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2. so. the evolution. to me. i think illness is a one off his voice has a power and

a beauty combined and he's so musical and speaks all these languages and he's like he has it all the thing about you know the skull from and is that he's a phenomenally intelligent guy he thinks about everything i mean of course he's a good looking very handsome 10 are very often they are fed up you are not so good looking and he has everything you know must have gone through a rough patch i mean there's not been well so there's a lot of expectation and we're all rooting for him you know where he fits in the pantheon of the great tennis certainly he's one for the ages no question. was.

you know scott is arguably the greatest singer of his generation. at the royal opera house called the garden he's been tackling one of the most taxing roles in italian opera there. in the final hour before going on stage there was a little piece in his dressing room one thing for that chair. to inform you that yes to transfer privacy yet it just surprises you it comes right it's it comes right up there but give it a. fair go to find a way to make that work here. you are you know our. benefit. here. like what we're. doing just trying not to break into song is harder. this story so it is certainly not that easy for to me. at least already scores of you know all the most incredible

officer of the old. otello is seen as the everest a role that requires a certain amount of self torture and of course physically that can cramp you up. it is not so fun to play once you know how to deal with it vocally and how to somehow control your emotions then it's it's it's fantastic well i found yes i did oh. yes and this is a. no no this was recently a half men. talking to people with this issue and it's wonderful. i don't know. yet. 4 minutes before the opera is due to start it's off the stage nothing can be left to

chart. yes was up his arrival as the victorious general will be precisely 4 minutes into the opera with his song of triumph a soul totty rejoice but the performance can't begin until he's in position in the wings only then can shakespeare's manipulator jago launch the evening's drama with the 2 multiple storm at sea. back stage one minute 20 seconds off to the start the dull from the wings flew open and confident in full costume sprinted away from the stage all the way back to his dressing he'd forgotten his sword is that i'm i'll be back in a sec and they were on the shock i mean everyone to dress or. the makeup lady. the stage hands of the stage manager states just death toll has never been a make. any

. i mean haven't i no developer up well enough to know that i'm if i really run up and i run down i'm gonna make it and time. maybe if it didn't sweat on the forehead no one noticed that well you come from battlefield obviously you can be out of breath why not. earth. her. was was. was.

was. god. you missed the dressing room i went back upstairs or difficult so what i just showed up there to pick up every cue instinct to stop a many seconds that you have before that starts again i don't know i mean i didn't have to stop at all i just could easily go in and start. the. house on those not amount to lose is not unlike some other sort. of sick of you has this this habit to just call it. not stopping from just your mind just go straight on stage because the stress is about to be in the way things and waiting

to go that is actually not my problem but. laziness obviously is. that was stupid why don't you go without it no i cannot go on without a soul dumb and as a toddler with godless old. few in his home city of munich would accuse you of being lazy across 18 months he recently chalked up 13 different operas around the world as well as dozens of concerts and some recitals he stopped by fountains wherever he goes he knows all about them mines hit them because he is one himself my name is carl funny ever since he was a boy he's back to his home team and by noon this is perfect on this occasion he reckoned their opponents hamburg guess the were in for a roasting over the hill. and he was proud to show off the byron stadium boys are better is it

a place most singers would run a mile from if you come and you think i have to save some ways because i have to the roots of the war or whatever you can't i mean you simply can't i mean it's i mean everybody who is into football knows that this board's i mean to you cannot stand still you can just silently watch a game. compared with the 75000 fans in the stadium the royal albert hall in london boasts a mere 5 and a half 1000 but on television and radio millions more across the world waiting for your own star turn at the last night of the proms the 1st time a german singer had been booked for rule britannia yet of course i know the melody of course everybody knows that we've been talking about i have no clue about the text honestly. all the other nations are. for to try rather than so it's quite

a young strong well i mean someone in the years ago. he was very particular about the drive to the hall to be sure he arrived after the audience was safely inside he always has fan mail waiting for him in his dressing room but this time a rule britannia veteran had left him a present to set the tone for the family get out of here. first. yeah well next time the previous year when i had been the last of the promise my wife would give me a pair of union jack boxer shorts to give me inspiration for the evening and so i thought it might be a nice idea to continue this tradition oh goodness this may not be the only underwear you receive for. strangest thing excuse me.

