I am grateful for your all interest. And thanks to Afro Poli for this interview. As you may notice, more than answering questions, sometimes it's more important to raise questions that you, me, we will try to answer for ourselves. There is a lot to talk about. I hope you will enjoy this interview. For me, it was a great pleasure !

Martin is truly like the Opera Singers of the Golden Age of Opera. He is one of the only active Opera singers who fits in the Category. I speak from my personal experience with some of the Opera Singers of the Golden Age, not just an opinion.

Bravo Martin Muehle!!! I am so happy to see "golden age" singing again. You are exemplary. We need more singers with your commitment.

Martin es el ejemplo a seguir. Admiración y respeto absoluto para él y para Afro Poli por todo su trabajo. Gracias de corazón y espero que podamos cantar nuevamente juntos querido Martin. Abrazos

1:17:33 Holy cow! I was not expecting that sound! I always thought that those who post critical online videos on bad opera singing have no business being so harsh on singers producing sounds that they themselves can't produce (or, at least, they don't show themselves singing on their channel). I'll have to make an exception for this guy. I've always respected the reviews on this channel for being well-spoken, technical, and tonally calm (in fact, this is one of my "soothing" channels I like to watch). Perhaps this approach stems from a masterful artist's empathy for those who have a similar passion for their work in the opera field.

One of the best interveiws I have ever seen! NO BLAH BLAH AND SO BRAVE AND ON POINT! Bravissimo grande Martin Bravo Mr. Afro Poli

Where has he been hiding until now? I follow opera and have never heard of him before. Great man, demeanor, unassuming, and what a voice!!!

Interesting development he had. Needing to find himself. One seems to learn all the other stuff (that's also important), _except singing,_ at university... I've heard that more than once. Seems like a nice lad!

This is wonderful - the idea that technique does not exist alone as a goal, nor does passion, nor awareness.

My dear Martin, fly high!

Now this is the opera content I've been searching for online. Thank you for your channel and I hope to see more content in the future!!!

I am just in the beginning of the video and I am already "sous le charme" of this personality : simplicity, humility, kindness. But of course I am here to listen to advices about great tradition of singing and I am sure it will be great! A good point for him is that his "voix parlée" is absolutely fresh and young , very good sign of healthy voice ( I know some young stars who have already always a broken "voix parlée"). So.. let us continue to watch this wonderful interview, and thank you so much for your wonderful job, dear Afropoli !

Wonderful interview! ❤ Mr.Muehle is such an insightful person, gentle, but to the point. It's a joy to listen to his singing and his thoughts.

perfect interview at the best opera youtube with an amazing tenor

Great, candid interview.

Thank you so much Maestro!! Such a humble and knowledge artist! I have goosebumps now! God bless you! We are so blessed to have you in our operatic world!!! Thank you for being so generous to share such pure and honest feedback about your life, singing and every things. Thank you Maestro!❤😇🙏

Thank you so much for this interview ! Great voice, great artist, great human beeing !

What a lovely and informativ interview, I`m sure you touched not only my heart but the hearts of all viewers of this very personal "interrogation"...as a citizen and Operalover I will certainly come to watch and listen to this very artistsinger Martin Muehle as he performs closeby at the Deutsche Oper Berlin this and the coming season....thanks to Daniele "Afro Poli", for he made it possible to get a inside look of what it means to a young ambitious singerstudent to "find his very path" until your able to sing and perform on stage as described by this sympathetic, warmhearted and permeable tenore. Absolutely delighting !!!!

One of the best insider videos on singing and learning to sing. I remember Martin from Hamburg and Luebeck and I would like to confirm EVERYTHING he said on Luebeck, Maestro Wagner, Bremerhaven, self-learning and, and, and. Wonderful und ganz herzlichen Dank und Gruesse aus Peking!

grandissimo Martin!

Thank you for this interview! I can relate to it a lot having studied in Germany and experienced similar things at my university.

