Changes Make Opera News Today

I was in love with opera from the beginning, but i actually did not know there was opera, ijust thought it was music. and, exciting french tenor benjamin bernheim on the thrill of live performances. what we want is for people to dress up and come to see us, and come to the opera house and the concert hall. what does the future hold for young singers in an opera world that has been transformed by technology, social media, and demands for greater diversity? and, could the changes make opera better...

And, exciting french tenor benjamin bernheim on the thrill of live performances. what we want is for people to dress up and come to see us, and come to the opera house and the concert hall. what does the future hold for young singers in an opera world that has been transformed by technology, social media, and demands for greater diversity? and, could the changes make opera better and more popular? let me take you to the opera. passionate singing applause south african soprano masabane cecilia ra...

In the world all the content that we have for the price of a cup of coffee, it devalues our work. i think it is important not to make it expensive, not to make it out of reach, but do not go too far in a direction where you are not going to be able to come back. increasingly, opera singers will be aware that this is a global art form, and that they need to embrace that. it has the potential to inspire singers from different parts of the world, so it is an exciting time. the world of opera is cle...

Competitions and that was when my mum saw that i actually loved singing. when i finished school she asked what i wanted to study and i said law. and she said, "why not music because you are already singing?". and i said actually this is what i wanted to do but i was afraid to say it because, you know, they are going to say, what is opera? cecilia, as her mother called her, studied music at the tshwane university of technology in pretoria, and then at cape town university, where she joined the op...

Character we are telling that should be important. # she wasnt wearing slacks...#. cecilia would like to be seen as a role model for black artists wanting to make it in opera. so, i think slowly, but surely, we are going to have more people of colour singing in these big houses, so i think it is going there, and i think there is a future for young women like me, black women, in opera. would you like to see centres of opera elsewhere in the world, in africa, for instance? yes, i know in south afr...

What we want is for people to dress up and come to see us, and come to the opera house and the concert hall. what does the future hold for young singers in an opera world that has been transformed by technology, social media, and demands for greater diversity? and, could the changes make opera better and more popular? let me take you to the opera. passionate singing applause south african soprano masabane cecilia rangwanasha

And yet incredibly flexible. i consider carrie—ann matheson my coach, but also my ears because she is one of the people in the opera world that knows my voice the best. what was it about squashing a mosquito that she would tell you? it was about finishing a phrase on a vowel, for example, and not closing my mouth. the music should continue after they have finished singing, and sometimes the release of the note is abrupt, and it sounds like the sound just goes bang, like that. so thats our shor...

I was in love with opera from the beginning, but i actually did not know there was opera, ijust thought it was music. and, exciting french tenor benjamin bernheim on the thrill of live performances. what we want is for people to dress up and come to see us, and come to the opera house and the concert hall. what does the future hold for young singers in an opera world that has been transformed by technology, social media, and demands for greater diversity? and, could the changes make opera better...

In which we do things, for example building sets that arent quite so extravagant. behind—the—scenes, this is the beating heart of the props department that makes all sorts of things for the stage at the royal opera house here in covent garden in london. we are already seeing a lot of virtual reality in opera, particular set designs. to actually do have these virtual sets, where you can design things, travel around, they are more flexible and versatile. moreover, it is now easier and easier t...

In northern japan. now on bbc news zeinab badawi meets two sublime young opera stars who are grappling with a new world of opera — south african soprano masabane cecilia rangwanasha and french tenor benjamin bernheim. i have been an opera fan for decades and i want to share my passion with you. so i am on a mission to tell you about some of the names in opera who are making it fit for the future. meet south african soprano masabane cecilia rangwanasha, who loves song contests, and is tipped to...