And here he is in the flesh Michael Fabiano one of the worlds most celebrated tenors and the risk taking tenor products that most welcome thank you very very with you thanks for joining and that was of course too short michael so im going to ask you to take a bit of a risk here and sing a few more bars for us if you. Are on the other. Theres a. Minute thats absolutely amazing i think we need a clapping for that you dont even need a microphone or your performance of the duke of mine to write in he wanted to whats special about if im going to tell for you well for rigoletto its one of verities 3 triumvirate operas of a top atop yacht that you go that says middle europe but whats important about it is its a story of how deceit and treachery can get the worst of us even if we think were doing something right its even if we want to get back at somebody its really bad very tragic and what makes a great performance for you. A great performance for me is. When i feel that ive connected on a deep level to the character with the with which im in bodying for the evening and that means i synthesize great music with the words the syntax the text that im communicating to the public and if i do that a lot of study theres a lot of study involved in opera but when i feel good about it i know that ive connected to the role i know that ive connected to the character speaking of risks youre a pilot a small aircraft in your spare time which of course is very frightening for some people is flying a kinda thing you know way too often so its a great question i think that flying is the same in the same way of saying i think flying is a way for me to be one tracked living in the moment when i sing whats so critical for me is reminding myself that the only job i have to do is communicate incredible music to the public so concurrently being a pilot one of the only obligation i have when flying is to fly the damn plane thats it and what im up there i clear my head i get the opportunity to just be in the clouds and up in the sky and thats it informs my singing informs me that i have to be present in the moment as an opera singer and nothing about anything else thats fantastic and obviously its as much of a passion as singing can be a passion for for you how much influence have the great tenors for instance the ones we know obviously from the path to the. Go had on your career and ambitions and how easy or difficult is it to create your to develop your own style. Great question id say 1st of all its important to know the past in order to be the future in the present so i cant be a great singer without understanding what came before me just like i think in government and politics if we dont know our history we cant govern so in singing i have to know that all to get to know correctly as to know domingo and i respect all of them and i respect their talents but i have to build something unique and special now for the public for perpetuity and thats what im doing and is perfection ever the goal or is that your teacher talked about the art of imperfection in the voice i think that there is this wonderful line where one has to be excellent that perfection is too far but good is not enough and i always try to fall in that street of excellence and the moment when i try to go to do the line of perfection i end up slamming back into good and it takes a lot of work just to get back to excellence excellence is what i strive for ok so far it seems like youre specializing mostly not entirely but mostly an italian and french opera and your debut album obviously is looking at vandy and on its set to a wonderful job there just released in may after any im visions to get into the german composers i love german opera i dont know if my voice is really well suited to it i sing a lot of it is a vocal decision its a vocal decision largely its a vocal decision theres a lot of wagner that i could sing some day i dont know if i will i think a lot of those operas i dont go to they come to the artist i think theres a moment in time when certain music just arrives because its the right time this is the synthesis the the stars collide and i dont know when thatll happen if itll happen i will sing a lot of russian opera to intend to. German out of opera dont know its also is it a ilang which question as well no with russian no no as a musician its important for me to be able to see. Being in pronounce whatever language i can and understand the text and why the words exist in a sort of thats not the barrier for interest amidst the construction of the music Michael Fabiano youll be performing vahey again in madrid in july then ellen gar in scotland i believe at the met in new york best of luck with your very busy schedule we of course look forward to seeing you back in berlin thank you so leave early next year for me here carmen thank you very much for joining me. On now to an even younger upcoming star on the piano and breathtaking technique Emotional Depth drive and nuance are just some of the qualities ascribed to don a dark and german greek pianist garnered ovations at the recent sure run fest in bonn where she focused on the other shulman namely clara whose 200th birthday is being celebrated this year. Night jerkin has been called a poet at the piano. A fitting artist to interpret clash whose music seems filled with poetry. And her husband. Were laid to rest in both. Their graves as a place of pilgrimage for lovers of the should months music. The house where died is in a suburb of bonn at that time a senatorial for the mentally ill today its a tourist attraction the shoeman museum and the home base of the schumann fest. This year the festival motto was dear clocker with a focus on clash woman in her bicentennial year. As you can see its very hard to stop because the musical line is a whole long and i think thats very characteristic of her music and her conditions are very often technically very demanding as well kristie wrote them for herself and we other pianists have to him and its to play them and i think that people have now really rediscovered her music and and see that its not just the music of all but among the wife but really a very old composer that can stand alone then i dorchen is a versatile artist as demonstrated on her recordings of piano concertos by mozart and mendel son and works for solo piano by a whole dutchman tunstall bat and c. P. E. Bus that won her an International Classical music award. She also plays in a duo with her younger sister q barely dark and in 2015 the sisters founded the mother of all. International Music Festival on the island of les bos where they spent their summers his children. Now making her home near berlin tonight visits lesbos regularly to recharge her batteries and run her festival. I think its even more of course the most powerful thing that music can do is unite and connect people because its the universal language that anyone can understand no matter if there is an actual language barrier. Sharing emotions connecting people giving hope then i joke and means that that is. All from music to literature and as we approach midsummer night it seemed only right to find one of our 100. 00 german last raids that fits the bill and bingo or the thames novel midsummer night is an entertaining tribute to the quirkiness of post unification berlin and one little have you giggling in your face. Sets on margot. 96 isnt it sexy when someone knows about fire and winds when they can tell you about every great every sentence of course of this but could you be seduced by someone with an intimate knowledge of the potato. Below their current readers talking about potatoes well in midsummer night right now but soon the narrators uncle has a special gift for potatoes he can identify every variety of potato by taste even if theyre boiled or fried. Whats that you say not a turn on well it gets more ridiculous from bear the narrator a floundering author is commissioned to write a 12 page Magazine Article about potatoes his quest for spud knowledge takes him down a rabbit hole of misadventures in the newly were unified. He goes searching for a dead professors potato archive winds up with the worst haircut of his life and meets tina a sex phone operator who wrote her masters thesis on the potato in german literature. Im sure you also know the potato was considered and for d. C. Ak a botanist in nuremberg in the year 1634 writes that he had potatoes baked for and having eaten his meal suddenly ran after his cook she left and i shot a quick glance at her legs. The potato in its glorious lameness makes the whole areas leitmotif through the wrong and raunchy city of berlin midsummer nights x. Place in the 1990 s. When east and west berlin are still fusing after the fall of the wall its also about the longest day of the year 17 hours of sunlight when people are going crazy and almost anything seems possible 7. Well thats all for now but well leave you with some more impressions of Michael Fabiano enya the ladies man role the duke of mantua in the legal at all thats until next time and she says. Oh that was. A load. The food. Remembering the disappeared. Whether in Police Custody or jail in turkey hundreds of people are committing to decades. Assisting mothers who protest against these disappearances despite government arrest and. Their need to know is also putting them in danger. Close up in 90 minutes on t w. Every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word looking like of me coaxing germany to butcher. 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