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a number of journalists in the u.s. decreases the public relations septa grows rapidly some saying goaltimate picked up the trend will be democracy. now going on in our talks to one of the greatest tenets of long time he's been recently on it russia for his contribution to music city domingo is in the spotlight that's next. for. the first. truth i will again welcome truth called life the answer the self on r.t. i'm all in all then today my guest on the program is classic domingo of all the

concerts are always sold out millions of music lovers around the world adore is a wonderful voice at the age of seventy seven the arm that made up not only continues to perform not only sings but also helps promote and launch careers of young and talented singer is with his prestige out there ali i come to this year is sold in moscow. today the main goal is r.v.'s. one plus of the mingle was eighteen he auditioned for the next acoa national as a baritone it failed but was advised to try his luck in the ten arranged after a career spanning half a century he's best known for collaborations with giants like. the world renowned three tenors trio plus ago has won nine grammys and a host of other awards besides about twenty years ago domingo launched

a contest and called off the rally it designed to help discover young talented person years and promote their korea's. was. thank you very much for the way you know what we're fine i see your final say and you. yes yes 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 right what keeps you what keeps you afloat with keeps you in such a wonderful shake isn't of the music itself when i think. passion that i always feel for what i do. really really it's a privilege for me to do a career that i love so much and i know the only peace career which you can make people happy and can make them feel good many times their problems so it's a very positive thing for you too so it's not like i understand the us people that when the arrive nor to my age would be for good looking forward for retirement because he said job done is stevie call and they have been doing it all their life and so on but in my case i. am lucky that i am still sick and saw.

i just don't know why but i am still able to see the passion that makes me 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 help your colleagues is that true do you feel that that that you live as long as people need is that right well. i don't want to see that they think that you leave your life where you have to leave you know so i i i hope that i can specially 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 sort of then they are already growing the older ones there are too little so the respect you have a spectator is 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 bring in 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 and i belong that i learned from past generations and then i want to be able to deliver to give it to all the seniors and i have been doing it already for now the competition we have in the. nineteenth year and we have saw so many great seniors so i'm very very happy i'm very put out there with this competition will be able to do this here you brought up to moscow and you dedicated this competition to to go international scale who is one of those brilliant russians a proud i was thinking is unique and she has her. school now what can you say about

mrs school is she getting international initially really and i mean the school that that she created indeed is getting the recognition and she has a. wonderful group of seniors rotation like it should be always when you have young artists you have to you have been some time then you led then you held on to work out to be a professionals and they have a wonderful possibility because they have this theater which they are able to really perform you know so they can you can do many many performances. of course the year which is a tremendous advantage there are normally places that they have right now i do have this possibility seen in syria in civilian berlinski i mean i have it because i have in washington and in los angeles young artists but there is difficult to have the theater constantly. there is a smaller theater which you can have

a year like this so. it's. very lucky then she has that theater and that she can have her artists constantly working that's the way it is mistaken you saying together with the lean on stage only once in task . what do you question saying with her because because she had a lot to say after she performed with what can you say well she knew she was a great great. know already seeing tremendous actor is. full of temperament and a great lady of the theater and i don't want to say the niece of five the lady would yes she's a very fiery and that day we have fire on the street which she was we were doing tosca and she was going to kill scott and. when she took.

to the tosca when she was going to kill a scorpio a week when the fire and i mean i was outside of the stage because those who spoke of the stage and scared of korea it was course. she realized then she was in fire and feel someone to die. and he was calling her he was trying to pull the weak. and she was losing them first. and she didn't realize that she was on fire and finally was able to you know kind of in between burning himself bring the weak down and i came down in this side with the fire people and they were there with a bottle of of wine and water then the skull behind us we took the we make the fire hold the sunglasses that not only a fire you performances by but her put really fire on the stage

a great narrator ever saying to your children grandchildren well we got lullabies and things that you know love lives we sing together they. especially the two little ones they are very impressed why because you know what we did the three ten or so in our. horsey and he didn't do all of us we were doing that. now there are three young boys you need to leave. this one is fifteen sixteen seventeen and they hear the whole time and now they say let's put these children so the sound they see most of all a meal and then they said let's put that one of the on par with china one percent and they are seeing you so they sing with me you know so. the by us doesn't exist i

mean we seem to get. ok he had mentioned being great a great performer laurence olivier after seeing you in there are these to tell that in vienna once remarked that domingo acted as well as he did himself once there alone so that he how important are acting abilities for crossing or for the tenor i think today there are almost essential you know we still we have the causal television but the still we have to remember the. vocal that vocal ability should be number one you know there are some singers than the they are not great actors but they have such an unbelievable voices then you will say my god 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 well 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 a big percentage of. the they have a great ability to act you know so for me is indispensable to me and it it's always has been fair i think i think for youth has always been important who you are playing what's the thing about the character not only reading the notes of course of course it is all so important always to be really in the middle of the carpet. says placido domingo just a reminder that you know watching spotlighted on our team you will be back in a matter of minutes after

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to be you know i think in an age that he's more logical than i perform the father of you know i had performed the father in different locations. first as well as a turn on i was. in. you know male more sources going you. know . in germany oh and also i did. come around all my years and now as a body of course we're going to use one of the great this father's ventures and also very. best music for the scenes though he has with his daughters or with his sons your sole reason even. in his source for me or perhaps where the. body tom has to be our father.

