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I mean we're gonna ask you about your

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life and career but I think first of all

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I mean watching this what does that feel

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like oh you you mean on stage stage

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alone the spotlight the emotion what

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does it feel like it is about energy

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passion emotion love everything in my in

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my life on stage I think you thinking of

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the audience do you think of the

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audience when you're on the stage are

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you thinking of the people in the

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audience or aware of them oh especially

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I think about onstage I the main things

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I think about the wing of myself to give

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the the best of myself so especially I

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think about one person only for the

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audience and I think for for one for

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Xena and this is also for everybody but

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this is my key for my way to sing to

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keep my emotion for one person Melanie

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tells you your life story

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it's called Johnny to the West and I

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mean basically your life and music began

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by chance it was your maths teacher

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singing yeah when I was 17 years old I

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was a student in high school my I sing

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one song in my in my school my

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mathematic teacher heard my voice and

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she said oh wow you have beautiful voice

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why you don't study singing because her

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neighbour is a voice teacher and she

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said I heard your voice it's better than

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what I heard of my neighborhood

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and when you come to come to me with me

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III showed him your voice oh it is a

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because before I never think about I can

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I can serious to start him to sing I I

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love singing when I was young they're

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very very young but then I see really

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think about this is my because I well I

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think every time when I seen in my my

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home I always cry with the tears I did

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you during singing and and I I went to

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my first teacher just one month I I

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studied a lot and I remember I was woke

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up every morning at 5 o'clock either

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wrong to the river

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in my city and I make the book lies in

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the morning in in the dark of the

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morning and 7:00 I have to be in in

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school with the the hair is spread and

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just one month I I learn music and then

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I went to the Chien consumption music I

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I I win the audition I entered the

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college of music to really serous to

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learn opera to learn music for me is a

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miracle of my life too I can sing I can

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have this passion I had this war this

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voice where does this music come from in

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inside you where does the music come

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from where does the voice come from you

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don't come from a musical family do you

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oh no I'm my family is not a music

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family my father I'm I come from a very

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tradition family my father is a doctor

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my mother is a teacher when I

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but I like singing I my father in the

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firm beginning my parents did not agree

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with my decision but I was very strong

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and I was very the soul I was so strong

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of my decision and the they accept my

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decision and they helped me and they

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give me a lot of love it is my voice is

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from from God from my parents it's a

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very something special for me I think

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and I think another turning point was

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when you heard La Boheme when you were

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18 I think and you didn't understand a

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word of it oh of course when I was 18

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years old when I entered the concept of

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music the first time I heard the Opera

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is in CD and I heard something very

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parchment very give me a big emotion

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it's a La Boheme of Giacomo peach

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Puccini I heard the voice I feel that

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sound give me something very special

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give me a big emotion I can I come the

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tears even I don't don't understand the

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word I don't and send the Italian I

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don't understand even the story but I

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heard the voice of mera laugh rainy I

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think III comes to tears and then I I I

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was the the the hardest I I learned a

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lot of and I heard every day like Alice

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about the the big singer I go I went to

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every day I I heard also with the with

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with a Chitty I this this is open my my

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mind of the of the world and I think the

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your first big professional breakthrough

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was the when you sang I either at the

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Shanghai Grand Theatre 1998 I think oh

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it is my first time when I was very

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young when I was 22 years old because

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I'm always the top of the the class in

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console for music

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when I was 22 years old I was the the

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concept for music leave me as a teacher

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prefer a professional teacher Wako

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teacher in xi'an console music and then

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i was have i in six years i make a lot

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of competition in China but I never win

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and then in 1998 there the Shanghai

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Grand Theater the label - Aida in

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Shanghai and they invited the forints

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Opera House the director to have audio

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we have you a lot of singer make

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audition for him and he choose me as

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Aida I was very young I don't I I would

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never think about I came to opera oh

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it's easy for me it's a big dream so she

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he took a he shell he shot me as Aida

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and I remember it is a a big big emotion

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for me I sing every day one time also

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Warren listen me when I in Shanghai it

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is a my Aida is a until now I did more

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than yesternight is 156 performance of

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my Aida I did thank you

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I did all of the world the many big

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stage of I did my I either but I either

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always one of my lovely and greatest

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emotion force in this opera and in 2000

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due to power in paseo of Domingo's

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operalia competition and angeles and at

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that point you developed a close

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relationship with them can you talk

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about your relationship with them in

