len look. at least one airline we are here is actually on fire and some other things. that are. m. m. m. i 5 of those bruises it's because this profession gives you such tremendous feelings of happiness it carries you from one wave of energy to the next.

oh. man. naples seen so much one teacher 20 looked old chevy to carefree idleness and almost completely masculist after a devastating spring coronavirus infections have decreased significantly the tele into getting out and about again. i'm on my way to meet your nice comfy one of the best tennis in the world some say the best we meeting at the opera house here in naples. oh how the. ok but

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 theater and music. music. or yeah this is this is the donizetti box and that's the real cd box they all receive their own seats for performances but they do that by. boris australia. the big daddy probably the most sought after tenor in the world today and you've come down from the some mount olympus of singing to talk to us here in naples in the beautiful tetris on 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

trident and what matters in your career is how long you stay at the top if that's meant to not whether you get there sooner or later. the quicker your ascent the faster your descent and that was 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 their climb more slowly you get to sniff that mountain air and see how strong the headwinds are out there and thus i let him know 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 place. yeah groups the list it 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 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. i. think he's singing for you know like joel hard work event hope and good if i were to say that everything's so effortless you hardly even notice it and i'd be lying

if. i was that you jointed this music in parts has the tendency to make the audience think and even you are the singer think it's all happening without any effort at all. yet but the moment you stop for a breathers 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 i'm staying at this i can do stuff but that 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 but there are worse things. and you're 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 the hey i can do something with this i would come on by someone who does he said it's like entering into an arranged marriage. and it's

an instrument that i can't leave it on 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 his 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 and global korea 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 embodied the operatic hero and was also idolized in real life. citizenry opera house from 2001 to 2009 formative. his work began to take him around the world midland new york london. and to the big festivals including the iconic by really with lohengrin. am. was. and to salzburg of course with the daily oh you want to come from on top on the great tenor roles and was internationally celebrated.

beefeater is 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. has kids who finish school teams are common. 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 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 and singing as to become equally automatic 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. it's early evening in naples final preparations for the opening a concert are underway naples music lovers gather on the square near the tay actress son carlo. counts monies backstage having a last chat with friends and colleagues before the performance. it's one of his signature roles the egyptian commander rather miss from aida. her.

son. thank. you but what a performance how was it for you cannot sit here. really hot 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 i mean like a visit to the sauna and they operate the same time ah you know me you know i still feel swept away in the opera you just lost your lover you died yourself you know my god what. makes 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 probably just one more. about what happens if singing is no longer possible ready experienced a situation where you had to take a break and several months because your voice needed a rest how did you deal with that why did you worry that you'd have to stop that your voice would never come back to me and hearing this is need i'm for human it's never easy to overcome a vocal crisis or vocal difficulties unscathed is it especially unscathed at the psychological are 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 a leg of on tight in the moment you lose trust in your voice when it becomes very difficult to stay relaxed and you perform with the c.e.o. of you they. want

a militia. and this is very unpleasant but because you want to saying 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 how to save instrumental want to follow that. as the old eunice caliph money again on stage after the vocal crisis in all of us 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. i really don't take time. i.

don't know the order try to. avoid dish was it was worse. here was. what. was enough. for us was there was. a self in such great drama and you will so 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. able to switch between my professional and private life very easily enough to. assume as

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 helmet do it seems it is a pianist and professor who's known kathman fullest 30 years. 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. and he really won't see he's 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 at opera 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 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 with the music has an emotional impact. and that's something really fascinating and moving it was there for us through the end of this

war i'm. going to specially in today's society which is rather call 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 not so. sure. i love. it's so much that i can't imagine a world without that kind of aid or does he it's ok so i can see how i might have a class there are things a little dramas along the way like in milan at les carlos the way you saying nessun dorma and somehow it didn't go to plan that gunther clapped out. was.

was i as is one city so what does well we're all only human and not machines if 20 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.

i. was 7 7 i was 7 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 places acting as though it's all new well maybe it really does feel that way it's going to noisy ever it's been gotten in fits and i've sung in more than 40 do. friend 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 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 said. was.

my. time was. your own younus 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 he. was.

was. the happens a difficult how if you experience the coronavirus this time of enforced silence. it's been a tradition that your patience it took of course i was in a very fortunate situation. and i also have a house when i lived 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 forced 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 i want to and there's still suffering its impact on the want to lie they are going to hit disproportionately hard in this entire situation we found ourselves in these incomes and. for your own us count money and hellmuth deutsch and in 1st break during the pandemic provided time to finally do some recording. or our lease is the 1st album 9 manager in lockdown but however enjoyable a project shared between 2 old friends a studio recording contra place a live performance. was. 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 tell us at the vienna state opera. one has a special relationship with the austrian capital and he's just recorded an album in vienna this piece i 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 still 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 or did you in so many different areas and melodies so i picked a few of them to have a kind of kind of also i could offer was was i. was. god. i was. was i c.

let's go up to the pinnacle one more time in the saying i will ignore these 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 have also seen how many lovely things there. and you can spend your time doing unfun con 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 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. 1 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 and. thus most to me i can just not 2nd listen. thanks very much as they have you're very welcome. i'm your money. yeah. yeah yeah. oh. now it's finally time for an italian dinner as the sun goes down over the naples. you. a bit of

lightheartedness in turbulent times. you could say oh. oh. oh.

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