Very interesting, thank you for this amazing interview! Definitely one of the best tenors around nowadays

Thank you very much. BRAVO....

Thank you for the interesting interview. Atsuko and I watched with great pleasure.

Mr. Muehle is obviously an extremely learned and intelligent singer. He says something in this video that you hardly ever hear "singing people" say. He acknowledges that there is no one "correct" singing technique that all must use. He points out how different tenors through history, all great singers, had very different takes and understandings of correct singing. No one technique is suitable for all voices, because all voices have different strengths and weaknesses.

Thank you for this beautiful talk! What a pity I did never meet Martin on stage, I would have felt less lonely and like a stranger in the operatic world, full of big Egos and underdeveloped human beings, knowing him. He is a mature soul. And yes, singing is more about discovering yourself and your voice/instrument than following a teacher guru or technique. But the old technique with open throat and open body did ask much more for such a development than the modern placing in the nose and mask. Which are only tricks...

So many excellent points about the truth of singing and voice development: I wish I had heard an interview like this when I was a young singer, I would have learned then, the things I know now, which are in line with his astute observations.

Thank you so much!

Very interesting, thank's a lot. The path to find out how to sing best with your voice and body is very well described and also aplies to other fields. Great you found it!

Lovely. Handsome men, both.

Thank you very much! The voice is sounding great Afro Poli, shame you didnt do a full duet!

Very Cool!! its great to hear the story and opinions of Martin!! It's always an interesting path for singers. I think many of us have had similar experiences with "singing teachers" and Academia. I'm so lucky I met Stephen O'Mara and Dropped out of school.

Thank you so much for this interview! What a singer (!!!), artist and human being. If only I had seen all this insight on singing and studying voice before I started to have voice lessons.... better late than... :-) And than you Martin for the Savonlinna Aidas in 2022, I never ceased to amaze seeing you joking back stage with Tommi and Alessio just a split of a second before going on stage. Chapeau!

Such a great interview. Thank you

Thanks for the insightful interview! And glad to have had the short conversation with you at Manon Lescaut last Sunday AfroPoli!

Thanks to both of you! A thought provoking discussion that very much resonated with my experience.

This is so cool

Hello again, Martin. I was very surprised that you worked with James Wagner in Lubeck. I knew him quite well...in fact we were students together at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. I knew nothing about how he taught, but I knew his singing. He always struggled with his technique. In later years, he seemed to have found a deeper and more supported way to sing...but always nasal and short of breath. His big moment was when he stepped in for Pavarotti at the last minute to sing Verdi Requiem in Munich. However, he fell ill and died soon afterwards. He was a funny guy...always kept us laughing at school...but that was soooo long ago. You came to singing at a time when voices were getting lighter and less dramatic. The teaching was failing most students. It failed me as well. I had to find my own pathway. Like you, I listened to great singers of the past and somehow internalized what they did to sing the way they did. Most great singers, after the career is finished, don't know how to teach what they did. They mostly taught by demonstration....but not with any concrete knowledge....I wanted to know what to DO. This they could not explain. So, I spent many years slowly figuring it out by trial and error....lots of errors! Ha ha ha!

What am I doing here? Middle-aged man just randomly getting interested in opera. Life is so very strange. Great interview. Great content.

J'ai trouvé cet entretien très inspirant. J'aime son humilité, son honnêteté et sa pudeur. Merci M. Muehle de nous faire partager votre passion❤.

Thank you so much for this interview! His perspective is so refreshing and so many singers need to hear about career paths like his. Thank you. If possible, please do more interviews of singers you admire!

I'd love to hear you do an interview with Saioa Hernandez and Ernesto Petti one of these days.

Wow what an inspiring interview. Would love to take a lesson with you anytime in the future.

I saw Martin Muehle yesterday in the Deutsche Oper. He was absolutely fantastic as Des Grieux!

A most inspiring, honest and helpful interview especially for aspiring singers. Thank you to Afro Poli and Martin Muehle for making this video.

