采访歌唱大师卡罗·贝尔冈齐——于2005北京美声国际歌剧大师班即将开办之际

In Anticipation of the 2005 Bel Canto International Masterclass with Maestro Carlo Bergonzi:Italian Chinese Young Baritone Joseph Chi's Telephone Interview with Maestro Carlo Bergon,Italian Famous Tenor

这篇采访录是我们的青年朋友迟颂做的。迟颂是一个优秀的青年男中音歌唱家。他生于哈尔滨,现居意大利佛罗伦萨,在著名的佛罗伦萨歌剧院开始了他的歌唱事业。我是1997年在加拿大多伦多唱歌剧时认识他的。一与他交谈就被他对歌唱的热爱所感染,觉得这个年轻人一定会有所成就。在佛罗伦萨演唱时,又时常与他切磋歌唱心得。像他这样能辞去稳定工作,毅然全心投入歌唱,并十分注重全面修养的年轻人并不多见。今天,他的歌剧演唱事业已稳步地发展,在意大利已经成功地演出了许多重要的歌剧角色。在我们决定邀请贝尔冈齐大师访华后,需要一个好翻译,我马上就想到了他。在此代表BCI美国美声国际歌剧中心欢迎他到北京参加第一届“2005北京美声国际歌剧大师班”工作,相信一定是一次愉快的合作。

Carlo Bergonzi:I have been to many places in the world in my life,but it's my first visit to China.I have been looking forward to this China trip.China is a country of great ancient civilization,with long history and rich culture.I'm delighted in this visit.I have taught many Chinese students.They have very nice voice and are also good at music knowledge and technique. I was born in Vidalenzo,only 5 km away from Busseto (Verdi's birthplace),and 2 km from Villa Sant'Agata (built by Verdi himself after his success.Most of his masterpieces were composed here.He died in this villa as well.) I had been influenced by Verdi music since my childhood.In other words,the environment of my growth has brought me the Verdian cells.Unquestionably,I love Verdi's music more than anything else.I have an innate intuition about Verdi's works.To a large extent,my understanding of the characters in his works,my solutions to the voices of the roles and music language,etc.have been built up on the basis of this intuition.So it is rather not a coincidence that I am regarded as Verdian expert. When I was still a baritone,I had the chances of singing together with many well-known tenors such as Gigli,Schipa,Pertile and Tagliavini.I learned a lot of technical know-how from them,for instance,the diaphragmatic breathing.It is the very base of singing.Today,less attention is paid to this issue in teaching. The present-day singers are too anxious for quick success.In the past,it usually took at least four or five years of hard work before a singer could get on stage.Today's singers are less patient.Some of them want to sing on stage afterless than a year.Many of them have good natural condition, but are still immature technically.Whenever a good voice is found at opera auditions,for instance a tenor has nice high C,the opera would engage the singer for heavy works such as Il Trovatore.This is risky.When your techniques are still immature,works of this type will stress your throat or cause voice disorder.This will result in failure. Pavarotti is a great singer.This is out of question.But he is by no means flawless.I wonder if you would agree to my opinion.In some repertoire,such as Lucia di Lammermoor and La Boheme,he is indeed perfect.But when he comes to such heavy works as Aida,Un Ballo in Maschera,La Gioconda and Il Trovatore,he changes his natural timbre.