you know i mean the father the father daughter the best music ever written by virtue of the you know when i read about you that in nineteen fifty nine your decision in mexico city. the opera as a very clear and they told you know you were ok and you became i told somebody that you know that. became a tenor because they told him he has to be a tenor and they told me you know. i mean most of the baritones ateliers knows the tenor is a baritone is that right is it like close if you have or if you have a good voice you can be both you just you just change yourself no i think most of the ten or so most of my colleagues they were very lucky they were born already with a pair of tissue and they can all be in all the fame or you know but i was maybe i was never. on. my palate. and the body

tony's higher body to me in business with so i sang many roles when they were there were almost ten or you know so that's the reason but i really i am singing parts of body and i don't consider myself a buddy. because i feel then i think. they need a single they need an actor and because because the public wants to hear me more. very happy to sink these roles which i have always loved you know i mean who the someone to. an out is very and has been so on so much time alone who doesn't want to google it all and i have done it and i'm ready to do it on the speech and i don't pretend to be a body plan but i pretend to sing the rigoletto and let's get back to rally one of the one of the winners of your pet earlier was was. this now one of the

famous russian are pressing what she was not she was not. really she had some to do with you know yes yes she she came to seeing. her very early in the in the beginning of her career i meet her with a. really you have give of course with all the big calendaring he was having on the main screen and i before i started seeing 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. and she was singing. in los angeles she was singing. juliet you sing in mono she has done a lot of things for us before so i i we were also i was singing. ability and she was one of the room in those days you know in.

in in italy were doing it so i made her from there but you know anya got one want to go to a competition she says she never went to a competition she said she's a great artist and she could be you know but she told me you know plus you go you know i don't want to go what b.s. she was singing i was very very lucky because today you cannot catch her you know you can do it she doesn't have a free day and she doesn't come anymore you know so so i was lucky to get on my show she was a young show all of the only area where we would look at. ok now now we are lucky to have here. another question about the young generation that now here in russia is in moscow you can you could have a closer look at the young russian talents do you see a lot of talented people is this somebody among those that you see here the russians that you really hold your breath and you think this guy can be better than

me. we have final very good voices we would voices. for the. altogether i mean sort of then they don't pass to be finals would never mind great voices and although they have now in the finals the finals and i concede we have four ten or so there and one of the ten or so. this is with dramatic capacity you know she he sings. and he sings even he seems to a lot the same important dramatic voice so i'm looking forward to obviously i'm looking forward for ten or so and then we have. another turn of the night this they need this russian army and a minion and he has more lyric and then we have an american south korean ten

or so those other fourteen which we have for the finals so we are looking forward and yes i hear him in the surmount of the russian talent luis there is our ocean of gold and he's in the finals also which is a tremendous tonic she was singing in the queen of the night and she was saying instead of innate that also ladies already and we have we have great great talent you will sing plus a you once said i quote singles can be many some of the making thing nominal careers but they're real artists of whom you may say this is a star they are very few so what turns an opera singer a great opera singer into a real story what is a real story well is the public. and they are the social appeal in perspiration stars you know is the public which the term meaning i'm sure that everybody runs to be you know all star you know everybody would like to be in

a very broken place but it's the public the public school makes the stars doesn't matter how much you want to try you the public. house and determining that it puts you there with the sign of her star is the one that stands is the one takes is the one that gives you and it's the wonder you know all i will career is probably makes the stars you were part of the famous three tenors project that was an integrated during the football world cup in rome in the one nine hundred ninety s. well. is it good from your point of view when when a classical line becomes becomes a very popular very popular even maybe vulgar i mean this is the sort of concession a fine arts to pop culture well vall got a no no vulgar nor i have never done anything both are. popular yes of course i

think really does help very much to to really bring a lot of new people because when we were doing these concerts they would always be big venues and into big venues it's not like you are in a theatre and you will sing only opera you will sing opera we were singing opera i would sing for us we would sing an operator would sing in songs all day you know we were doing medleys with a solid link the national songs of the world with an airport and songs which they're spinning as something that all the. oh north in cali and turner they would have they have in their repertoire you know so i think we were making just happy to people and i think when we we opened the way we opened the world of opera for many many new people last year you became president of the europa 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. just like the. big monuments the churches the world the pressures that they would hope i have i think music has to be protected opera has to be protect and he's 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 bigger amount of for composers and you haven't and russia but you see i mean us. is it is the you know is the krieble of opera you know is that what i believed and russians altogether you have bigger amount of for put a composers that exist you know. i think i'm right if you count to all of them

and i'm sure when you're right to eight or ten which is difficult to arrive you know they're against what against pop music because pop music is stronger is it killing classical well look i don't say that you cannot protect their. music with the probably use it is there and he's going to be leaving whatever he's just. and peaky them to children because the parents of the children they love the pub you see so they show it to the children i it's a pity that there is no education for the children to learn classical music they could learn it if you really pietra 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 what you should have it should study me and see if you know but no no seriously then indeed we know. you know they will made the decision you don't want to be serious decisions with music should be available for the children since it seems since they have really had to creep into creep into kindergarten into school you should be able to be able to hear to music and in five to disprove the children they have been. listening to mozart you know and schubert and some of the music that he's available and. they're not too loud then the more relaxed the legal or more relaxing you know so i think it's the most education for children should be music should be part of it that is great advice for all the parents that's listening to right now in russia

today thank you thank you very much for being. a guest on the show today was. the great world renowned tenor and that's it for us. thank you. but that's it for now from all of us here moving back with more comments on was going on in and out and so that they are to take you. through. thank you thank.