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ANDThere is a very pleasant incident with Raina Kabaivanska about a year and a half ago, that her friends love to tell each other and laugh about what happened.
The opera diva loves to go to her students’ premieres to support and encourage them. And at the beginning of 2019 she found herself on such an occasion in London, where the Royal Opera will have the premiere of “The Force of Destiny”. Her student Veronica Simeoni will play the short part of Preciosila, and the main role will be played by superstar Anna Netrebko.
Anna Netrebko, Veronica Simeoni and Raina Kabaivanska behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House in London
Kabaivanska goes to her student’s dressing room, who offers to introduce her to Netrebko. The two go to her dressing room together, and when she suddenly sees Kabaivanska in front of her, Netrebko is almost speechless. “But how, did I learn from you, from your records, my God!” He says.
With her typical sense of humor, Raina responds, “Okay, pay me now for that, please.” The two laugh, hug and Veronica tells Netrebko: “She is my teacher, not yours”, and someone close takes pictures of them.
If Raina Kabaivanska’s reaction in this case is taken out of context and recreated in the language of modern social media, it would result in something more or less similar to what happened after her interview with Bulgarian National Radio last week. There can be such hatred that one wonders if she believes her eyes.
And what exactly
happened?
Raina Kabaivanska arrived in Bulgaria in the last days of August to attend the premiere of the opera in Plovdiv, in which another of her famous students, Vitoria Ieo, participated.
On September 2, she moved to Sofia and with her check-in at the hotel she turned on the television. She came across the evening report on the news of the protest in central Sofia and must have been surprised by what was shown. The next day she gave a telephone interview for Horizont, dedicated to her 20th master class, organized by the New Bulgarian University. It is still interesting, but at the end the presenter Daniela Goleminova asks her: “I suppose you are not indifferent to what is happening in Bulgaria at the moment?”
The great singer answered spontaneously: “I cannot have an accurate view of the events because I do not live in Bulgaria. But what did I see? I saw an organized mob of thugs demanding the death of the police. This surprises me a lot. The police are government officials, not enemies. You cannot want to kill them. I don’t know which country is right, but I was very moved by this hatred for the people who are our brothers. Why so much hatred? And another thing: if you are president, are you not a superparty president? This is the basis for a president in all constitutions. And here I saw a president who is on one side. This is what surprised me when I watched Bulgarian television. “
This recognition of the great singer as she sees things in our country is mainly the result of
culture shock
However, he has lived in Italy since 1958 and has certainly seen more than one or two protests during these years, as well as all the turbulence of Italian political life, which is no less than in Bulgaria during the last 30 years. There, the scandals are even louder and more temperamental than what we are used to seeing in our country.
But you have certainly seen how the Italian president acts in this type of crisis. For example, the current Sergio Matarella, who after taking office in 2015 entered into crisis with the constitutional referendum of 2016, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
He then had to negotiate between several opposing political parties that managed to enter parliament and provide Italy with a functional government.
Last year, the 80-year-old Italian president, a widower and former constitutional judge, had to hold conciliation talks between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his coalition partner, Matteo Salvini. Those who fought each other and got into such a verbal fight through the media, in the face of which the battles between Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov and Krassimir Karakachanov simply fade away. But this time, too, the president has handled the situation with composure and tolerance.
This is how all Italian presidents have behaved since World War II, simply
serve the world
and calm,
while on the political scene, government after government changes almost every year.
So how can Raina Kabaivanska not be impressed by Rumen Radev’s raised fist video now? Of course you will be surprised.
The hatred that was poured out on the singer after her spontaneous reaction is also very interesting. Of course, everyone has the right to express their opinion on all issues, including why Raina Kabaivanska reacted in this way. But it is noteworthy that people who claim to be an intellectual elite have also descended to the level of ordinary highlighters.
However, FYI, even if the entire Bulgarian elite are gathered in one place, you cannot do as much for Bulgaria in the world as Raina Kabaivanska has done during her long career around the world. These people should only wonder, is it a coincidence that Raina Kabaivanska is a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Italian Republic for Civil Valor and Outstanding Contribution to Art, and France appoints her Commander of the Order of Arts and Literature of the French Republic? Are your other awards a coincidence?
First is
undisputed
primadona,
who has an impressive career all over the world, from the United States, through France and England, to Italy, where he continues to become a fashion icon to this day. Although opera is an art for a limited number of connoisseurs, Raina Kabaivanska, even with her difficult to pronounce name, is extremely popular in Italy. There is almost no case in the day of Saint Ambrose: on December 7, when the season traditionally begins at La Scala in Milan, and is broadcast live on RAI1, Raina Kabaivanska is not invited in front of the television cameras to express her opinion during intermissions. Which means too much for a country like Italy, where they can admire good singers a lot, but they always care more about their fellow artists and don’t like to admire foreigners.
Second, as she often likes to point out, Bulgaria is too small a country to impress on the international stage. “But I often tell myself that when one of my students goes to talk to the director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York or the Royal Opera in London, he can say that he studied in Bulgaria.”
And the students that Kabaivanska is studying here, and then at the Kidjana Academy in Italy, are definitely already doing a world-class career. Take, for example, Priti Yende, a soprano of South African descent who is already quite popular in the United States and regularly participates in performances at the New York Opera. Or Victoria Ieo, who is a highly sought-after singer in Europe. And at least a dozen other young artists that the Bulgarian public was lucky enough to see and hear before they became famous. Thanks again to Raina Kabaivanska.
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