a larger. all common ground is empowering women giving them the rule making them agent also seems like. the female peacemakers storms january 5th t.w. . was. $15000.00 people packed into berlin's about to be a. t.v. appearances that attracted 1700000 viewers she drawls some of the opera world's biggest audiences jonas. the german tenor is one of the biggest names in opera today.

what does it take to become an opera star. only very few make the leap into the world's best status. 90 percent of opera singers never manage to land a fixed contract at an opera house. the risk of burnout is acute as young as realized early on. 2 2 2 2 says if you know the team is in this innocence why am i saying many roles in the 1st 2 years but it almost cost me my mental health and by force i was overstretched out of all. the pressures are considerable especially on young performers.

are 28 year old elsa devices she has a promising career ahead of her. here at the zurich opera house the french danish soprano is performing her 1st title role model well. since kid there's a dress rehearsal today. her costar is one of the world's top 10 or piotr and. he laughed saying $78.00 degrees in june must ney's opera 7 years ago at new york's metropolitan opera alongside on a new trip. so this is why it's

a gift to sing along. at yates was in. there. as a device which has been rehearsing for 6 long weeks as a special. this is it's been very exhausting. i'd say they were her skills are the hardest part runs as you can see her singing almost every day. dance for very demanding and i think i hope the performances are easier because she's been in my because right now i've almost run out of energy i've reached my limit left of it's. the premiere is in 2 days' time. housemate gregorian knows what it's like to reach her limit. i had from them so i mean when i went on stage i was totally not prepared i did and

didn't have any single idea how to stick. it to the lithuanian singer finds time between looking after her children doctor visits and rehearsals to meet up with me in her hometown of vilnius. in 2006 she co-founded the private initiative the vilnius city opera. it doesn't have its own venue its productions are hosted by the city's congress hall. list of the most just like there are no dressing rooms and the stars do their own makeup but the performances are top notch. the ville new city opera is fostering a new generation of talent. we want and we ate young people and i think in those 12 years we did kind of big revolution in this country really about the young people.

these days de ville new city opera attracts world class performers who also sing at the bolshoi in moscow and the met in new york. on the way home from her soul's ozma gregorian tells me that she was almost destroyed by work i started with big rolls i never saw any tiny rolls or something and of course i heard them myself when i was 30 i was dead already and i was always doing too much to girls. the breakthrough she was hoping for never came instead she started all over again and completely relearn her vocal technique she also learned to stop overtaxing her voice. a mistake many opera singers make just as so often i was to be told just the fact that it sometimes hurts is

a painful realization because you loved doing it you know so here's your bank balance especially when you're young this is open and that's actually quite an important point you're often forced to do certain things to survive financially you've also been so couldn't. once they finished their studies which can take as long as 6 years an opera singer with a fixed contract in germany makes around 2000 euros a month before taxes a stage technician are more. or get a fassbender is an opera legend she's trodden the boards all over the world but these days she's mainly a director. so i thought. she's currently staging shotton the woman without

a shadow by rijkaard strauss. well i could never say no you're always afraid you'll drop off the map and never be asked again bach is now 80 this grown dom of german opera knows the industry inside and out. she's been a singer a teacher and a managing director. also hope you'll follow the daily beast. when most of you want to truly inhabit your role also as an actor. this is always been a priority of mine and you need charisma when you go on stage and everyone should look at you. that's what you must aim for. in 2 days' time the curtain will go up on the opera manon in zurich. the.

polish tenor piotr a big shower is getting ready to go on stage. despite the going out for over. 2 days the dress rehearsal a lot works well but there is also some room for improvement and a lot can still go wrong going to see mission chief. how well can he judge his own performance this is the also. the skills of probably him by. one of the biggest problems for opera singers is that we never hear ourselves advice and if you missed i don't know how my voice actually sounds league

is very good and that's why it's so important to have someone you really trust among the audience and such as your wife is see as if you can exist i know his voice very well and that all his performances so good i listened to his voice and i take note of what his teacher said if anyone says and how to find the optimal resonates and i hear if he's good to see. his wife gave up her own career as an opera singer to support his. she's undoubtedly one of the secrets of piotr a big success. was. still just the rehearsal is over elza devices. have been on stage for 4 hours or station so it will be ok this is mostly this and it has to do shelf