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your professional you

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sang with them I think right oh yeah

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thank you

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in 2000 I I went to Los Angeles is for

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the proceeded amigo competition and I

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win the second prize and Priscilla

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Domingo competition is a open world for

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me I begin my main career things since

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this over Aria Meister Domingo is the

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one of the biggest greatest artists of

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our time he's so generous for the young

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people young singer I was when I was

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very young

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they take me as immediately after the

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competition I stay in Los Angeles as

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cover of Aida for Deborah Voigt it's one

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of the greatest soprano of a in America

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and I stayed there one month I have

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started I worked with my storming go and

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one night I remember in Los Angeles

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Opera I was I stay in in in a plethora

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of the of the seal I stay in a theater

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to see the Opera of Aida in during the

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the pawza a sister of my sister Mingo

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told me am i starving I want to I want

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to tell you something and I went to his

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room he said I would like I want to take

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you go we could we have concert together

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in Shanghai I agree I said well I'm so

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happy about this and after the in 2001 I

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did a concert with maestro Mingo in

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Shanghai I think I remember is the 5th

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of January 2001 and after I made my

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storming go in another place also we did

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smoking Agora in Beijing in 2000

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I think 13 or 15 with it smokin Agora

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and I was in Opera I was his daughter

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and he's my father and we made when we

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made and he all everytime he made he met

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me he always tell me I'm a proud of you

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of you and congratulating of your your

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big career he's really he also told me

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don't stop to learn don't think above

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you so you will have already arrived

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continue to study and she always give me

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a very good advice and this year I I did

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butterfly in Madrid Madrid in Spain and

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he did the Macbeth

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I was so exciting to to saw him on stage

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and he was almost 80 years old but he

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sing beautifully the voice is very very

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beautiful very young voice I'm I'm so

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and he's a grand great maestro for me

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for to to learn as a great artist that

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is a stories my terming eyes thanks very

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much of him yeah and can you tell me

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what it was like being a Chinese opera

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singer how how were you accepted in the

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world of Western or Pro did you have any

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prejudice to overcome was the resistance

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we accepted were people's reactions to

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you as Chinese in this in this in this

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world of opera in the West oh yes in 30

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before the 30 years ago the the Western

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theatre there have very few they don't

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don't accept

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Asian singer but in after now there have

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a lot of Asian singer I think the music

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is a one word is a very special word

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all of the world the the big ability of

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music

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the God give you very special voice

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special way special feeling of the music

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is not only for the best in people

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also for so for the Eastern people they

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have a lot of eastern singer singing in

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opera I think we maybe the way is

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different but emotion of the of the

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music emotion of the the life the

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everybody have the love the different

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feeling this is the the same same

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situation so the music is the language

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to transfer the emotion so I think when

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I beginning to sing my voice is a give

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some something special for the people so

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they accept me at as opera singer I

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think but to be an opera singer you had

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to learn Italian

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of course you said the I think the first

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time you sang and it's how you learned

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the meaning of all the words so you

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could sing and you could understand what

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you were saying but you can actually

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speak the language oh yeah when I was

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Mehta Butte in in Italy is 2002 as Tosca

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in the tragedy Parma I will I cannot

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speak Italian I but I learned every word

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from dictionary for the the every word

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of what I sing I remember I met the

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greatest one of the greatest the Tosca

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all of she's a Reineke by banská and

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she taught well she when first time I

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met her and she told me she speak very

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slowly and she told me you gentes 2dr

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italiano and she said it's urgent we'll

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learn Italian

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so I from there

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and I beginning very hard to learn

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Italian and during my job and because

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after Tosca successful in Parma I got a

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lot of contract I remember in the

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beginning of my career I learned opera

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in one month a new opera from here the

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big a lot of things to learn

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I remember when I was Italy I slipped

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only four hours a day I saw a lot of

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video every day I just wanted to learn

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and it's like a sore but the the many

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new things for me so and until now I I

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can speak Italian

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more better than my English sorry for my

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English I mean Oprah you sing but you

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also backed so how do you you have to

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act on stages an opera singer that is

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not just singing your views I think in

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expression emotion so so how much of

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being an opera singer is singing and how

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much of it is being a performer an actor

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opera is for for opera singer is a to

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since the important singing and acting

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because we are we are acting during the

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music so one part is a music as the

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opera singer you have we have to have we

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have to a lot of control of mind of

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heart on stage you in in the same moment

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you have to think about international

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the boys the the press your body

