launched a contest he called. designed to help discover young talented person years and promote their careers. thank you very much for coming to the show how are you. i see your finals they knew you. 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 wonderful shake isn't it the music itself but i think it's 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 their problems so as a very positive thing what you do so it's not like i understand that there is people that when the norty to my each would be for looking forward to retirement you know because he said he stevie call and they have been doing it all the life and so on but. i am lucky that i am still seeking and saw. a. i just don't know why but i am still able to see really is 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 help your colleagues is it true do you feel that 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 so i i i hope that i 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 some of then they already go in the other ones they are too little so do you suspect you have a spectator was 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 learned from past generations and then i want to be able to to deliberate to give it to all the 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. with this competition will be able to do this here you brought it to moscow and you dedicated this competition to to go into the chefs who is one of those brilliant russian soprano i was singing. is

unique and she has her own school now what can you say about mrs school is she getting international commission already and i mean the school that that she created indeed is getting the commission and she has a. wonderful group of seeing groups rotation 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 work 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. but there is difficult to have the theater constantly

but in balance here there is a smaller theatre 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 it is mistaken you saying together with a girl you know on stage only once in. what do you crush and singing with because because she had a lot to say after she performed with what can you say. she was great at these great. know all these tremendous actor is. full of temperament and a great lady of the theater and i don't want to say the nice fighting lady would yes she's a very fiery and that day we have fire on the street which she was and we were doing tosca and she was going to kill. i mean when she took.

the tosca when she was going to kill a scorpion a week when the fire. i mean i was outside took the stage because those are still to the stage. it was. she realized she was in fire and he doesn't want to die. and he was holding her 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 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 us we we made the fire hold. not only a fire performances by by her but the really fire on the great narrator did she

ever sing to your children grandchildren when we. are seeing 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. one is fifteen sixteen seventeen and they hear the whole time and now they say let's put these children. and then they said let's put the one of the child. and they are saying good so they sing with me you know so the. the cynic sees the. we seem to get ok you've mentioned being great

a great performer laurence olivier to see you invest in these to tell that in vienna once remarked that domingo acted as well as he himself once that. how important are acting ability for opera singing for the tenor i think today there are almost essential you know we still we have because the television or the still we have to remember the opera and vocal ability should be number one they 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 public would like it but for me the kind of. theater that 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. money in television and theater so they are spoiled and they see most a big percentage of or better 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 notes of course of course it is so important always to be really in the middle of the carpet . says placido domingo just a reminder that you know watching spotlight on our team you will be back in a matter of minutes after a break so stay with us and. download

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you know i think in an age when he. performed the father you know i have performed the father in different locations. for. i was doing it. in. in. all i did. it was the body of course. one of the great this father's. best music for the scenes that he has with his daughters or with his sons. where the. body has to be

a father. you know i mean the father the father daughter the best music ever written by you know when i read about you that in nineteen fifteen. in mexico city in. as a baritone and they told you know you were 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 told me you know it doesn't matter i mean most of the baritone. is that right is it like if you have 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. you know but i was maybe i was never. my parents. and the. so i sang many

roles then they were they were almost ten or you know so that's the reason but i i really i. don't consider myself. because i feel then i think. 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 roles which i have always loved you know i mean who will soon one too. there has been so much time around who doesn't want to go to rigoletto and i have done it and i'm ready to do it on the stage and i don't pretend to be about it and but i pretend to sing the rigoletto. let's get back to rally one of the one of the winners. was. one of the famous russian are pressing there's one who

was not she was not. really. she had some to do with you know yes he she came to seeing because her very early in the beginning of her career i meet her with a. with all that big talent he was having. you know 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. ability 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 you know. 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 anymore you know so so i was lucky to get on my show she was on a show almost any area you would look at. ok now i am lucky to have you. another question about the young generation that now you're 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 in the russians that you really hold your breath and you think this guy can be better than me. we

have finally very good voices very with voices. altogether i mean sort of then they don't pass to be finals but never mind great voices. 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 she sings. and he seems even he seems to a lot to some important dramatic 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 army and minion and he has more lyric and then we have an american south korean ten zero 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. and he's in the finals also which is a tremendous start she was sitting in the queen of the night and she was seen in seven eight out of all those ladies already and we have we have great great talent you will see 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 star or what is a real story well is the public that. we'll special stars 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 the public. hussen determinate that it puts you to. use the wand and the stance is the one takes is the one that gives you and it's the one 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 the one nine hundred ninety s. well. is it good from your point of view when when 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 . 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. you would sing opera we. would sing in song all day. we were doing middle east with solid international songs for the world with songs which there's been. something of that all day. or north italian ten or so they would have they have in their repertoire you know so i think we were making just happy to people. i think then 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. just like the. big monuments the churches the well the pressures that they would open has i think 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 i think it's difficult to find a big amount of composers and you happened in russia but you see i mean. they say these the you know it's the opera you know it's the 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 that and 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 see you cannot protect. our music with the music is 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 this is not education for the children to learn classical music they could learn it if you really ph children the children you make. something with the principal themes of the symphonies you know and they're all and you do it. in a pleasant way in a playful way they're going to learn classical music without even knowing so this

is a must a child should read. should have a should study music you know but no no seriously then we know. you know they will. want to be. but music should be available for the children. to creep into the school should be able to be able to. seek to disprove the children being. available and. more relaxing you know so i think the most education for children should be music should be part of a great advice for all the parents that's listening to right now and thank you

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with day care in moscow this is r.t. world news twenty four hours a day welcome the democrat controlled u.s. senate has shot down a republican led debt ceiling plan just hours after it was passed in the house of representatives the plan put forward by house speaker john boehner would have raised the country's debt ceiling by nine hundred billion dollars and then with a similar amount in spending cuts as the clock ticks down to august second when the debt limit is reached there is less time to avert an unprecedented default crisis which might prompt the u.s. to release its top notch credit rating senate democrat leader harry reid now hopes his proposal see a compromise which could keep the government afloat and according to economist max fraud wolf this plan is more likely to get the green light. less than two business days away from the worst self-imposed crisis of america's standing in the world and

america's credit rating and at least a century it's a fairly emergency situation and we're deep into the eleventh bordering on the twelfth hour the debt reduction plan that president obama has endorsed at least rhetorically that comes out of harry reid and the democratic majority in the u.s. senate does make massive cuts in spending more than two point five trillion dollars over ten years so more than two hundred fifty billion dollars a year does no increase in revenue at all which was one of the early if i think somewhat unwise demands of the republicans in these negotiations and therefore is possible is actually does more to reduce the deficit and the debt in the united states over the next ten years than the rival republican house plan the cut cap and balance plan and so it's possible that that could be pushed through none of these plans make real efforts to reduce the long term problem of insufficient revenue and these plans do reduce spending in ways that will be painful.