how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized fairly early that it makes sense to explain different realities. and now here at the heart of the european union in brussels we have 28 different realities and so i think people are really looking forward and need journalists they can trust for them to make sense of. in the box office work at the w.

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a one off his horse has a power and a beauty combined and he 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 or very often they are fair aki or not so good looking and he has everything you know as has 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 tenors certainly he's one for the ages no question.

busy you know scott is arguably the greatest singer of his generation. at the royal opera house cotton 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 fact check no no to a few years to turn so proud to say yes he just surprises you it comes right it's a comes right up to it but give it a. busy carrot gotta find a way to make that work because here. you are. there do. you. like what we're. doing just try not to break into all this power to us through this story so i discerned that easy for 3. of these are

a score for the north the most incredible affair of all. 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 have fun yes i did oh well enough on saturday. and this is. going to. be a half men. talking jason people with this issue it's wonderful. i don't know. yet. 4 minutes before the opera is due to start. off for the stage nothing can be left

a chance. yes was up his arrival as the victorious general will be precisely 4 minutes into the opera with his song of child's 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 sought the dull from the wings flew open and caught fun in full costume sprinted away from the stage all the way back to his dressing room he'd forgotten his sword as it 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 and the stage manager states just that thought i had never been a make.

i may have been i know double probe 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 when i. heard. her. was.

god i. missed the dressing room i went back upstairs or forgot so i just shut up get it. directly on stage for his talk i'm getting seconds if you have before you have to start singing i don't know i mean i didn't have to stop at all i just could easily go in and start. the. house members not amount to lose is not unlike some of the. sick of he has this this habit to just call. not stopping from just the room and just go straight on stage because the stress is about to be in the way things and quite into don't that is actually

not my problem but it laziness a business. that was stupid why don't you go without it no i cannot go on without a soul diamond as a toddler without a sold. a 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 song recitals he stopped by fountains wherever he goes he knows all about them and said yeah because he is one himself my name is carl funk ever since he was a boy he's back to his home team and buy a new unit that's perfect on this occasion he reckoned their opponents hamburg asthe were in for a roasting over the oh. 000-000-0000 extension 0000 . and he was proud to show off the byron stadium boys are back about 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 go bruce a 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 boards i mean you 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 start time at the last night of the proms the 1st time a german singer had been booked for rule britannia yeah of course i know the melody of course everybody knows the river tunnel but i had no clue about the text honestly. all the other nations on the 4th force with high rather that it's quite young strong well i mean someone in the years ago.

he was very particular about the drive to the whole to be sure he arrived after the audience was safely inside. he always has found mail waiting for him in his dressing room but this time rupert 10 year veteran left him a present to set the tone for the evening get out of here box 30. first. yeah well next time the previous year when i have been at the last i've promised my wife to 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 i really just may not be the only underwear you receive from. strangest thing excuse me.

you know this see the 5 minutes 4 minutes. thank you. so much shoes oh yeah oh. oh. yes you get it. all right. oh. yeah. oh yes. i thought

through. it's amazing to have all these people standing just what next to do you have the stage it's fantastic isn't it not at all there's a barrier. so they can't climb 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. this very boring to see your person. 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 boom in his student singing days the cafe louis told was a regular homes. 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 they've been so great i mean they're really missed it because i mean i debit it in 2004 and for a couple. of 2006 and. at the met i mean and that was it and along with

already a lot scala and so on so i mean it's if they may just house again and so on they all realize that 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 recitals that very evening with his pianist. so you guys want to stretch where it is some stages to sit down have a quick chat with the afternoon chair yeah you see i'm not in time to do 2 group reverse not for you know 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. screw were far short of everything.

shared. with the partnership of helmut deutsch on likes to switch from the heroic roles of grand opera to the intimacy of the song recital. this fantastic he's coming to now eat ass and shit so that's where. he's parked it was the hands wonderful on stage that's like jesus christ i was. reading such things actually and singing tonight yes. yes. never you know yes. let me drop my pants are falling. but he never really took off for breakfast so still most everybody is waiting to see whether he's still to the title of world's great stuff.

oh. come on i'm going to. our lord. the last time cost money and deutsche had performed together was in south america the previous oldest thought was well talisman 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 at the next one was in. lima and he didn't feel comfortable as i don't want to see what's 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 was down again so and then his doctor found their reason for this bunch of beacher and impaired saludos they stayed bail much of peter was very prompt. after journeying to high altitude in the undies not you picture itself is 2 and a half 1000 meters 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. unrelated. to this. 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 then. her . eyes was just. popping open several times and also there i was in singing at all i just i'm use it to dinner table and talk to friends and from one second to the other think what happened next. so.

