and. the world renowned three tennis trio plus a duo has won nine grammys and a host of other awards besides about twenty years ago domingo launched a contest he called. designed to help discover young talented person years and promote their careers. close your living or thank you very much for coming to the show how are you. i see

your final say and you. hear me yes yes because well after celebrating your seventeenth birthday you said and i have this quote whatever i imagined i never thought that i would still be singing out to seventy this is what you said what keeps you what keeps you afloat what keeps me in such a wonderful shape isn't of the music itself but i think the passion that i have always feel for what i do. really really is a privilege for me to do a career that i love so much and i know that a career which you can make people happy you can make them forget many times the problems so as a very positive thing for you to soul it's not like i understand that there is people that when the arrive norty to my each would be forgiven looking forward to retirement. you know because he said job done is difficult and they have been doing

it old alive and so on but in my case i i am lucky that i am still seeking and saw a. i just don't know why but i am still able to see the passion that makes we do it you do a lot of things not only for the audiences which is natural in your profession but you do a lot just for ordinary people you help people he help your colleagues is it true do you feel it that that you live as long as people need is that right well. i don't want to say that i think that you leave your life whether you have to leave you know and so i i i hope that i especially when you have work all your life even though you are working you you want to be able to enjoy it with all your family and so on you know so you want to see your grandchildren growing and you

know some of then they are already growing and they are the ones that are too little so do you suspect you have a suspect they sure as to see well i hope i can see them when the police finish the university and so on you always always are looking for something you know and of course to i mean in the career mater. what we are doing right now here in moscow is one of the things that i love the most which is my competition to have the young out of these programs which is the continuation of generation that i belong that i did learn from past generations and then i want to be able to to deliberate to give it to other singers and i have been doing it already for the competition we are in the. nineteenth year and we have saw so many great singers so i'm very very happy i'm very put out there too. with this competition we

will be able to do this here you brought up to moscow and you dedicated this competition to to go in there was one of those brilliant russian sopranos singing is unique and she has her own school now what can you say about. school is she getting international commission already and i mean the school that that she created indeed is getting the recognition and she has. wonderful group of seeing groups. like it should be over which when you have young artists you have to you have done some time then your lead then you held on to walk out to be a professional and they have a wonderful possibility because they have this theater which they are able to really perform you know so they can they can do many many performances. across the year which is a tremendous advantage there are no many places that they have right now i do have

this possibility seen. i mean i have it because i have in washington and in los angeles. but there is difficult to have the theater constantly both in balance here there is a smaller theater which you can have the your lot is so. very lucky that she has that theater and that she can have her artist constantly working that's the way mistaken you saying together with a girl you know on stage only once and. what do you crush and singing with her because because she had a lot to say after she performed with what can you say. she was great at these great. no only seeing tremendous actor is. full of temperament and a great lady of the theater and i don't want to say the new. it's

a fight the lady did yes she's a very fiery and the we have fire in the speech she was there we were doing tosca and she was going to kill. me when she took. the tosca when she was going to kill her week when the fire. i mean i was outside took the stage because a couple of those she stuck to the states and. it was. she realized she was in fire and he doesn't want to die. and he was holding her and he was trying to pull. and she didn't realize that she was on fire and finally was able to. kind of in between burning himself bring the weak down and i came to this side with

the fire people and they were there with the bottle of of wine and water and then the last week we made the fire hold. not only a fire the performances by by her but the really fire on the great did she ever sing to your children grandchildren when we. sing together. the. little ones they are very impressed by because you know what we did. she didn't do little boys we were doing. well there are three young boys you need to leave. this one is fifteen sixteen seventeen and they had the whole time and now they say let's put the children then simo. meal and then they said

let's put that one of the. and they are saying good so they sing with me you know so. the. we sing together ok you've mentioned being great a great performer laurence olivier to see you in very nice to tell that in vienna once remarked that domingo acted as well as he himself once did a lot in celebrity how important are acting abilities for opera singing for the tenor i think today there are almost essential you know i. feel we have because the television or the still we have to remember the opera and the vocal ability should be number one you know there are some singers and they they are not great actors but they have such an unbelievable voices then you will say them i got you

know this is really a voice and the probably would like it but for me the kind of. theater then i like to do i like to be believable as a character and for me it's very important the acting but i don't say that it has to be for everybody but of course the people today they like to believe because they are very spoiled they have seen so many good things in all the you know in order of a new son in television and theater so they are spoiled and they see most the big percentage of or popular singers today they have a great ability to act you know so for me is indispensable and it's always has been fair i think i think the youth has always been important who you are playing what's the thing about the character not only reading then the know it of course of course it is so important always to be really in the middle of the

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welcome back to spotlight just a reminder that my guest on the show today. the world famous opera singing i want to say tenor but recently i've heard that you have. back to the roots you're trying to be a baritone once again and there's even a quote you said. that. gives you a lot more satisfaction than the role of heroes and big love. each. performed the father of you know i have performed the father in different locations. first. i was doing it. in.

