Performing Artists have the talent and the capacity to interpret the words and sounds of others, poets and composers, choreographers, to express what others have devised.
But they also have something to say themselves! And this podcast is intended to offer them the opportunity to present their views, but also their approaches to solving problems that move us all.
Like everyone else, they are affected by the problems of everyday life, of life alltogether. With their often international vision, their creativity, they can inspire just as much as with their interpretations of great works on the stages of this world.
Corona – the end of Performing Arts? – Or a new beginning?!
It is a general consensus that no other event since World War II has hit the world as extensively and globally as the COVID19 pandemic. In many parts of the world, all events were cancelled, and so concerts, theatre and opera performances and festivals were also a victim of this situation.
How does the Performing Arts World react to this? What do the artists, those who are otherwise in the spotlight, have to say? How are they affected, artistically, mentally, economically?
Where do they see the future of Performing Arts after the end of the pandemic? Has it changed forever?
International artists give their personal answers to these and many other questions in this podcast. They give insight into what this crisis causes in them, what they think about, what moves them
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Today we talk to a real “opera man”. David Pountney has been a revered member of the opera community all over the world for many years, and both his leadership as Artistic Director and the wonderful productions he directed are legend.
And David has a lot to say, in clear and outspoken words. Of course — like most of us — his life as an artist and as a human being has been touched and altered by the pandemic. But beyond that we also talk about another incisive experience in the life of many artists, British and international: Brexit!
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Many of you, interested in the world of Classical Music and YouTubers, will have come across Joseph Olefirowicz. He became a kind of YouTube celebrity when a video featuring him as “The Dancing Conductor” was released back in 2012.
But Joseph is first of all a world-class musician, conductor and organist. He has performed all across Europe in concert halls and opera houses, in both the classical repertoire and what is considered to be the more “light” music.
He also tells us how his work in church music, where he has been leading for many years the biggest Church Music Festival of the US North-East, in Nashua, NH, has been a real support, mental and economical, for his community, the artists he works with, and himself.
After speaking to opera artists our guest today is a TV celebrity in the German speaking world. Hans Sigl, best known to his fans for his lead role in the TV soap “Bergdoktor” (Mountain doc), talks to us about his experiences around handling the Pandemic, about how this affects the world where he is mostly at home now, the world of TV production.
But Hans Sigl is also a theatre actor, and he knows about the impact that the situation we go through has on the live performing arts. And he asks the (important) question if the actual crisis has not also put a magnifying glass on problems that our performing arts world has had for quite some time already!
Kristian Benedikt is today one of the most sought after spinto tenors. He has sung all over Europe and North America including New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
His life was not only hit by the pandemic like the one of many other stage performers, be he also contracted COVID late summer 2020 and had some difficult weeks to go through. But he also speaks about his recovery, his strength and faith in the future and wants go give hope to all of us.
American-born conductor Karen Kamensek is one of the leading conductors in her generation. Of course, the ongoing pandemic continues to impact Karen’s season. We discuss this not so much from a personal point of view, but rather on the impact the crisis has on the music world on the two sides of the Atlantic.
But Karen has also interesting views and insights in how the future of classical might look like!
José Cura is an exception. He is not only an all-rounder in the field of classical music, he also thinks about where the world of art is developing – far beyond the boundaries of opera and singing.
What remains of the artist if he lacks his audience? How does he deal with his fears and doubts?
The Corona crisis shows as if under a magnifying glass, where in truth the shoe has been pressing for a long time.
José Cura tries to give answers in this conversation.
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