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to perform at competitions abroad.
When you sing a concert, no one will
condemn you, you just give your talent
and emotion to the audience and you
get their emotions in return. And when
I perform in competitions - you have to
compete with other participants - that's
when I feel a special excitement. But
this has a positive impact. I also feel ex-
citement before an important audition
in theatres.

Do you have a favourite opera piece
that you like to perform? Your fa-
vourite opera part.
Yes, of course there is. I've always
been a mezzo-soprano and for 20
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this desire. This role has never really Ravel Sonata, Franck Sonata,
Brahms Scherzo,
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Charlotte in Werther and Amneris in
AIda. But this is a secondary dream.
What I most wanted since my child- Mascagni, Leoncavallo. Verismo, as a Were you ever invited to participate
hood - soprano parts written for a genre of vocal art, is the closest to me. in a production, but you did not
dramatic soprano. For mezzo-soprano Since my childhood I spoke Russian like it and refused?
there are no such dramatic parts. Maybe and was steeped in Russian culture. Yes, it was an audition for a role where
only Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. Of course, I love to sing Tchaikovsky, Salome had to be naked on the stage.
And it so happened that I started sing- Rachmaninoff and all Russian opera I refused immediately but it was very
ing in two registers; I sing as a mezzo as music. And not only opera, but ro- good theatre.
well as soprano. When people ask me, mances as well. Russian music is very
which voice I have, I do not know what close to me. And I also like to sing dra- I know that you have performed
to say. This is quite unusual. Maria Cal- matic parts in French operas. on many big stages. Do you have a
las was a soprano, but she sang two or dream, on which big stage you want
three mezzo-soprano parts, but this Do you like modern productions? to sing?
was an exception. I won several awards Or do you prefer the classic? Of course, I dream to sing at Covent
because for a jury this was a novelty I am a traditional person. Although Garden. I dreamed of singing in the
that I sang the dramatic parts as well as I really like directors such as Olivier Arena di Verona, and I will perform
coloratura mezzo-soprano parts. Py, who produces very extravagant, there next year, not opera staging but
modern productions, for me and for a concert.
Which repertoire do you prefer? In my vocal school, I prefer traditional,
Russian, French or Italian? old Italian. I love traditional pro-
First, it is Italian, Verismo: Puccini, ductions.

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