Araks Mansuryan: I do not like it when audience applads you for your past (video)
"I get surprised by myself when saying 50 years on stage. Then I remember that I was 21, a student at Romanos Melikyan Music College, when I had my first performance," a concert dedicated to Araks Mansuryan's "50 Years Stage" takes place at Alexander Spendiaryan Opera House today. Her students for Australia will take part in the concert. Works of Komitas, Tigran Mansuryan and western-European composers will be performed. At the end of the concert Araks Mansuryan will perform one of Komitas's songs with her pupils. "You become wiser, improved with your age, but, unfortunately, your voice gets changed, and maybe you start regretting for not choosing the profession of a pianist or violinist," says the singer. "You should find strength for leaving the stage on time. I do not like when audience applause you for your past." For Araks Mansuryan everything must be perfect in work. In all relationships you should be honest. "Art does not love forgery," she says. Years in Armenia she considers very important for her future career. She teaches her students of the Sydney Conservatory everything she learnt during those years. She is proud that they sing Komitas and Mansuryan, through those songs get acquainted with our history, language which they consider to be a very difficult language and some of the sounds they pronounce with difficulties. There are wonderful singers that cannot transfer their knowledge. Araks Mansuryan's pupils say that she is the best pedagogue, the most emotional one, and they are happy that have such a teacher, due to whom they have realized what Bel Canto's singing means and "infection" for the Armenian song mean. By the way, Araks Mansuryan mentioned that even her pupils had noticed how happy she was in Yerevan. When the singer said that she is going to buy a flat in Yerevan, her pupils responded, saying that they will move to Armenia, too.