it's just constantly. in this a. treadmill waiting to finally find the exit. the. well the 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 preferred to have performed almost. the

path to the top hasn't been easy 20 years ago with a punishing shuttle as 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 and into to conduct a 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 probably i had a reliable instrument even though it was still edgy and it was not around at all the high i could sing on and on and on and wouldn't get tired the day after the 2nd bar become concert all wagner he had the opportunity for some maintenance ok there is no you can see to shoot through. the straightest you

feel the pull around the corner that you know it's nice to know looking out for you but. it's an 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 went to a quite some here i do know is a little bit bigger but also where there are any and everything you only see is perceptive enough to realize that the larynx isn't moving his freely as he would like 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 are expecting is something that is far more responsive and as soon as we release those tight muscles then the performance returns to the voice works wonderful or yeah as. his reward afternoon tea at his westminster hotel

where he briefed his press agent thomas fault ahead of the 3rd barbican event the following day. helper to shanghai was bad cough today i don't know why maybe i overdid it yesterday. but it's getting better but he's great that guy just great hit. next afternoon with his conversation with students from the guild hall school of music but the morning brought unwelcome news for the audience. he won the title stakes we did wonder wednesday whether that was cold in the offing situ is why all this week following his health online through was assisting the state the issue now is just to pray that you notice as well for the stress for us on monday monday's concert was planned as the climax of the moon sees. the full last songs by lee called strauss are

a cornerstone of the soprano repertoire nobody can remember them being tackled by a 10 a before. but at the start of the rehearsal on the saturday it became clear that cuff one's 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 scored 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 at least on monday even if. by the time your can read a ride 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 oh you know 3 months later and fully recovered and was back in london for his big operatic challenge then he's all tell us to do it oh i don't know. 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. teller's 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 and ready which i think. for to david any to. walk oh. yes there are slow. going priorities oh. oh.

the problem is that if we get too physical too soon amen to that that's why i don't really know it's 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 she told him to see more and more of her sure. jago professes his loyalty. but also tello has to decide whether he's friend or foe .

well. i think your jealousy is exactly what ya go is planting in all 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 tell who is told but demands proof. was.

very good if you've done that you should know just as they will come 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 balls. ok. that's right. let it all so ok go pretty low. in amazing concentration he has amazing concentration on on everything and that's why i think this is one of his big powers this power to concentrate it's almost like sandwiches and i think cost money and even earlier this 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 2 weeks before the operas opening night at covent garden with

a difference a promise. to . drink. a day. this has to be quite surprising this tuomo as to come out of nowhere i don't know it's still not not to to scare off you know well no no that's why everybody says

that's a quarter from their bones on these people they are just people make trouble all the time. was. born. absolutely fabulous job. for the company guarding a challenge privacy side by the italian the from address. the in. the the. 2 new. the only ha

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a one you. a. stone . the whole plot of a teller who 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 where you can do. it 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. to do what.

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 hank you know i mean i we both believe that she would take more care because it's i mean her it's it's the symbol of of the love of her life and everything actually to her well i tell you what probably throw it down that me. if you don't feel he's being argumentative or difficult to really think you know he's searching to find out what this is about a new 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 a 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 would be an off the most serious. look at the same time one of the big challenges. of the world can see the problems to the sun beloved direct from deep. with its hair raising cries of fill some. valves you know those 2 valves are just. you know i mean held them half an hour it is sort of a tradition with that if you listen to the male who 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.

raising response very 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 hall because it's so beautiful and the christie was oh perfect i mean obviously the super introduced to get everyone. to sing books. was the part 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 other racial can become obsessive there's

never been a performance of tosca like that in vienna in 2016. 30 was . some of the. have. been used to be quite popular that people would ask for for an encore but. they were 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 with 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 and it was it was really really really wonderful moment because this is because i still did not have because of drama would try. to repeat and i love that you know i mean it rarely happens but you know there is an element 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 cools are not always popular with all the singers. this is the moment of his love of tosca sung by the soprano angela guild you just you 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 oh. yeah i have to stop him and some boy.

you know. one of them once upon. the funny thing is you can still hear the violence. because they are still in hope that it might have been doing there and then you realize that there's no way we have to stop it was left to cause to explain to the audience finished 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 like. ease of the embrace and the end came early. house man remains diplomatic about what's gone wrong to kill or explain no. not

really i mean i i don't want to get too much into it. we are not. and agreements shoes fall today sluts put it that way. earthier. all.

ya goes web of deceit has now wound up to wreak terrible vengeance on his innocent wife marital abuse becomes nada. 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 quite a while you're always a little bit yeah and a strange mood. there's a lot of emotional violence also in the news and this is something that can really affect you and whom will because it is difficult not to get your voice affected too much by.

thwaite through how you. thank you thank you. for the ones anonymous right now. ok put them somewhere like your p.c. p.c. . that will be a surprise of course i'm going to another one here. might be very unflattering. to seek a. thank you thank. you when he leaves covent garden late at night

you know scotland has one final duty to perform but once you give it up then nothing ha ha ha ha he's in the same league as you child no pavarotti placido domingo is until the career in his late forty's is still growing into next big mountains i will have to climb gotten high as a and tristan apart from wagner do you like the thought of doing crossover music what does cross over to me what does cross over to you i mean i cannot say no under no circumstances because maybe next week i mean to go in a pub and we become friends and ultimately i realise that he's a famous pop star and can record something to get. her. heard.

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