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with . ah, ah naples in summer 2020 la don't shahita care free idleness and almost completely masculine. after a devastating spring corona virus infections have decreased significantly, italians are getting out and about again i'm on my way to meet your mask health month. one of the best 10 has in the world. some say the best we meeting at the opera house here in naples. oh, with 1st he needs a fresh shirt. it's 36 degrees celsius outside. oh,

man's act say opera was invented here. that funny combination or theatre in music to utter little z. yeah, i don't know where this is. this is the donor 30 box. and at the receipt box, they all received their own seats for performance. ah, for me all right. oh say, oh oh, oh, oh lord lord, i was in gig ready for you probably the most sought after 10 or in the world today . and you've come down from these mount olympus of singing, to talk to us here in naples, in the beautiful theatre on carlo may be mountain olympus is a bit of a cliche. do you feel at home here? sensitive, okay, to how was the cupboard, the st. dryden, this is what matters in your career is how long you stay at the top. lift asthma, who not, whether you get there sooner or later in the video. the style like it's the quicker your ascent,

the faster your descent and the less solid your footing. and foundation after less experience you collect on the way, examine, on the more slowly arise to the top is to me, the more you know how to appreciate what you find there, which pin that harbor oh into. if you make that climb more slowly, why her fella, you get to sniff that mountain air and see how strong the head winds are up there. it's getting blessed aunt does alice in all of that really helps make you feel at home up there. you don't build a house, you ought to house a tougher on donhauster bon, gather different ice image long after you lean at the pinnacle for quite some time on these lonely heights. and how does it feel that its permanent lacy code ya, galaxy listed as its downsides for sure, because you also have the delivery fun. it's not like you can rest on your laurels and that whatever you will do will sell, so to speak, that people will just with i had a whole filters on what is with us on how it works on the skate minish, but that's all peanuts compared to the opportunities you have peanuts and kings

that's it's within mobility. cutting the amount of lou louis. c ah lou zing and a singing for you, like joey or hard work about vend money to help in hood. if i were to say that everything so effortless, you hardly even notice it hide belie. i will still enjoy it. this music imparts, has the tendency to make the audience think and even you of the singer think, with the exception. it's all happening without any effort at all. only he can judge

taken fruits and yet posse it but the moment you stop for a breather. buck, you realize just how much it takes out of you. oh, that i've worn out. you are humans. i shall scale oak truth. and that's when you notice how strenuous it really else you be answering and as i can, the stories about. but because his profession gives you such tremendous feelings of happiness, obviously it carries you from one wave of energy to the next and you get the feeling. everything just happens effortlessly hot. the skiff, but there are worse things litigate about her covered a gipsy, lima alpha. i knew enough even a eunice kaufman didn't come into the world a fully fledged tennor. how did you build that relationship with your voice? when did you find your voice and think that, hey, i can do something with this. i mean, come on, was mahan does, is set off. i know it's like entering into an arranged marriage. it is, and it's an instrument that i can't leave at home because no matter where i go day or night in bed, whenever i know if i always have it with me and have to take into consideration to

some extent his name most. but it's very important to still live your life to take joy and daily life, even though you're always carrying your voice with you so to speak on. otherwise, you can't play the characters on stage that you want to know here. that because you don't know yourself what life is about money table vice muslim highs. ah eunice kaufman, 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. kaufman became interested in singing at an early age and later studied in munich a global career wasn't really on the cards. the student were a loft as a student. you as a happy go lucky guy, thing in there. he had a 1000 different interests, sports and cooking, and of course, music and technique and so on. this one at the doctor. he wasn't an extraordinarily diligent or industrial, didn't in other words, organ fleiss he go,

i think us to then to us most machines are oh, his 1st engagements were in sa, broken stuttgart and heidelberg, early on. kaufman embodied the operatic hero and was also idolized in real life. his use at the zurich opera house from 2001 to 2009 were formative his work began to take him around the world. milan new york, london. and to the big festivals, including the iconic by rote, with lohengrin. ah, and to salzburg, of course, with vidalia eunice kaufman, took on the great tenor rolls and was internationally celebrated. ah, yes. soon. clubby fees is incredibly versatile in terms of his repertoire. withdraw skip confusing as her as adept in german,

french and italian rep constantly over whether it's opera or leader. he's just as versatile stylistically confident and musically vivacious in everything he does the same thing and the dude, i think the good o c o. as kept. so foolish, goofy dame to common via language, there's so many levels to pass through to arrive at what we call singing. and at the end of the day, i know that's the essence of it. zorn, singing has to become 2nd nature us agency and it has to be one of those things we do without giving it a 2nd thought phase. can we speak without thinking about it after we breathe without giving it any thought mandatory for singing as to become equally automatic? but his was a good also and when it does this thing and you have the freedom to go on stage and without thinking about technique,

