{"id":13716,"date":"2011-01-23T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbopera.it\/?p=13716"},"modified":"2019-10-17T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:41:49","slug":"no-make-up-nicola-beller-carbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/no-make-up-nicola-beller-carbone\/","title":{"rendered":"“No Make-Up!”… Nicola Beller Carbone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Born in Germany, soprano Nicola Beller Carbone<\/strong> grew up in Spain, where she initially studied to be an actress but later turned to singing, studying at the Escuela Superior di Canto of Madrid with Dolores Ripoll\u00e8s. In Munich she studied under Astrid Varnay and in 1991 obtained a permanent contract at the Opernstudio of the\u00a0State Opera of Munich.
\nHaving begun with the lyrical repertoire (Fiordiligi, Contessa, Tatjana, Mimi, Liu, Violetta, Antonia and so on), her debut as Salome in 2003 marked the shift to a more dramatic register.\u00a0 She achieved enormous success in this role in various opera houses. After that, she starred in Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana, Wozzeck, Rheingold, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Die Tote Stadt, and so on. Very active in concerts too, Beller Carbone recently sang Die Fledermaus (Vienna, 2010), Francesca da Rimini (La Plat, 2010) and she is currently about to sing Contessa Serperi in the world premi\u00e8re of Senso by Marco Tutino,<\/strong> opening title of the 2010-2011 season of Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Then, she will sing Salome again in Montecarlo and Montreal.
\nOther news concerning Nicola Beller Carbone can be found on her website.<\/a>
\nWhich is the main feature of your personality? <\/strong>
\nI\u2019m uninhibited.
\nYour worst flaw? <\/strong>
\nOverbearingness.
\nWhich is your star sign? <\/strong>
\nLeo.
\nAre you superstitious? <\/strong>
\nNo, I\u2019m not.
\nAre you a spiritual person? <\/strong>
\nIn certain times of my life I feel definitely led by my spiritual side, while in others my pragmatic side prevails.
\nHave you ever envied someone? <\/strong>
\nUnfortunately, I have.
\nWhat did you dream to become as an adult when you were a child? <\/strong>
\nA dancer.
\nDid your family influence your choices? <\/strong>
\nNot directly, but my parents always left me free to take decisions about myself, as a wise and responsible person. I could say that they taught me to become a person with dialectic and rational abilities, with a great sense of responsibility and commitment.
\nWhich is your most cherished memory? <\/strong>
\nThey are countless: my childhood in Spain, furnishing my first house, my grandma\u2019s cuddles, my first gig with my jazz rock band, dancing wildly all night at a party, sleeping at the beach, looking out from a train window\u2026
\nThe moment you felt the proudest? <\/strong>
\nWhen I look at my parents.
\nThe greatest disappointment? <\/strong>
\nI can\u2019t recall it, seemingly I have repressed it.
\nWhat\u2019s missing in your life today? <\/strong>
\nTime at home.
\nWhat are you afraid of the most? <\/strong>
\nOf being abandoned by those I believe that love me. And I\u2019m afraid of injustice, as well.
\nDo you have a recurrent dream? <\/strong>
\nLosing my suitcases, arriving late at the airport, having to go on stage and not knowing which opera is being performed.
\nHow important is money to you? <\/strong>
\nOther people\u2019s money has no relevance to me, while I try not to give too much importance to mine\u2026 It\u2019s all good when I have it, otherwise I find a solution to get by.
\nWhich is the item you like spending money on the most? <\/strong>
\nThere is not one in particular: I\u2019m a big spender by nature.
\nDo you collect anything? <\/strong>
\nNo, I don\u2019t.
\nWhich are your favorite readings? <\/strong>
\nContemporary art books, detective stories, fashion magazines, newspapers, philosophical essays\u2026 And most of all I like to read texts in their original language, as far as possible.
\nWhich is your favorite perfume? <\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a secret.
\nFavorite city? <\/strong>
\nCadiz.
\nFavorite color? <\/strong>
\nFor what? Clothing, house furniture, a painting, a drawing, the bike or the car, a costume, the sky, the air, the skin or the eyes\u2026?
\nFavorite flower? <\/strong>
\nAll flowers are magnificent, especially in their entourage naturelle<\/em>.
\nYour favourite singers? <\/strong>
\nElla Fitzgerald, Maria Callas, Billie Holliday, Leyla Gencer, Frank Sinatra, Camaron de la Isla, Estrella Morente, Mina, Joe Cocker, La ni\u00f1a pastori, Mariza, Etha James, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Victoria de los Angeles, Hildegard Behrens, Montserrat Caball\u00e8, Concha Piquer, Celia Cruz, Nicolai Ghiaurov and many others\u2026
\nWhich is the first record you ever bought? <\/strong>
\nHorses<\/em> by Patti Smith.
\nThe film you love the most? <\/strong>
\nFor every decade I have at least a favorite one, but there are plenty as I am a filmgoer, so I can name some directors I admire: Fellini, Fassbinder, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Almodovar, Billy Wilder, Lucchino Visconti, Godard, David Lynch, Coppola, Spike Lee, Tarantino, Pasolini, Luis Bu\u00f1uel, Rossellini, Fritz Lang, the Coen brothers\u2026.
\nYour favorite season and why? <\/strong>
\nSummer because it\u2019s hot and you can dress like a gipsy princess.