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language the risk conductor with

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colleague the light the shoes the the

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skirt costume the many many different

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personality emotion a lot of things

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together in during the music you know if

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you won one second you you forgot to

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enter you will keep trouble for food

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conductor you give a give trouble for

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your colleagues so this is a music part

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you have to we have learned many years

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to can be a professional singer another

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part is acting the acting is a very

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important especially for now because now

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the time of the opera is changed the is

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that in old fashion the the most

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important the boys but now the acting is

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really important because the people want

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to see the they would like to see the

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story the the drum the the the really

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happened the actors now in I think is

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better than before sometimes something

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is like a film you should be very touch

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of the of the people so that it's very

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important I mean you've been described

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as a Verdi soprano and I learned in

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Melanie's book that's a very rare event

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in the Opera world so can you explain to

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people who don't understand the term

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what is a why would they call you up

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Verdi soprano oh I'm very surprised

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because my voice is his feet for where

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the opera this is not dependable of me

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it's depend of my voice the god give me

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this voice is kind of voice because

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Verdi soprano is means powerful it means

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technique this means a lot of the color

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of the voice I'm very lucky I have this

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this very special voice for singing of

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it opera also Puccini operation well I

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was gonna takes us to Puccini and Madame

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Butterfly you have a very special

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relationship with that with that Oprah

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why do you like that role so much bye do

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you like that Madame Butterfly you've

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done it more than 150 times I think also

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yeah almost 160 performance of mine

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Madame Butterfly I think I can

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singing I can understand the world well

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Madame Butterfly because this row is it

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happened of two different culture and I

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said as a Chinese I understand very

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deeply how to feel this Madame Butterfly

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she she's think about love

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she's pure love and she think about one

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man for all of the life and the love

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when love is finished she has to die and

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but in the Western people is they have

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different feeling of the of in Pinkerton

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the he if he was just a joke or

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something different he don't think she

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will give you love and one woman for all

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of life so what did that what happened

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of the story of Madame Butterfly and my

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way to acting is very Asian

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very Japanese a way I think because I I

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was in Japan I saw a lot of girl very

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pure very the the the the the special

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language of body language is very shine

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where many scenes I take from from this

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but my voice is totally very Italian

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voice so the music of Puccini is a full

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of passion so my voice is a very Italian

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way so I see I think that is my special

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for for Madame Butterfly thank you

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so you performed in Hong Kong last night

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you fly to Verona tonight I think and

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then you're off to the met in New York

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so what's the life of an opera singer is

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it fun is it is it yeah opera singers

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life is very special because we are

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always in travel and tonight I fly to

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Verona I stay in Verona two days to

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change my luggage and then I will be in

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New York we always be the luggage always

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in different City

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sometime to two months sometimes ten

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days sometimes three days in different

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place sometime in Asia some time in

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Europe sometime in America travel a lot

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but I think the world is interesting

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life is dream life but with a lot of

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sacrifice so I just want to actually one

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more question then I'll open it for

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questions to the to the floor how do you

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see the we talked before this lunch and

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you say the Opera is is becoming Western

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Opera is becoming increasingly popular

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in in China why do you why do you why do

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you think that is why why do you think

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the Western Opera in mainland China is

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becoming popular I don't think it will

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be popular

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I think opera always all the time even

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in the West and even Italian the Opera

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is not so popular but it is for growing

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in popularity yeah hahaha sorry I think

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because the people now China the is grew

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up so strong of economic economic and in

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10 10 years we have so many concert

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house Opera House is grew up as building

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as acoustic is a is a very good high

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quality I think the in the field also in

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China there have lot of contract concept

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from music a lot of young singer the the

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love this art the learn very hard to

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learn this beautiful singing so I think

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there have still a lot of people love

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opera in the future I think in China

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they're happy they have a lot of very

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good future

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in China thank you so can we have some

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questions do we have the microphones

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ready okay

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please florals and please say you give

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your name and see who you you're from

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okay and don't please not in Italian

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yeah giorgia vice president of the club

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and reporter for Harlem and first of all

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thank you so much I think it's a real

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privilege for all of us and for the club

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to host you today

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since you've explained a little bit what

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it is to be a Chinese singer singing

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western tunes and music can you comment

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on your relationship with Chinese music

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and possibly I mean have you have you

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ever tried Chinese opera Oh

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unfortunately until now I never seen

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Chinese opera because my my my study

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learned from him even when I in concert

