and he really won't. be someone who when he has a certain job to do it will stick by the rules he set for himself no matter what temptation might come along the way that's crucial if you want a career like his. career or good at it oprah is considered elitist some say why put so much into opera when we have a climate catastrophe the pandemic and wars why do we need opera. you know i think of us to go over. well i wouldn't say that it's more important than putting bread on the table it. is elitist it does cost a lot of money. it's not a form of art it's created one segment is available forever like the visual arts. at the same time it's such a fascinating art form. otherwise it wouldn't have lasted over the centuries. it allows you to dream yourself into

a whole nother world mostly the music has an emotional impact or and that's something really fascinating and moving it was their 1st scene and it's a. specially in today's society which is rather call life focused on achievement in profit. and very banal forms of recreation. if you even want to call it that. i defend opera because like so many others i've been fired up by a passion and a fascination for the beauty of this are. you sure. i love it so much that i can't imagine a world without it and if it's ok so i can see it i might have a class there are 3 little dramas along the way like in midland at les garland where you saying nessun dorma and somehow it didn't go to plan clapped out.

was that of was. was i. is one city so what does well we're all only human and not machines common if one be a whole i know for myself that i can't always see them everywhere be at the very top of my game both physically and mentally. or even when i am a completely focused i can get mixed up or be distracted for a couple of seconds but i have something else on my mind. and suddenly i realize the wrong words are coming out of my mouth but in touch and texts indicating. that .

i. feel. 7 7 i think. they are i think they mean my thoughts sometimes i ask myself how you do it doesn't it get boring at some point to perform the same roles at the same place is acting as though it's all new well maybe it really does feel that way it's going to noir belva it's been gotten in fits of song and more than 40 different operas all together. at the moment there are about 15 to 20 in my repertoire coleman's inspiration. of course if you're always doing the same things with the same colleagues under the same circumstances it said but the more you can become rather routine and to set up the experience of everything being new. siding can turn into

the nightmare of everything being always the same. but i'm very lucky because i do get to enjoy a lot of variety in what i said. was. my . time was. my. own younus kalf meant to be quieter and outgoing for example if the rehearsal isn't going the way he wants but this is the same man who can perform the final scene of common in a way where you think all he has to do is perform he doesn't even have to sing and it would still be wonderful. but i think that's part of who he is that enormous temperament. was.

was. the happens even if you experienced the coronavirus this time of enforced silence. it's been a tradition that your visions it took of course i was in a very fortunate situation. i don't always have a house when i live there with my family we have a big garden i'm trying so having to stay at home really felt like a holiday fruit. shop just right and i'm also doubly fortunate in that i've had another baby my baby with my 2nd wife which is

a wonderful addition to our family. so this time of turning my focus inward this and it forced contemplation because it also had a very positive side for me. but many of my colleagues in different fields have been hit very hard by this forced down time it's want to and there's still suffering its impact on that they want to live they are going to hit disproportionately hard in this entire situation we found ourselves in these income . for you know skulls money and held with deutsche and in 1st break during the pandemic provided time to finally do some recording. or our lease is the 1st album nomads are on lockdown but however enjoyable a project shared between 2 old friends a studio recording can't replace a live performance. learn slowly. to return to the stage finally came in vienna in the full

despite rising infection rates in the city having been declared a risk area. and held his 1st opera appearance since the corona virus outbreak varies don't colace at the vienna state opera. one has a special relationship with the austrian capital and he's just recorded an album in

vienna this scene is that just as you see and he enters a city i've grown to live. there's no other place in the world where more composers are left and there's so much music about the city but these are still has its positive and its negative sides it's all much of a laugh and joke about it were sarcastic about it but in the end it's clear that everyone loves the city i live in and many have paid tribute to it already in so many different areas and melodies so i picked a few of them the hypothetical and also i could often was was i. was. i was.

i was. let's go up to the pinnacle one more time in the saying i'll ignore the pits of operatic tennis how long do you hope to stay up there in the hay yet. i have come to realize how much i enjoy just living my life. and during this time under the coronavirus act i've also seen how many lovely things there. and you can spend your time doing. so perhaps i will end up performing less each season it was raining but i'm far from saying that i'm going to stop altogether. white stuff and found i do think that there will come a time when i leave the stage but that's

a good way in the future when i does it for the next 10 years at least i imagine i'll continue along the same course. and then i might end up doing something else for a few years intentionally i will quit. because i can't imagine being on stage until i'm 90. and it's inevitable at some point if continuing on would only serve to undo everything you've accomplished over the us i start fresh beauty but also be sad because you'd show that you didn't know any other kind of life but the stage yet that's one kind i don't want that to be said of me on. your list thanks very much they have you're very welcome. i'm your man. yeah. yeah. it was very.

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