when it comes to musical theater most people think first of all of london were probably new york city but recently during the last decade in fact paris has been dominating on this scene and it is all thanks to at it a rock opera called the damp. the author of this rock opera because of that. is in moscow introducing his wonderful. and today because of the quote chanted by a stroke or chant it is our guest on the spot. and unfading inspiration for composers but that's what victoria who goes back through them has been great from the time it was written the first oprah based on the book was staged five years after the novel was published with the right in the libretto one of the most commercially successful attempts at making the books characterising was undertaken

by ricardo. the musical he composed was staged in one thousand nine hundred eight in paris it revived the musical genre for the french and broke books office records during its first year the full on the cues from the musical were conquering the world the russian version was premier ten years ago and ran for two and a half years and was seen by three hundred fifty thousand people it's considered one of the most successful productions of its kind in russia. but you're going to have a very. good. thank you thank you very much for being with us today. this is the first time we meet today but when i heard your records when i heard your voice i imagined that you're a colossal not you i mean big and masculine you know what i mean like like a real like a big star but which i you know maybe must. not so so why why

do people get such an impression i know i'm not the first one to ask you is it is it the voice is it the drivers of the temperament work what happens. the voice for me it's the exact image of the soul. and the people here from me a big voice and something deep inside me and i think they think to have to have this there you need something big buddy you don't need that i think what you need something to say something to say it's very important listen you are from a musical family but i know that you first touched a piano keys when you were twenty is the truth yes how could that happen in a musical family. now is not the complete musical family my mom my aunt was a pianist and that's it so she she learned me

a lot of things when i was young and so i decided my first language has been old with the voice from very young i used to sing sing i was very shy actually . so you never yourself. i'm still not really i'm still very and i've been not mean to not all or you seem like a lot of back there you say we sure are very loud shake you didn't do that but it was a pleasure really just saying it was my expression i was very shy and i never like to speak lot and still a little bit shy but i did speak more. but in this time i was a very close person i didn't want to communicate my only communication was to sing . but i never imagined as a one was shy i never imagined to be a singer or to be a composer after i became

a singer and composer only because it was like this so it was my life so it just happened i and then little by little i tried to compose my own song a song so i went close to a piano and try a few notes and then. i'm still completely instinctive and i don't read and write music all. all the things i compose are composed by here but i have a very big contact with all the musicians around me that's because i have maybe something to it it's natural in me this is a natural you're you're very really unique so you can sing you can you write music you can play music but you can't read music so how do you write here you dictated to somebody you know write it down i mean the songs i think there should be somebody to read them down even forget them after because first of all we have we

live in a time where we can do demos so i worked a lot with a keyboard and i compose the thing there and then after we write i make all the harmony and everything and you're not only a melody and you're really only just recorded on the computer really quick like save it save it yeah i do it on computer the whole thing i mean not rhythm has been as been composed in that way demos for everything i sing every every rolls every thing and then after that we go to musician and we write everything and we go and record it most there are when i talked to two evans with paul mccartney and when it was when i said that your songs are very different he said because it's different when i sit at the piano this is one kind of busy when i take a guitar it's another kind of music but your music seems to be pretty much in the same mood so it doesn't depend on other instruments does it or does it. not

and the think the instrument. itself or the voice cause for example not to them has been composed old at the piano but is is recorded all with. the guitars and washed away all the instruments. and i think the instrument is important i think what you're saying it's important you're saying something about buffalo it's one kind of music he says something about war is something different. in not rhythm you have very hard songs and very sweet songs so it makes a difference to the mood depend of that so to be generous it's a choice i mean when i when i compose a lot of them decide. not to to do as the in the classical composer they have orchestra and they have to do all with orchestra so i decided to have some instruments guitars bus orchestra keyboards and we do

all with this it's i decided like this because i didn't want to change the moods i think the song and the way to sing it changed the way the person you're your father was a tele in origin your mother was a french origin you spent the first three years of your life in vietnam so people call you was born there here people call you multicultural do you agree is it possible for a man to be multi cultural or you identify yourself to be what you're most using in french so you know now mostly singing in italian italian and then french and then spanish and then something so you're almost a cultural how do you say you identify yourself this is interesting yes i think the world is becoming multicultural but essentially i always want to

