Valentina Lisitsa tells her story - 20230505 - Pangea Grandangolo

Ninety-seventh episode of Pangea Grandangolo, an international press review for Byoblu TV channel, aired on 05/05/2023. Excerpts from the interview done by Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti: “In the Soviet Union classical music was strongly sponsored. I received a very high quality education in a music school; I studied at the Russian Piano School. Despite being the daughter of simple proletarian parents, I was able to study for free with the best teachers. Then the dissolution of the Soviet Union came upon us like a boulder. You are in a country that is no longer what you knew, among people who do not care about what you do. The only way was to get out of that place.” “We considered ourselves lucky, my future husband and I, to win the Piano Competition in the United States in 1991. We were elated, we were more American than most Americans. And we forgot about our native country. We believed every word that was said on television. This terrible disconnect between what you see and what you know has been