Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our castaway is the International Operatic Base, Bodies Christoph.

And Mr. Christoph, is the story of Robinson Crusoe read in your native Bulgaria?

I read the sister in Bulgaria surely when I was child.

Have you ever imagined yourself as a Robinson Crusoe?

It was my wish to imagine myself in this occasion, but it's not coming never

What's the first record you've chosen the art of the age?

The first record may we try to play the Frischitz and in a special way the

scene the making of the magic bullet.

Oh yes, that's a very exciting scene.

Exciting thing and I want to tell you why is important for me this recording.

Yes, why do you choose it?

It was the first opera I heard ever.

I'm going with my mother and I heard his supper and made to me so strong impression that at the

and my mother was quite preoccupied of the exciting.

How old were you?

I've been maybe at 13, about 13, 12, 13 years old.

It's a good exciting opera for a boy of 13.

Let's listen to that scene.

Sikes! Lights! The The Sardi, Sardi, R.

Sardi, R. C. Aye.

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