What the Papers say about Alex Prior... (continued)

19 July 2004 Rossiyaskaya Newspaper "Following in the footsteps of Pavarotti" Great great grandson of Constantine Stanislavsky, Alex Prior, sang for Meryl Streep at the closure of Moscow Film Festival. Recently he won an International Gold medal at the Llangollen Eisteddfod in Wales. It was on this stage where young Luciano Pavarotti started his international music career. Since then, the stage in Llangollen is considered to bring luck to those making their debuts.....

"Meryl Streep kneeled in front of him"

"If anybody had not heard about Alex Prior before, then after transmission of the Award ceremony of the 26th Moscow International Film Festival everybody knows him. 11 year old Alex Prior is a singing sensation..."
Natalia Zimyanina
Evening Moscow 2.7.04

"The closing ceremony of the 26th Moscow International Film Festival at the end of last month was a triumphant affair....  Meryl Streep was on hand to bring a touch of American-style glamour to the proceedings. She was collecting a lifetime achievement award for dedication to the Stanislavsky acting method from the great man’s great-grandson, Alex Prior - a precocious 11-year-old who brought the actress to her knees with an out-of-the-blue rendition of O Sole Mio. "

"In from the cold at last" 
by Roger Cox
17.7.04

Caption: "Meryl Streep , Alex Prior (great greatgrandson of Stanislavskiy who gave the actress the Award "I believe it!"), Nikita Mikhalkov and Meryl's daughter Mimi at the reception after the ceremony."
Anthena Newspaper. 1.7.06

"From all of the singers who performed "for everybody and made all to weep", I will name Dmitriy Hvorostovskiy's concert on Red Square of war-time songs, and the performance of young Alex Prior at the award ceremony of The Moscow Film Festival."

Natalia Zimianina

Evening Moscow
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9 July 2004

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It's a sweltering Sunday evening in Moscow's Pushkin cinema, and a small English boy is on stage singing O Solo Mio to Meryl Streep at the volume of a jet-aircraft. The event is the closing ceremony of the 26th Moscow Film Festival, the bonsai crooner is 11-year-old Alex Prior (a descendant of Russian acting guru Konstantin Stanislavsky, and a darling in Russia), and Miss Streepova – as she sweetly refers to herself – is there to collect a lifetime achievement award named after the great man.

"Meryl Streep was at the 26th Moscow International Festival from the beginning to the end, and even closed it very touchingly. Before she closed the Festival she received from the hands of the great great grandson of Konstantin Stanislavsky, 11 year old Alex Prior, a special prize for high achievement in acting. And Alex gave her another present  - a wonderful Neapolitan song."
Translation from Newspaper Rossia, 2.7.04

"While the young singer was singing "O Sole Mio", Meryl Streep was struggling to control her emotions, so much was she overwhelmed by them..."
Gazetta Gazetta 28.06.04

"As a surprise for the great actress (Meryl Streep) the great great-grandson of Konstantin Stanislavsky - 11 year old singer from London Alex Prior appeared on stage. He is known around the world as a new Robertino Loretti.  Rossiskaya Newspaper has already written about this unique and undisputable talent. But most of the audience heard his powerful voice for the first time, and heard his address to Meryl Streep "O Sole Mio" as some kind of miracle; the emotional star even kneeled in front of this boy"
Valerie Kitchin
Rossiskaya Gazeta,28.06.04

"..there is little doubt that the sheer size of Prior's voice is remarkable"

Opera Now
July/August 2004

"..such an extraordinarily powerful and beautiful operatic voice at the age 11. If you close your eyes and listened, you'd think you were in the presence of a fully grown tenor"

The Sunday Telegraph Magazine
13 July 2004

"Great great-grandson of Stanislavsky might be bigger than Elton John and Hose Carreras"

Translation from Russian Newspaper Smena, St Petersburg.
31 March 2004

"..this young singer has definitely got his heart in what he is doing....The voice is rich and natural."

The Singer magazine
December 2003

"Alex Prior is making waves in the world of classical music... Alex was met with a storm of applause by 2700 people in the Isaac Stern room at Carnegie Hall."

Royal Berkshire Magazine
Winter 2003

"When you see him singing in front of thousands people, you realise that whatever he does in his future life he will be a winner, and he will always carry with him the Russian culture which he understands so deeply"

from "The great grand son of Russian Culture", Persona Magazine
January 2004 (translated from Russian)