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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.

Would you like to see centres of opera elsewhere in the world, in africa, for instance? yes, i know in south africa now it is getting, people now know about it, than when i started. because we have the culture of singing, which is choral music and african music, which is actually not farfrom opera. in the autumn of 2021, cecilia is taking a major step in her career when she becomes a house soloist with the swiss national opera in the capital, bern. cecilia is a special talent, and its notjust be...

Benjamin has one of the most distinctive and beautiful voices that i have ever heard. somehow you can hear his soul through his voice. it has got this raw intensity, 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...

Now on bbc news... it is zeinab badawis afternoon. earlier we saw her interviewing the president of barbados. now she 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 ma...

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.

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

As i was growing up. and then ijoined the church choir, and ijoined the school choir. i took part in the singing 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 musi...

The world can see my shows. but there are concerns that too much opera is being streamed will stop the big problem i see is that if we give to the audience everywhere 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 fo...