do in the composition and the way to sing old with want to respect who i am. i'm half italian half french so i'm from europe south of europe eventually but i i love that i want to speak in that way because it's natural me i don't i don't accept the new singles where they try to be english too but try to be american when down not america doesn't that they don't see when you are what you are you must speak with your language so that there's french and italian there's a girl like that through your there's a girl like that although. it's from from very young i always been. in. between. have it have it have it to talk to mixed languages i mean i have french have always

it's very natural for me but asking because because there's also force it is very different to be counted this is what the closer to you to yourself i have both me you know i have i have both it's a makes is fantastic for example i have songs that i said oh in that song i'm very tired and in the other one of the i'm sometimes a little bit french for example in the past i had the song them the margarita margarita for me is very italian but sometimes when you know if you know systemin c.m.e. for example. six german c.m.'s for me and all the beginning is very french that it. still is very french and then we get really is italian but you know traditionally the same thing some songs. come from my italian parts some other never italian would be would be. could

be possible for him to compose in that way though i know that you don't like to call that a dumb or rock opera but but you've lived your you've lived in the united states and is it is it america where you got that love for the news ical for the musical theater ok eventually i prefer rock opera really than a musical really yes because it's not musical not to them it's absolutely not a musical. because because and musical has a specific. way to sing to be composed and also the musical you have speaking parts spoke spoken poetry. you know to them everything is sung. and. ok. when i decide to do to make the composition the to compose not to them i say to me

how do i have to express myself in that context so looking around me there is the italian opera very popular and musical rock opera and. i say musical it's a little bit too english. for me and i don't want to be like this oprah it's an old kind of expression but i don't. so there was a what is popular now because it's important to use what is popular as puccini and verdi did at this time we will all block musician as a matter of fact a lot of yeah they were used to seeing you go find he was very dark very you went out to do the opera singing blood on the mob it is very popular it's a little pop song i mean and people in the back row. like it's ok. i decided to

do like this popular that's the first thing but i decided also not to be like a like musical because for me the expression is not today it's the way to sing the sing is very characteristic want to pick. up them but it's ok it's not like this i wanted to be a little more in the context of i try music like rock pop music but with the characteristic of what was oprah big made of these and passion. and big voices so i tried to make what was the oprah and what is the pop and rock music of today mixing today both for me it's not for them the party says any kind of doctor chianti

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singer songwriter the man who brought to moscow his immortal not without the prairie rock opera. chanted you always say and you just said it to me that the that you have to write from deep from your heart when would you feel but what you're seeing now i feel that you were engineering not done to be popular no no no no it's completely not like this not just to this side of her just to maybe in the show does a show as a composer you must decide you can go like this is a composer like this you must decide what kind of music i have where are you going where i'm going you see it's about and after that freak out after that look immersed decide because you can go and take the song and put in the opera you know it's not possible then what about liberty prince and liberty pos is very different from for a lot of damage the star lost the prince but i think you previously people see a little isn't it what difference it's like it's not even an opera i mean you know

it's like a what we call in russia like a musical composition like sort of a now like hero attic sort of the voice of take music composition yes because this book is like this. i must respect some things are pretty the settings are very wroth books a book. that's very interesting because and very difficult because when you read the book the booking is. when you are a child you read the book as a fairy tale when you know that you read the book like a like really. a. ok it was a freak year. so if you do a very very. and frontin music. music it's not exhibit if you do a very complex miss is not as i said to be so i strive to be always suspended.

