"Shaken Aimanov Kazakh Film" "Gala-TV Productions in co-production with Kinoprom Film Co." "present a film-concert" "VOCAL PARALLELS" "Erik Kurmangali, counter-tenor" "Roza Djamanova, soprano" "Araksiia Davtian, soprano" "Bibigul Telegenova, coloratura soprano are singing in their own voices." "The concert is presented by Renata Litvinova" "Now we know that all civilizations are mortal." "We have heard of individuals vanished without a trace, of empires sunk to the bottom of the sea with all their populations and technologies." "They recede into the unfathomable depths of centuries with all their deities and laws, their sciences and academicians." "Languages and grammars, dictionaries and classics, poets and romantics, critics and critics of critics." "All things vanish." "We can barely make them out in the great depth called history." "We behold ghosts of great vessels that have settled at the bottom." "But we also see that the abyss of history is capable of accommodating all." "We sense that our civilization is fragile, as fragile as life itself." "Only a handful of circumstances is required for something to vanish." "It is incomprehensible but true." "To believe in sudden disappearance one need but turn on the radio." "You're late, you little bitch." "I picked out a young singer from those around the fire and asked her to come over Thursday." "I had no money for a cab." "Then a dog chased after me." "It was difficult to run." "Then there were two dogs." "We sense that our civilization is fragile." "As fragile as life itself." "It doesn't take much for something to vanish." "Then I asked her, why don't you marry?" "She said:" "I have a dog of my own." "I say, so what?" "She says, a dog will be faithful." "I say, you have to think of your singing." "Happiness will dissolve in foam, like sugar in a syrup." "You simply must marry." "Your husband must be a wealthy man." "And you have to suck his blood." "But a man is easily worn out like that." "I say, opera and ballet is the art of kings, emperors and big-time communists." "Sure, unhappiness is essential for any good artist." "But it must stay within, under the guise of perfect happiness." "Now we will dress and you'll sing for me." "Here is fur coat, boots, and a traveler's staff." "Glinka." "Ivan's aria from Ivan Susanin." "Happiness and good manners are parallel." "For example, when you drink tea, always take out the spoon and lay it down on the saucer." "Otherwise the spoon will poke you in the cheek, it is both uncomfortable and unattractive." "Moreover, always keep a handkerchief ready." "And it must not be folded under any circumstances." "Folding it is in poor taste." "A handkerchief must be crumpled." "Take this crumple out of your purse and it is ready - just like an open parachute." "You lay it next to you on the piano and sing." "The young think that devils have horns and fools carry rattlers." "And that is why they will always fall prey to them." "Know that devils will conceal their horns and you will not see their sabers." "So-called friends will treat you like the moon - only letting you see one side, a mask." "Wicked people put on a mask each time they need to make an impression." "And you do not see the dark side of the moon." "Life teaches us to be cautious." "But the moon is still beautiful, look." "Film-concert VOCAL PARALLELS" "People's artist of the USSR, Roza Djamanova." "What good are you?" "Do you feel pain?" "I don't." "Take a look." "See, it hurts so much inside, that I feel no outside pain." "It hurts!" "Then you can feel it." "You got some blood on you." "It's nothing." "Puccini, Cio-Cio San" "Verdi posed questions in his own time." "Verdi posed questions." "But many have learned to lift paper dumbbells." "Few can overcome hills and mountains." "And perhaps one must receive one's 400 blows to reach the top." "This is for you." "The hero is seeking his catastrophe." "Without it a hero is impossible." "Caesar looks for Brutus, Napoleon looks for St. Helena." "Achilles finds his heel." "Napoleon finds his fatal isle." "Joan of Arc needs a fire, a moth needs a flame." "This is the law of the heroic." "One soprano despises another." "One soprano also despises a mezzo-soprano." "The mezzo-soprano despises another soprano and mezzo-soprano." "And everyone