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happiness fears for everyone schuman penises are very different from primates you know we have a totally ridiculous romanticized view nature and their thing and this is climate change prejudice sex how freeness includes books you get smarter for free. on. sat. i think this is this it's because this profession gives you such tremendous feelings of happiness it carries you from one wave energy to the next.
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goal. in. naples in some a 2020 let build civita carefree idleness and almost completely mask 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 tennis in the world some say the best we meeting at the opera house here in naples. a former colleague. ok but
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1st he needs a fresh shirt it's 36 degrees celsius outside. oh. come on zach that they say opera was invented here is that funny combination of theatre and music out there we need to speak. or yeah this is this is the done that said he barks and that's the real citibank's they all receive their own seats for performances but they do that by. boris australia. the murray. was. probably the most sought after tenor in the world today and you've come down from these mount a 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 it so how was work with this in
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trident and what matters in your career as how long you stay at the top if that's not whether you get there sooner or later. the quicker your ascent the faster your descent and the less solid your footing and foundation for 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 headwinds are out there. it doesn't know all that really helps make you feel at home up there and build a house for holes or to for. i think. dean at the pinnacle for quite some time on these lonely heights how does it feel is it permanent lease. yeah it has its downsides for sure because you also have to deliver that it's not like you can rest on your laurels and get whatever you will
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do will sell so to speak people will just i had all thought as if that's not how it works. but that's all peanuts compared to the opportunities you have peanuts in things that's. in the mouth. thank you i. think he's singing for you know like joel hard work event to help you if i were to say that everything's so effortless you hardly even notice it i'd be lying. i will
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still enjoy that this music imparts 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 breather is of off you realize just how much it takes out of you a worn out you are. that's when you notice how strenuous it really else you feel 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 to feeling everything just happens effortlessly on top this case but there are worse things. and you are not even a young as caliph man didn't come into the world a fully fledged tena how did you build that relationship with your voice when did you find your voice and think that they like and do something with this i mean come on by someone does he said also i know it's like entering into an arranged marriage
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. and it's an instrument that i can't leave it 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 its 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 was about was leaving 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 went 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
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so on. he wasn't an extraordinarily diligent or industrious student in other words . 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. at the zurich 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 with lohengrin. am. was. and to salzburg of course with fidelio yunus comes monkey took on the great tenor role and was internationally celebrated.
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feat so he's incredibly versatile in terms of his repertoire skipped a 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 wants. to finish school from a common verse of yes 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 we breathe without giving it any thought of singing as to become equally automatic but this was
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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. it's early evening in nakedness final preparations for the open air concert are underway naples music lovers gather on the square near the tay actress sun carla. yunus counts money's backstage coming the last chat with friends and colleagues before the performance. it's one of the signature roles the egyptian commander rather miss from. her.
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comes. thank. you but what a performance how was it for you can all sit here. really high it was so high 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 like a visit to the sauna and they operate the same time ah you know me you know i still feel swept away you too in new york or you just lost your lover you died yourself to work all. week 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
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moment it's over it's over it was 5 years go by just one more. about what happens if singing is no longer possible ready experienced a situation where you had to take a break or several months because your voice needed a rest and how did you deal with that why did you worry that you have to start that your voice would never come back to me and hearing this is me i'm for. it's never easy to overcome a vocal crisis or vocal difficulties and skase it especially unscathed at the psychological lot of that is 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 in the moment you lose trust in your voice when it becomes very difficult to stay relaxed and perform with easy issue of you. want
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a militia. and this is very unpleasant but because you want to sing about this closet practically promised your fans you would. mind my love performing love being in front of an audience or 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 and it would you'll have your voice back just as before coming on hobbit a safe installment one to follow that. as the old eunice caliph money again on stage after the vocal crisis in august i remember that i sang that 1st performance as i always say with the handbrake on that's how it took 2 or 3 performances before i had my confidence back down thank goodness knock on wood or as the italians say talk of pharaoh it's working just fine again. and i'll try i really. try time. i.
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don't know the order traders. boyish. wish. i was feeling was take. what. was enough was. just was there was. opera is often such great drama and you also a kind of drama queen in your personal life and i've been leaving calvinist as his discourse that i wouldn't say that i love drama he's been human to ghana 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. i will to switch between my professional and private life very easily enough to. listen as
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a performance is over i feel totally free and that helps me come down from the high born of all this and say that of all the opera singers i'm one of the less complicated once i did open sing on these keep to deny. this is also hell his friend and former teacher helmut do each sees it is a pianist and professor who's known caliph months alone was 13 years. as if i've often admired him he has 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. be someone who when he has a certain job to do it will stick by the rules he set for himself no matter what
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temptation might come along the way that's crucial if you want a career like his. good opera is considered elitist 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 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 we see the music has an emotional impact or and that's something really fascinating and moving it was there for us in the end isn't this
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what i'm. specially in today's society which is rather cold and focused on achievement but 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 purity of this argument so yeah sure. i love. it's so much that i can't imagine a world without end of aid orders he took and so i can see how i might have a class there are things a little dramas along the way i don't like in midland at les garland the way you saying nessun dorma and somehow it didn't go to plan this gunther clapped out. was.
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i is one city so what does well we're all only human and not machines common if one day about how 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 in touch and texts indicate that. i feel
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i. was 7 7 7 i was i. thought i. could hear 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 noisy ever been gotten if it seconds if you like someone more than 40 to. person altogether. at the moment there are about 15 to 20 in my repertoire coleman's inspiration. of course if you're always doing the same thing this with the same colleagues under the same circumstances can become rather routine of. 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 say. it. was.
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last. time i was. listening. to. you and 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 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 the heart of who he is that enormous temperament. was.
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i was. really happens even if you experience the coronavirus these ton of enforced silence . it's been a tradition that your vision is it of course i was in a very fortunate situation. i don't always have a house but when i lived there with my family we have a big garden. so having to stay at home really felt like a holiday through the. shop that's right and i'm also doubly fortunate in that i've had another baby my baby with my 2nd wife can't recall which is a wonderful addition to our family. so this time of turning my focus inward this and it forced contemplation. also at
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a very positive sign for me. but many of my colleagues in different fields have been hit very hard by this forced down time i want to and there's still suffering its impact by that they want to lie they are going to hit disproportionately hard in this entire situation we found ourselves in these and. can still cook. for you on us counts money and help with deutsche 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 can't replace 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 coronavirus outbreak very nice
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are left and there's so much music about the city but these are still has its positive and its negative sides so much as we laugh and joke about it we're 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 would be in so many different areas and melodies so i picked a few of them the hobbit any kind also i could offer was. i. was was. was. was a low of. was i. was.
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let's go out to the pinnacle of one more time in the saying i will learn all of. this of operatic tennis how long do you hope to stay up there in the hay yet. has 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. you can spend your time doing. so perhaps i will end up performing less each seasons it was raining but i'm far from saying that i'm going to stop altogether. 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
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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 when i don't want that to be said of me and on. your own thanks very much they had your very welcome. i'm your momma. yeah. yeah we're. told. now it's finally time for an italian dina as the sun goes down of the naples. you meet. a bit of
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