you know this 05 minute call minutes. thank you. so much choosing oh yeah oh. oh. oh yes you get it. all right i'm. very. 6 very discouraged. i thought.

it's amazing to have all these people standing just like next to you have to the stage it's fantastic it's intimate not at all there's a barrier. oh so they can't lie but. you know it's not if if an audience would be intimidated i think you shouldn't be a performer you on folds only in front of the building. it's very boring to see you're dressed. what makes somebody stand out is ultimately ultimately is the quality of the voice. but what is the quality of the ways is it just what you're given by the guy upstairs or is it something that is potential that we then develop and hone oh let's not go to this. because i think that's what it really is and it's that and the personality behind the voice that is projected. to go on.

and not. going to the opera world has a certain stake in his success you know all the big opera houses certainly do and you know you want somebody like that to succeed. at the peak of his success on his part of the opera direct to christiania lutes live in munich. it's where he was born in his student singing days the café louis told was a regular haunt. but for years he was a prophet without on a in his own city or his own opera house i sang a total of 4 performances for performances in 15 years the mystery i mean there really is that because i mean identity in 2000 for me or a couple. of 2006 singing. at the met a man and that was it and so along with already

a law scholar and so on so i mean it's every major house yet known song they all realized and except for munich. you know early february his star status was recognized at the barbican center in london in what they called the cosman residency tool kestrel concerts a public discussion with young singers and 1st stop a song recital that very evening with his pianist doidge so you know i was once a reverse structure where it is a success for you just to sit down have a quick chat with your afternoon chair yeah you see i'm not in time for you 2 to reverse not for 3 hours i mean why would i. for the bar become and for him it was a high wire act especially since he'd been out of action for several months with a vocal injury. were far short of everything.

shared. her. boss with the partnership of helmut deutsch likes to switch from the heroic roles of grand opera to the intimacy of the song recital. these fantastic he's coming to now e.d.s. and can't so that's where. he's popped it was the handsome wonderful on stage that's like jesus christ i was thinking it's really exciting he's actually had singing tonight yeah i. guess. you there when you know yeah. my pants are falling for you but he never eat a proper breakfast and still most everybody is waiting to see whether he still deserves that title the world's greatest ted thank. you.

earth was. going to. walk all over. the last time cost money and deutsche had performed together was in south america the previous oldest was well callistemon noticed a vocal problem. at 1st there was no cause for alarm but it turned out to be

serious we had to reside in some paulo which was pretty well and very very good and the next one was in. lima and he didn't feel comfortable is it i don't want to say once what's wrong and 2 days later it was but his eyes it was up again it was very very very good and then it goes down again 0 and then his doctor found the reason for this bunch of beacher and imperiled saludos they stayed bail much of peter was very prompt after journeying to high altitude in the andes much you picture itself is 2 and a half 1000 metres above sea level the trouble with his voice began it ruled out old performances for a period that in the end lasted 5 months. it's very simple a tiny little blood vessel popped open and vocal chords vibrate so many times per minute and they touch each other each and every time and if something goes wrong

there. it cannot heal on its own when you don't know it and you don't leave it alone meaning when you don't shut up completely. miss. it was step wise it was not ok you have to rest 3 months it was ok 2 weeks maybe maybe a little bit more and then another 2 weeks and then 3 weeks and didn't know. her. dreams. this was just. popping open several times and also there i was in singing at all i just i'm sick to dinner table and talk to friends and from one second to the other think what happened. so.

