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THE TRANSLATING BEGINS IN THE VIDEO INFO AND WHEN YOU'VE READ IT GO TO 'VIEW ALL X COMMENTS'THEN YOU'LL SEE THE REST OF THE TRANSLATINGLAURENT RUQUIERA new CD: The miracle of the voice! Before that we've watched some arias of the DVD. We of course never do playback at opera. Do we?NATALIE DESSAYWell...no. L.R Have you already done it on TV? N.D No. L.R If I ask you to sing on playback an aria of the CD are you able to do it? N.D I don't know because I don't know if I will remember the lyrics. L.R Oh yes you'll see. Or better listen. N.D Oh, that's OK!(Playback) L.R It's Lakmé! N.D Oh I love playback! L.R It's the bell song, are you able to sing on playback the same aria sung by Maria Callas? N.D Let's see. (Playback)L.R We're going to compare both of you; you hold longer the high note than Maria Callas. N.D Oh that's normal! (Laughs) No, no, but it's not Callas' repertoire at all, her voice is much larger, mine is really lighter, so if Callas can just sing the notes it's extraordinary. No, I love her so I'm not going to... L.R You are the high notes queen; Callas is the Queen of what? N.D She's just the queen! L.R Which was the first opera that you saw in live? N.D It was Tristan and Isolde, and I was booored! (Laughs)L.R How did you begin to sing because at the beginning you wanted to be an actress, you acted Molière in camping I think.N.D Yes, that wasn't very glorious; I would have preferred not to talk about it... (laughs) Yes, I wanted to become an actress, and I still love theatre. It's a little bit by default that I became an opera singer. It's also because I had a voice, but I did not know that. When I was 20 very body told me 'Oh, you have a nice voice, you should sing,...'But nobody told me anything similar when I was acting...L.R You began to sing when you were 18, and the woman who gave you singing lessons, tell me if it's true... N.D It's true. L.R She's a butcher. N.D Yes, well, she was a chorister at the theatre at Bordeaux, and when she got married, her husband told her 'You must choose between the theatre and me' so she staid with his husband at the pork butcher's shop. L.R Let's do a quiz, we'll show you some operas, and that will help us to talk about your career. I imagine you'll immediately find the first one, which is it? N.D It's Toulouse...maybe. L.R Great, the Toulouse Opera. N.D Yeah! Capitole! Yeah! L.R So you were there in a chorus.