The german tenor is one of the biggest names in opera today. What does it take to become an opera star. Only very few make the leap into the worlds best stages. 90 percent of Opera Singers never manage to land a fixed contract at an opera house. The risk of burnout is acute as young as realized early on. 2 2 2 2 says if youre caught in this im asking why am i saying many roles in the 1st 2 years but it almost cost me my Mental Health and by of course i was overstretched out of all. The pressures are considerable this specially on young performers. Who. Are 28 year old as a devices has a promising career ahead of her. Here at the zurich opera house the french danish soprano is performing her 1st title role model well. Since kid theres a dress rehearsal today. Her costar is one of the worlds top 10 years piotr and. She laughed saying 78. 00 degrees in june must nace opera 7 years ago at new yorks metropolitan opera alongside on a new trip. Set and this is why its a gift to sing a longs n. P. R. Ties shall ye get you to sing in and of course tell. As a device which has been rehearsing for 6 long weeks as a special. Its been very exhausting. Id say they were her skills are the hardest part lindsay says you can see her singing almost every day. Against very demanding people i think i hope the performances are easier because shes been in my because right now ive almost run out of energy ive reached my limit left of its. The premiere is in 2 days time. Housemate gregorian knows what its like to reach her limit. I had a lot from them so i mean when i went on stage i was taught sewing up for i did i didnt have any single idea how to stick. It to the lithuanian singer finds time between looking after her children doctor visits and rehearsals to meet up with me in her hometown of vilnius. In 2006 she cofounded the private initiative the vilnius city opera. It doesnt have its own venue its productions are hosted by the citys congress hall. Because of the nice system there are no dressing rooms and the stars do their own makeup but the performances are top notch. The ville new city opera is fostering a new generation of talent. We want and we ate young people and i think in those 12 years where did kind of big revolution in this country really about the young people. These days de ville new city opera attracts world class performers who also sing at the bolshoi in moscow and the met in new york. On the way home from rehearsals ozma gregorian tells me that she was almost destroyed by work i started with big roles i never saw any tiny roles or something and of course i heard them myself when i was 13 i was dead already and i was always doing too much too big roles. The breakthrough she was hoping for never came instead she started all over again and completely rely on her vocal technique. She also learned to stop overtaxing her voice a mistake many Opera Singers make just as so often i was to be told to just leave the fact that it sometimes hurts is a painful realization because youre loved doing it you know sort of hers your bank balance especially when youre young this is old man thats actually quite an important point youre often forced to do certain things to survive financially also. Once they finish their studies which can take as long as 6 years an opera singer with a fixed contract in germany makes around 2000 euros a month before taxes a stage technician arns more. Or get a fassbender is an opera legend shes trodden the boards all over the world but these days shes mainly a director. Come shes currently staging on a shot 10 the woman without a shadow by rijkaard strauss cordell. I could never say no youre always afraid youll drop off the map and never be asked again doc is now 80 this grown dom of german opera knows the industry inside and out. Shes been a singer a teacher and a managing director for consumers who also help each other do you. Learn most do you want to truly and have it your role also as an actor. This is thats always been a priority of mine and you need charisma when you go on stage and everyone should look at you. Thats what you must aim for. In 2 days time the curtain will go up on the opera manon in zurich. The. Polish tenor piotr a big job is getting ready to go on stage. So i think in october. 2 days the dress rehearsal a lot works well but there is also some room for improvement and a lot can still go wrong going to see machine. How well can he judge his own performance this is the also. This comes a problem by. One of the biggest problems for Opera Singers is that we never hear ourselves and if you minus i dont know how my voice actually sounds it is big and thats why its so important to have someone you really trust among the audience and such as your wife always see as if he she can exist i know his voice very well and i met all his performances so good i listen to his voice and i take note of what his teacher says foster 41 percent how to find the optimal resonates in his and i hear if hes good to see. His wife gave up her own career as an opera singer to support his. Shes undoubtedly one of the secrets of piotr big success. Was. Still just the rehearsal is over elza devices to have been on stage for 4 hours. So this will be the most yes and it has to do shelf the steps and i just have to dance at once again that was the 1st time ive sung the whole part from beginning to end. But as you can see i havent lost my voice and thats the main thing. Leah but i feel completely drained. Being over the next 2 days ill try not to talk too much ill do some cooking some exercise ill try to relax a bit go over my role and work on 3 or 4 parts thats it like. In the spots as i desperately need a break a good book. Tells a device that has been a member of the berlin state operas ensemble since 2017 when it reopened after years of refurbishment. She. In the role of christian and Robert Schumann scenes from gurkhas files the production that kicked off the new season. 