Was. 15000 people packed in the berlins buggin to and for theater. Was he the appearances attracting 1700000 viewers the. Drawl some of the opera Worlds Largest audiences. The german tenor is one of the biggest names in opera today. What does it take to become an opera star. Only very few artists make the leap on to the worlds best stages why are some singer successful and others not with that question in mind i spent half a year meeting up with some of the worlds most exciting operatic singers. For. Your next couple months career only really took off relatively late when he was in his mid thirtys in london he tells me about the doubts he had early on. The hit maternity show a missed call i made it was also of course i thought more than once about quitting and despite all my love of music and theater i couldnt imagine sticking with a profession long term where the only certain thing is uncertainty in the height for i asked. 90 percent of Opera Singers never managed to land a fixed cont
Need your help. All i can you guys know, look, the gardner imps poisoned his son and they want to trade the antidote for the contents of this backpack , a meeting somewhere in line was doing the coordinates meeting time. Equipment needed after 18 hours. Its not a problem the question is how we get there in such a short time. Ilya andreevich from the fox of our leadership, i apologize to you, you do not need to. You did everything right. Im an old fool, i almost killed my granddaughter instead of just trusting you, yes, our people also spotted nikolai in the city. Unfortunately. It was not possible to take him in hot pursuit, but he can be very dangerous. We need to get out of the country, and also oparina, and the guy is wanted, including international. I dont understand so you can see me. And the family is not kept in fear. Here you dont have thugs yes, a small steppe village. But there will be a lone wolf, there will be no wolves , others will come in their place, who will announce t
while in the custody of the morality police had saddened everyone and was being investigated with transparency. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. a few days ago, oleksandr shapoval, one of ukraine s leading ballet dancers, was killed while serving with the ukrainian army, fighting the russian invasion. art and culture are not immune from the impact of war. my guest today knows that well. alexei ratmansky is a world renowned choreographer, with roots in both russia and ukraine. once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, he is now putting on a special production of giselle with the united ukrainian ballet to show the world ukrainian culture lives on. has ballet become a battleground? thank you very much. it s an honour to be here. we re delighted to have you here. you are here in london because you are mounting this extraordinary set of performances of giselle, performed by ukrainian dancers. how can you go about putting on a performance wi
who s died at the age of 90. ms lynn enjoyed a successful, six decade long career. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. as the war in ukraine rages on, we speak to a russian rock legend whose life and career have mirrored his motherland s journey from the soviet era, through the break up of the soviet union, to putin s authoritarian state. my guest is boris grebenshchikov. he last played in russia the day before putin invaded ukraine in february, and is now living in london. bg, as he s known to his fans, risks prosecution for his anti war comments if he returns to russia. the role cultural icons have to play in the politics of protests is a well trodden one, but do their voices have any impact inside russia? boris grebenshchikov, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. all right, so you last performed in russia just six hours before putin invaded ukraine. you say you had a sense of foreboding that something monume
ukraine in february, and is now living in london. bg, as he is known to his fans, risks prosecution for his anti war comments if he returns to russia. the role cultural icons have to play in the politics of protests is a well trodden one, but do their voices have any impact inside russia? boris grebenshchikov, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. all right, so you last performed in russia just six hours before putin invaded ukraine. you say you had a sense of foreboding that something monumental was going to happen. what did you think was going to occur? you know, we played a concert on the night before the invasion, and i had this weird feeling that i m playing in hamburg in 1939. so i knew that something really bad is coming. i couldn t predict the war, but, you know, it felt bad. and now, when you see ukrainian cities, where you performed, either being destroyed, some of the very theatres where you actually played, and also places like kherson, one of the four provin