you just interpret and inhabit the role you all in to prepare. ah, it's early evening in naples. final preparations for the opening, a concert or underway. naples music lovers gather on the square near the t outro san carolyn yost called moneys backstage having a last chat with friends and colleagues before the performance. ah it's one of his signature roles. the egyptian commander read a miss from anita. ah, [000:00:00;00]

ah ah, thought i what a performance. how was it to you because of the really hide the off her. it was so hot for, for me, i will be homozygous stagen we got into it, and at the end, we just drank and sweat and drank and sweat back. it was perfectly, i'm like a visit to the saw it on the opera at the same time. ha, he's been on it. i still feel swept away. you to in the upper you just lost your lover. you died yourself america? yeah. my gra. well ha, next next week. another oh come along. it's like, oh no. that's just the way it is go. i'm incredibly into an incredibly involved emotionally. boy via the moment it's over and i'll,

it's over. it was from either 4 by phone or just one mill. about what happens if singing is no longer possible from there. i've already experienced a situation where you had to take a break for several months because your voice needed arresting from it. how did you deal with that on what did you worry, that you'd have to stop that your voice would never come back in, but i need to read her. this is ne, i'm for clovis true human. it's never easy to overcome a vocal crisis or vocal difficulties unscathed. it cuts especially unscathed, at the psychological our that for i am, because here, so deeply connected to your voice, the as their english is a shed in the far end. because you not a huge amount of confidence to be able to draw in your voice in front of thousands of spectators in alagood and tight. the moment you lose trust in your voice and games. it becomes very difficult to stay relaxed and perform with e. c. o should use a lockout sublime on a leash, but in to again, it's very unpleasant because you want to sing mom how this class is actually

promised your fans. you would mon, my love perform. i love being in front of an audience design or that makes it all the more frustrating when you have to wait. i got you also know that if you're patient about sooner or later you will be able to perform again. it's good to hear your voice back justice before coming to me, the ultimate on habit said the implemented when does the old eunice count on again, on the stage up to the vocal crisis, which might look out if you remember that i sang that 1st performance as i always say with the handbrake, i stopped by the hope you took 2 or 3 performances before i had my confidence. then thank goodness, knock on wood. whereas the italian say talk up arrow. it's working just fine and it's not why i don't try the

me you know, the order to avoid all me he was reading the offer is to of those opera is often such a great drama also that you will see a kind of drama queen and your personal line and i've been leaving governance position close to that. i'm and i wouldn't say that i love drama. it's been a month. i like to have time for myself, sport, and often i find myself running late because i still had something to do here. or there somewhere another us, and it is harbor and is cancelled, or my able to switch between my professional and private life very easily enough deemed a strict for bias. as soon as a performance is over, i feel totally free so that if that helps me come down from the high is worn,

hasta. that the arm asked me to, i'd say that of all the opera singers gone from one of the less complicated ones to i did open thing and he skipped her today. i'm father and say, oh this is also hell. his friend and former teacher helmet deutsche sees it deutsche is a pianist and professor who's known kaufman for almost 30 years, having or food as of i've often admired him. he has incredible discipline, but he's invited by friends who've bought a really rare and excellent wine just to him. he'll apologize inside that he can't drink because he's singing the next day to me like seeing him long as you needs. and he really won't change. look the see he me, someone who, when he has a certain job to do, will stick by the rules he set for himself in a matter walk. temptation might come along the way. so that's a crucial if you want to korea like his own with dish loosely you're arnik. and so

he came over good at an opera, is considered elitist aloof, have some say, why put so much into our pro when we have a climate catastrophe. the pandemic, and was that why do we need or provide for taking? yeah, i think a bridge to go out or does a hold of him. hello. he says, well, i wouldn't say that it's more important than putting bread on the table for you to kill opera is elitist, it does cost a lot of money and us, it's not a form of art. it's created once and then is available wherever on in, on like the visual arts a few most. it says i work lightly at the same time video. it's such a fascinating art form. it is a video video, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted over the centuries on come, even though it allows you to dream yourself into a whole nother world. was he the music has an emotional impact or, and that's something really fascinating. it wasn't moving. yeah, it was the 1st scene and isn't up to you. and as for i'm, it was a hard to can cut it, especially in today's society,

