Maria Maksakova: "All the dream to get a part, which will be conducted by Gergiev"

Rising opera star Maria Maksakova made ​​a breakthrough in his career: the season opens, it will participate in the new productions of the Mariinsky Theatre as a full member of the troupe. "Trud" Maria told me that behind the legends of the brutal exploitation of the singers Valery Gergiev, famous as her mother Ludmila Maksakova helped her build a role, and her daughter Lucy in the three years showed a strong Maksakovskii character. – How do you think you have convinced the head of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev, that deserve to sing in his company? – At the audition in December 2009, I sang the rondo from Rossini's Cinderella, and I was able to produce a good impression. He аскed me if have time to learn to February Dorabella in "Così all women." Of course, I said have time. Although the party is big, I just gasped when pulled piano, he's so fat. – It is considered that the Mariinsky Theatre acting very harsh sweatshop. – The system is harsh, but it is for people who are ready for it and that is what they wanted. Yes, there were moments when I was finishing the play "The Marriage of Figaro", and the speakerphone already announced that I was looking for a rehearsal on mizanstsenicheskuyu "Ariadne auf Naxos" (opera by Richard Strauss. – "Work"). But I like it. Of course, we need some preparation to sing for hours without tiring. All of the dream to get, which will be conducted by Gergiev. The real work is with him, the creative process when it's stand – absolutely unforgettable. "Sing, show all your colors, slow down, speed the way you naturally" – that is what he calls. – Have you not read an interview with some former soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre, who accuse the theater and its manager that because of this very sweatshops, they lost the voice? – I do not know, I did not face such an operation. The theater is enough to understand exactly what the voice of the political party that fits. Not such a crazy number of games in the world musical literature written for my voice – coloratura mezzo-soprano. But do not аск me to go beyond their vocal capabilities. And I think, because in the theater apply to all. But there is another – people eager to do themselves, behold, the fifth, tenth. Hang on a repertoire, and then getting around to it – you have to pull. Mariinsky Theatre can in a few years, an unknown person turned into a real star. You must be able to appreciate it. – You're beginning to learn from Natalia Spiller? – I was then only 15 years old at that age too early to talk about a serious load on the vocal apparatus. Natalia knew it and soon enlightened me in a general sense. – Maybe it's Ivan Kozlovsky you inspired to turn to Spiller? They were long-time partners in the Bolshoi Theatre. – No, I myself wanted to. With Kozlovsky they were friends, but when I came to it, it was no longer alive. We talked him because side by side and in the country, and in Moscow. He and my grandmother with a lot of singing. A very pious man, traveled from monastery to monastery, a friend of the patriarch. But in relation to the grandmother did not completely correct. When recording "Werther", which they often sang in a concert performance, and always with my grandmother made it with another singer. The explanation is simple: the grandmother by the time the shot of her second husband Jacob Khristoforovich Davtyan, the founder of our foreign intelligence, and he feared that spread to his disgrace. Grandmother to him that is not fully forgiven. But we, the younger ones, did not keep it hurt: their relationship – it's their relationship, but for us it was mostly that they have had wonderful concerts and a long friendship. My mom loved when he came to us – a tall, gray-gray noble, dignified, and for some reason, talking shrilly high falsetto – he may well shore cords. He told me, while still very young, "Goldilocks, take note of salt." I would take – I have perfect pitch, as, obviously, and with him, because he went to the same highest voice, "Well, you'll sing!" – Your family is covered with legends. One of them – like your mother's father – Stalin. – Stalin was really supportive of my grandmother. Already after a shot of her second husband also was disgraced, he's one of the receptions he suddenly аскed: "Where is my Carmen?" It immediately brought, she sang the Habanera, something else. After that, felt more confident. But it has generated a lot of rumors, especially since his father's name mother's grandmother hid until the last day. There were options that this General Vasily Mikhailovich Novikov SMERSH, but my mother thinks that she showed it to hide the real father – the poet-futurist Vasily Kamensky. While it may be, it was the singer of the Bolshoi Theatre Alexander Volkov, who later emigrated to America. – How to build your relationship with her mother – a famous actress Vakhtangov Theatre? – Mommy's mood has always depended on her professional life, that is primarily from theatrical works. It is to such an extent through a missing images, working on that – so not all actresses are given to the process, so immersed in his character. There are times when it is difficult to accurately distinguish between otchertit and a heroine. Maybe it sounds pathetic, but I think she misunderstood actress. Much of it due to circumstances I do know. For example, it has a wonderful voice. But in the home authority prevailed grandmother, my mother is able tobut only sometimes afford to songs in performances. In addition, it is a perfectionist. Once learned the 45-minute program of poetry of Anna Akhmatova. About to do with me – it might not be quite the mother, who by the hour warm milk and baby changing clothes. But it helps me a lot. I called: I am producing the play "Ariadne auf Naxos," I have the role of a young composer. Directed by Sturminger insists, do not play the hero, just be it. And how? And then not even a woman and a man: Mom throws out of the dressing room and come up to me the whole story: Imagine that you are not naive positive boy, you long for 50, and wearing a wig on you, because you have a bald head, and the girl you Tserbinettoy novel is impossible from an elementary fact that you are impotent, and not from the fact that it is not enough for you chaste (which you reproach her) … And when my mother said it all, I once appeared in the role of activity , irony, momentum. – By the logic of the alternation of professions in the family Maksakova, your daughter should become an actress. – Probably. In many ways, my Luce will be easier to grow and develop, because she has the nose of an example of her older brother. This is a phenomenon! In three months he was diagnosed with hearing – he replied to me my descant exactly one octave higher. I planted it on his lap and played his music – all I could remember: Preludes and Fugues of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin Preludes, up to "Carnival of Animals" and "Peter and the Wolf." As a result, he learned the entire course muzliteratury at the music school. Enrolled at the Central Music School for an individual plan. But Lucy did not miss. This is a man with a steel rod. If it is the beginning of a conversation and аск the question does not receive a response within 40 minutes it will аск again. If no answer at this time, she had 40 minutes to say, "I аскed a third time! .." Three years of a person. – In October, the homeland of your grandmother, in Astrakhan, opens new opera house. Go to the celebration? – And how! Have you seen what this theater? Luxury building, 50 thousand square meters (in Moscow's Bolshoi to present the reconstruction was 40 000. – "Work"), a hall with 1200 seats. This is a gift to the city for 450 years. Gave half the money the federal treasury, has found half of the province, headed by Alexander Zhilkin. Thanks to his energy and talent of the phenomenal changes have taken place Astrakhan. Both my concert dress with the shoes brought back – you never know where that point would find myself suddenly urgent need to fly halfway around the world, so that everything was ready: I'm with Astrakhan much in common. To begin with, that the theater is in the range of Mary Maksakova streets. Of course, this is in honor of her grandmother's, not mine. Grandmother because at one time made to Astrakhanthere was a conservatory. I learned that they were going to open a music college in Volgograd, and made every effort to win him to his home town, although Volgograd twice. Now I want to carry on her legacy. My pain – in Astrakhan, there is still no ballet school …