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well again the welcome to. an artsy. guest on the program is domingo. all of the concerts are always sold out music around the world is a wonderful voice the age of seventy. not only continues to perform not only sings but also helps promote and launch careers of the young talented singer with his prestige. competition this year is held in moscow. is our guest. when i was eighteen he auditioned for the mexico national as a baritone he failed but was advised to try his luck in the ten arranged. a

century he's best known for collaborations with giants like. 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. designed to help discover young talented singers and promote their careers.

thank you very much for coming to the show how are you. i see your final say and you can you can 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 after seventy this is what you said right what keeps you what keeps you afloat what keeps you in such wonderful shape isn't it the music itself but i think the passion that i 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 career which you can make people happy you can make them feel good many times problems so it's a very positive thing what you do so it's not like i understand that there are people that when the arrived normally to my age would be for they're looking

forward to retirement you know because he said. they have been doing it all the life and so on but in my case. i am lucky that i am still seeking 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 it true do you feel 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 with you have to leave you know so i. i hope that i especially when you have work all your life even though your. 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 that are too little so do you suspect you have a spectator 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 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 recognition 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 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. course the year which is a term in those of the vantage that are normally 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 valencia that he says smaller theater which you can have the yacht is so. very lucky that she has that theater and that she can have her constantly working that's the way it is mistaken you saying together with only once and only. what do you christian singing with 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 needs of fighting 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's. 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. of the stage and. it was course. she realized she was in fire and he doesn't want to die. and he was pulling hair and he was trying to pull the week. and she didn't realize that she was on fire and finally was able to. util kind of in between burning fuel so bring the weak down and i came in this side with

the fire people and they were there with the bottle of of wine and water than us we took we make the fire hold. not only a fire the performances by by her but the really fire on the stage great narrator did you ever sing to your children grandchildren when we. sing together day they are. especially the two little ones they are very impressed by because you know what we did three turned out. she didn't do little boys we were doing. there are three young boys. one is fifteen sixteen seventeen and they hear the whole time another say let's put

the children. then they said let's put the one of grandpa. and they are saying good so they sing with me you know so the. we seem to get it ok you've mentioned being great a great performer laurence olivier to see you invest in these tell that in vienna once remarked that domingo acted as well as he himself once did along so that he how important are acting abilities for opera singing for the tenor i think today there are almost essential you know. still we have because the television or the still we have to remember the opera and vocal ability should be. the number one you know they are some singers and they

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 that i like to do i like to be believable as a character and for me it's very important to 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 so they are spoiled and they see most a big percentage of or for 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 no of

course of course it is 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 spotlight on our team you will be back in a matter of minutes after a break so stay with us don't go. cut. the. line. would be soon which brightened if you knew about sun from phones to impression it's. true stance on teen dot com. last time the close of team was in the cool down region where

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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 lovers. you know i think. then he. performed the father you know i have performed the father in different locations. first of. all i was doing it. in. in. all i did. it was a body of course. one of the great this fathers. of

the scenes that he has with his daughters or with his son. for me or press where the. body has to be a 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 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 the tenor is a baritone is that right is it like 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. you and they can. you know but i was maybe i was never. my parents. and the. don't mean this is so i sang many roles then they were there were almost ten or you know so that's the reason but i i really i. don't 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 so much time around who doesn't want to go to go at all 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 what i pretend to sing rigoletto. let's get back to. one of the one of the winners. was. now one of the famous russian are pressing there's one. she was not. really. she had some to do with yes. she came to seeing because i meet her very early in the beginning of her career i meet her with a. give of course with all the 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 eagerly. 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. but she told me no plus you know i know i don't want to go but d.s. she 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. looking to go. ok now and i'm lucky to have you. another question about the young generation that now you're in russia is in

moscow you can 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 finally very good voices very with voices. altogether i mean sort of then they don't possibly finals but never mind the 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 unload 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 armenian and minion and he has more lyric and then we have an american ten south korean ten or so those are the four terms we have for the finals so we are looking forward and yes i hear. the russian talent there is. in the finals also which is a tremendous start that she was singing 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 a you once said i quote singles can be many some of the making thing nominal careers but the real artist 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 what is

a real story where is the public. and if they are 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 is who makes the stars. how much you want to try it if the public. house and determinate that it puts you the. first is 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 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 no no i have never done anything. yes of course i think really 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 in the big venues. like. you would sing opera we. would sing a song all day you know. we were doing medleys with some of the international songs of the world with songs which there's been. something that all day. or north italian ten or so they would have they had in their repertoire you know so

i think we were making just happy to people. i think we we opened the way we opened the wall of many many new people last year he 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 the. 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 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 count 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 music well look i don't see it 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 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 should study music you know but no no seriously then indeed we know. you know they will made that the 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 they have been. listening to. some of the.

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

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