Australian operatic duo La Spina have taken the Iron Maiden classic `Run To The Hills` to the opera.
"People are going to love it or people are going to hate it. So be it. That's the beauty of music," Rosario La Spina tells Undercover News.Tenor Rosario La Spina has teamed up with his pop-infused sister Anna-Maria La Spina for an amazing new album merging the pop and operatic world. Anna-Maria was a backing singer with Savage Garden. The Savage Garden band perform on the La Spina album with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to create a big sound.
The Iron Maiden metal classic was an easy choice for La Spina, and Rosaria tells Undercover he chose it himself. "I have a very wide range of music that I listen to," he says. "I pretty much love any sort of music. I always had a thing for these heavy metal singers, how they could sing for so long and the way that they sang and how they could get through these concerts without bleeding. When I heard the song by Iron Maiden that I absolutely adore, I thought, strangely enough in my weird little way, it sounds quite operatic. If you stripe everything away and just listen to the melody, that to me to my ear sounds quite operatic and huge. Also the story is fantastic about the native Indians in America. It is a powerful song".
The opera star introduced the song to his sister who became fascinated with the sad story behind the lyrics. "When you sit down and read the lyrics it could have you in tears what they did to these people," she says. "The way Steve Harris from Iron Maiden wrote this song, it is so sad".
For Rosario, great music is great music no matter what the genre. "These guys to me are as great a composer as anybody," he says. "I have great respect for these guys. They have been around for years and there is a reason for that and that is because the music is quality. People are going to love it or people are going to hate it. So be it. That's the beauty of music".