which is rather cole. i stood on focus on achievement and profit. profit. oscar leaked is and very banal forms of recreation the next to are if you even want to call that gift, i little memory up. not all men and can't i defend opera because like so many others are under before yoga i've been fired up by a passion and a fascination for the beauty of this. are you not? so it is a yeah, he sure and height for fontes are const i love it so much that i can't imagine a world without it and evade on as he to can is i can feel my has a clara theme little drama along the way by that of like in me land atlas galaxy, where you sang ness and dorman hob and somehow it didn't go to plans. if god could clap, gut. ah,

it is wanted, he would have been. well we're all only human and not machines hadn't missed one be behind. oh for myself that i can't always see that everywhere. be at the very top of my game, both physically and mentally. or even when i am completely focused, i could get mixed up or be distracted for a couple of seconds. but have something else on my mind. i really feel and barzyk and suddenly i realize the wrong words are coming out of my mouth shall not lead infection text into kayla. ah,

ah ah. 7 7 7 if immune might, 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 to, or maybe it really does feel that way. it's constant over her. it's been gorgeous in in fits. higgins. i've sung in more than 40 different opera is altogether, i met the moment there about 15 to 20 in my repertoire, coleman's institution fullerton on spanish. of course, if you're always doing the same things with the same colleagues under the same circumstances, it can become rather routine to sit up on the experience of everything being new and exciting can turn into the nightmare of everything being always the same. i got a very lucky because i do get to enjoy a lot of variety. and when i say in my inbox, oh,

i see ah ah, you honest kauffman to be quieter and outgoing? for example, it's a rehearsal isn't going the way he wants. this is the same man who can perform the final scene of carmen 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. i think the birthday gonna touch the heart of who he is toward that enormous temperament is in the sixty's is own guardian, the

the, the the, the, the, the, the, the corona virus is ton of silence. if you've been to listen to conclusions, it's of course i was in a very fortunate situation and i was, i have a house in the me when i lived there with my family, we have a big garden. so does align tron does. so having to stay at home, really felt like a hollow hanford, i shopped a so i and i'm also doubly fortunate in that i've had another baby on marlena baby with my 2nd wife him to become baba, which is a wonderful addition to our family law. thus i english so this time of turning my focus inward, this and it for his contemplation a physicist because they also had a very positive side for leon in for she. but many of my colleagues in different

fields have been hit very hard by this forest downtime ozzy at home and i've been there is still suffering. it's impact on teen of either the want ally the artwork and hit disproportionately hard on this entire situation. we found ourselves in decent counseling comstock for eunice kaufman and helmet deutsch and enforced break during the pandemic provided time to finally do some recording. zullie gushed under or our of bliss is the 1st album ne majoring looked down. but however enjoyable a project share between 2 old friends, a studio recording can't replace alive performance oh, the return to the stage finally came in vienna in the fall, despite rising infection rates and the city having been declared a risk area, yost kaufman held his 1st opera appearance since the corona virus outbreak. there

these don carlos at the vienna state opera. i her. oh i ah eunice councilman has a special relationship with the austrian capital, and he's just recorded an album in vienna. finished icbc until the end of the city . i've grown to live there, build. there is no other place in the world where more composers of left. and there are so much music about the city, but these are stuff. but as it's positive and it's negative sides of much,

if we laugh and joke about it, we're sarcastic about it. but in the end, it's clear that everyone loves this city car alan and many have paid tribute to it . in so many different areas and melodies on. so i picked a few of them with the hobbies any kind of also i get often. oh news. oh i am ah . 4

c grant from let's go up to the pinnacle one more time in zing abilene nor loomed this mountain, linux of operating tennis. how long do you hope to stay up? they are going, hey, yates, or i have a viscous state does. if i've come to realize how much i enjoy just living my life on earth get added, wished he'd sites. and during this time under the corona virus, good back to me. i've also seen how many lovely things there, or you can spend your time doing. it's on a tight on function, so perhaps i will end up performing less. did you see it in? it was meaning, but i'm far from saying good. i'm going to stop altogether. this is shelly knock bite stuff on entry. i do think that there will come a time when i leave the stage of this and, but that's a good way in the future. once i does is to go for the next 10 years at least, i imagine i'll continue along the same course. and each of them fall buzzer, i'm on. thank you. and then i might end up doing something else for a few years and federally,

i will quit on dallas cultural side because i can't imagine being on old age until i'm 99 fish. it's inevitable at some point, you can con, contact, continuing on, would only serve to one, do everything you've accomplished over the ad ice, hud fash butte and would also be sad because you'd show that you didn't know any other kind of life. but the stage is yet does one can i don't want that to be said of me and on turn to us most magazines, knocks our lesson. eunice calcium, thanks very much. good way. you're very welcome. ah, i'm your mom on. yeah. i ah oh, yeah. now it's finally time for an italian dinner, as the sun goes down. oh, the naples. oh,

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