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from music my main study always is a

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area or leader or opera vest and opera I

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I Chinese opera is a very I think you

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mean Chinese traditional opera or

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Chinese modern opera I mean both but I

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was thinking of the traditional Chinese

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traditional opera is an hour another

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kind of sinning I I can never do that

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because the this is another way to sing

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it's not our voice our voice is

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confirmed by canto is a another way a

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different way of the singing thank you

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thank you over here

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I miss her so they please give your name

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and I'm ki Wang a person a amateur

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singer working for opera Hong Kong as a

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volunteer okay suppose I'm a ethnic

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Chinese or thirty years old and

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passionate in making opera singing as my

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career I want to be as successful as you

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so what advice would you give to me a

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[Music]

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lot of practice a lot of study I think I

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need to find a mentor like Domingo I

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think the music is passion if you have

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passion every time I read everyone to

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touch this world is different it's like

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our finger everybody is different the

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voice also the voice every everybody has

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a very special voice of different for

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another people so also the people

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everybody feel the music is different

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that's why every everyone sing on stage

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is different so I think the the the

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study is practice is the most important

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because that's you can understand

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yourself your body your mind your way to

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see me and your your muscle how to

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building the voice I think this is as

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Oprah single is the it some see some

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sometimes the life is very close because

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you have to always concentrate to to

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this art because I'm on the stage nobody

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can help you you are long you on stage

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you you open your mouth you you

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beginning to sing this is a way to touch

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the people

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this is a way to touch the world thank

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you how much practice do I need to do

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how much a lot press the press and too

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important to listen to a lot of the the

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big oh oh the singer as LA Carla's

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lebesgue on zeal upon Tebaldi a lot of

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beautiful record and first time first to

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think about how how their technique or

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to singing and then practice to yourself

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and try to use your way to see me

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I think thank you and the Consul General

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of Italy my question connects with the

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one of the opera Hong Kong friends of

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course you are now very well focused and

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you have to own your wonderful career

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and I wish for several years to come but

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in the perspective do you think being

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Chinese born and so that you can

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transmit also the the values and also

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let the Chinese people to understand

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that at the Western Opera do you think

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in the perspective to start sort of

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teaching anyway opening a school in your

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in your native country of course I in

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recently some years I always I beginning

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to when I have very short time I

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beginning to teach some young singers

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even in in Western in in Oslo in Italy

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also in China I mean I'm still as

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professor in science or consult for

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music before Hong Kong I was in Xi'an

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for three weeks I teach

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young singers I heard I found a lot of

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beautiful singing I would like in the

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future I give my experience of singing

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of this very special international

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career it's pairings for young singer

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this is sure to do is my responsibility

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to do that because my life is a very

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special dream life for many young young

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people they would like to be as

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professional singers I will have many

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good advice for them I think thank you

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this year I'm tention wall I'm a dentist

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when a great admirer of opera and I was

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at the Aida performance last night and I

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want to tell you when you sing la patria

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Mia and you were singing pianissimo the

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whole audience heard you clearly and all

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our hearts

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wondered how did she do that so now

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we're forming a fan club trying to

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follow you over the world

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thank you knew you always a little bit

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late for us maybe we try hey you have

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conquered all the rows of the Verdi

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heroines and the Puccini heroines and I

519
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read from the internet that you're

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starting on Wagner no I don't I just

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Rossini in in concert some area but I

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never seen Wagner opera do you ever

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think you will go into that I I will not

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refuse if this some theater give me a

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chance to sing Bachna because I love

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Tristan his old I like different

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Hollander and also the house maybe I

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would like to in the future to try but

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in the international theater do you

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think about me as Italian repertoire as

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Puccini Verdi this repertoire they gave

532
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me always this role

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Madame Butterfly ie the Tusk smoker

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negra territory on body mascara this is

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this is my repertoire because they are

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fixed me as Italian opera singer yeah

537
00:33:36,670 --> 00:33:39,130
thank you congratulations thank you very

538
00:33:39,130 --> 00:33:39,789
much

539
00:33:39,789 --> 00:33:42,460
continue to follow you thank you thank

540
00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:43,119
you very much

541
00:33:43,119 --> 00:33:45,160
so we have time for one more question

542
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:50,400
anybody over yes gentlemen

543
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,200
thank you very much for your talk and

544
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,759
your performance last night which I

545
00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:57,849
thank you my name is John an Twila I'm

