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Castaway
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Italian operatic soprano.
On the island
Eight records
I had the best moment in my life when I heard Orovitz give a concert. And the first piece he played was arabesque of Schumann. And uh I feel my body like uh he it went out of from earth and it was in the heaven.
is Auberliano Pertile. which is uh fantastic because it gave every word meaning and with wonderful style and voice.
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
I'm very romantic and as I said before, I love Horowitz and I would like to hear from Horowitz Noturna, Chopin, Noturna.
Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde)
Kirsten Flagstad with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler
this is a special record because when I heard this I was with some friend of mine which was a wonderful evening and my husband was with me
Sometime I like to hear music also pop music on light music, and especially I like the Beatles. I think they they're very interesting and they wrote um wonderful pop music.
Sola, perduta, abbandonata (from Manon Lescaut)Favourite
if I would be in island, desert, alone, so I would sing sola perduta abandonata means alone, lost, abandoned. And so I die because I'm thirsty, I'm cold, help, help but nobody comes. So this is the right area to sing in a desert island.
Träumerei (from Kinderszenen, Op. 15)
of course I'm in the desert desert island and I like to dream. So I choose the tramurai.
Poveri fiori (from Adriana Lecouvreur)
This also is an area which I think is one of my records which I prefer. other than uh Norma, is Adriana Le Couvreur.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:57Did you suffer very much from the war in Savona?
During the the war we went uh uh to a little place in the mountain near to Savona. And but I was very little and I remember just uh as a bad dream, but I I don't my my you know, my father is a policeman... a retired policeman, of course, now, but uh during the war he he had to stay in the city, so we were with my mother in the... mountain, yes.
Presenter asks
4:39How old were you when you first went to the opera?
I was about eleven, twelve years old, the war is fin was finished and I went to Savona and uh as I said, my family all they like to go to the opera and my first opera I saw was Rigoletto... Remember Tito Garby... And I was crazy about him. I remember I came I went home and I wanted to put the hump on my back and play the part of Regolato in front of the mirror and I was shocked by the the Regolato and that opera, so I couldn't never forget.
Presenter asks
8:13Where was your debut?
My debut was uh in Savona... And I have friends and enemies, of course... The theatre was full to see what was. The star is born, born good, born not good, so that the people the audience was shared. Half they said, No, she can't be good... And they all decide, yes, maybe she will be good. And so I finally decided I was good.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Rolls Royce Silver Shadow (open)
my dream is a Rolls Royce. ... just to sit in a warm place, in a luxury place.
Presenter asks
9:08When did you mount the ladder to the big theatre to La Scala?
I had the opportunity the same year of my debut because they had an opening night with uh Lavalie... And I went to Lascal and I'm make an uh audition also because I was only nineteen and uh very young to go in La Scala was a moment of I mean uh very important and meant that I'm, you know, eight nineteen years old... I wa had my debut in La Scala, but then I stayed far from La Scala for at least four years.
Presenter asks
12:33Tell me about the story of that night [in Edinburgh].
Ah that is unforgettable, because uh for me was the magic moment... because I had my big chance, you know, because La Scala went to Edinburgh in nineteen s fifty seven in Tour... But I left Milano as a cover... As an understudy... Yes, understudy... And uh so I I I went to Edinburgh, but I was should not sing, you know, just to go and... Be there if you're wanted... Maybe, but I was sure that never that chance came to me. But came. So I had to replace the last moment Maria Carlas in La Sonnbula... And... I remember was really a magic moment. Something happened when I went on stage... with fire, you know, because people wanted Maria Carlas and a young girl went on stage instead... But I was so strong and so... uh secure and so fighting the audience and I said I'm here I want to be... better, because if you don't think this, you can't have the courage to go out and fight against a big name like Maria Kahla was at that moment. So I I pray. I I don't know what I did, but I went on stage and the first thing I had was an applause from the audience... before to open my mouth. So that make me relax completely and start. And I really had my magic moment that. Because from that on my career started
Presenter asks
20:52How much time do you practise ordinarily?
Oh, a lot, because uh I think voice for a singer is like uh legs for a dancer, or hands for a pianist. Uh I have to practise a lot, and at least I think every day two hours... At least two hours.
“My house had a terrace. And I used to be a prima donna even at four years old because I went out in the terrace and sing and you know the the little house we have in Italy which the terrace almost you can touch the the neighbor because it's so close to the the the people, to the the neighbor. So and the neighbor called me Renata, sing, sing. And I sang and they gave me candy. So you see, I always have been a prima donna.”
“Not small part in the big theater, but big part in the small theater. So I had my experience and I came back in La Scala as a prima donna.”
“The first ten years I had to sing what they want, what the theatre want. But the second ten years I sang what I wanted to sing. So this is the most important part of me to sing what I want, and I choose every year one opera.”
“I'm very religious. and I I really believe in God. and I pray a lot and I I think we have always somebody close to us to help us in the... Very important moment of our life.”