Hvorostovsky - interview in Russian (part 1 of 3)

[superstargriffin]

thumbs up if your only watching this cos they are russian

[nesundorma61]

She is asking him, Difficult to you survive with commpetitions for rolls, he said, noo, of course no, he is the best, no one could be on his level, he is the Sibirsk train, is the son of God singing, for fortune to anyone who could enjoy his voice, he is incredible honest,.. Weow Dima мне бы хотелось с тбои поговорить ходь бы пять минуть и что моя дожька была с мнои чтобы она никогда не забыла твою огромной пэрсональность... так как она сейчас учиться в консерваторий... Браво Дима спасибо за все

[nesundorma61]

She is asking him, Difficult to you survive with commpetitions for rolls, he said, noo, of course no, he is the best, no one could be on his level, he is the Sibirsk train, is the son of God singing, for fortune to anyone who could enjoy his voice, he is incredible honest,.. Weow Dima мне бы хотелось с тбои коговорить ходь бы пять минуть и что моя дожька была с мнои чтобы она никогда не забыла твою огромной пэрсональность так как она сейчас учиться в консерваторийюююю Браво Дима

[tolsky38]

I don't know about you other russian-speaking folks, but I find the interviewer absolutely insufferable... Between inane questions containing an answer and utter lack of acting ability,she is pretty tough to watch. But Hvorostovsky comes across wonderfully - as a sensible, humble and companionable person, he gently puts the interviewer in her place and expresses his love of his art.

[Akvariumistika]

There's a translation below!

[threecardmontegirl]

I don't know what he said,but I like the way he said it! :)

[Villazonlover1]

@threecardmontegirl Me and you both sister!

[motherussia]

does anyone know the title of the piece that he sings in the excerpt at the end?? at around 9:20 ???? much appreciated, thanks

[valet176]

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

[frufruJ]

Yep :-)

The show's name is Kamerton s Sati Spivakovoj

[DimaChernoff]

ДА!

[natashkk]

Well, not being a Russian nor an English speaking person, I tried my best.

Hope you can enjoy!

I will try to tranlsate the rest tomorrow.

Btw, thx for the interview. I really enjoyed it!

[frufruJ]

Thank you very much!

[natashkk]

Our today's guest is an artist whose surname is available in a great number of internet webpages with hundreds of links in a lot of different languages. His popularity in the world of classical music is comparable to that of a pop star. One of the most famous Russian singers, he is since a lot of time a demanded guest in all opera theatres and music halls of the world. Western journalists call him, as a joke, 'The Siberian Express". As a guest in our today's programme, Dmitry Hvorostovsky.

[natashkk]

Interviewer: When you came into the world of popularity, a lot of people had this feeling that you are a very arrogant, conceited person... was all of this just a masquerade?

[natashkk]

Dmitry: Of course, only a masquerade. A masquerade which hid a specific complex of ignorance, fear, elementary shyness. And it was behind this masquerade where I tried to hide myself. By the way, recently they told me something about this: when I was at the Cardiff competition, I was very strangely dressed up for an opera singer: with torn jeans, a leather jacket and some black glasses, through which I was looking at everybody, and nobody could see my eyes, they could only see my mouth.

[natashkk]

Then the members of the jury, when they saw me, they said: That person is going to win! They didn't even listen to me, not once,

Interviewer: I remember that in Cardiff they said that sometimes there are magicians who come out and they just spell everybody, and that for the last 20 years this magician has been Pavarotti, but that now this magician is Hvorostovsky. This is what journalists wrote after your victory at the Cardiff competition.

[natashkk]

. This is what journalists wrote after your victory at the Cardiff competition.

Dmitry: Really?? I haven't read that!

Interviewer: Than I say that to you!

Dmitry: Hurray, haha!! Well, Pavarotti and Hvorostovsky... you know, when I started to sing in the Conservatory I didn't have any other criteria than Pavarotti, Caruso, Shaliapin... and only these!

[natashkk]

I think that without this courage I wouldn't have been able to win so easily at the competition. And this stayed like this until my first works in the opera. And when I got my first big review...

Interviewer: Where?

Dmitry: In Covent Garden for 'I Puritani', I think it was in 1992, a huge review in which it was stated that this promising star has deceived everybody...

[natashkk]

And then I was reading this and translating the review with a dictionary and then I got this first hit, first big real hit. In my life I have reflected about a lot of things and I have change my opinion, but since those days, this courage has disappeared forever...

Interviewer: But, from the other hand, how could you, a boy from Krasnoyarsk, not to dream to become Pavarotti...

[natashkk]

Dmitry: I don't know... Former students from the Conservatory, from the first class, and my pedagogue, Aiofin, did an seminar, because a festival took place and then members of a jury, of a commission, of employers came, people like Shpiller, a lot of people who were then stars of the singing art. And they were teaching in this seminar and they did themselves this question: What can we do with this boy in the first class? Well I think it was already high time to start learning!

[natashkk]

And when I started the first class, it was very difficult for me. And when I had to go out into a performance in the theatre in which I already started performing from the second and third classes, once my feelings were very bad and then I asked Zenyvays?: Why, why should I do this??

[natashkk]

And then he answered: You know, if not your colleagues will do all their best to throw you out of their way. So it's better for you to be prepared even for something like that! Fortunately or unfortunately, this never happened to me and will never happen! My colleagues are my friends and they will never do something like that!

[natashkk]

Interviewer: But we are both very well conscious of the big competence for concerts, for roles... so it is very difficult to survive in this world!

Dmitry: For me, for me it's very difficult!?

Interviewer: Maybe baritones are more friendly and supportive people... Well, ask any soprano... We all sopranos are so friendly with each other and we are all colleagues, we all love each other, this is just a fantasy! And maybe with the baritones is the same??

[natashkk]

Dmitry: I don't think this has nothing to do with baritones. I consider that every artist has a place and you have to work in this place, but then you have to go outside this place and occupy others in order to find the things which interesting for them: new ways, directions, genres...

[natashkk]

And you have to crush other people or whatever is there, you know?? And then train your brain, learn the repertoire, come up with something for your mind, where to go, what to do... this is the most important! And all other things really don't have any importance at all.

Interviewer: And how does it work with the conductors, because I've seen, especially in Western performances, because it is the West where opera is really...

[Diotima555]

Thank you so much frufruJ ! And I hope more people with a russian tongue will help to get the rest translated ? !

[Diotima555]

Could anyone please translate, at least the main sense of it ???