“Lisa Monde has come to the variety show stage to give it back its lost delights: lovely lyrical mood, melodious elegance, high poetic style, intelligence and a slight touch of gentility … She sings … about solitude, about happy, though might-have-be love, she sings the praises of God, serving without vanity to Her Majesty the Music. Yes, she is not of this world, and shy is interesting because of this. … It seems she should have been bourn in the epoch of Handel, Scarlatti, Schubert and Pergolezi. Maybe, her mission in this world is to tie together the ends of the thread of time which was torn once?”

“She is not seeking for popularity or fame, shi just wants to bring joy to people”.

"She is very young. And too sad for her age”

“She writes poetry in English, French, German and Latin; mystery of foreign speech attracts her.”

“Bright, beautiful and, at the same time, rarely touching and vulnerable she is, Lisa Monde the Singer.”

“Two similes come to one’s mind immediately: the first is, of course, Emma Chaplin, the second is Inva Mula, an Albanian soprano singer . … Maybe, she resembles Diamanda Galas a little bit… Now we have our own representative of such a lovely genre as popular classical music – Lisa Monde. Her voice, absolutely not heart-rending, coloured with mellow timbres, professionally trained voice, effusing without any hint of effort, is able to touch the heart of any fratricide villain and unrepentant traitor… Lisa’s beauty can, actually, make the shadow of Maria Kallas appear, who will by no means come, rustling with her spectral gown, to listen to her potential rival.”

Generally speaking, Lisa’s art can be characterized with the words, which have become fashionable now: formatless and unformatted - though in a good sense, for it is not adapted or adjusted to any standard, existing on any TV channel or radio station. Lisa Monde - a gifted poetess and a talented composer - creates inspired lyrical ballades, which she calls “music for one’s soul”. These are songs of love, solitude, inspiration and other different states of mind – that means, they are based on really everlasting topics that can excite imagination of a really serious and skillful author.

…and here are the words by Sviatoslav Belza, a famous musical reviewer: “How rarely we can see nowadays young musicians who perform their own musical pieces, that are so original and beautiful!”

“Variety show is a popular genre, meant for broad masses, but does it mean, that it is not fit for those performers, who can boast of refined taste, who are really graceful and expressive? The number of really subtle and keen performers has considerably lessened in recent years, and it seems that we cannot expect anything better than very simple, cheep and vulgar songs. However, appearance of such characters as Lisa Monde makes all true connoisseurs of the genre hope for the better”.

“Silent voice, attentive and keen look, irreproachable manner of speaking – this is the portrait of a young girl, who has decided to dedicate herself to music and, wishing to express herself, chosen not one of pop-music trends, but the most difficult genre – the combined one, embracing elements of the Russian city romance, classical ballad and French chanson. She deliberately rejected hasty and short fame and chose her own road to her audience, a long and unusual one… Bright individuality, dissimilitude plus undeniable talent and diligence distinguish Lisa Monde from the uniform mass of “fabricated stars”.

“An elegant young lady with an astonishing timbre and a well-taught voice, charming the audience, she is also a fantastically good company… Lisa Monde writes for herself both music an lyrics… Her compositions combine features of the Russian city song, French chanson and romantic ballade. Now this trend is very fashionable in the world. It is called “crossover”. It is in this genre Lisa Monde creates her compositions, which are at the turn of both academic and popular music.”

“Lisa Monde – a singer, a composer, a poetess – is, undoubtedly, a charismatic person. It is so unusual that such a young girl has such a great power of impact on people, which even famous stars possess but seldom. However, the nature of her impact can be explained not by her vigour and imperiousness that are based on strength, but by her incredible charm, which is truly irresistible. You just have to obey it... …Lisa Monde can be called the first romanticist of the new age and the new page of musical culture of Russia as well as of the new genre, called crossover, which sprang out on the turn of academism, avant-garde and jazz..”

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