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Aznavour back on stage in 2011 for possibly last concert
(AFP) - Aug. 2010
PARIS - Charles Aznavour, 86-year-old star of French song, next year
plans to return to the Paris stage that launched his career 55 years
ago, hinting, but not for the first time, it may be his last goodbye.
"I'm coming back to the Olympia theatre. We'll close the circle at the
Olympia because I'll be 87, almost 88. At some point I'll have to stop,"
he said on Europe 1 radio Monday.
After announcing his retirement in 1999, then again in 2000, and
crooning through a farewell foreign tour in 2006, Aznavour went on tour
again in 2007.
Aznavour, who was born to Armenian parents and was last year appointed
ambassador to Switzerland for Armenia, told the radio that this time he
planned to interpret nine new songs among 23 he recently penned.
It will be his first concert in France since 2007 and his first in three
decades at the Olympia.
Asked whether he would announce his retirement during the Olympia
concerts, he merely said "perhaps the star will say an 'au revoir'".
He also plans a new book next year in which "I'll talk about how, like
in everything, age has its springs, its autumns, its winters and
summers."
In an interview with AFP in 2007, Aznavour, who's sold more than a
million records and composed close to 1,000 songs, said: "It's true the
tours are getting shorter ... There'll come a day when I forget the
words and stumble on stage -- then I'll stop."
From: A. Papazian
(AFP) - Aug. 2010
PARIS - Charles Aznavour, 86-year-old star of French song, next year
plans to return to the Paris stage that launched his career 55 years
ago, hinting, but not for the first time, it may be his last goodbye.
"I'm coming back to the Olympia theatre. We'll close the circle at the
Olympia because I'll be 87, almost 88. At some point I'll have to stop,"
he said on Europe 1 radio Monday.
After announcing his retirement in 1999, then again in 2000, and
crooning through a farewell foreign tour in 2006, Aznavour went on tour
again in 2007.
Aznavour, who was born to Armenian parents and was last year appointed
ambassador to Switzerland for Armenia, told the radio that this time he
planned to interpret nine new songs among 23 he recently penned.
It will be his first concert in France since 2007 and his first in three
decades at the Olympia.
Asked whether he would announce his retirement during the Olympia
concerts, he merely said "perhaps the star will say an 'au revoir'".
He also plans a new book next year in which "I'll talk about how, like
in everything, age has its springs, its autumns, its winters and
summers."
In an interview with AFP in 2007, Aznavour, who's sold more than a
million records and composed close to 1,000 songs, said: "It's true the
tours are getting shorter ... There'll come a day when I forget the
words and stumble on stage -- then I'll stop."
From: A. Papazian