546
00:33:57,849 --> 00:33:59,619
retired it's me too

547
00:33:59,619 --> 00:34:03,369
I have one question when you talked

548
00:34:03,369 --> 00:34:06,579
about your your life it sounds like a

549
00:34:06,579 --> 00:34:09,280
lot of it is on airplanes and we know

550
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,840
that the quality of the air on airplanes

551
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,949
the dryness the altitude all of these

552
00:34:17,949 --> 00:34:20,769
things affect a person's throat yeah I

553
00:34:20,769 --> 00:34:23,440
don't really rely on my voice like you

554
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,519
do how do you take care of your voice oh

555
00:34:26,519 --> 00:34:31,929
yeah it's very good question I'm very

556
00:34:31,929 --> 00:34:35,500
lucky because my mother gave me a house

557
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:38,128
it's very strong that's why I can

558
00:34:38,128 --> 00:34:41,469
continues to sing since nineteen years

559
00:34:41,469 --> 00:34:47,949
of international career I was I think in

560
00:34:47,949 --> 00:34:51,789
this nineteen years maybe I can sir for

561
00:34:51,789 --> 00:34:56,278
the health problem is less than

562
00:34:56,278 --> 00:35:00,130
less than five performance

563
00:35:00,130 --> 00:35:04,509
I once time I got sick on the plane

564
00:35:04,509 --> 00:35:07,048
because the air condition is so strong

565
00:35:07,048 --> 00:35:11,079
and it's why once year I remember it's

566
00:35:11,079 --> 00:35:13,778
arena de Baron I call me as Madame

567
00:35:13,778 --> 00:35:17,278
Butterfly because the soprano is sick

568
00:35:17,278 --> 00:35:22,179
and I flied from from Chien because my I

569
00:35:22,179 --> 00:35:25,179
was they and my with my parents and I

570
00:35:25,179 --> 00:35:30,219
fly to to Italy on the plane I I feel

571
00:35:30,219 --> 00:35:33,250
very cold I feel not comfortable when I

572
00:35:33,250 --> 00:35:36,969
arrived my friends invite me go - went

573
00:35:36,969 --> 00:35:40,539
to the Venice and in his car the

574
00:35:40,539 --> 00:35:42,338
ignition is so strong even though

575
00:35:42,338 --> 00:35:45,969
Italian people did like very cold but

576
00:35:45,969 --> 00:35:48,730
but I feel cold but I didn't see nothing

577
00:35:48,730 --> 00:35:53,230
but when I ride a rival Venice after I

578
00:35:53,230 --> 00:35:58,179
have no voice I begin I ever see the

579
00:35:58,179 --> 00:36:00,940
fine but I lost my voice this that that

580
00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:03,909
from that time I I know the air

581
00:36:03,909 --> 00:36:05,980
condition is really dangerous for the

582
00:36:05,980 --> 00:36:11,048
boys so when I in in a taxi or in in the

583
00:36:11,048 --> 00:36:14,380
room I always close at condition but I'm

584
00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:18,509
not that the kind of singer - so take

585
00:36:18,509 --> 00:36:21,789
pay attention because I'm still strong

586
00:36:21,789 --> 00:36:27,219
of health but I before one day the the

587
00:36:27,219 --> 00:36:31,630
performance I I don't don't speak I stay

588
00:36:31,630 --> 00:36:36,579
along I I need to concentrate

589
00:36:36,579 --> 00:36:39,759
I need very think about the performance

590
00:36:39,759 --> 00:36:43,179
this is a since many years like this

591
00:36:43,179 --> 00:36:48,369
also I think - to save the voice is

592
00:36:48,369 --> 00:36:52,268
important to the position of of speaking

593
00:36:52,268 --> 00:36:54,849
if you speak in the right position your

594
00:36:54,849 --> 00:36:57,759
voice is has good position also it's

595
00:36:57,759 --> 00:37:03,630
easy for the singer singing is something

596
00:37:03,630 --> 00:37:07,978
together with visa singing thank you and

597
00:37:07,978 --> 00:37:11,099
with that but safe journey bank look

598
00:37:11,099 --> 00:37:13,170
after your throat hope we see you back

599
00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:14,759
here soon thank you very much thank you

600
00:37:14,759 --> 00:37:20,099
very much thank you thank you very nice

601
00:37:20,099 --> 00:37:24,150
to to share the beautiful time with with

602
00:37:24,150 --> 00:37:27,204
everybody thank you very much thank you