| 从前有个叫Vitalik的小家伙,他住在一个很远很远的地方。 从小Vitalik并无雄心大志。如果我没记错的话,以前他每天会去奥德萨的一个艺术学校上学。
是的,奥德萨,这个位于乌克兰的城市对俄罗斯人和乌克兰人来说是一座英雄的城市，因它的美、它的剧院而闻名...你曾经听说"歌剧&芭蕾"大剧院吗?关于这座建筑?是的,这的确是精美绝伦的建筑…
奥德萨曾经热情接纳过很多艺家:Kandinsky,Gogol,Majakovski,Pushkin…等等，还有很多其他人。他们在这里过着无所事事日子，哦，或说是的艺术家的生活吧。
唔，是的，Vitalik也没什么两样，象那些伟大的艺术家一样，他也不是乌克兰人。他已经过世的母亲Michailovna
Lilia是俄罗斯人，他的父亲则来自于波罗的海的某个国家，也就是拉脱维亚，立陶宛或者爱沙尼亚其中的某一个，我不是非常确定，因为很难猜测。实际上,Vitalik看上去不是很像俄罗斯人,他修长的鼻子和纤长秀颀的身材使他看上去有点儿像更北方一点儿..
我是说,一个英俊的少年，并且非常有才华。他是1980年（这个忘了不是非常确定）2月19号出生在拉脱维亚一个名为Daugavpilse或者什么别的城市...在他上学之前,和他的爷爷Arkadii Davidovich一起,在奥德萨掌握了他全部的才华。在城市的日子里爷爷和跟只有手风琴那么高的小小Vitalik一起演奏手风琴。
是的,他学了三年手风琴,因此一进入奥德萨艺术学院，校长Anatolii
Paduka就知道这个孩子是上天派给的礼物。一天,Anatolii要他在学校的活动上表演。Vitalik想了想准备了音乐幽默剧。是的,这真是可爱...
当Vitalik16岁时,校长安排Vitalik的演出并且邀请他的一些有名望的戏剧界朋友。所有到场的人都非常欣赏Vitalik的舞蹈,演唱,表演。不久以后,由于当地的一个叫Merkovicz的著名的贵族,Vitalik穿着
无钮女短上衣 登台表演。是的,那是他向前跨越的第一个大台阶.之后他参加了各种我这会儿已经忘了名字的剧院演出…我记得其中有一个名叫夏天的剧院…唔,它有这样一个奇怪的名字…
无论如何，如果不是一位名叫Sergey Nikolaevich Pudovkin的从莫斯科来的著名制作人的到来，他也许直到今天还在所有诸如此类的剧院演出。
这个年轻聪明的制作人那时候创造出1971出道的NA-NA乐队的传奇.有些人说他能称霸俄罗斯娱乐界得助于另一个大人物：Bari Karimovich Alibasov.
但是别管这些…所以他来到ODESSA,并且碰巧在舞台上看见Vitalik.我想那是在
敖德萨美术剧院实验剧场的工作室。因此,Sergey问Vitalik他是否打算近期到莫斯科访问,…Vitalik并没有怎么去想"这个陌生人是谁"。Sergey介绍自己…这就是一切怎样开始的。他邀请Vitalik带一些样带去莫斯科。不久口袋里揣着"Opera#2"的Vitalik就坐上了火车。从那个特别的片刻开始,Vitalik就以VITAS闻名于大众。
对了,顺便说一下,唔…那天在剧院Sergey并没听到他唱歌….Vitalik
当时正象一个孩子一样讲话,然后像个普通的Lebed；之后他改变他的形象,变成一位老人或者一个年轻人；变美丽几秒之后就变得极其丑陋…
然后Vitalik,抱歉,我该说VITAS，搬到了莫斯科，因此奥德萨的故事该结束了。
他在莫斯科开心吗? 唔, 那是另一个童话故事啦…也许根本不能称之为童话故事...的确...生活是一个童话故事,但是所有的童话故事里总会有一些真实的事情...没有么?...
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Once upon a time a little boy called Vitalik
lived somewhere far and away.
A tiny Vitalik
with the heart and soul just as big as he himself.
If I remember well, he used to go to school everyday
- an art school in Odessa.
Yes,
Odessa, a city in Ukraine, a city of beauty, a city
of theatre – for both Russians and Ukrainians a
hero-city as they used to say… Have you ever heard
about The Opera & Ballet Theatre? About the
building? Yes, indeed the building of the finest
beauty…
Odessa has welcomed a lot of artists: Kandinsky, Gogol, Majakovski,
Pushkin… and many others. They stayed there idle or lived their artistic
lives. Oh yes, so did Vitalik. Like the rest of his great colleagues
he wasn’t Ukrainian either. His late mother - Lilia Michailovna -
was Russian and his father came from the Baltic state… that means
Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia…hmm, I don’t know exactly… as it is difficult
to guess. Actually, Vitalik didn’t look much Russian - seemed a bit
Northern like with his long nose and a slender body.
A pretty boy
I would say… And talented as well. He was born on February the 19th…
nineteen eighty.... have just forgotten… in a Latvian city Daugavpilse....
or somewhere else. Before he came to school - together with his Granddad
Arkadii Davidovich he mastered all his talents in Odessa. They
played the accordions at the Days of the City – a
big Granddad and a tiny boy just as tall as his
musical instrument. Oh yes, he was an accordion
student for 3 years.
So… as soon as he entered the Odessa art school
the headmaster Anatolii Paduka learnt that he was a gifted kid. One
day Anatolii asked him to perform at a school event. Vitalik thought
a bit and prepared a musical humoresque. Yes, that
was lovely...
When Vitalik was 16 the headmaster
organized Vitalik's show and invited
some of his theatre celebrity friends. Vitalik was dancing, singing
and acting. All who came enjoyed it very much. Soon after, thanks
to one local well-known high life personage called Merkovicz Vitalik
went on stage to perform in ‘Bolero’. Yes, that was
a first big step forward. Then he joined various
theatre ensembles the names of which I don’t
remember now… I think one of them was a summer
theatre… hmm, such a strange name it had…
Whatever, he would have probably acted
in all these theatres till today unless one day a very famous producer
named Sergey Nikolaevich Pudovkin came down from Moscow.
That says
the legend...Born in 1971 a young and clever producer was looking
after NA-NA band that time. Some say he came into the Russian show
business owing to its another bigwig: Bari Karimovich Alibasov. But
just leave it alone…
So there he came to Odessa and happened to see Vitalik on stage. That was... the Experimental Theatre Studio at Odessa
Fine Art Theatre, I think… So, Sergey asked Vitalik if he was going
to visit Moscow in the nearest future… Vitalik had no slightest idea
who this strange man was. Sergey introduced himself… and that how
it all started. He invited Vitalik to Moscow together with some demo-tapes.
Soon Vitalik was on the train with Opera #2 in his pocket. Since that
particular moment Vitalik has been known for all as VITAS.
Oh, by
the way… Sergey hadn’t heard him singing…that day in the theatre. Vitalik ‘was just speaking like a child, then like General Lebed,
then he changed his masks - being an elderly man or
a youngster, being beautiful and in a few seconds
extremely ugly…”
So Vitalik, sorry
- I should say VITAS - moved to Moscow and Odessa story had to end.
Was he happy in Moscow? Oh - that’s another fairy-tale… and maybe
not a fairy-tale at all...indeed... life is a fairy tale but there
is some truth in all fairy tales... isn't there? |
