styles popularized this close to good 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 was that if you got a question guess. was that as you started mixing different styles of music why is it more profitable. well 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 that is 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 surely. 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 on this and i love so so so you're not a great fan. like when i was like that about amber. and it was great. p.g.a. event one was great to see but i preferred 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 you know but not before he heard the real one just a reminder that my guest in the studio here is alexander heenan 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 answered. on the song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. from. the. time.

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five hundred tons of gold. dozens of counted. six hundred. train. station. a century long way. ministry of the golden train. welcome back to spotlight i'm 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. that 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 music escorted 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 that 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 kind of decided that 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 isn't it really is really crazy is not music education is not

a good school and they do they don't like to move people is sort of walk the walk the t.v. shows what the media gives to them. is a few people i can have the opportunity to know something different because i thought and this is like a serious time like all the ten years italians are like oprah junkies not no not anymore it is that is that is an important 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 say about classical and pop. what makes music pop popular like a man who raised something else won't say when he was composing

was pop. because he was took 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 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 your it was part reels were part of those what was the 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 sounds the rounds the music is is is pretty complicated to me because the use of videos is something he does you know show very convoluted periods but now if we take modern park music written by professional composers they used likes cheap

cheap and very primitive farnum up it would be that because it is only better once again it's only on the great because now now everything is there for for it to be commercial to take money and beatles represents a period the music the beatles music represented period is a period with great social change meant and like rolling stones be those today we're seeing in south in the important there where it's changing the music because if you're listening. to what that was before to be those who was thought of it really is just getting room this is the way we do we live killed me you know if anything school may show. because there was a they were saying it's something. different it was the actual from the very beginning and it. was totally different there was a big change a man in the so city society in the music old school going to joplin was the

commercial and she was maybe it was was 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 the 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 happened immediately i think everything is very calm a show every pro that every senior 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 i have lots of young people lots of your friends are female and i'm looking at me in that year

like with their great 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 your your rationale your 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. and that's it for thought of the reason of such a phenomena that like rock music rock and 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 latin rock of old boys. in 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 is sounds good in italian but i was thinking. and it sounds so good and russian. and. others like. to 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 over a house and i was seeing or hearing it because the whole house was totally revealed and open after many years and it's so beautiful and see the public is very hot this is great you you did you did lots of do have the we would elton john i had it 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 know never cinnamon email is. one of my mentors 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 good general yeah yeah yeah he sent him an email and he said ok let's do it . so. i'll ask my producer to give you two to give these ok ok right. 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 if they're my repository i understood you don't choose because 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. when you when you when you have to to to work with a big record company you have to made some compromise is that not only is it possible to surprise modern audiences with something. to surprise a is always more it's i mean if you go about to 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 in advance lately yourself you know but maybe you were surprised by someone some performance. that i don't know if you know this century c.c.

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 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 at least i think both know me and the study see that i don't have a great. number of heat about the audience come to my concept of a day like to listen to or sound odd are songs that i like and. 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 for sharing your thoughts. about the very just about mind that my guest in the studio today was alice i'm going to say i feel a lot of famous italian tenor 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 their place finish here starting out.

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