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Applause in the next episode, the young venezuelan conductor gustavo dudamel and why hes shaking up the world of opera and music. hello. weve seen the heat intensify day by day so far this week, and for many of you, the heat is set to peak, even through friday or indeed saturday. most places on both days sitting under sunny skies yet again. the main risk areas, of course, of the highest of the temperatures, the greatest impacts for health and transport, covered by the met office amber extreme he...

So regular audiences may at times be disappointed when their favourite singers cancel, but how does one attract such passion for opera amongst younger people? i know that young people love modern things, but they would never go to the opera to find modernity. they would go to the opera to find fantasy, to find the past, to dream away from a difficult life that they are in. so keep the opera traditional... keep it... ..don�*t try to reinvent it in a modern way, and you feel that that will maint...

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 performin...

The future of opera? i am worried, because i... of course, everyone wants to do something new. music means it is something that not only entertains us, but itjust resonates somewhere within us. and it can only resonate if it has a certain beauty. and the more you go away from these rules and recipes that, for several centuries, did work well, the more complicated this music becomes. he sings jonas kaufmann is extremely important, actually, for opera today and opera tomorrow. somehow, he makes it...

Rife this winter. thats going to put a huge amount of pressure on. nhs england said it was planning to increase capacity for the winter months and reduce response times. julys heatwave might have had an impact — there was a record number of urgent ambulance call—outs — but health leaders know that, whatever the weather, there are huge challenges ahead. hugh pym, bbc news. now on bbc news, take me to the opera with zeinab badawi. ive been an opera fan for decades and i want to share my pass...

Jonas kaufmann unveiled. let me take you to the opera. singing jonas kaufmann is an opera legend. hes already assured of his place in history as one of the greatest ever tenors. applause like millions of others, im a huge fan ofjonas kaufmann

A cat stole the stage from a young opera singer, interrupting her self-tape with a viral rendition of his own.

The video went on as the two traded verses before the TikTok poster could not continue because she was laughing too much.

Jonas kaufmann. serge dorny, general manager of the bavarian state opera, explains kaufmann�*s appeal. well, the house, whenever he comes, is packed. i mean, these are... this is one of the first performances to be sold out, up to the point that even the orchestra pit, when he does a recital, we have to lift the orchestra pit and put seats. i mean, recently, in a recital, he had to sing five encores and they wouldnt stop. kaufmann�*s international career really took off in 2006, when he perf...

And that makes him really very special. but the pressures of staying at the top are immense. the highs and lows of life as an operatic celebrity from one of the people who knows him best. to get to the top is not so difficult, but to stay there, this is really a hard one. are the sacrifices worth it? the moment it all falls into. place and you are at a position that youve hardly ever dreamt| of is so much of a payback that everything, all the worki that youve done before, seems to be minimal. jo...