Q: Was making “Ti Adoro” and singing pop songs easier or more difficult than recording an album of arias?Ī: Well, it’s not easier, absolutely. And the few times I tried to sing to Alice, Nicoletta said to me: “Hey, you are (singing) wrong!” In fact, Nicoletta is always singing to Alice. If Alice is like me, she has this (same musical) aptitude (as me). There are two people in this combination: me and Nicoletta (Mantovani, 33, his fiancee and Alice’s mother). Q: Has she shown any musical interest or ability yet?Ī: I don’t know. All day long, she is all my interest and I am devoted to this girl and am very proud to be. If somebody wakes me up at 6:30 before, it would not be safe! But now, I am waiting for her - and so on all day long. Well, let’s begin in the morning: At 6:30 (a.m.) she comes in my bed. Q: But has this changed your everyday life?Ī: I would like to say, definitely, yes. In fact, I have a granddaughter who is one year older than my daughter. Has becoming a new father changed your life and your music?ĪNSWER: Can you imagine when the father is my age? It’s double (the impact). QUESTION: You dedicate the title song of your new album, “Ti Adoro,” to your 10-month-old daughter, Alice. But when it came to talking about his retirement - which he originally planned for 2001 but has now postponed until he turns 70 in 2005 - the corpulent singer deftly tap-danced around the issue. On the eve of his concert tomorrow in Mexicali, Pavarotti, who turned 68 Sunday, discussed his career, his new album and his new daughter, Alice (pronounced Ah-LEE-chay). There was even a movie (in Italy based on the) song ‘Mama.’ They were pop songs of their time and these (on my album) are pop songs of this time.” “I am an opera singer who enjoys a lot singing pop,” the most famous of the Three Tenors said from Manhattan. The Italian opera legend insists he has no such aspirations, even though his new album, “Ti Adoro,” is the first pop album of his career and boasts a guitar solo by rock guitar god Jeff Beck and a video whose director counts Madonna and Garbage among his previous clients. The Met's 2006-07 season ended last Saturday night (May 12) with a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice starring David Daniels and directed and choreographed by Mark Morris.The San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. Gelb said that the company plans to expand the high-definition simulcast program next year from six Saturdays to eight and from 400 screens to up to 800 negotiations are underway to extend the broadcasts to several more European countries. Several of the operas received an encore presentation on a subsequent weeknight in some theaters, and, according to The New Yorker's Alex Ross, the Saturday showings have consistently been among the top moneymakers, on a per-screen/per-showing basis, in the U.S. "It was essential," he said, "that in order to fuel the longer-term recovery of the Met, that the kinds of significant changes that we put into place had to begin with this season rather than sitting back and allowing the box office to continue to flounder."Īmong the new initiatives undertaken by the Met under Gelb, who began his tenure as general manager this season, are free simulcasts of the season's opening night on Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza and in Times Square, the launch of an all-Met station on Sirius Satellite Radio, free streaming audio of one performance a week on the Met website, $20 orchestra-level tickets for weeknight performances, and, most successfully, simulcasts, in high-definition video and audio, of six selected Saturday matinees into movie theaters in North America, four European companies and Japan.Ī total of 323,751 tickets were sold for the high-definition broadcasts in about 400 cinemas. Gelb acknowledged, according to the AP, that expenditures had increased this season over last, though he pointed out it was too early to give a bottom-line financial result. Among the sellouts were five high-profile productions (four of them new to the house) by well-known directors: Madama Butterfly, staged by filmmaker Anthony Minghella ( The English Patient) The Barber of Seville, directed by Bartlett Sher ( The Light in the Piazza) Tan Dun's new opera The First Emperor, directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou ( Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Raise the Red Lantern) and starring Plšcido Domingo the special English-language holiday version of The Magic Flute in Julie Taymor's popular staging and Orfeo ed Euridice directed by choreographer Mark Morris and starring David Daniels. (Sales figures had slipped every year since the 90.8% reached in 2000-01, according to the AP.) 88 performances were sold out this past season, up from 22 the previous season.
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