it's just constantly. in just a. treadmill waiting to finally find the exit. it's. this. one positive thing obviously was i was home and i saw my kids much more than the last couple of years so it was a nice side effect but still i prefer to have performed

a mystery the path to the top hasn't been easy 20 years ago with a punishing show juloos a young opera singer in germany he found he was horribly in trouble and lost confidence everything i even lost my was on stage during a performance i couldn't sing out into to conduct and looked at me like hey what's going on and i i can't i couldn't. housman found a new teacher who showed him how to avoid vocal stress by relaxing the roots of his tongue and keeping his larynx down it was the making of him for the 1st time have a probably i had a reliable instrument even though it was still edgy and it was not around at all hi i could sing on and on and on and wouldn't get tired the day after the 2nd barbican concert hall wagner he had the opportunity for some maintenance ok you know yes until the shooter. on the street it you feel cool

around the corner and you know it's a nice enough looking out for you but. it's incredibly physical pursuit and you know the muscular work is enormous like a sportsman one is alert to any hint of a physical problem the next one is monday so i mean it's a quite some here i do know is a little bit there but also where there are any and everything you only see is to sit you've enough to realize that the larynx isn't moving as freely as he would walk probably the best analogy is a sports car where the handbrake is on slightly and you're just not getting the performance you would expect out of the vehicle and also get you from a to b. but what you're expecting is something that is far more responsive now as soon as we release those tight muscles then the performance returns to the voice box one before yeah as. his reward afternoon tea at his westminster hotel

where he briefed his press agent thomas full ahead of the 3rd barbican event the following day. helper the shining that i was bad cough today i don't know why maybe i overdid it yesterday. but it's getting better but he's great guy just great yeah it. next afternoon was his conversation with students from the guild hall school of music but the morning brought unwelcome news for the audience. we won the title just about stakes we did one from wednesday whether that was cold in the offing is that you see why all this being following his health on line for what is assisting the state of the issue now is just to pray that eunice is well for the stars for our songs monday monday's concert was planned as the climax of the cult one season. the full hour songs by lee card strauss are

a cornerstone of the soprano repertoire nobody can remember them being tackled by a tenor before. but at the start of the rehearsal on the saturday it became clear that once health was still in doubt. so i shall say hello from your nasa just send me an e-mail was a few marks which we can already put into scores on our parts i take press but he wants to go on so i think it's a good sign for tomorrow that he will be here at least. or yes or at least on on on monday even if. by the time your can read arrived on the monday the cold turned into bronchitis and the bronchitis want. to go. most difficult situations for us inside if no i mean he's he so wanted to do yeah and i actually thought he might finally almost force himself to do it which was. next time we have to be sure that

he won't talk to people i mean fans or or or you know 3 months later and fully recovered and was back in london for his big operatic challenge that is all tell us your god i'm sure protocol weeks of intense rehearsal and a major psychological challenges one is a musical one guided by the conductor until a new partner and the director keith morning. are tellers spazz with his evil nemesis jago sung here by mark over tanya. hammer just to paste the drama without too much happening too soon but it's a question that is loud ready which i think. for to david any did. walk. yes there are slow. going carney oh. oh.

the problem is only i mean if we get to physical to comment at that that's why i really thought about your it's words at the moment yeah i think it's important to keep the onus stimulated musically dramatically because he can take that little bit of information and then build a house out of it he. says he more and more for sure. ya go professes his loyalty. but also tell who has to decide whether he's friend or foe. which.

i think jealousy is exactly what y'all go is planting and i'll tell those mind and let's just see it work when you step by step by step the suggestion is that all tell is new wife is having an affair tello is told but demands proof. was.

very good if you've done that you should know just as they're going to come in and turn them around. she walks down stage looking beautiful so you and he just hold in there and if he tries to resist it you know just hold him and whisper all the shit into his. all so couldn't go reaching all over. in maison concentration he has amazing concentration on on everything and that's why i think this is one of his powers to seize power to concentrate it's almost like send buddhism i think cost money and a little money of best book we're rehearsing for a concert and i'm still done one of the highlights was the great love duet from otello it came to weeks before the operas opening night at covent garden with

a difference a promise. they say it's. supposed to be quite surprising this tuomo s. to come out of nowhere i don't know it's still not not true to scare off you know

well no no that's why everybody says that's a quarter from their bones on these people yeah these people make trouble all the time. was. born. an absolutely fabulous year. for the company guardian i'll tell us bridles besides why the italian is from an aggressive. the in. the in. the the. 2 they. are the only.

