And here he is in the flesh Michael Fabiano one of the worlds most celebrated tenors im the risk taking 10 or products that are most welcome thank you very very rich 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 air and sing a few more bars for us if you. 2 are on the other. Theres a. Weapon thats absolutely amazing i think we need a clapping for that you dont even need a microphone for your performance of a duke of mine to write in do you want to whats special about if youre going to tell for you well for rigoberto its one of verities 3 triumvirate operas of a taut atop yacht the people that dont just 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 an bodying 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 yeah 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 was saying whats so critical for me is reminding myself that the only job i have to do is communicate incredible music to the public so concurrently being a pilot one of the only obligation i have when flying is to fly the damn plane thats it and one of 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 not think 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 and 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 in 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 any talian 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 other bishops 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 send 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 the stars collide and i dont know when that will happen if it will happen i will sing a lot of russian opera through and tend 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 elie gar in scotland i believe at the met in new york 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 bonn where she focused on the other shulman namely clara whose 200th birthday is being celebrated this year. The night durcan has been called a poet at the piano. For a fitting artist to interpret clash whose music seems filled with poetry. And her husband. Were laid to rest in bonn. Their grave is a place of pilgrimage for lovers of the schumanns 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 she wrote them for herself and we other planets 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 and i dokken is a versatile artist as demonstrated on her recordings of piano concertos by mozart or mendel son and works for solo piano by a group that schumann tonsil bat and c. P. E. But 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 malvo. International Music Festival on the island of los boss where they spent their summer says children. Now making her home near berlin tonight visits lesbos regularly to recharge her batteries and run her festival. I think 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 can means that it is. All 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 giggling in your. Sad tone margot. 96 isnt it saxon when someone knows about final winds when they can tell you about every great every sentence of course it is but could you be seduced by someone with an intimate knowledge of the potato. And. Follow their point readers talking about potatoes well in midsummer night by the narrators uncle has a special gift for potatoes he 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 spud 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 him 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 while 7. Well thats all for now but well leave you with some more impressions of Michael Fabiano indias ladies man role the duke of monmouth why in the legal at all thats until next time and she says. Oh do you want. Loads. After. Takeoff. Its this summers hard to cut the 1st cup of nations 24 teams give it their all. Who are the favorites what are the fans are experts. We take a closer look for the 2013 africa cup of nations kicks off cut kick off 30 minutes on the totem. Pole. What does leffert t. V. Tell us about her. Body. Her. Mum lets experience a modern Museum Center with her body of russian Cultural Heritage foundation. Heres the searchers are looking for answers more than 5000000 objects the bench on just released part of the history of. Going home and those who know about secret things how to have like this. Most of the direction of the reading at the bottom is enough to look at the plane crash and Cultural Heritage foundation the bombings treasure trove our 2. Starts june 21st on d w. This is deja vu news live from berlin tensions are rising in the gulf as the u. S. Orders 1000 more troops to that region the boy meant coming as the u. S. Releases new footage it says fruit around was behind the attack on 2 oil tankers near the persian gulf last week and as a rand says its about to breach the International Nuclear accord for the very 1st time also coming out. German investigators say they believe the killing of a regional politician was me