Video by Anders Rune.
Here it is! My first and only popvideo! We really didn’t have any time as I was commuting back and forth to La Cenerentola at Oper Frankfurt, making a documentary for Swedish TV and also recording a classical cd with Stockholm Sinfonietta…
Now with Mr Kirkorovs and Mrs Netrebkos new Russian cover of La Voix JUST RELEASED I thought it would be interesting to compare the 2 versions. It really reminds me of how extremely hard it is to sing opera in a traditional pop-microphone recording. They have left out the the lowest ( low #C) and the the highest ( High Natural D) notes for Mrs Netrebko. And of course – as Anna is more of a Dramatic soprano than myself ( lyrical colloratura Mezzo) – they have left out the 2 octaves of colloraturas in the key change.
Other than that it s the same. An exciting version in the extremely beautiful Russian language.
Fredrik Kempe wrote the the song for me in 2008 and I co- wrote the text and the operatics. And we were truly thrilled when Mr Kirkorov bought the original backing tracks from us back in the fall of 2009. The song – both versions of course – are produced by Kim Wennerström and Elof Loelv at Hagagatan in Sthlm. To have Mrs Netrebko and Mr Kirkorov doing a cover of La Voix is- needless to say – a huge honour.
Here it is: