Tarja dla powermetal.de 7/2006

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If one hears the name NIGHTWISH, then most have immediately the picture of the pretty ex singer Tarja Turunen before their mental eye, even if this is not for October any more a member the Finnish miracle volume. A worthy replacement for it presumably only next year admits given, but so for a long time those young still in the dark to grope, tinkered Tarja themselves already industrious at its solo career. A christmas album this year already published and also a more rocking project is anvisiert. Now however first two concerts stood into in the middle the Savonlinna opera festivals in Tarjas appointment calendar. First had mastered and looked forward it already with Bravour to second, when she met with me to an interview.

Ricarda: How did your concert run on Sunday?

Tarja: Thanks that you ask, it was really mad. Naturally I was very nervous, but it was super an experience to stand on this stage because it is the most important place for classical music and opera in Finland. And even if we did not talk about a traditional opera concert, then we had nevertheless also some pieces of opera in the program and were very mad naturally it for me to by-form there.

Ricarda: Were you already once before there?

Tarja: Yes, I sang in a Open-festival-Chor in 1998. Thus somewhat longer ago, and now they had made some changes behind the window blinds, so that I did not know no more, how I should go on the stage or from the stage. But it was also very beautiful naturally to be again at the same place to have and the mysterious castle around one. It is so pretty. And the people loved the concert, we five times again were out-applauded and all to have asked "are true that?". Really madly.

Ricarda: How did it actually happen that you may by-form there? When did the invitation come?

Tarja: I believe, that am already one year ago. Yes, I got the invitation last summer. The man, who organized the festival, had the idea. He had heard some NIGHTWISH songs in the radio and had more near become acquainted with then the volume and had investigated little. Then he spoke the idea with the Artistic Director Raimo Sirkiae and together her then developed and then me asked.

Ricarda: Is that called, you knew Raimo Sirkiae before not at all?

Tarja: No, that was the first time however then I it naturally several times met, in order to maintain and rehearse us about the program. Ricarda: How you the program then decided?

Tarja: We did that together. And naturally there are there so many pieces, if it concerns operas, musical or entertainment music, from which one can to select, the repertoire is endless. But it was quite easy for us: It helped me to select the classical pieces and I helped it with the skirt elements and musical. Actually it was very easy, we only several times met, and then we had the first sample one week before the concert here. We drove only with the conductor of the Orchesterns, and we three had only one Piano sample. There we went through for the first time the program, and then last Saturday had we the first sample with the orchestra and on the next day the general sample in the castle.

Ricarda: You by-form now also some NIGHTWISH Songs, the a few older pieces. Do you plan also in the future to sing NIGHTWISH songs?

Tarja: I did not imagine "why?". With this concert here it was so that we had the idea already one year ago to also take a few NIGHTWISH songs into the program particularly these older. And with the orchestra that is very beautiful, the arrangements is different and gives to the music another Touch. And, I become also further a few songs, to which I feel connected, sing.

Ricarda: Do you think there of certain songs?

Tarja: Yes, I particularly believe these, which we bring now also here. And then ' passion and The Opera '. These songs, the NIGHTWISH played for a long time any longer and with which I several times of that volume had wished itself "request, cannot we play?", because those are the songs, with which I was not yet safe of enough in the studio with my voice. Now it is like that "Wow, I can the songs real sing!" (laughs) at that time I did not know yet as exactly as, but I can do it and her now very gladly would sing, and therefore I will also do.

Ricarda: I have myself the DVD "end to OF at Era" looked at and asked me whether you miss these Heavy Metal concerts? The fire and the Headbangen...

Tarja: Thus, the fire and the bombs do not miss I at all. That is really a disaster, particularly for the voice. Outside is it okay, but in one really burns it resounds to your throat. Many marks, if we played in smaller clubs and the bombs were the whole time and naturally at most during and after the last song, my voice is been really angeknackst, and I have only by the towel breathed. There was to breathe simply no other way and none could really breathe, all has itself weighted "that is impossible." Thus I do not miss that really, but which I miss, are many of the concerts from the last year. Those were real protruding, because I felt there already very safe with my voice, with the instrument, which I had. I caught to it wirlich to enjoy to be I to be the woman I am and to be by-formed. The concerts I surely and all humans in the whole world will miss. There were always some well-known faces...

Ricarda: Perhaps tourst you alone by the world...

Tarja: That hope I. That is natural a plan and I hopes that a daily my solo albums catapult me here raus and into the world.

Ricarda: Your first solo CD, an Weihnachts album, comes out in November? Tarja: Yes, in Finland... Ricarda: Also in other countries? Tarja: No, only in Argentina, because it is my second homeland. Thus only in the two countries.

Ricarda: But I think times that one can buy it then over your Web Shop?

Tarja: Yes, naturally. It will have to be had in any case.

Ricarda: Will you sing also wine eight-songs on other languages? On Spanish? On German?

Tarja: Yes, there a German song will be...

Ricarda: Which?

Tarja: (laughs) betrayal I you not, which have I still none betrayed. So far I have only said ", there it a song will give". Sorry... (laughs more)

Ricarda: Condemned.... Now well, and then you prepare also for a further solo career, the more into the skirt direction will go yourself or whatever...

Tarja: Yes, whatever comes out thereby. Many people ask me now for it, because they mean calendars see, and many classical concerts there on the program. Since it was the plan of NIGHTWISH to have this year freely I had thought that I concentrate then on the training of my voice and on classical concerts. Naturally the work for my solo album already began, but it still is in a very early phase. I look for a producer, who really clean-hangs itself for for songs and. All this will need its time, but the next year is definitely for the work on the album there. Then it will give also no concerts, until the album outside is. Then I will naturally start a route. I have already some inquiries to give classical concerts in this time with "Sorry, but I answered no time" there. Because I would like to really work with the solo album and make it in such a way, how I want it. And it becomes natural more rockiger... Many people expect somehow from me that I become too soft, but over it should it no concerns make itself. This rough sound somehow is in me, and there are some things in Metal music, I learned which to love and therefore also for my music in the future would like to keep. Naturally the album these elements is not only contained, because I think, now am I freer as a singer to experiment and discover and the listeners also something else many give. Thus times looks, what I can invent... The red thread, which I want, is already very clear.

Ricarda: Did you think to write some Songs themselves?

Tarja: Yes, already. Compose, TC... I experience it straight with my christmas album that perhaps it will give there a Song, which is to the half from me, but in the solo album... , texts I will write texts in any case, at least some. But I believe that composing would be a too large step for me. However I will be naturally with the arrangements involved and the whole time in the studio with the people the Songs will discuss there and like I her having would like. Thus I will lend in any case my personal Touch to the album, because I do not believe that it will give a Song where I legend of "ok one, I likes like that as it is simple." No, I do not believe really. There it will give also a quantity to work for me, in order to give to the Songs my statement.

Ricarda: With whatever Finnish or international artists would you co-operate gladly once?

Tarja: I have TC, over it still not at all so correctly thought... My life so far was to be flown somehow the whole time of a place to the next, and I had everything a little differently than many people it am accustomed always. In a way it was really beautiful to live in this kind blister where the people came to me, and I had the pleasure with different people to work. There are so many wonderful musicians in the whole world, and it would be unfair to call few and forget others.

Ricarda: I personally had always hoped that perhaps you would take up a Song with APOCALYPTICA...

Tarja: Really? Yes, there there were times some discussions over it already some years ago. But then I somehow heard nothing more of them. But, those are mad musicians, I like the music and the style. It is very differently, very singular.

Ricarda: Do you feel that you have now somehow a more difficult being located in the classical scene? The fact that you some people not when accepts classical singer, because you were so for a long time in the Metal scene?

Tarja: TC, that already asked me some people. Now, in order to keep my mental health, I had to make clear before I on the Olavinlinna stage went myself that I go simply in such a way, how I am, and that I stand from now on on my own feet. Naturally it will always give people, they say "that are good" or "that are badly", it critics will always give. But is also very importantly for me to be learned that there is no really bad criticism, a negative criticism can you much help. From a positive criticism you learn naturally not as much, but she gives to continue you the strength with, which you do. And I believe, which feels public that I by-form simply as that, which is I, and that I believe in, what I do. No matter, how nervous I am, no matter, like many errors I make no matter, what for a unperfekte classical singer I am, because I am not really perfectly, there give it still another quantity of work....

Ricarda: But you are still so young...

Tarja: Aehm, no more soooo young (laughs)... But well, my time was evenly elsewhere. So far I did not have to make the possibility many classical concerts, and would have been also not at all willing. I was part of something special ones for so many years. And now I would like that the people understand that I do not only stand on the opera stage, because I because of something different one outside am. I made many verschiendene things, but all of my heart.

Ricarda: You had also a small musical role, small play appearance. Does it give still somewhat in the artistic field that you did not try yet, which would do however gladly?

Tarja: Yes, very much. There there is really a quantity of things, believes I. On the one hand I would have gladly once a part in a correct musical..., a role in musical, that would be mad.

Ricarda: Do you have a favourite musical?

Tarja: Everything of Andrew Llyod Webber. I have a whole collection of him at home... however, it would be super, a part of a so large project to be been real. And then perhaps a daily to sing in perhaps ten years or so, a Pern role that would be also a genuine challenge. But for the moment my largest challenge is natural now to provoke me as a solo artist. That is the largest thing, and I am not nervous, I am more strained, which gives it there for me. Thus I must wait simply, work and look hard, what comes to me.

Ricarda: Do you that you are differently treated as a woman in the classical scene, feel as as a woman in the Metal scene?

Tarja: I am treated in both very well and am also always very well treated. For me as a woman, there always was respect, and I had enjoyed also already with NIGHTWISH that all the same where I saw people these me always against respect brought, and I had never the feeling to have to adjust me. Ok one, on the stage was it a character, another personality. One looks on the stage simply somewhat differently, and if people met me on the road, they were sometimes quite surprised: "you are so small, you are so nice..." I look natural on the stage differently, it am a personality. No role, but evenly a personality, those to the music fits and so must also be it. Really always there but the respect was, and that is something wonderful. I was from the outset honest that I did not have Heavy Metal Background, and that I was also somewhat fearful at the beginning, when I gave the first interviews for Metal of magazines. And they saw natural, who and how I am, and they saw me nine years with that to volume, that are a really great life experience, not many girls can such a thing have...

Ricarda: Well, then still 2 alberene conclusion questions. Whom did you want to marry, when you were a child?

Tarja: Oh condemned, I had poster of Bonnie Tyler and so (laughs). My large brother had a pair poster of KISS and AC/DC, regarded I and thought "TC, not so my type man." (laughs more) however marry? I believe... (thinks)... oh, naturally! When I was three or four, I wanted to marry the man of the smaller sister of my father, thus mean uncles. I believe, I was a nerve saw for the poor man, but I embraced him always and gave kissed, I him these damp kisses everywhere. So always was I, if he visit us came, and since then he wanted believes I to only away-run (it laughs) I read that there is often a phase in the childhood, where one falls in love with someone, which stands close and was for me it this man, with whom I was totally in love. We laugh natural now at it, but it was correctly embarrassing me, when I was 12 or 13... "what I did? As I could be only like that?". But well, that was stop the time, there was it the maddest man of the world.

Ricarda: What do you hold of the fact that LORDI won the eurovision Song Contest?

Tarja: Yes, that was genuinly something!!! It let Finland flash again on the map of the world. The people conversed special in Europe much about it, and in Finland they do that still. It was really unbelievable, because sad however true history is that Finland was very bad in eurovision the year. And then suddenly LORDI with somewhat totally different one came, one not forgotten could and has the attention get. It was good to show the people that the music business can be also merry. And now a new trend comes. Some years ago everyone asked itself "who makes songs for the eurovision", these trends comes and go thus. And so far was not very successful the eurovision in Finland, but I do not know it now. What comes next? What can make Finland? I hope which property...

Ricarda: Ok one, that would be then everything. Many dear thanks and all property for your concert.

Tarja: Thanks. We see ourselves then.