but we begin with the brigance festival in austria on lake constance i'm literally on by constance the audience sits on the shoreline and the stage is on the lake lending itself to amazing productions which of course include the water and the incredible backdrop as part of its role for the performers in brigance it's quite a stretch as they have to do things they certainly never learned to college especially this year as the director is better known for making heavy metal videos this is opera like you've never seen before. had a soft spot for new voices in fragrance even for these young birds whose nest is inside a head it's part of the stage 6 it's a kind of scary clown some 14 meters high and weighing 140 tons moved with heavy machinery he sang on so singers who were moved along with it have to be totally safe we have wind with the waves and making sure that it really works and

works in a magical way the way it has to be on the lake stage was the biggest challenge i am making and the head does become magical it turns into rigoletto the jester who makes a fool of himself in the course of the opera a tragic fall since the story ends badly that's why in this production the head is not only moved it's taken apart dismantled becoming addicts head. rigoletto as daughter gilda has the musical high point melissa pity sings her aria norma from on high.

overall. it was. it's just very intense because you're not used to be high and so the breath can be sometimes you know a little bit unstable as you're literally flying in the air so it moves and if there is a little bit of wind you will you will feel it right away. just story is about power and abuse the juke of mantua commits right and those who stand in his way i've done away with this production is directed by philip stewart's better known for his music videos for ramstein and he's used to drastic imagery here in break ins to putting birdies written into the present day. this is the heart of this of the story so it was obvious to me that this is absolutely the right opera for them. so. it's a piece that's about a piece of power and sexual dependency making it's about how powerful men sexually

exploit the lower classes thanks to all sports and let's down you know brotha to this way. this is the 50th anniversary of the stumble riots in new york city when gay lesbian and transgender groups stood up against constant harassment from the police and it led to the start of the gay liberation movement society thankfully has come a long way since then but the l.g.b. t.q. movement still fights for equal rights my guest is canadian musician summons lawyer who has an album called homotopy here's a song is getting at play right now in germany called get a baby. will you be my. new

30. and joining me now in the studio is the man himself sam bacile oh thank you for coming thanks very much for having that song about gay couples adopting. child is just one example of the album the record is pretty monothematic a clear statement of intent i would say in today's society here why did you feel the need to stay on the one subject. well 1st of all the title is too good not to not to go with it and and the 2nd thing is that we like to pretend that perhaps because we have gay marriage now we've we've finished whatever fight there is going on as you pointed out before before interviews were hanging out actually germany has become a less safe place on the gay travel index for queer people that doesn't suggest

that any fight is over quite yet. is the 50th anniversary of the stonewall riots this year you're too young but i can remember when in my country it was illegal to be gay and it was illegal so even a bit longer here in germany so we have come a long way though yeah absolutely i think the other the other problem though is assuming that any rights gained or rights that are then irrevocably gained and i don't think that's the case i think anyway where there's still bigotry in discrimination you have to you have to work against it and i happen to have the privilege of being out and comfortably out which many people still do not have and i have the privilege of being pretty well trained musician which means i can actually turn turn those stories into songs that hopefully people enjoy you mentioned we took full but i still want to ask the gay travel in germany has gone down which surprised me and you i think canada your home country

has way out i mean why do you think that's happened i mean my and my sense is that we live in a time of increasing folk well it's not my sense that we live in a time of increasing polarization that polarization tends to push people towards the fringes of what we politically and socially believe which means that whoever is being radicalized towards any type of bigotry be it islamophobia anti-semitism which are also on the rise tend to also pull in other bigotries with them that would be homophobia transphobia and the rest of it that's a very. quickly some more music this is cool pretty boy. pretty girl just like.

i love that video by the way. people i should say should watch more it's great fun let's talk about the music though you have a beautiful baritone voice and it's not typical of pop music in fact i find there's a classical quality with it new music generally where does that come 5 grew up as a classical musician i was a chorister 1st and then i and i and a classically trained violinist at least as a child and youth so that's where i come from i didn't i didn't get into pop rock and anything not classical until i was in my very late teens early twenty's so that all came way later and i'm still getting used to that now ok now in another song actually this is it goes on you are a boy chorister in fact that you talk about. it rails against christianity's attitude homosexually i quote i love gold but he doesn't love me i

think gold hopefully loves you but it's the bigoted. norm christians are would say yeah is not right well that. the songs are not necessarily written from my personal perspective they're written from the perspective of a very various different characters and this character believes that his god does not love him which is not a strange belief in some parts of christianity. the c. of e. which i grew up in always was kind to me in regards to homosexuality and and relatively open but when it comes to conversion therapy and other. strange cruel practices those tend to be rooted in one's own self hatred is as much as a parent's desire to get you into a camp. when we were talking to you all aged earlier today we could talk to you because you're in the studio you know exactly what you're doing and i'm going to make a new record making a record absolutely that is about. it's. already very proud of it and we have

finished yet so i'm in love i'm loving it i'm working with the band at the moment to make it as good as possible i think it's musically pretty all right and and lyrically this work and very different very different i mean on home and hoping on this we don't do the same song twice and this is definitely on the same record twice either some a little architecture for ours thank you very much for coming in thanks for having me thank you. to $100.00 german must reads our continuing series about german books which are translated into english the all the big get funded big wrote the muscle feast in 2013 it immediately started winning prizes and after it was translated it also made it on to the independent foreign fiction prize short list that surprised me with the man booker anyway mole from man david leavitt who has been flexing his muscles literally. you want to see my muscles. now or not

muscles muscle shelf for those of muscles washing cooking and eating. a mom and her 2 kids are preparing a family dinner fresh mussels that's the starting point of being a good friend of because novel the muscle feast ready ready ready ready ready. actually the only person in the family who even likes muscles isn't there yet emotionally and physically abusive. while the other 3 wait for this tyrant to get home we get a glimpse behind this post-war german family's picture perfect the side. why in this world does everything have to keep going on why can't it stop i think was going on and on should stop and my brother added yes especially the torture the torture of humans my mother said as she was afraid he might hear us he wasn't there

of course but that was what we were like we thought he knew everything and could see and hear everything even though we realized how impossible this was instead of giving his family love and security the father demands obedience and self-sacrifice be a good founded because a book terrorism part patriarchal family structures in one breathless monologue with dry humor and without mercy. would start. and in mutiny the author says he wrote the book to understand how evolution started. finally we pay tribute to one of germany's great patron of the arts freedom who's just died. free to do it is greatest love was contemporary arts in 2005 he built

a museum. in southern germany which has one of the most collected comprehensive. collections of modern in europe from picasso to banksy banks's famous picture that was shredded was 1st exhibited after shredding anyway we have to leave it there frida border who has died aged 83 thanks for watching.

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