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if i meetjonas kaufmann, .ke him, because, actually, you can say "jonas kaufmann" - and everyone around i you will understand that you are speaking about taste, about extraordinary voice, - about talent, about, - of course, attractiveness. sings what advice would you give to young tenors or young opera singers who are embarking on a great career? it's always difficult to give general advices. of course, the first advice maybe is listen to yourself, because you need to be satisfied with what you're doing, but you need to be very critical to yourself because no—one at the beginning will believe you, probably, or believe in you as much as you do. and later on, no—one will tell you... laughs ..if you're doing something wrong! and the second is you have to burn for it. and if you burn for such thing, if you have this passion, you have to do it. and it's a tough world. and i'm sure there are a lot of great, great talents out there. but, unfortunately, many of these talents never make it because they get the wrong adv

that's an excuse, jonas kaufmann! whatever role he's in, jonas kaufmann dazzles.erformances in tosca, la traviata, 0tello and fidelio, amongst many others. what is the secret of his success? that's what the next generation of opera stars want to know. so i've come to castiglione della pescaia, on the tuscan coast in italy, to meet the young singers who want to learn from kaufmann about how to get to the very top, as well as the pressures of remaining there. sing here, every year, a dozen lucky singers are selected from hundreds of applicants to attend masterclasses with big names from the world of opera at a summer school run by the georg solti academy. applause the academy was set up in 2004 by the family of the late hungarian conductor georg solti. during a long and distinguished career, he was music director of several opera houses, including the bavarian state opera in munich, germany, where, decades later, the young kaufmann would get his performing break. solti believed passionately in encouraging and mentoring exceptional young opera singers from all over t

jonas kaufmann unveiled. let me take you to the opera. singing jonas kaufmann is an opera legend.e's already assured of his place in history as one of the greatest ever tenors. applause. like millions of others, i'm a huge fan ofjonas kaufmann, and i try to see him like millions of others, i'm a huge fan ofjonas kaufmann, and i try to see him perform whenever i can. i am in awe of his almost supernatural talent, but now i can go one step further. i've come to the opera house in his hometown, munich, to find out more about his meteoric rise to global fame. the bavarian state opera house is wherejonas began his career. and tickets are always snapped up for his performances. he sings. during intervals, the foyer shop does a brisk trade. which single artist do you sell the most dvds, cds of? the most and the best singer, it'sjonas kaufmann here in munich. and i think also in general, the visitors of this opera house fall in love also to this born in munich singer, jonas kaufmann. serge dorny, general manager of the bavarian state opera, explains kaufmann�*s appeal. well, the house, wh

if i meetjonas kaufmann, . be like him, because, actually, you can say "jonas kaufmann" _ and everyone around you will understand i you will understand that you are speaking about taste, about extraordinary voice, about talent, about, - of course, attractiveness. he sings what advice would you give to young tenors or young opera singers who are embarking on a great career? it's always difficult to give general advices. of course, the first advice maybe is listen to yourself, because you need to be satisfied with what you're doing, but you need to be very critical to yourself because no—one at the beginning will believe you, probably, or believe in you as much as you do. and later on, no—one will tell you... laughs: ..if you're - doing something wrong! and the second is you have to burn for it. and if you burn for such thing, if you have this passion, you have to do it. and it's a tough world. and i'm sure there are a lot of great, great talents out there. but, unfortunately, many of these talents never make it

that's an excuse, jonas kaufmann!ming up, meet the young singers who want to learn from kaufmann i've come to castiglione della pescaia, on the tuscan coast in italy, to find out how a new generation of opera singers draw inspiration from the stellar career of the world's top tenor, jonas kaufmann. they sing here, every year, a dozen lucky singers are selected from hundreds of applicants to attend masterclasses with big names from the world of opera at a summer school run by the georg solti academy. applause the academy was set up in 2004 by the family of the late hungarian conductor georg solti. during a long and distinguished career, he was music director of several opera houses, including the bavarian state opera in munich, germany, where, decades later, the young kaufmann would get his performing break. solti had believed passionately in encouraging and mentoring exceptional young opera singers from all over the world. he sings that's beautiful, dear. one more time. and be even longer on heaven. the beginning... j

the superstar tenorjonas kaufmann tells me about his journey to global fame and how it's tough to stayfell for some of us in the last couple of days ofjuly doesn't really change the fact that it was a very dry month for many parts of the uk, but especially down towards the south. so, what about the first week of august? well, this chart shows the rainfall we're expecting to accumulate over the coming days. the darker colours show where the wettest weather will be up to the north—west, the lighter colours suggesting that very little rain will fall in the south, where we really do need it. for monday morning, this ridge of high pressure in charge of our weather, so a mainly dry start to the week. one or two sharp showers from this cloud that'll be sitting in place across parts of eastern england. that should tend to clear. then, lots of sunshine, but then we see cloud rolling in from the west, bringing rain into northern ireland around lunchtime and then into south west scotland, west wales, far south west of england, across the isle of man, maybe into north west england later in the day

the superstar tenor jonas kaufmann tells me about his journey to global fame, and how it's tough to stay. we've had some exceptional weather throuthuly, and statistics came through this week to show that it was the driest on record in some southern and eastern parts of the uk, and there's little sign of any rain here for the rest of the week and into the weekend. but it's notjust been dry across the south and east. across the whole of the uk, through the summer so far — the meteorological summer, june, july — we've had just over 100mm of rain, whilst during the whole of the summer — so another month, august, added on — we'd normally expect to see about 240mm, so we're way off that. it has been dry across many parts, but obviously exceptionally so in the south, and with this high pressure moving in, over the next few days, that's going to keep our weather fronts at bay, and it means the dry weather persists. rain will fall, but mostly in the north. this shows the accumulations over the next 3—4 days, and we do expect some rain for northern ireland and for scotland, but very little across

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