Songs about the war in the format of a solo concert, you fulfill first?
Ildar Abdrazakov: Yes, and I find it very interesting. We are accustomed to orchestral accompaniment, listening to, for example, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who was a great interpreter of this repertoire. But today, to gather an orchestra and choir unrealistic. So we were limited to a chamber orchestra. Thanks to Igor Butman and his ensemble that they agreed.
After the games Opera of kings and Mephistopheles is difficult to achieve the song of sincerity?
Ildar Abdrazakov: In fact, it is enough to read a poem, it all became clear: in front of the eyes, and there is a picture, an understanding of the thought of the poet and composer when he wrote these songs. To every song we have with jazz musicians found a special approach, they all sound very modern, but their meaning and depth will not change.
mounted As jazz arrangements with the style of these songs, many of which are full of tragedy?
Ildar Abdrazakov: I feel nervous vein. It is difficult to Express these feelings. Need to hear it. The easiest way would be to sing them with a piano or accordion, but it already was. If something is to do something new.
What performing names pop up in your mind in connection with war songs?
Ildar Abdrazakov: We know very well, and Mark Bernes, and George Oates, and Muslim Magomayev, and Joseph Kobzon and Lev Leshchenko. These songs accompanied me since childhood, we grew up singing in school. Remember that on 9 may they always sounded all day. I ran to listen to them on the main square in Ufa: there congratulated veterans that came out in the form, hung with orders and medals, and shared memories. And I have something to say in these songs. I think that if my God-given voice, I need to convey through him their experiences to the audience. The feat of the people should not be forgotten.
this year the world dropped the test. How to cope with it? You have during this time had been born another heir, whom you have named it after his father, Amir, from what you congratulations!
Ildar Abdrazakov: Yes, thank you very much! We’ve got a really small kindergarten, because we live brother Marika with his wife and two children of the same age as ours. So fun. The nanny we have one at all. But I’m not used to. The last time the family with me everywhere I went, so I’m no stranger to waking up to the sound of children’s games, requests for Breakfast, include a cartoon, a book to read. Only changed location. If we flew from new York to Milan and then to Paris, and so on, now we sit in one place in the suburbs. The kids are happy that dad doesn’t have anywhere to run to work, dad always at home. And I am pleased to be with sevenher engaged in household Affairs, to deal with the housework.
Almost all of your colleagues say that they have for years not had a full holiday, but now there. Voice useful such a long vacation?
Ildar Abdrazakov: Yes, I agree with them. A vacation is not so much vocal, as a mental, when you do not feel any stress. In my career there was a period when I did not go to summer festivals, and rested for two or three months, spent time with family on the sea. The voice, too, was resting. When I started after the holidays to sing again, felt a surge of strength and energy, the voice sounded completely different, was thoroughly rested. I felt that can move mountains. So voice is sometimes very helpful to relax.
how do you keep in shape?
Ildar Abdrazakov: the First thing I did at the beginning of the quarantine – bought exercise equipment, a treadmill, assorted dumbbells. Do three to four times a week. 14-15 years I, like all my peers, went to Ufa with friends in the gym for bodybuilding: I had to be in top form to protect himself.
What do you think about when you are returned to the theatres?
Ildar Abdrazakov: know that when I open the theatres, people will run to you, particularly music lovers, all want to again see live performances, listen to live audio. People want real emotions that are impossible to get through the glass of the monitor.
what about the distance of two meters?
Ildar Abdrazakov: of Course, not from the theatre stuffed full. Likely to start gradually – first 30%, then 50% of the audience, watching the dynamics of the process. So far, only the Salzburg festival is not officially canceled, the hope weak, but there. My first performance – premiere of the Opera “Boris Godunov” is scheduled there on August 20. Maybe at least the final part of the festival will hold at least a few days. Still, this festival jubilee – celebrating 100th anniversary.
the Premiere of “don Carlos” at the Salzburg and Dresden is postponed or canceled?
Ildar Abdrazakov: Until canceled. But the performance was actually done. Maybe he still held, because the costumes and scenery ready. It remains only to toreplicate a couple of weeks.
unlike concerts online, play online to make extremely difficult. Concert “At Home”, organized by the Metropolitan Opera, was a very good experience.
Ildar Abdrazakov: the idea of the concert is beautiful, but it was all too tied to technology. After all, if Opera concert lost the sound, then everything will fail. We sang from the home where acoustics are inadequate. I have prepared karaoke singing “Spring waters” by Rachmaninoff – that is, to the accompaniment of computer. What I heard later in the recording, in my opinion, succeeded. The main work in this concert was to certain emotions, to meet together. But what can I say: there can be nothing better than to sing on a normal stage.
What Aria today remember the most?
Ildar Abdrazakov: While I put them aside, totally absorbed in military songs. And then they will be accepted for the new program, which I’ll cook with Mzia Bakhturidze on Skype. It will include new-to-me works that I never have sung songs and romances by Mussorgsky, works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
What do you wish people in this difficult time?
Ildar Abdrazakov: Many people today are stressed out because it’s so unusual to be outside. Well, if there is a cottage where you can safely go outside, but those within the stone walls of the city, is much more complicated. But you need to find something to occupy your thoughts, books to read, TV shows to see to educate children. It will end, so will enjoy the sun, open Windows, balconies and celebrate the may 9 Victory Day.
a live webcast of the concert will be held on 10 may at 19.00 in Okko on the platform of the project “Art Online” at artonline.okko.tv and on the pages of the online cinema, Okko, in social networks Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki.
