people have to say matters to us. that's why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on t.w. . past. and. i think this is it's because this profession gives you such tremendous feelings of happiness it carries you from one wave energy to the next.

man. naples seen so much more teach when to let the old chevy to carefree idleness and almost completely must close after a devastating spring coronavirus infections have decreased significantly the telly into getting out and about again. i'm on my way to meet your nasscom from one of the best 10 years in the wold some say the best we making at the opera house here in naples. for us. we see.

first he needs a fresh shirt it's 36 degrees celsius outside. humans are 30 and they say opera was invented here is that funny combination of theatre and music. music you know or yeah this is this is the done that said he barks and that's the real cd box they all receive their own seats for performances but with a pot of. water it's australia. was . probably the most sought after tenor in the world today and you've come down from they smelled to limp as of singing to talk to us here in naples in the beautiful tetra sun carlo maybe mount a limp this is a bit of a cliche do you feel at home here since it evoked so how was it covered this in

trident and what matters in your career is how long you stay at the top if that's not whether you get there sooner or later. the quicker your ascent just the faster your descent and that was solid your footing and foundation a far less experience you collect on the way or the more slowly you rise to the top the more you know how to appreciate what you find there. if you make that climb more slowly you get to sniff that mountain air and see how strong the head winds are up there. in all that really helps make you feel at home up there don't build a house for holes or to for that also. i think. at the pinnacle for quite some time on these lonely heights how does it feel is it a permanent lease. yeah the illicit has its downsides for sure because you also have to deliver this it's not like you can rest on your laurels and get whatever

you will do will sell so to speak people will just i had all felt as if that's not how it works. but that's all peanuts compared to the opportunities you have peanuts in kings that's. in the mouth. i. think he's singing for you know like joel hard work of a monk to help and if i were to say that everything's so effortless you hardly even notice it i'd be lying. i will still enjoyed it this music in part has the tendency

to make the audience think and even you of the singer think that it's all happening without any effort at all. yet but the moment you stop for a breathers of off liberalize just how much it takes out of you a worn out you are. true to and that's when you notice how strenuous it really else i'm staying at this i can't stop but because this profession gives you such tremendous feelings of happiness because it carries you from one wave of energy to the next and you get the feeling everything just happens effortlessly on top this can but there are worse things. you are not even a young as caliph man didn't come into the world a fully fledged tenor how did you build that relationship with your voice when did you find your voice and think of the hate i can do something with this i mean come on boss man this is set off i know it's like entering into an arranged marriage.

and it's an instrument that i can't leave it home no matter where i go day or night you know bed whenever i always have it with me and i have to take it into consideration to some extent it's name. but it's very important to still live your life to take joy in daily life even though you're always carrying your voice with you so to speak otherwise you can't play the characters on stage that you want to because you don't know yourself what life is about. highs. your nurse kathman grew up in a pretty regular family his father worked for an insurance company his mother was a kindergarten teacher they weren't musicians but they did love music coffman became interested in singing at an early age and later studied in munich a global career wasn't really on the cards. as a student he was a happy go lucky guy he had a 1000 different interests sports and cooking and of course music and technique and

so on. he wasn't an extraordinarily diligent or industrious student in other words . i think a student. his 1st engagements were in sabra can shoot got and heidelberg early on health money embody the operatic hero and was also idolized in real life. opera house from 2001 to 2009 formative. his work began to take him around the world melana new york london. and to the big festivals including the iconic by rote with lohengrin. am. was. and to salzburg of course with the daily oh you want to count monkey took on the great tenor roles and was internationally celebrated.

feet so he's incredibly versatile in terms of his repertoire. few singers are as adept in german french and italian repartee. and whether it's opera or leader he's just as versatile stylistically confident and musically vivacious in everything he does. who else. is going to finish the dames or common verse of you know there's so many levels to pass through to arrive at what we call singing. and at the end of the day and that's the essence of it the singing has to become 2nd nature and it has to be one of those things we do without giving it a 2nd thought face we speak without thinking about it that we breathe without giving it any thought of singing as to become equally automatic but this was

a good also and when it does you have the freedom to go on stage and without thinking about technique you just interpret and inhabit the role of the. early evening nakedness final preparations for the opening a concept are underway nagel's music lovers gather on the square near the tay actress sun carla. eunice counts monies backstage telling the last chat with friends and colleagues before the performance. it's one of the signature roles the egyptian commander rather miss from. her.