like i do pictures he is a pleasure if you see him and he wrote in that way the language is very simple but is very complex in the same time in everything must must be sung by a child so everything must be simple but never be tried childish in one of your interviews you said that you always write for yourself you always will that you will sing it and you really wrote quasi murder for yourself and you did sing it to the italian and it is rather for yourself true because what about. my poor love was sung that you did. when you like nine eleven did you know what why don't you look back i don't i don't think about singers i don't think about roles i . put myself into. so let's see what class it's me as meryl that is me. is me and i think it before them so i

think completely different kids move when the girls say i think for myself because i want to feel the what they say they will feel after when they sing and it's an experiment saying when we started to talk today the first thing you think you remember is not a damn actually in russia you must know might know that in russia people know you as the author of the dumb people don't know you as a singer not widely so do you agree that that not down to peru was sort of a turning point in your career like changed your life completely is that absolutely but not me it was a turning point not only for me i mean also for an entire county like france like italy because it changed the way to see. the music. the open. this is the way to to make this kind of.

this kind of shows. it was done in another way before and now everything has changes many country so for me has been very very important because i decided to stop my career as a singer because i wanted to do other things like this other oprah's like this according to the guinness book of world records not for them to perry he had the most successful first year of any musical ever was it planned to become such a breakthrough because you said i decided to write nurture them to proceed really planned it. did you did you really realize that it's going to be like a bomb or it or it was a surprise for you. fortunately i didn't know it was in fortunately because for me

. when you write kind of things you must be sincere and look normal don't and me we was in a period where we never imagined it was possible even to put on stage for them but we did it with a with completely sincerity and for me it's very very important because if you are right to do it you do everything wrong because you can't calculate you never can calculate one song will be a hit and if you do it. it's a mechanical thing but if you can't calculate you should get lucky will no i mean only look you see an artist is never completely lucky. you i know you are lucky come on ok ok tell me what when you were unlucky but i want more. one it's because i want more. fighting in me i want something more is not

enough not to them is not enough i want to do something more in not important more i know i know more steps. ok now i want to ask you i ask you. a political question and the amateur in town no invited you to show called rock political and it was a shared with where we were we were nuts of people like like giannini santana joe cocker and someone you were great at during that show people would give you i think it was live on the air like a five minute standing ovation when it was life that i mean this is this is where for your guinness book of records what i wanted to ask you why did you take part in that show because you believe it was right to burlesque only was it because you hate those county or you because you loved him in town or what it was it was a good there wasn't political completely out of political really i never wanted to

do involve myself in any kind of i have my thoughts about it but never want to make my career with the political things but i love i love to internal i mean dan was a great artist for me he brought something different than it really started to be a rock n roll man but little by little he became very original very personal and he found a real great way to express in himself this way of. being in his show and. ok he's one of the great artists in italy sober but you really don't care about politics i don't want to involve myself political for me. an artist must be. must think what if things but i don't want to make both because. my music must speak more than my thoughts ok so so so now that now when mr berlusconi is having all the problems

thank you for that with the way with these with these chords and stuff you you don't care what happens to him no i care i read observer i mean what you imagine my obs observation of everything will he go to hear what you think no i want to i want to say that the political situation in all around the world is very complex now it's very difficult something very specially in italy and now it's a mix of things we don't understand what we're really up and it's terrible so. i think old europe is in crisis in crisis and unfortunately we must find a solution everything become more and more financial and i don't know where we are going. during the this process berlusconi said one interesting thing which i wanted you to comment on it's not exactly politics he said the main problem of italy said

there was calling it a problem a grander problem at the italia that instead of democracy we have the rule of law so he no exist instead of democracy we have the rule of law in russia we try to introduce drew a lot so what do you think is more important democracy or the rule of law what would you choose if you had to make a choice. it's old with the question of the old humanity to make the balance with the loaves and and the rules and the democracy. how to find the exact balance of very thing we're searching all all humanity we are searching how to be happy. and it's difficult and we must try different ways and no we are trying different ways but since we are going to train last question is it true that you were thinking about about making sense the musical and rock opera about the russian another up decemberists yes i call that

open and open a bottle or is it true yes popular people sober because i think it's an opera but for people who are simple. yes yes this is true i already already wrote it. and i will about the vicar but it's the company still this is the great rioting then i don't know if the story even if it's a political things at the beginning but it became a very love it's a love affair and very sick gross very so i really wrote it and i hope and i want to perform it for the first time in possible in some british book and i would like to do it in russia in russian russian thank you thank you very much glasses and just to remind me like a guest on the show today was maestro and he kind of the anti the or you can call

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