the sets of my stuff the consequence because that was the 1st time i've sung the whole part from beginning to end. but as you can see i haven't lost my voice and that's the main thing. leah but i feel completely drained it's been over the next 2 days i'll try not to talk too much i'll do some cooking some exercise i'll try to relax a bit go over my role and work on 3 or 4 parts that's it. and that's because as i desperately need a break a good book. elsa device it has been a member of the berlin state opera's ensemble since 2017 when it reopened after years of refurbishment. she. in the role of correction and what seems from good times fast the production that kicked off the new season. 1

competitions are one way that singers can make a name for themselves. admits that she's never taken part in one in her life. i just could not do that because i always had this huge fear of stage and i was just so afraid and i could not show even 20 percent of really years ago i really thought that i can come on stage and because it was like it was so big and it's really physical it's not just a fear you know you stop to feel your arms or you know your face is thinking and of course you know it here you know. when the story is you're grieving and everything . even now

backstage in frankfurt she's palpably nervous. she's performing the title role in track koskie lyric one act opera ilan. i.

bet and to learn about general director of the frankfurt opera discovered her 5 years ago she. just never took it for the 1st time as you think i always loved. it so. yeah it looks to me those. are very serious. if so i wish you want to thank you very much thank you michel position in the 1st scene yet she's always captivated me with not only her singing but also her simplicity in the 3 or in the way she can command attention by holding back and those on the off notes on quite at sea and i know maria callas from a similar. but in the little footage that exists of. what you see is a woman who singing commands attention because she has presence even when doing

very little. as in one comes out a nice to. him. it's just not something that arsenic picks up on. my wish more thing aside the sophistication and intelligence in key moments to do less rather than more on stage gets to feel. less is more. it's a phrase i hear often more making this film along with talk of pacing oneself and being in the moment. music director of the royal opera house in london and tony works with stars like eunice kaufman and on

a new truck oh i ask why so many opera singers end up ruining their voices. i know their face the ding a zinger is that those 01 of the biggest challenges for opera singers is knowing how to calibrate their intensity and emotion and also their volume. is get seen far too many singers are too loud. the atmospheric singing piano and creates a more interesting f. mispronouncing and if see that if you sing too loudly you're going to get tired but none get shenmue to buy in him a lot in the lot. most warriors who were restored as well why did no not running well i've been. told her that her 1st was was her the law was. the.

war. on the. her. but these days an extraordinary voice will only get you so far. up her singers can't afford to ignore social media posting is now part of the job even the stars are doing it often sharing glimpses of their private lives. such as on a trip go here she's posted a rehearsal with maestro. even if the mood was the beautiful kid. to keep going to. see. much opens it does in theme movie stars they can feel this is that so i see some opera singers who are almost like movie stars by you and that's ok it's the us that's most but

their job demands a certain respect and concentration and consent it's here on that's the most important thing that they may be a comedian can't make a career about and when you have to get up on stage and prove yourself a new every time cy can eat a small us money east coast. thank you and this is. the magic i feel that the job is losing some of its magic. because people can see that we're just normal and all this is so i see it in myself. as a tool when i go to the opera and there's a singer. i go straight to instagram or facebook to find out who they are for you tube it's. about you think i think you can lose yourself in social media men can see sworn in does

a medium. but then you can end up thinking you're a good singer. just because you have 30000 followers. 2 these days the industry is teeming with people who are talented singers but more importantly look good. nowadays you have to look like a model at least on your record covers sometimes when you see someone on stage you wonder how they managed to look the way they do on their record cover. and just say you can't blame the singers it's the fault of the people who know nothing about singing and base everything on looks. they only cast certain types. of how do. you know. ok i'm going to feel it's my i knows what she's talking about she sung in opera houses all over the world i think that's right. you know it wasn't enough

food for you to talk about this the scottish. oh yes the rose to go to a certain types you have to be thin young you have to be affordable the situation's getting worse and worse. come to. i hear my voice is getting deeper i never felt comfortable singing soprano they'd say to me anyone who says good morning the way you do can't be a soprano kind of pencil braeside. do you speak. i was from hospital child fassbender always said you're not really a soprano you don't enjoy your upper register and i would say yes i'm always glad

when i'm allowed to go deeper on this one on this one side that was a clue and now finally i found the fact that feels right to me. she isn't the only opera singer who spent years singing in the wrong. in germany in particular operatic training could be improved the country is home to one 3rd of the world's opera houses. but germany is failing to properly train young talent. the soloists performing in germany's many opera houses tend to come from the u.s. russia and increasingly also from south korea and china. here in cio in got fields maya is something of an exception. i salute the singers from overseas are much better than us this is why is that for us and them to understand the training up.

