Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Operatic tenor.
On the island
Eight records
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550Favourite
New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
Well, let's choose my preferred composer, for example. Is Mozart. Yes. La Symphonia Nomero Quaranta.
Magische Töne (from Die Königin von Saba)
Well, if the first one was my preferred composer, and just because I am a tenor, let's choose the second one my preferred tenor, kiss Caruso. And I would very l very much to hear Laregina di Saba.
Che farò senza Euridice (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
My third record, like I told you, is uh thinking about my house, full of tenor record, and is a special record of Tito Skipper, is uh uh Quefarosa and Sevridice from Orfeo Edevridice at the Globe.
Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête! (from La Fille du régiment)
My four record is uh the daughter regiment who remind me of the past, uh remind me of my career and when I I become uh international famous.
Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland
The record number five is uh what in on the Heisland will talk to me about the the future. And the future, immediate future is uh Maria Stuarda, who was recorded last year and is coming out very soon.
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti
Is Beethoven Symphony No. six remind me when I was teacher ... to become teacher I did present uh twenty uh pieces of music to Solfeggio. And uh this is one of these twenty.
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta
The record number seven is uh a piece of the picture of an exhibition, and you will say the right, right translation in English.
I'll hear this record for the first time. when I was in Australia. My wife was with me and uh She left. Be she went home for the to the child. And uh I drove her at the airport and when I came back I did have the very, very stupid idea to put this record on. And after five minutes I was uh crying, thinking about all the crash plane and all the thing, but still d give to me an incredible, incredible uh feeling and from that moment uh is one of my preferred piece of music.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:40Are you an optimistic man?
Uh no doubt about that. Uh i to be a a singer at our at our age or to be involved in any artistic thing, you must be a very great big optimist.
Presenter asks
5:20Did you have the idea as a boy that you were going to be a professional singer?
I'm not the only one. But my barber, my my baker, my everybody want to become a tenor, especially when I was at my age. ... I was a teacher when I was twenty and I went to my father and I said, Do you want me to continue to become an a gymnastic professor or do you think it's better for all of us to try to become a tenor ... and at the age of twenty six, after six years of ver very intense study, I did sang the first time.
Presenter asks
14:40Do you enjoy making records?
Um unfortunately I was born in twelfth October. Then I am a Libre. And like Libra, I am never satisfied of anything. I would like to try to to see the perfection, where the perfection of course don't exist because we are human. ... when I hear a record of of myself, the good thing don't come to me. Just just the l if it's one little mistake disturbed me for all the for all the recording.
The keepsakes
The book
Dante Alighieri
if I have to choose one book I choose Divina Comedia di Dante, I have no one doubt.
Presenter asks
19:12Could you look after yourself on a desert island? Could you build somewhere to live?
Well, I think, yes, who doesn't try to do a private house when you are a kid? You take a mug, you take stone, you go to to find the big uh plant to cover and you try to do uh an house. Of course I would be able to do this.
“I did d dream about this, but not imagine myself because I am a man of company and uh even if my imagination is very large, I cannot imagine myself alone for more than one day.”
“I am a long long learner. ... I mean, take a little more than another person. But I can sing to morrow the daughter regiment in French. I will never forget what I what I learned.”
“I have no one doubt about it. He's so full of everything, begin beginning with the astrology and finish with history and fin uh and the poem by himself is great.”