And here he is in the flash Michael Fabiano one of the worlds most celebrated tenors im the risk taking tenor part like the last welcome thank you very very little you know thank you 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 can my. God me oh theres a. Minute thats absolutely amazing i think we need to clapping for that you dont even need a microphone for your performance of the duke of mine to rot in glee will lead to whats special about if you go left over you well for rigoletto its one a very is 3 triumvirate operas of a total of yacht that he will that is 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 body in 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 of small aircraft in your spare time which of course is very frightening for some people is flying a kid into thinking 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 currently 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 nothink 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 the i have to know karoly i have 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 and 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 and of 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 in 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 stars collide and i dont know when thatll happen if itll happen i will sing a lot of russian opera through intend to. German out of opera dont know its also is it a language question as well you know 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 introducing me its the construction of the music Michael Fabiano youll be performing vahey again in madrid in july then ella gar in scotland i believe my know at the met in new york the best of luck with your very busy schedule and 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 new roles are just some of the qualities ascribed to don a dark and german greek pianist garnered ovations at the recent sure run fest in bahrain where she focused on others namely clara whose 200th birthday is being celebrated this year. The night durcan has been called a poet at the piano being service fitting artist to interpret clash a woman whose music seems filled with poetry. Her and her husband called virtual were laid to rest in. Their graves is a place of pilgrimage for lovers of the should nuns music. The house where schumann 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 commissions are very often technically very demanding as well because you wrote them for herself and we other pianists have to have managed 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 deny darkon is a versatile artist as demonstrated on her recordings of piano concertos by mozart and mendel son and works for solo piano by a good action man punchy 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 valley dark and in 2015 the sisters founded the molly vote. International Music Festival on the island of les bos where they spent their summers as children. Now making her home near berlin tonight visits lesbos regularly to recharge her batteries and run her festival. I think were going to do 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 and i just been nice that little. From music to literature and as we approach midsummer night it seemed only right to find one of our 100. 00 german must reads that fits the bill and bingo all of a thames novel midsummer night is an entertaining tribute to the quirkiness of post unification berlin and one little have you getting in your face. Shots on margot. 96 isnt it sexy when someone knows about fine wines when they can tell you about every great every fencer. Of course it is but could you be seduced by someone with an intimate knowledge of the potato. Below their readers talking about potatoes well in midsummer night right move it to the narrators uncle has a special gift for potatoes you 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 there the narrator a floundering author is commissioned to write a 12 page Magazine Article about potatoes his quest for spot 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. Back 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 raw 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 really they were in some more impressions of Michael Fabiano in years later the man role the duke of mantua in regal at all thats until next time and she says. Oh that was. A load. Good. Food. Good. Going after. Her. Remembering to disappear. Whether in Police Custody or jail in turkey hundreds of people are committing the decades. The sitting mothers who protest against these disappearances despite government harassment. Their need to know is also putting them in danger. Close up in 30 minutes on t w. Force. If the tempo of technology. Catches. The rhythm of the markets. The momentum of the working world. Made in germany. Your business magazine on t w. This is deja vu news. Tonight inside an Egyptian Court room egypts 1st democratically elected president. Mohamed morsi collapsed during his trial on espionage charges today with his body. To the hospital he was ousted by the military in a coup led by the current president back in 2013 after massive protests also coming up tonight german investigators establish a far right motive in the murder of a local politician investigators say a sauce