comes. thank. you but what a performance how was it for you this year. really hot it was so hot performing i would be honest i just i guess we got into it and at the end we just drank and sweat and drank and sweat it was pretty i mean like a visit to the saw and the operate the same time ah you know meet people i still feel swept away you too in the opera you just lost your lover you died yourself you know my god. it's the next week another will come along it's like oh no that's just the way it is i'm incredibly into it incredibly involved emotionally but all of you

the moment it's over it's over it was 5 years for. just one more. about what happens if singing is no longer possible ready experienced a situation where you had to take a break for several months because your voice needed a rest of it how did you deal with that and why did you worry that you'd have to stop that your voice would never come back to me and hearing this is me i'm 4 club it's never easy to overcome a vocal crisis or vocal difficulties unscathed is it especially unscathed at the psychological of that. because you're so deeply connected to your voice. and because you need a huge amount of confidence to be able to draw on your voice in front of thousands of spectators. in tight the moment you lose trust in your voice. it becomes very difficult to stay relaxed and you perform with ease the issue of you.

want a militia. and this is very unpleasant but because you want to saying this closet tactically promised your friends you would. mind my love performing i love being in front of an audience. and that makes it all the more frustrating when you have to wait. but you also know that if you're patient sooner or later you will be able to perform again you'll have your voice back just as before coming on hobbit a say installment wonder if so that was the old eunice on again on stage after the vocal crisis looking out as i remember that i sang that 1st performance as i always say with the handbrake on that's how you took 2 or 3 performances before i had my confidence down thank goodness knock on wood or as the italians say talk of pharaoh it's working just fine again for. the time.

only your childish. boy he spoke. to us wish. was here was. wasn't enough. for us was there was. a self in such great drama and you also a kind of drama queen in your personal life and i've been leaving calvinist as his discourse of the modern i wouldn't say that i love drama. i like to have time for myself. and often i find myself running late because i still had something to do here or there somewhere or another are. able to switch between my professional and

private life very easily enough. soon as a performance is over i feel totally free and that helps me come down from the high . i'd say that of all the opera singers i'm one of the less complicated ones i did open the skipped through and so. this is also how his friend and former teacher helmut do each sees it is a pianist and professor who's known kaufman for almost 30 years. as we have often admired him his incredible discipline. he's invited by friends who've bought a really rare and excellent wine just for him he'll apologize and say that he can't drink because he's singing the next day like. today and he really won't see me 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. good opera is considered elitist aloof some say why put so much into opera when we have a climate catastrophe the pandemic and war why do we need opera. you know i think of fish to go. 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 and you know like the visual arts. at the same time it's such a fascinating art form. otherwise it wouldn't have lasted over the centuries. and allows you to dream. yourself into a whole nother world was he the music has an emotional impact already and that's something really fascinating and most moving you know it was their 1st scene and as

we were this far i'm. going to specially in today's society which is rather cold and focused on achievement but in profitable feet tall skinny and very banal forms of recreation. if you're given want to call it that. amount of openness or name the con if i defend opera because like so many others before yoga 5 been fired up by a passion and a fascination for the purity of this i. know for sure in hype. i love it so much that i can't imagine a world without it and evade or does he it's ok so i can fish i might have a class there are thing little dramas along the way like in midland at les scala where you saying nessun dorma and somehow it didn't go to plan to clap touch. oh god.

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

the 7 was. 7 thought. they might not sometimes i ask myself how you do it doesn't it get boring at some point to perform the same roles at the same places acting as though it's all new well maybe it really does feel that way. it's been gorgeous and if it seconds if you like song and more than 40 different operates on together. at the moment there are about 15 or 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 you can become rather routine and. the experience of everything being new and exciting 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.

130. am when i was overseas but mostly i. was. taking your notes i don't yawn as caliph 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 mean 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 a wonderful thing but i think that's the heart of who he is that enormous temperament.

was. the how you experience the coronavirus these ton of silence. 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. so having to stay at home really felt like a holiday. that's 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 forces contemplation. also at

a very positive sign for me. but many of my colleagues in different fields have been hit very hard by this forced down time want to and there's still suffering its impact by that they want to live they are going to hit disproportionately hard in this entire situation we found ourselves in these incomes and can still. count money and hellmuth deutch and in 1st break during the pandemic provided time to finally do some recording. or our lease is the 1st album 90 down but however enjoyable a project shared between 2 old friends a studio recording contre place a live performance. there and slowly. the return to the stage finally came in vienna in the full despite rising infection rates in the city having been declared a risk area. held his 1st opera appearance since the corona virus outbreak very

nice don't colace at the vienna state opera. a. man has a special relationship with the austrian capital and he's just recorded an album in vienna this t.v. set just at the museum 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 just it has its positive and its negative sides so much we laugh and joke about it we're sarcastic about it he says 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. was was. was. i was was. was was. was.

let's go out to the pinnacle of one more time and in the saying i will 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 if i've also seen how many lovely things there are. are 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 all together. white stuff and 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 butte now but also be sad because you'd show that you didn't know any other kind of life but the stage yet that's when i don't want that to be said of me and. thanks very much you're very welcome. i'm your man. yeah. yeah. ok. i was told. now it's finally time for an italian dinner as the sun goes down over naples. you. gold in

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