2 2 1 competitions are one way that singers can make a name for themselves. And admits that shes never taken part in one in her life. I just could not do that because i always had this huge air of stage and i was just so afraid and i couldnt even 20 percent of really years ago i really thought that i can come on stage because it was like it was so big and its really physical its not just a fear you know you stop to feel your arms or you know your face is thinking and of course you know it hear it you know hard be disturbed grieving and everything. Even now backstage in frankfurt shes palpably nervous. Shes performing the title role in tchaikovskys lyric one act opera ilan to. Bear and to learn about general director of the frankfurt opera discovered her 5 years ago she. Was for the 1st time this year. I always love. It so. You know. Those. Are very very serious. So i wish you well the thank you very much thank you michele in the 1st set and yet shes always captivated me with not only her singing but also her simplicity. Through all in the way she can command attention by holding back and the song of maxim cut. I know that maria caught us from a similar. Car last but in the little footage that exists of. What you see is a woman who singing commands attention because she has presence even when doing very little. You have a presence in mind comes out a nice. Its just not something that arsenic picks up on. My wish more thing aside the sophistication and intelligence in key moments to do less rather than more on stage gets to feel. Less is more. Its a phrase i hear often more making this film along with talk of pacing oneself and being in the moment. Music director of the Royal Opera House in london and tony pano works with stars like Younus Kaufman and on a new truck oh i ask why so many Opera Singers end up ruining their voices. I know their face the doing of. Those 01 of the Biggest Challenges for Opera Singers is knowing how to calibrate their intensity and emotion louts and also their volume. Is get seen far too many singers are too loud. Oh the atmospheric singing piano and creates a more interesting efforts harnessing and if see that if you sing too loudly youre going to get tired one month get shenmue dead by him in the loud in the loud worthless war you were restored as well why did no you drop money well ive. Told her in her 1st one was her. Law was. Throwing. The. Ball. On the. Her. But these days an extraordinary voice will only get you so far. Up or singers cant afford to ignore social media posting is now part of the job even the stars are doing it often sharing glimpses of their private lives. Such as on a trip go here shes posted a rehearsal with maestro. Even if the mood was a beautiful kid. One cool to keep going to. See. Much opens it does into the movie stars they can see and this is this is i see some Opera Singers who are almost like movie stars by him thats ok as the us does most but their job demands a certain respect and concentration and consent at sea on thats the most important thing that the media comedian cant make a career about and you have to get up on stage and prove yourself a new every time psyching either us money is just. Think a month and this is. The magic i feel that the job is losing some of its magic you know my because people can see that were just normal and all this is so i see it in myself. As a tool when i go to the office and theres a singer. I go straight to instagram or facebook to find out who they are with or you tube is. Owned. By its think but i think you can lose yourself and social media meant kansas sworn in does a medium. That you can end up thinking youre a good singer. Just because you have 30000 followers. 2 these days the industry is teeming with people who are talented singers but more importantly look good. Nowadays you have to look like a model at least on your record covers sometimes when you see someone on stage you wonder how they managed to look the way they do on their record cover. Just so you cant blame the singers its the fault of the people who know nothing about singing and base everything on looks. They only cast certain types. How do you see. The im going to feel its my i knows what shes talking about she sung in opera houses all over the world. Was an offshoot place were talking about this the scottish. Oh yes the rose to go to a certain types you have to be thin young you have to be affordable the situations getting worse and worse speed emotionally. I hear my voice is getting deeper i never felt comfortable singing soprano theyd say to me anyone who says good morning the way you do cant be a soprano kind of pencil prophesied. I was profile spend all trial fassbender always said youre not really a soprano you dont enjoy your upper register and i would say yes im always glad when im allowed to go deep enough to spot a soft side that was a clue and now finally i found the fact that feels right to me. She isnt the only opera singer who spent years singing in the wrong. In germany in particular operatic training could be improved the country is home to one 3rd of the worlds opera houses. But germany is failing to properly train young talent. The soloists performing in germanys many opera houses tend to come from the u. S. Russia and increasingly also from south korea and china. Here in kenya in garfields maya is something of an exception. I salute the singers from overseas are much better than ourselves this is why is that for