\nHow is your relationship with technology and which is the electronic gadget you can\u2019t do without? <\/strong>
\nI use my laptop pc for practical things like paying my bills via the internet, follow up my email contacts with agencies and theatres, answer questions for interviews like this one and so on\u2026 I need a pc and a wi-fi connection to read \u201cEl Pais\u201d online in the morning, to check what\u2019s in movie theatres in the town I\u2019m in, decide which restaurant to go to or chat with Skype when I\u2019m in my vocal rest periods. I use my cell phone just for text messages and for phone calls only in a few urgent cases, as I hate talking on the phone.
\nHow\u2019s your attitude towards TV ? <\/strong>
\nI use it to watch the news and learn or improve the language of the foreign country I\u2019m in, and every now and then I watch movies to relax at night. Unfortunately, most of the times I get angry because of the low quality and the limited choice of broadcasts about everywhere in the world.
\nHow is your relationship with politics? <\/strong>
\nA big disappointment.
\nDo you have causes that are very important for you? <\/strong>
\nThe injustice of the world is all over: discrimination in opportunities, favoritism, intolerance towards everything perceived as different, lack of solidarity, lack of respect for human rights, violence of all sorts. Everyone should be granted the right to study to have the necessary cultural weapons to succeed in this world, but unfortunately that\u2019s not how things always go.
\nDay or night? <\/strong>
\nDay and night.
\nWhich is the situation you consider the most relaxing? <\/strong>
\nLaying on a sofa and getting a foot massage.
\nTell us your ideal day. <\/strong>
\nA day that does not need to be planned.
\nWhich is your hideaway? <\/strong>
\nVocal silence.
\nWhat\u2019s the soundtrack to your everyday life? <\/strong>
\nPossibly, silence.
\nWhat do you miss the most when you\u2019re away from home? <\/strong>
\nMy home itself, my private environment and, of course, the person who lives in it, that is my husband.
\nThe holiday or the trip you\u2019d like to take? <\/strong>
\nI\u2019 d love to come back to Morocco.
\nWhat or who makes you feel embarrassed? <\/strong>
\nI get embarrassed when I feel I can\u2019t handle a situation and fake people.
\nHow would you define your relation with food? <\/strong>
\nExcellent, I love to eat and I almost always eat what I want.
\nMediterranean diet, mocrobiotics or fast food? <\/strong>
\nMediterranean diet.
\nYour favourite dish? <\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s impossible to answer, there are too many, but surely not sweets.
\nRed or white wine? <\/strong>
\nRed.
\nWhich is the place where cooking is the worst ever? <\/strong>
\nThe road while walking.
\nWas music a vocation? <\/strong>
\nDrama was my vocation.
\nWhat would you want someone who doesn\u2019t know your voice to listen to? <\/strong>
\nI\u2019d have them watching and listening to my Salome, as I believe the two elements must go together.
\nIf you were granted the chance to chose a role, which one would it be? <\/strong>
\nWorking 10 months per year, I don\u2019t have much time to work with my two vocal coaches (Richard Trimborn for the German\/Russian repertoire and Bruno Rigacci for the Italian one). I end up taking advantage of work itself, the creative experience during rehearsals and performances. I\u2019m a sort of self-made woman.
\nWhat do you do an hour prior to go on stage? <\/strong>
\nIn truth, roles I will never sing: Elektra, Isolde, Lulu, The Great Inquisitor! And for once I would like to be a rockstar like Tina Turner and scream into the microphone in front of ten thousand people.
\nHave you met Marco Tutino, the composer of<\/strong> <\/strong>Senso<\/em><\/strong>, in which you star, and how is your relationship with him? <\/strong>
\nHe is discrete and greatly helpful and generous. I met him in Bologna, before starting to rehearse here in Palermo, and he made me listen to the first ever version for piano and voice of Senso<\/em>.
\nWas your role tailored on your voice? <\/strong>
\nHe knew me before composing the opera and knew I was to sing in it: I believe he knew how to use my voice at its best for the role.
\nHas the original movie version by Luchino Visconti influenced the creation of the characters and how? In case not, in which way are they different, taking into consideration the difference between movies and theatre? <\/strong>
\nI think it is important to get to know more about a character before playing it. In this case, I\u2019ve obviously seen the movie starring Alida Valli. At the same time, though, reading Camillo Boito\u2019s novel influenced me. When on stage, you have to find a credible balance between showing real emotions and their dramatization. We are not in front of a camera and we are compelled to make understand the last of the spectators in the gallery what\u2019s happening 30 meters down on the stage. Sometimes we have to amplify, magnify emotions to allow the audience to perceive them. By the way, I do believe that the best way to convey emotions is the thought, that is: if I get, as a performer, to understand the character\u2019s thoughts and I can relate to and empathize with them, then I can convey the relevant emotions. In my opinion, the force of the mind carries the emotion, and this is true for both the voice and the acting. One has to have a strong will to be credible on stage. And you need a strong will also to lose control, let go, get in touch with spirituality, to get back to one of the previous questions.
\nWhat do you do an hour prior to go on stage? <\/strong>
\nI can\u2019t do much, as I sit there for make-up one hour and a half prior to go on stage\u2026 except standing still, silent while in my mind I recap what\u2019 going to happen on stage and wait\u2026
\nWhat\u2019s never missing in your dressing room? <\/strong>
\nThe score of the evening.
\nWhat do you think of when looking at yourself in the mirror? <\/strong>
\nIt depends on the day, but generally I\u2019m quite generous with myself.
\nYour mood at the moment? <\/strong>
\nBeing a person with a normally balanced temper, I\u2019d say cool, good.
\nWhat\u2019s your motto<\/strong>? <\/strong>
\nDon\u2019t expert anyhting, wait and see.
\nVersione inglese a cura di Paolo Tancredi <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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