Thank you, Terry.

...И Дочь выросла приятная... В родителей!

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Merci a vous.

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I am glad you like it, Alex.

Danke, Omi.

Thank you, Barry. For the listening and for the translation.

I was going to write something about a doting father and a loving daughter - but then I read Mike's disappointing words and thought I'd better write something else! Beautiful lyrics in German and in English!

Well, it is Dimitri who hasn't the contact for years so I doubt that he really has any true information about that. They don't publish their possible contacts in the world news. But, who can say. I also thought how happy and proud was Gedda looking here.

Thank you for watching, Andrea.

I don't understand, Alexander. Explain what? Tania is Nicolai's daughter, if that's what you mean.

Thank you. I was afraid to make a mistake

Hi Mike! This is from Swedish TV show Hylands hörna. Gedda sang Vaterland from the Merry widow, Tania sang Vilja lied and he at the end sang Tonerna. There was also some talk. I am very glad that you like it, dear Mike.

Two years after this, in 1985, I saw both in THE LAND OF SMILES live on stage in Cologne. Nicolai was already 59, but his voice was as youthful and supple as usual. I still remember the beauty of his mezza voce in "Von Apfelblüten einen Kranz" as if it had been yesterday. Tania was amazong too. Some months ago, Gedda's son told me that Nicolai Gedda had no longer contact with his daughter... Mike

Really? That's a pity. How had this happened? I would be very sad if I hadn't the contact with my daughter (or son). So you know his son? I thought that he is in US. Are they in contact?

Yes, he lives in the USA. Dimitri was very kind to me, given me some very personal informations. He told me about his parents, the difficult time of their divorce and some other confidential things. Meanwhile Gedda's second wife Anastasia (mother of Dimitri) passed away. For many years he had not seen his father, since those days Gedda met his now wife Aino. Dimitri has some vague memories of Tolochenaz. As far as he knows, father and daughter also have drifted apart. Don't know the reasons. In Switzerland, Gedda and his wife have a withdrawn life to the exclusion of public.

I have no idea what is she now doing, but I suppose that she is retired. I know that for a time she was a member of Paris opera and she was teaching. I don't even know where she is living.

@@Herur22 Yes, it is hard to believe that year 1983 was not yesterday.

@@trilobit4 Exactly. :)

Yes its difficult to be compared with this fathers.

feel happy you could see and hear that