them to understand the training up. There are 24 state conservatories in germany. But their graduates dont always amount to much. From sponsorship on the 20 Young Americans auditioned for me i could hire 19 of them and me and i but if i audition students in german conservatories fours and 19 of them are employable. Maybe one conditional once in. Time so obviously theres something wrong with our system. We could learn from those other systems that are doing something right. This i always thought that germanys conservatories were world class but it seems that the standard of teaching let students down. Flush the nasty possible the best voice teachers on here or overseas because they were unhappy with the conditions here. And just skipped i think there are very few teachers in actually experiencing the stage 1st hand those who lose those. They know the theory but they dont know the practice. Rules praktica into all spin dont. Even. Belong to loiter teachers are people who failed to make it in the music world using good frustrated singers who are no good. But who study technique is a woman of the 15 of us from the. Studio to me its are this the absolute of this this Team Training is done by people who arent passing on technique but rather their own complexes and problems i get a complex and probably met. Moreover singers from russia the us china and south korea are more disciplined than their german colleagues thats the conclusion reached by a recent study commissioned by the bettles month foundation. But regardless of where they come from all Opera Singers have to learn to resist the opera worlds many temptations as well as agents promising big bucks. Agents have always been dangerous complex because obviously they make their money from singers so there are more respectable agents who really help singers nurture their voices because they have a vested interest. But if a singer goes and ruins their voice never mind theres always another one waiting in the wings im pretty negative in this respect. But voice needs time to develop. A singer needs to learn their limitations as a device tells me these are the prerequisites of a lasting career. But some agents expect the impossible from singers the slight feet of feet a manager of a design. Lots of managers say look there are 365 days in a year lets do as much as possible this. Gets the smog the system is going to be stiff but at my age you tend to think come on. I can do it im young. I can do everything. That in this off must but if thats what youre always thinking thats what you do. So its the way it is was so thats the more you use it the less of it there is thats how it is if you dont give your voice a break it gets less and less and suddenly youve got nothing left to work with. Us in the gregorian also thought she could do everything when she was young but then she had a vocal crisis in her late twentys she was faced with the choice of carrying on knowing she was ruining her voice or starting all over again from scratch and learning a whole new technique. She opted to make a new start. Then in 2016 she sang the role of tatyana and eugene. In berlin. Her potential was obvious but she wasnt able to demonstrate the full extent of her talent. This time of for election it was really hard for me because 1st of all i was pregnant my father was dying and he was next to me it was some of the moment specially in rehearsals when i thought i could manage. She divided her time between rehearsals and the hospital her father himself a famous tenor eventually died but she had to keep going. You cant cry extreme than was before the performance after performance but in the performance fun kind of i noticed me and then all the asked me for. In the summer of 21 team asked me were gorean captivated the opera world with a stunning performance as a zalmay. Voice was powerful acting mesmerizing. Shes now in demand all over the world plus carla the met and the will opera house in london are all eager to engage her. First of all you must have it can call the cards or whatever i mean but its really just. You know we must to have this big big emotions always we cant share with with people and with the years you must learn how to control all those emotions without stopping. But cosmic gregorian is hardly an overnight star. She has spent years owning her craft. And she takes nothing for granted. Its a bit of a plot a chance but i always say that if you do everything right at the start of your career and success will come to you as a young singer you dont always have to be striving for success but when youre young you have to learn that serenity that youre messing up shops here of ninetys arc ive often turned down major opportunity. And when i felt that im not in a position to do something as well as id like to mom does this mean of all my moms pushing good luck or. That might mean that the wheel of your career turns slower. But thats good because you can use the time to build up your career step by step. Because fundamental time 1st i know folk. Opera is a tough Business Training as an opera singer and going on to earn a living as a performer takes not only talent but stamina to. For those who persevered its a great privilege. Future mission soaring into outer space charlie the robot he and other Intelligent Machines are the future. But theyre already carrying out valuable tasks in the present what can. Intelligence dude and what are its limits. Charlie and the humans. D. W. To. Do it yourself work. For your future. Good dont miss out. On. The mob. This is d. W. New life. And australians are welcoming and the new year with a spectacular fireworks display in sydney. 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