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Maestro Placido Domingo
Doktor Honoris Causa Akademii Muzycznej im. Fryderyka Chopina
Fragmenty przemówienia Doktora Honoris Causa Maestro Placido Domingo
"...I know that it was the initiative of your Minster of Culture Mr. Waldemar Dąbrowski, the idea of this tremendous honour that I'm receiving. Iwant to thank you, and of course the rector of the Academy prof. Zimak for conferring me to this tremendous honour. I would like to thank those ones that had been to make the decision and having to vote to decide into conferring the title, it's prof. Bristiger, prof. Karczykowski, prof. Marchwiński and the dean of Voice Department prof. Trawińska-Moroz. (...) I would like to thank of course different ambassadors form Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Russia, France, etc., that had been present and very unknown that you were here. And of course the rectors of the different universities and academies across Poland and also the senate of the Chopin Academy of Music, represented here by the vice-rectors and deans of all the seven departments. I feel very proud that as Spanish artist and a Spanish courtesan to be new doctor honoris causa in this prestigious academy and even more since I have ever performed in Warszawa which of course is going to be my debut in October, singing Wagner's Valikirie..."
"...And I also want to be able to do a concert. I don't know if it could be sooner, well maybe parallel or after the Valikire, but I can bring the, of course, the music of Spain, the zarzuela which you have heard before and has been really as my parents have given me two lives. They gave me the double live as an every human being, and they gave me the live of music, because I can hear music since I was a baby and I was very little, so the zarzuela has lived in my heart and I hoped that I would be able to bring this music to Poland..."
"...I am very proud of the list of the doctors honoris causa in this Academy, with some of them I was privileged to make music like it's the case of mister Rostropowicz and the late Jean-Pierre Rampal, and I have of course followed with enthusiasm and admiration and carriers of some of the other doctors just to mention some of them:
like composers: Rudziński, Lutosławski, Penderecki, Boulanger and great pianist like of course Artur Rubinstein..."
"...It is a complete no way one can explain a feeling of being in this Academy when you have had the outstanding alumnae like Paderewski which of course, then a the genius pianist who died in 41 and that was the year that I have born. And Landowska, Lutosławski, Kondracki, etc. The emotion of being in this academy, that has the name of Chopin, which all admire all around the world (...) that he never wrote an opera. To have the music of Chopin, in the opera repertoire it would be something quite extraordinary..."
"...I think also in spite very much the youth and this youth growing very strongly all around Europe and in Poland I hope that places like the academy will make them understand the importance of music, and importance of developing serious knowledge and different carriers being university students..."
"...Of course I start loving opera, listening to the records of great artist of the past, and among them two great tenors like Kiepura and, from Poland, and Jan Reszke and his brother, Edward Reszke, (...) across my carrier I have either spent time singing with some of the polish artist, or knowing about them, I admired them singers like Żylis-Gara, Ochman, Kubiak, Ewa Podleś, Toczyska. There are many names that of course are very close to my generation, and I have abandoned one strong figure on the world of music, of course even if he's spent his time very much in the United States has been Leopold Stokowski, which I think has been also a great personality which has shined outside Poland and has made the name of Poland bright very much..."
"...The most important moment of my life is now, also of course in the theatres of Los Angeles and Washington, which I have the responsibility to direct few years back, I watched a tape of production of Madama Butterfly and I was fascinated by, and I just heared that it was just the tape of the Opera Narodowa which is of course your national opera company, here in Warszawa and I watched this tape and I immediately admired the work of the director Mariusz Treliński with his team, with Borys (Kudlicka) and Emil (Wesołowski). And they came to Washington, to present Madame Butterfly. It was a tremendous success, which immediately made me continue this relation and we talk in those days with Waldemar and in those days we establish that we're going to make a cooproduction between Los Angeles and Warszawa of Mozart's Don Giovanni and I want to say that that production was made here to a great success with a staging of Mariusz and his team Borys and Emil, costumes of Arkadiusz, and also the conducting of the new general director of the opera maestro Jacek Kaspszyk. So that production it was premiere just few days ago in Los Angeles, and this week there had been three performances, actually the fourth performance it will be happening at the same time that it will be at the theatre tonight here, the La Rondine. And I want to say it, the team Mariusz Treliński could be now unanonymous acclaimed by the critics and public in Los Angeles and of course he is now a director, film director, known in Poland and also in the world of Hollywood, and I am very proud that we can work together..."
"...Now just to finish I want to say an anecdote which is probably one of the most important souvenirs I have in my life. I was spending one afternoon in Paris, at the house of the great Rubinstein with Daniel Barenboim, we were, probably you know that maestro Rubinstein and also maestro Barenboim, they smoke some cigars, that it takes about four hours to finish a cigar, so I was joining them, and I was also smoked by cigar, but these four hours they were the most unbelievable hours of my life. Exchanging musical experience I just have a souvenir which is a very good reminder for all musicians in every capacity, as singers, as conductors, as instrumentalists again. They were going to make a concert and I do not remember exactly which piano concerto they were going to be playing in few weeks. And Daniel Barenboim asked maestro Rubinstein and he said - "which tempo we should have"?, so maestro Rubinstein says "tempo giusto".
So! I can only say that goes for all of us, I think qualities in music, that tempo giusto, should be giusto, for the interpreters, for the conductors and for the public, the public which is the first most important people at the moment of the performance, so he was very right: tempo giusto..."
"...Thank you very much for this honour, and lets hope that we can have many, many years of relation, that I can make music with you, and for you, and that you continue with this tremendous, tremendous astride as a nation, as a cultural nation, and as a happy and modern nation of the 21st century. Thank you very much..."
Opracowanie: Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina