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Isjust unique. 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 work that youve done before, seems to be...

Whatever role hes in, jonas kaufmann dazzles. hes renowned for a vast range of performances in tosca, la traviata, otello and fidelio, amongst many others. what is the secret of his success? thats what the next generation of opera stars want to know. ive come to castiglione della pescaia, on the tuscan coast in italy, to find out how a new generation of opera they a new generation of opera want to get the very top as they want to get the very top as well as remain the pressures being there. here...

The visitors of this opera house fall in love also to this born in munich singer, 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 wo...

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 mai...

In the next episode, the young venezuelan conductor gustavo dudamel, and why hes shaking up the world of opera and music. hello there. well, weve had a hosepipe ban come into force to hampshire and the isle of wight today, but we do have further bans on the way to parts of sussex, kent and south wales over the next week or two. today its been another dry day across the south of the uk, but further north we have seen some shower clouds. the showers have been pretty well scattered in nature. looki...

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 relevant. he gives it a kind of actuality, his personality, the way he is approaching it. so, he makes it that opera is not...

Ma Nan is happy that more and more young people are willing to learn about Cantonese Opera, or Yueju, and its culture. As curator of the Cantonese Opera Art Museum in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Ma said the passing on and development of the art is more than a matter of a day's work.

The sea captain, enzo. dominique mayer runs la scala. he says its important to take a gamble with an opera like la gioconda. i think, first of all, its very difficult to find the right performance to do it. and of course, its also maybe more difficult to sell out because people like very well—known operas. but ourjob is also to bring unknown operas or less known operas into the theatres. of course, its a great help to have a great star. but first of all, we are looking for the right performer....

I was singing and he was conducting me. and that was the very first time i had a crush on him. and he on me, i suppose. of course, always so hard to find a date with her. itsjust such, such a busy soprano. to see the chemistry between her and the orchestra, with sound, with colours, and then we add the audience that was into it completely. it makes a special performance. shes a great musician, so for a conductor, itsjust a pleasure because she has the right instincts in music. when sonya is in a...

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