Exclusive Roger Waters interview
Written by Matt   
Thursday, 24 November 2005

Following his two consecutive performances of Ça Ira last week, Roger Waters chatted with our friend Mark Cunningham, who is the editor of Total Production International magazine.

Roger Waters
Roger Waters
The full interview, available here exclusively, is an interesting look at the preparations for, and performance of, the opera, and reiterates Roger's views of the work, how the musicians were in Rome, and what he thinks of the critics - particularly the ones who liken the work to something that Andrew Lloyd Webber might have created!

With thanks to Mark, we can exclusively bring you the whole interview. An edited version will appear in TPI magazine at some point around Christmas, but you can read it now - click here to read the interview.

Here's a taster:

    "...No, it's not about playing safe and I fully expected to see the knives come out. But I'm happy to say that the knives have been on the dull side, by and large. There's been very little written that's been very dismissive of it. I think there's enough in it musically to prevent them from just saying it's crap. They can accuse it of being crude or that it has relentless crescendos - all those kinds of criticisms - but they can't write it off as not being relevant to the place in which they live. And I'm happy with that."
Our thanks to Mark for allowing the interview to be shared with you all.

(Picture by Jimmy Ienner, Jr., and © 2005 Columbia Records & Sony Classical. Used strictly with permission - no unauthorised use allowed.)