Teresa BERGANZA - interview in spanish, part2

[leoperarm]

Well, add this traduction to the video description. I'll go on with the first video ;)))

[leoperarm]

If you please, I'll traduce you this! :))

[BravaBerganza01]

:-*

[leoperarm]

JL: Well, now that youre on it, and now that we talk about myths and your big loves like your father-, I would like to ask you about your other 3 big loves (although your life is full of Philharmonic loves), I would like to ask you bout Mozart, Rossini and Bizet. I would like you to recall something about each one, also, they are part of todays program.

[leoperarm]

Teresa: OK, Mozart was my first passion, because the first aria I learned was Voi che Sapete from The Marriage of Figaro, of Cherubino.

JL: Yes, you have made it unsurpassable! Your Cherubino is Cherubino out of Cherubinos!

Teresa: But, whats my love for Mozart? Its that his music adapted so well to my voice and my way of singing, also to my voice color and to my style; that I had to love his with passion!

[leoperarm]

Teresa: What happened with Rossini? Well, exactly the same. Rossini asks for some agilities, a voice color what can I say?... A Round voice color, capable of making those aglilties; I had the color, but before, I didnt had the agilities, thay are part of the singing technique.

JL: You have made a big favor to Rossini, by the way!

T: Yes, because Ive heard many of those old recordings where Rossinis agilities are not heard, we hear some ups and downs, but nothing else

[leoperarm]

Teresa: I think Rossini would have been very pleased to know me I would have been very pleased to know him too- because he would (as was the tradition of the time) have written operas for my voice. Not so that I find written operas and I have to sing them because, naturally, I have not sang things that I feel they dont fit my voice!

[leoperarm]

And Bizet, it was Carmen, the passion of interpreting that Gypsy, and wanting to interpret it a different way from what I had heard and looked at. So the only things I had to do were to grab Bizets score and to read a lot of Mérimée, analyze the text and understand it; because opera is music with words, otherwise, it would only be vocalizations. So I entered in the character and, I loved the only thing that can happen with a character like Carmen.

[leoperarm]

JL: You have made a new and different Carmen, full of refination and mischievousness, surely no one before 1977 imagined it!

Teresa: Surely, because there are very mundane Carmens and I think that the Spanish Gypsy is a very reservative woman, and I think I have done nothing special to Carmen; Im only faithful to the score!

JL: Like with everything that you do! And lets talk about the Zarzuela, which you have took to very rare musical levels.

[leoperarm]

Teresa: Yes, on all those discs I recorded with Argenta, I had not even started studying singing I sang because I had a voice- , and Argenta chose me to do my first characters. They made me work really hard The mezzo is sick, now you have to complete her part; there is one Zarzuela started with a mezzo and ended by me.I think we have to give the Zarzuela a special value.

[leoperarm]

Ive carried it all around the world, I even sang it with a Chiniese Orchestra, and it was very very difficult for me to explain them what a chotis was, because they were too fast or too slow. I told the conductor *laughs* to grab me, and I asked How could you mark this rhythm on this square *sings Zarzuela rhythm* and the Chinese danced it! *laughs* and after realizing it, the rhythm went out perfectly!

[leoperarm]

Also recently I sang (incredible) with a Russian Orchestra and a Swedish director. I had to explain all the specialties the Zarzuela has, one of our Ay, which only we Spanish can make it, but they did it really well!

I carry the Zarzuela As I carry Spanish music Spanish have the obligation of carrying it around the world, because others cant do it.

[leoperarm]

JL: Teresa Berganza, many many thanks for being with us and sharing your extremely relevant opinions, from the most important member of the Fine Arts House.

Teresa: Thank You!