there are 24 state conservatories in germany. but their graduates don't always amount to much. from sponsorship on the 20 young americans auditioned for me i could hire 19 of them and me and i but if i auditioned students in german conservatories fours and 19 of them on employable. maybe one kind of. flies type so obviously there's something wrong with our system. as we could learn from those other systems that are doing something right and flushed was my last option yes i always thought that germany's conservatories were world class but it seems that the standard of teaching lets students down. flush the nasty possible but the best voice teachers on here are overseas because they were unhappy with the conditions here they didn't skip i think there are very few teachers actually

experience the stage 1st. spoon and louis. they know this theory but they don't know the practice. a lot of rules praktica into all spin don't. even. belong to it since lloyd teachers are people who failed to make it in the music world using good frustrated singers who were no good. but who studied technique is woman of the 15 of us from that is a good song. to me it's a serious 1st up sort of this theme training is done by people who aren't passing on technique but rather their own complexes and problems i get a complex on probably. more over singers from russia the us china and south korea are more disciplined than their german colleagues that's the conclusion reached by a recent study commissioned by the bettles month foundation. but

regardless of where they come from all opera singers have to learn to resist the opera world's many temptations as well as agents promising big bucks. agents have always been dangerous complex because obviously they make their money from singers keep so there are more respectable agents who really help singers nurture their voices because they have a vested interest. but if a singer goes and ruins their voice never mind there's always another one waiting in the wings i'm pretty negative in this respect. but voice needs time to develop. a singer needs to learn their limitations as a device he tells me these are the prerequisites of a lasting career. but some agents expect the impossible from singers that's what

feet of hidden by the edge of the design. lots of managers say look there are 365 days in the year let's do as much as possible movies this. get the smog the system is got fisted but at my age you tend to think come on. i can do it i'm young. and i can do everything. the best off must but if that's what you're always thinking that's what you do. it's the way it is with soap it's the more you use it the less of it there is that's how it is if you don't give your voice a break it gets less and less and suddenly you've got nothing left to work with. the gregorian also thought she could do everything when she was young but then she had a vocal crisis in her late twenty's she was faced with the choice of carrying on knowing

she was ruining her voice or starting all over again from scratch and learning a whole new technique. she opted to make a new start. then in 2016 she sang the role of tatyana and eugene onegin at the comedy show park in berlin. her potential was obvious but she was unable to demonstrate the full extent of her talent. this time. for election day and was really hard for me because 1st of all i was pregnant my father was dying and he was next to me it was some of the moment special interview when i thought i could manage. she divided her time between rehearsals and the hospital her father himself a famous tenor eventually died but she had to keep going.

and cry extreme than was before the performance after performance but in the performance and kind of i noticed me and then asked make. in the summer of 2019 asked nick berg orient captivated the opera world with a stunning performance as a zalmay. her voice was powerful her acting mesmerizing. after her star turn at the prestigious and dance book festival she's now in demand

all over the world plus carla the met emma while opera house in london are all eager to engage her. first of all you must have it we can call that the cards or whatever i mean but it's really just. you know we must to have this big big emotions always we can't share with with people and with the years you must learn how to control all those emotions without stopping. but cosmic gregorian is hardly an overnight star. she has spent years owning her craft. and she takes nothing for granted. so i've got a bit of a plot to chance but i always say that if you do everything right at the start of your career and success will come to you as a young singer you don't always have to be striving for success but when you're young you have to learn not serenity that's for messing up the ship so often now

you get socked by i've often turned down major opportunity. and when i felt that i'm not in a position to do something as well as i'd like to my home does this mean of all my mom's question good luck or. might mean that the wheel of your career turns slower. but that's good because you can use the time to build up your career step by step. does fundamental time 1st time off boat. opera is a tough business training as an opera singer and going on to earn a living as a performer takes not only talent but stamina to. for those who persevered it's a great privilege.

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