Hvorostovsky - interview in Russian (part 3 of 3)

[Egorvivdich]

Дай Бог ему пропеть еще очень много лет!!!!

[1019q]

As an International artist and a performer, he has to dealt with his own high standard.

It must be getting harder and deeper, never ending dreadful ordeal.

I do appreciate his hard work indeed.

[valet176]

Who is the interviewer? Sati Spivakova, wife of the famous Spivakov?

[mariyaya85]

Yes.she is wife of Spivakov/

[Diotima555]

Thank you, grazie tante !!!! Gracias ! Very interesting !

[natashkk]

Interviewer: I heard that you cancelled 5 of the 10 Evgeny Onegin's performances in Chicago.

Dmitry: Yes.

Interviewer: Why?

Dmitry: Because I couldn't cancel 10! Hahaha!

Interviewer: And why did you want to cancel them?

Dmitry: Because this wasn't necessary anymore...

[natashkk]

Interviewer: What? Evgeny Onegin is not necessary?

Dmitry: No, because this was the same staging as the one I did at the MET with Renée Fleming. A staging which was considered to be the best to imagine. A staging which was broadcasted by TV channels, by Movie Broadcasting, which was recorded in audio in video... Enough!!

Interviewer: But maybe the people living in Chicago and who bought the ticket, they didn't see it... (There is a cut in the interview...)

[natashkk]

Dmitry: This was in a second place, that it wasn't done with stars, so that's why it isn't so interesting for me. But I had given my personal word, so... because, you see, in the US contracts are signed 5 years earlier, but in 5 years anything can happen to a person... and nobody can never give his word about the fact that, after 5 years, he wants to go back to the same theatre and precisely with that repertoire.

[natashkk]

Interviewer: You've always said that the voice has to grow up, to mature. In what moment it does stop growing up and it has to be kept as it is? For example, at the present moment, do you already take into consideration that you will be able to sing Boris Godunov, not now, because it's too early, but later.

Dmitry: For the moment, I still keep this hope. A year ago, I started to learn the role and started to rehearse, only with a pedagogue, but I quitted.

[mariyaya85]

ого,вот бы кто так с английского на русский переводил)))))))))) спасибо вам огромное!

[natashkk]

Maybe if I wait 10 or 20 years, I will be able to sing it. I really want to sing it, but I just can't....

Interviewer: Due to the creation of the character...

Dmitry: Due to this the creation and how I could do it...

Interviewer: I heard a wonderful news, at least for me, about the fact that you are now recording some romances. I didn't know it.

Dmitry: It was already high time! Hahaha! It has been a long time since I didn't record something like this and I think it is important

[natashkk]

The opportunity just came up to record in Russia some Tchaikovsky's Russian romances based on the poems of Alexandr Pushkin.

Interviewer: You consider yourself a happy person, you often say it and you don't hide it. But do you have a feeling of non-satisfaction, incompleteness, uncomfort, or do you think you are managing to find a state of satisfaction, comfort and happiness and try to find some kind of source which allows you to keep going?

[natashkk]

Dmitry: But how can I speak about happiness or comfort when I have such a profession! At this very moment, I find myself in a profound depression, artistic depression, I am not satisfied with the way I live, with the way I am working, I ask myself why I am an artist and whether I am a real artist and why should I do all of this...

[natashkk]

so this is something very relative. On one hand, I have my family and my personal life, but, on the other, there is this extremely horrible artistic path which is covered with mud, dirt, fog, darkness, light... everything, everything imaginable. And that is what is happening to me now: this really grandiose non-ending, and also quite upsetting, artistic path, through which you are judging me.

[natashkk]

Interviewer: His first international triumph was his victory at the Cardiff competition in 1989. Dmitry Hvorostovsky received then the prize for the best voice in the world. And, ever better, as a review had stated after his debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London: 'He came, he sang, he conquered!'. From those days, nearly 20 years have passed, and now each of Dmitry Hvorostovsly's performances confirms the fairness of these words!

[frufruJ]

¡Muchas gracias!