was from hospital child fassbender always said you're not really a soprano you don't enjoy your upper register and i would say yes i'm always glad when i'm allowed to go deep enough to spot this one side that was a clue and now finally i found the fact that feels right to me. she isn't the only opera singer who spent years singing in the wrong. in germany in particular operatic training could be improved the country is home to one 3rd of the world's opera houses. but germany is failing to properly train young talent. the soloists performing in germany's many opera houses tend to come from the u.s. russia and increasingly also from south korea and china. here in tokyo in got fields maya is something of an exception. i salute the singers from overseas are much better than us so this is why is that for us monday to understand the training up. there are 24 state conservatories in germany. but their graduates don't always amount to much. from sponsorship on the 20 young americans auditioned for me i could hire 19 of them and me and i but if i auditioned students in german conservatories be

begin to fassbender is an opera legend she's trodden the boards all over the world but these days she's mainly a director. so i thought. she's currently staging on a shot 10 the woman without a shadow by rijkaard strauss cordell. i could never say no you're always afraid you'll drop off the map and never be asked again doc is now 80 this grown dom of german opera knows the industry inside and out. she's been a singer a teacher and a managing director for consumer also wholesale flow of the daily beast. when most of you want to truly inhabit your role also as an actor. this is as it always been a priority of mine and you need charisma when you go on stage and everyone should look at you. that's what you must aim for. in 2 days' time the curtain will go up on the opera manon in zurich. they got such joy. polish tenor piotr a big zala is getting ready to go on stage. despite the going out for over. 2 days the dress rehearsal a lot works well but there is also some room for improvement and a lot can still go wrong going to see me. how well can he judges on performance this is the. disco sup

be finished as soon as possible hugh bronson from the alternative for germany party and thomas fassbender who's a german journalist and former businessman both say that the united states has once again demonstrated its wish to keep russia and europe away from each other. america doesn't have to be part of every deal that is made on the planet and there are important of course our most important allies are germany by on the other hand they have no problem whatsoever to quote the allies under pressure which is not sort of an act of friendship that i believe that the americans were hoping that there pressure would work along the way at some earlier point and now they don't they realize the europeans are very firm they want to complete north korean too they want to have the cheaper russian gas delivered to europe and only now are they taking actions because they realize that the game is lost and now they're putting on sanctions to make it difficult for russia and the europeans to close the deal the u.s. interests that taught me a rift between western europe and russia because they need in the

very interesting of you on the program thank set today journalist thomas fassbender at speaking to us from in germany. ok let's say more world news this hour the trump and pitchman saga has stepped up a gear in washington with the u.s. heise intelligence committee to levering what some are calling a damning report a plane without the american president abused his office for personal gain artie's killam open has been examining the document in more detail. well the report from the house intelligence committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his reelection campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this report chronicles a scheme by the president i'd states to coerce an ally ukraine that is at war with an adversary russia into doing the plea