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LISTENING COMPREHENSION
PART 3 INTERVIEW TO OPERA STAR ANGELA GIORGIU Listen to this radio interview with the opera singer Angela Giorgiu. For questions 1 to 5 choose the option (a, b or c) that best answers each extract, as in the example (0 - A). You will hear the recording twice. Example: (0)Angela Giorgiu has sung A. with other famous singers. B. along with royalty. C. with Pavarotti. 1. In the recording studio she always A. felt alone and in need of her audience. B. had the choir with her. C. had the orchestra with her. 2. When was her first performance in front of a live audience? A. As a teenager when she studied abroad. B. At 17 in Bucharest. C. When she was 6. 3. How long was she alone at school away from home? A. For just a few months. B. Until her mother came to take her home. C. Until her sister came. 4. Her father A. had a good singing voice. B. had no artistic talent. C. was good at playing roles. 5. When she was six, she a. became the conductress of her own classmates. b. sang in the school choir. c. usually sang lullabies.
Recorded from the BBC, march 09

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Angela Gheorghiu has been dubbed the worlds most glamorous opera star. Her glittering career has taken her from her native country of Rumania to concert venues all over the world. Shes sung for the Queen and with Michael Jackson, no less. And when she came to Broadcasting House she left a real impression. There was little doubt we were in the presence of a rare talent and a genuine diva. She told me about her latest recording- Madame Butterfly. [Music heard] Interviewer: Its obviously a very passionate story; its a very sad story. But to record it, without an audience, and in isolation, in the quite sterile atmosphere of a recording studio A.G.: Not at all. Its not like that. I never understand this situation because you never forget I have in front of me a hundred of people, sometimes more when I have the choir All the orchestra, more than one hundred people, they are my colleagues, they are musicians, so professionists (?) and they are my public. For me, they are the most important public, the most important judge. What was it like when you first started performing in front of a live audience? That must have been the big thing It was many years ago. My first performance with an orchestra it was in Bucharest when I was seventeen, with a real orchestra. And then in Rumania I made a lot of concerts; no important concerts without Angela [so I had another name- it was Angela Burlacu]. Then during my studies I was an opera singer, a professional opera singer and then a student, at the same time. And I made a lot of TV shows, mass media for me, from the very beginning, it was something I did all my life. From an early age, you were a big star in Rumania Yes, yes. In a way. Its true. I mean your parents clearly must have been a brilliant support to you. Yes, yes. They helped me from the very beginning. Imagine I dont know if you are a mother but- imagine your child at 14 in a boarding school. At 14 you are a child I was a child at 14. Were you a long way from home? Yes, yes, yes, yes. 300 kms from home. And how did your mother put up with that? We start crying for the first few months, both of us and it was very hard, but then after two years I had with me my sister, she was younger than me, one year and a half, and weve been together then. So I had my sister with me. Was there any music in the family? Your father was a train driver? A train driver. He has an artistic side, yeah, but not for the voice. For acting, for things like that. But as for the voice, you know, two little vocal cords, nobody sang in the family, ever. When did you discover you had the voice? At six years. In the kindergarten, you know, I sang my very first song; it was a lullaby by Brahms Gutten Abend, Gut Nacht. Can you remember how it goes? (she sings) And someone said: You can sing Not only. Ill tell you. When you are in the school as I was like everybody, like all the children, we start to sing all together like a choir, you know, and I never sang in the choir because my voice (it) was too loud. So because it was too loud I start to sing by myself. So first in fact I start to conduct, I start to conduct all my colleagues, and then I

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