biggest cultural institution of its kind in the world and the locals just lap it up . our audiences don t run out slamming doors behind them if they don t understand or like something they come back and give love a chance even if they say they only understood the performance after seeing it for the third target with. that kind of loyalty is very inspiring canadian eric goatee was one of the public s favorite soloists at the stuttgart ballet before going on to set up his own company ten years on he s gained cult status internationally you re welcome it s a pleasure to meet you. there was a plan to start easy and then these days we re doing more of our guard works like what you were just seeing the rare earth it s a little bit more out there and my public after ten years i think they can try pretty much anything now. and of course the lavish funding
the world what. was going. to be. members of the choir at rehearsal it s the. project is a balancing act between entertainment and the effort to do justice to the figure of luther. the libretto was written by michel concert was he followed the production every step of the way including both choir and soloists rehearsals concert has penned the lyrics for a range of chart topping hits and successful musicals. was. the three of my boys. what we wanted to do even through is to create an event. that isn t feisty and old fashioned. and a given that isn t classically traditional but doesn t put on airs. you know.
the suspect festival does the idea of staging the salzburg festival is basically born at the kitchen table. you know winter of two thousand and six we were in old burg as a small farming biologist of basel and we noticed this wonderful monastery. how to. get close to us that is a close that i m not saul everything has to go as quickly as possible but yeah it was it and i was tucked up that everything has to be fixed and it s finished and so on zoe s spontaneously just decided that we put on three concerts there and she was her close musician friends in june two thousand and six. so well no i didn t go for oil and. a special feature of this festival is it s intimate setting. as international soloists so and the other musicians such as violinist by because greta who has arrived with her family are used to filling large halls and they
dance troupes, but there is something about penetrating the space like american ballet theater or others. what do you think is not that it s more than dance theater of harl harlem. what specifically is the lesson we teach when your body shows up in that space? i think that when you talk about alien dance theater of harlem, it s a complete different thing. u. it s a modern company, and alia is its own company. for a black woman to enter a white man s world is a completely different subject and those companies, the elite companies in the world are still closed to us and it shouldn t be that way but american ballet theater is the closest company, having two african-american female soloists before me, they are the first and only company
new york, you have to have a thick skin, you are dealing with the homeless and police and dealing with an emergency, it makes me a stronger musician, i can laterally play through it. julie: currently more than 100 soloists providing over 7,000 performances a year. this group will find out in the next few weeks whether they made out cut. if you looking to make an extra buck, gregg, your experience in the glee club, i think you could be a contender. gregg: i was in a high school musical, guys and dolls. julie: i was born that year. gregg: you wish you were born that year. everybody knows that. [ laughter ] a deadly virus spreading here and in canada. it can harm people but it is taking a toll. it cannot harm people but