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 Igor Morosow, opera singer (Switzerland), 21/04/2010
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Born in Dnepropetrovsk, USSR, Igor Morosow is a Russian-Ukrainian opera singer. After having finished his studies in Tchaikovsky Conservatory, young Morosow received a contract as a leading barytone to the Kirov Opera (today's Mariinsky Theater) and changed two years later to the leading opera house of the Soviet Union: the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Here he sang the great parts of Russian and Italian repertoire such as the title role in 'Eugene Onegin', Robert in 'Iolanta', Andrey Bolkonsky in 'War and Peace', Gérmont in 'La Traviata', Rodrigo in 'Don Carlo', Sharpless in 'Madama Butterfly', etc. |
When you cried last time and, if no secret, for what reason? Well, I can't remember, when I really cried intensively. But I had tears in my eyes about twenty years ago, the day when my beloved father died. Maybe I was too sad to burst out crying, it was such a deep pain. The second time was two months ago when I listened to the clips of my two singing teachers, Mark Reizen and David Gamrekeli: I remembered our lessons, the kind friendship they had for me, and I felt missing them both deeply.
There are some events during our life, when it seems as there is no way out. That could be tragic circumstances or such assessment of them. At that time, what's the thing to do? For sure, I don't know the universal solution. A close friend of me, a Russian-orthodox bishop, told me that one should never give up hoping, even in the worst hopeless situation, that there is always a way out. His words were: "A miracle doesn't happen if you don't believe it might happen". He felt this in some situations himself and I also had such a situation myself. But: you shouldn't just wait for the miracle, keep believing in it, find a quiet spot where you can think the situation over and then keep on working for the miracle...
Could you please choose any event of last days, weeks or months, that has distressed you? It can be any happening on a local or international scale. How could you comment on it? Well, there are many. Right now I'm rather worried about this Icelandic volcano and the world's reaction to it. Two hundred years ago, it was active between 1821 to 1823 (2 years!!) but the rest of the world didn't suffer. Now our whole global system broke down. What, if there might be other geological problems? Maybe we should definitely think about other ways of living for future.
There's always a new danger watching for humanity in its way, always a new temptation we're ready succumb to. What's the danger of our days? And what's the way to avoid this trap? I'm very scared of any fanatic (they are usually also not very intelligent!) gaining might and influence in order to split the world into his ideas. This can happen everywhere, with every country and with every fanatical politician, no question which party he belongs to or which religion. Democratic votes are one way out, and we should try to accept other people, other countries - no matter if it's big and important or a small minority - as they are, without intention to change, conquer, convince or split them off. And: help two countries in a conflict and don't try to put fire into their conflicts in order to gain might or part of the country... or fuel, gas, whatever makes one of the two countries interesting to your country.
What are the main obstructions to apply humanities principles at our today's life? Could they be solved? There should be representatives of all countries and minorities together in one organization, because, otherwise, there are always too little informations, sometimes even badly reported, that help injustice and misunderstanding growing. Maybe everyone should take sometimes a minute to think his new dreams over: is it indeed the most important thing he should do? Sometimes we might live in a more modest way, then we would waste less energy, food, whatever. As an example: I'm very often in France, and at the beginning I was shocked when I didn't receive any plastic bags to put my food into. In France it has been forbidden to use those small plastic bags in supermarkets. From now on I had to remember taking my own bags along. But then I travelled through a marvellous landscape and saw hundreds of empty thrown away plastic bags lying there for the next two hundred years...
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