else in general." "One ballerina dreams of another ballerina's death." "You see Przhevalski's horses." "We have only 8 left here." "People ate some, others wandered off to China." "One soprano and mezzo-soprano despise another soprano." "There are only 215 of them left in the world." "I mean the horses." "Sopranos are a dime a dozen, mezzo-sopranos are few." "I was vacationing near the sea with a Buriat soprano." "It was awful." "When we walked home from the concert in the evening local men jumped out from the bushes and whispered maniacally:" ""Peace." "Brotherhood."" "They're all short and have mad eyes." "Me and the Buriat couldn't get away." "She had tiny feet and a large body." "We're trying to run away and she keeps falling." "She fell every 15 feet, with her ass up in the air." "So intimate, so erotic, like she's flirting." "I asked the soprano what she thought of mezzo-sopranos." "Once a mezzo-soprano sang with an orchestra and couldn't get all her words in." "The conductor from Moscow told her, "You have to learn to count measures."" "She flared up and said, "Your wife's a whore!"" "Puccini, Floria Tosca" "Performed by Djamanova" "Dinner is served." "If these rubies and silver were real we could buy a horse or half a kingdom." "But the voice is no good." "Schumann, A Woman's Life and Love" "Performed by Araksiia Davtian" "The cadets are reading Chamisso's poems in Kazakh." "Our virtues are the extensions of our shortcomings." "In the USSR after after the war nearly every serviceman's house contained a German piano, and the boys could play Czerny's etudes." "Johannes Brahms, Sapphic Ode" "Performed by Erik Kurmangali" "Bibigul Telegenova, People's artist of the USSR" "Verdi, La Traviata" "Performed by ... one moment" "Verdi..." "Verdi, La Traviata" "Performed by Bibigul Telegenova" "Nothing is more personal, more organic." "than feeding upon others." "This is the law of art, but you must learn to digest." "A lion is made entirely of digested lamb." "Rossini." "Semiramis" "Performed by Araksiia Davtian and Erik Kurmangali" "You have bad walls here." "Why bad?" "They're good." "They're good for singing, but these walls can't absorb bullets." " Bullets?" " Yes, bullets." "There are good walls that hold on to bullets." "But these walls are bad." "If there is a gunshot the bullet will ricochet and fly all around the room, until a living body stops it." "A body stops it?" "Sure." "When teenagers spit on sidewalks, staircases and everywhere else we think it's from an excess of energy." "They're covered with pimples and spit on every sidewalk." "It's unpleasant." "When grown men spit - it means they could not realize themselves." "Very unpleasant." "You cannot spit, and yet it's the same thing." "I understand." "You have nobody to sing for." "I understand why men and money don't stick to you." "You are a failure." "A failure." "It's because of you that everyone her is sick." "Why, you can even kill." "You're criminals." "I won't live here like this." "I've been here a long time, but I never even had a bowl of hot soup with you." "I haven't seen my mother in a long time." "My god, I haven't seen my mother in ages." "Because of you." "You're sick." "I can't stand you." "Can't stand you." "Sick." "I despise you." "Despise you." "Everything is bought and sold or conquered." "The Queen of England couldn't sell her kingdom to buy a voice." "These are divine gifts:" "voice and beauty." "Beauty can be reproduced these days," "there are ways..." "But a voice can never be reproduced." "Farewell, ghosts." "The Romance of Liza and Polina from Chaikovsky's Queen of Spades" "Performed by Araksiia Davtian and Erik Kurmangali" "Farewell, ghosts." "A certain chaos still reigns, but soon all will be clear and we will see a true miracle:" "a perfect, fully-realized anthill." "Devils with horns lose no time." "What a world we live in!" "Lions, jaguars, cheetahs, leopards, tigers and eagles will soon vanish from this earth." "And we are to blame." "We are bad creatures." "Next time, let's speak only of good music." "You can never get depressed from that." "The concert is over." "What a strange woman, throwing flowers into the abyss." "We have to take them back up, and we don't even get paid." "The film was made over the course of 9 years."