in an old soul. i did. come out of my ears it now as a body too and of course. he's one of the great this father's. better the road his best music for the scenes that he has with his daughters or with his sons. even when the source for many or perhaps where the. dead body to him has to be a father. you know i mean the father the son father daughter is the best music ever written by virtue of the you know when i read about you that in nineteen fifty nine year in mexico city in the opera as a baritone and they told you know you're a tenor ok and you became it i told to somebody that you know that domingo became a tenor because they told him he has to be

a tenor and the guy told me you know it doesn't matter i mean most of the baritones are telling the tenor is a baritone is that right is it like close if you have a if you have a good voice you can be both you just you just choose yourself most of the ten or so most of my colleagues they were very lucky they were born already with. and they can go on the thing or you know but i guess maybe i was never. my parents. and the body tony's higher body to i mean this is so i sang many roles then they were interested to they would almost turn or you know so that's the reason but i i really i am singing parts of body too and i don't consider myself. then because i feel then i think they need to they need to sing good they need to not tour and because because the public wants to hear me more.

very happy to seeing these. which i have always loved you know i mean who will soon one two and out is there has been so so much time around who doesn't want to go to go at all and i have done it and i am ready to do it on the stage and i don't pretend to be a body to him but i pretend to sing the rigoletto. let's get back to. that alley one of the one of the winners it was was. now one of the famous russian are pressing there's one of the no that she was not she was not. really new new she had some to do with you yes yes she she came to seeing because i meet her very early in the beginning of her career i meet her with a valid. with all the big talent he was having. and i before i start to sing in the big theater she was singing in washington for me she

was singing. she was singing. the notes if you go she was singing even. when she was singing. in los angeles she was singing. juliet she was singing in mono she has done a lot of things for us before so i i we were also i was singing with. a lady and she was one of the. in those days you know. in italy were doing it so i made her from there oh but you know i. don't want to go to a competition she says she never went to a competition. she's a great artist but she could be. but she told me no plus you know i know i don't want to go but d.s. i was singing i was very happy i'm very lucky because today you cannot catch her

you know you can she doesn't have a free day and she doesn't come any. well i was lucky to get on my show. ok now and i'm lucky to have you. another question about the young generation that now here in russia is in moscow you can have a close look at the young russian talents do you see a lot of talented people is this somebody among those that you see the russians that you really hold your breath and you think this guy can be better than me. we have very good voices very good voices. all together i mean sort of then they don't pass the finals but never mind the great voices and although they have now in the finals the finals and i have to say that we have four turnovers there and one of the ten or so. is with

dramatic capacity you know and she sings. and he sings even he sings to unload. voice so i'm looking forward to obviously i'm looking forward for ten or so and then we have. the turnover and it is then it is. russian armenian and minion and he has more lyric and then we have an american south korean ten or so those are the four terms we have for the finals so we are looking forward and yes i hear him in the surmount of the russian talent there is. also which is a tremendous talent she was singing in the queen of the night and she was singing sort of in a whole slate these already and we have we have great great talent you will see a person who you once said i quote single as can be many some of the making thing

nominal careers but the real artists of whom you may say this is a star they are very few so what tunes and now pressing you know a great opera singer into what is a real story well is the public but i think. that we'll special status you know is the public which that terminates i'm sure that everybody wants to be you know all star you know everybody would like to be in a very important place but it's the public the public school makes the stars. how much you want to try it if the public. house and determinate that it puts you to. use the one that stands is the one takes is the one that gives you and it's the wonder in all our career the public that makes the stars you

were part of the famous three tenors project that was integrated during the football world cup in rome in one thousand nine hundred ninety yeah well. is it good from your point of view when when a classical becomes becomes a very pop very popular even maybe vulgar i mean is it a sort of concession a fine arts to pop culture well vall got it no vulgar no i have never done anything vulgar. popular yes of course i think really it has help very much to to really bring a lot of new people because when we were doing these concerts they would always big big venues and into big venues. like. opera. we. would sing you know would sing in song all day you know we were doing middle east with some of the international songs of

the world with songs which they spin as something that all day. or north italian. they would have they have in their repertoire you know so i think we were making just happy to people. i think when we we opened the way we opened the wall of many many new people last year he became president of the european nostra and the voice of the cultural heritage in europe do you consider opera classical music sort of a heritage that needs to be protected that's dying just just like with the. just like the. big monuments the churches the well the pressures that they would open has i thin music has to be protected opera has to be protected and it is a most it's a cultural. tradition and i mean you specially russians

you do have such a great tradition and i think it's difficult to find a big amount of composers and you happened in russia but you see i mean as. they say the you know is the krieble of opera you know it's that but i believe all together you have the bigger amount of composers that accies you know. i think i'm right if you counted all of then i'm sure than you are right to eight or ten which is difficult when i've you know they're against what against pop music because pop music is stronger is it killing classical well look i don't say you cannot protect. our music with the he's there and he's going to be leaving whatever he's just. a p.t. that the children because the parents of the children they love them. so they show

it to the children i it's a pity that there is not education for the children to learn classic music they could learn it if you really peach children the children you make. something with the principal themes of the symphonies you know and they all and you do it. in a pleasant way in a playful way they are going to learn classical music without even knowing so this is a must a child should read my child should have a should study music you know but no no seriously then. you know they will made the. decisions but music should be available for the children. to creep into the school should be able to be able to. disprove

the children being. available and. the. more relaxing you know so i think the most education for children should be music should be part of the great advice for all the parents that's listening to right now and thank you thank you very much. they. did. and that's. thank you. from all of us here will be back with more on what's going on. and. take you.

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