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At one time she did not like opera and dreamed of becoming a journalist. Today, she says that in its place have placed all of God's will and my mother, which resulted in a small Luba to listen. Star of the global scale, Kazarnovskaya sang with Pavarotti, Domingo and Jose Cura. And earned the title of ' the most erotic and hot- soprano from Russia '.
The correspondent of ' Week ' Natalia Vitvitsky met with Lubov, to learn about her views on the art of opera, contemporary culture and society.

Week: Lubov, you recently became the artistic director of international projects of the National Museum J.. Verdi. On the eve of the year of Italy in Russia, it must have been a landmark destination.

Love Kazarnovskaya: My appointment ' wrong ', without any binding to the years of Italy in Russia and Russia in Italy. I was told something like: ' We know that you are creative and responsible people, we want to link Europe and Italy carried out through you '. For me - opera singer - is a name- heart - everything connected with Italy and Verdi.

N: What is your job to the director?.

Kazarnovskaya: I supervise many projects in many participate very. May 15 I have there will be a concert ' Roads of Love'. His foundation - the love story of the great Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev. These people are bound culture of Russia and Western Europe. Next year will have a big project in the Arena di Verona.

N: Do you think the genre of opera holds a special place in contemporary culture?.

Kazarnovskaya: Opera as Verdi said, may be the most terrible and most wonderful genre. It is terrible, when all the components are bad (bad stage design, a bad band, bad actors ). And beautiful when it all with a plus sign. Amazing music multiplied by the amazing word. This world is a big fairy tale where the beautiful voices sing about beautiful feelings.

N: It is believed that all this beauty - an elitist art....

Kazarnovskaya: Yes and No. It began with a polygonal representation, ' gone ' in the shops and theaters, and with the emergence of people such as Verdi, became ' closer ' to the people. ' Donna to treason '... Even before the premiere of this tune sung on the streets.

H: Can I now bring opera to the people?.

Kazarnovskaya: We need to do it elegantly. I, for example, or a minimalist opera show. For example, like Julie Taymor, director of the film ' Frida '. It is a pity that such performances - a rarity. Today, all the mess so that you sit in the hall and you cease to understand what is happening on stage.

N: What kind of productions you have seen in Moscow in recent years?.

Kazarnovskaya: In Moscow, I do not go to not get upset! . It should not be.

N: What is the difference between the perception of opera in Russia and abroad?.

Kazarnovskaya: Abroad, the opera are taught from childhood. We are all fallen to such an extent that even the audience judges the Great Hall of the Conservatory, on the principle of ' let's go, hang out at the concert '.

N: They say you do not immediately embraced opera, as a young man wanted to be a journalist.

Kazarnovskaya: Yes, I have long disliked the opera. The first time I drove to the Grand Theatre in ' Eugene Onegin '. When I saw the ' bulk ' Tatiana and Onegin, who, because of stomachs could not dance the waltz, I jumped out of the room in tears. ' Mommy! . - In the book, so beautiful Tatyana, Onegin, Lenski, and you brought me to! ' . Although I always sang in kindergarten and at school. She sang songs of Sinatra, Fitzgerald, the Beatles, the popular Soviet songs.

N: But you end up with - an opera singer of international renown. What do you think the fate - a confluence of circumstances beyond our conscious choice, or a man?.

Kazarnovskaya: Very interesting question. On one side is written in heaven, that we should be. On the other hand one must work hard. And listen to God's will. At school I was always very well given the humanities. When I won at the Olympics on a regular basis with their essays, the teacher of literature, said: ' It will be a first-class journalist '. After high school, my mother and I went to apply to the MSU Faculty of Journalism, and suddenly saw the ad ' is set in the Gnessin Institute '. Mom: ' Well, risknesh? . But my mother I was literally shoved in there, and I found myself at an audition, after which I was told: ' Tomorrow the third round, at once '. That's - my mother ' prointuichila ' my fate, I probably would have passed by.