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stone. the whole plot of the teller turns on does damon is handkerchief jago will produce this love token from a husband as the apparent proof of her adultery but 1st as damon has to lose it how is the problem so you don't need to throw it when you can do. well that's what it's i mean that's what it says i know but it's i think throw it back to her is what i would do and they are going to just let it go from there it just drops out of your hand.

you know. it's a tiny detail but critical to the plot and takes up a quarter of an hour of this rehearsal and you think that was there with that hanky i mean i we both believe that she would take more care because it's i've heard it's it's the symbol of of the love of her life and everything how my dad was like to her well i tell you what probably throw it down that me. if you don't feel he's being argumentative or difficult or easy you know he's searching to find out what this is about and the course you know any directory things you go to all the answers is a fool it's funny i love the idea of her just drops out of it but anyway good. well but if it doesn't it guys stay with it for a day after if it doesn't work because it does it's very clear here it is very

clear what you're doing it's very clear. the toughest role in this city would be enough for most of us. but at the same time one of the big challenges thank the one concern about. the song and the love direct from deep. with it's hair raising cries of hillsong. val's you know those 2 veils are just. you know i mean held in half an hour it is sort of a tradition with that if you listen to the now they are recording where he halted for 11 seconds all tenors are like thanks yeah so everybody is that those valves are famous for. for people wanting to show their. big voice.

over it is a response credible but i mean it's you see i mean i checked the facts and it's 14 years ago that are saying the last time here i'm still. i was always praising this hole because it's so beautiful and because he was oh perfect i mean obviously super enthusiastic in every. part of history books. all the parts no. no we broke our stuff you see i'm. those super enthusiastic sounds almost part of the entourage which concert promoters and he himself after money even on stage the

admiration can become obsessive there's never been a performance of tosca like that in vienna in 2016. was. her. have. been used to be quite popular that people would ask for an encore but. in this case i was just blown away because i didn't make any arrangements with the conductor. i just realized after a while actually after about what 5 or 6 minutes. of applause i can't get away from that i mean it's just and i had to start laughing as this

moment where you can see me actually smiling because i thought boy i mean this is this is really happening i cannot stay longer in the park. and of course that that encouraged them to even clap more and cheer and. it was it was really really really wonderful moment because this is because i still did not have because of you and i would try. to repeat and i love that you know i mean it rarely happens but you know there is a limit of circus in what we do and it's great and it's a show it's a it's it's a sign of generosity towards the public.

the trouble is that on cool's are not always popular with all the singers. this is the moment of his love for tosca sung by the soprano angela guild you is due on stage to rescue him from the firing squad. and now i realize she's not there she's supposed to be here with the guards and. this is one we actually embrace each other and i look over there i look twice i look 3 times i know she's not coming. the conductor is still very confident because he did hasn't looked up. and yeah i have to stop him and some boy.

will not be on once upon. the funny thing is you can still hear the violence. 2 because they are still in hope that it might contain there and then he realizes there is no way we have to stop it was less to cause me to explain to the audience in these words fail me i'm sure it's the same for you but now i see the signal that we can continue my apologies we wanted to do it so nicely in a single take. second time lucky. even though the embrace of the end came early. house among remains diplomatic about what's gone wrong the killer explained no.

most really i mean i i don't want to get too much into it. we are not in agreement shoes faultiness let's put it that way. aaron.

yaga's web of deceit has now wound up to wreak terrible vengeance on his innocent wife martial abuse becomes not. i usually have no problem and slipping out of character to couldn't falls and you're back in your private life but with this last scene it really hit home song for you always a little bit yeah and a strange mood. there's a lot of emotional violence also in the music and this is something that can really affect you and because it is difficult it's not scheduled voice affected too much by.

was 3 hours worth of things i'm sure. first of the ones an hour from now. ok put them somewhere here he pieces because that will be a surprise of course i did another one here. might be very unflattering. to seek a. thank . thank. you when he leaves covent garden late at night you know scotland has one final duty to perform but once again

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