Wow! This is just fantastic.

Wonderful video!! Great quality content, and great discussion on singing. He mentioned teaching, I’m wondering where he teaches his students?

Thank you so much for this interview🙏

que interesante entrevista, no conocía mucho a este señor y la verdad me gustó mucho su honestidad y humildad, que es parte también de su grandeza. me quedé pensando en la pregunta referente a como "salvar" de alguna manera la ópera, teniendo en cuanta que esta cultura moderna, que pasa mucho también en la música popular, privilegia más la imagen, el marketing por sobre el talento y la calidad de la voz propiamente tal. Sobre esta problemática, pienso desde mi humilde lugar, sólo como fanático y oyente de la música lírica u operística, que el camino a seguir es, hacer la ópera mas cercana a todos, antiguamente era mucho mas popular y me imagino que estudiarla también era más accesible. Al contrario, en los últimos años, fue algo que no llegaba a todas las personas, aprender canto lírico era y sigue siendo costoso, la técnica era como un tesoro escondido, lo bueno es que al día de hoy, ya hay cantantes que se animan a subir videos de consejos de técnica vocal, con eso aumentarán los seguidores de este hermoso arte y habrán más personas que se sientan atraídas a estudiar canto y hacer carrera, y también mas público que conozca mejor la ópera y lo que se debiese esperar de un profesional del canto. De esa manera, también, el mismo público exigirá calidad.

Martin Muehle .....das ist ein wahrer Tenor , wie er klingen muss....die Karriere von Herrn Kaufmann ist völlig unverständlich, beide sind Jahrgang 1969....

Excellent video. The audio is low, though.

Thanx 🤩Great Video 💫

love this

Great interview, great insight and a story that finally tells the truth about the way to go from an enthusiastic, aspiring singer looking for help and support to a succesful one. Debunking of myths and wrong perceptions about how "helpful" so called teachers, universities and professors actually are. Keywords here - self taught. Reminder: the best singers from the past didn't come out of universities.... that tells a lot if not all. I am wondering whether you, Afro Poli, are German. Overall a good translation job with the exception in 27:02 (Ulrike SSK). You pretty much formed your own questions but didn`t exactly translate what she wrote. However, yours were interesting, too......😄

The problem with the teaching of voice today is that it focuses on sound before function. I was at a school in Sweden 2001-2003 renowned for it’s ability to get students in to the opera high school or music high school. My teacher gave me the aria “un aura amoroso” which as you know has a very high tessitura. I sang it with a high larynx and complained about feeling tight in the throat. My teacher a female mezzo-soprano who had ruined her voice in music high school at about 25 years of age heard no problem in my voice or at least didn’t say so. These ignorance and lack of knowledge is all around. I think all students would benefit from getting tough how to get control over the muscles that you need to sing opera and the ability to strengthen these muscles as much as possible. I’m not a professional opera singer but I can sing opera. I sang in the opera choir in Malmoe for a while and later in Copenhagen. A friend made this recording when we sang in the choir in “the masked ball” in Grangesberg Sweden. KZfaq.com/watch?v=BT_L6iBkQ6o

Thank you very much for the interview!!! Great singer and great person. By the way, do you know Alejandro Roy? It's also a great tenor. The loudest and most natural voice I've heard. I'd like to know your opinion. Thank you again for introducing me Muehle!!!!

Deutsche Oper has beautiful interiors

Do you have other interviews? This is brilliant. Is there anyone that teaches low larynx in Vienna?

Weird question alert: You seem to know Deutsche Oper Berlin well. I have _zero_ experience with such big houses, only saw a couple live operas in a smaller place many years ago. How big are the differences in loudness and sound quality between front, middle, back-of-theater seats? Can it be too much for a somewhat acoustically sensitive (like me... do I have the wrong hobby, lol...) But then, it seems I'm getting my father convinced to go see an opera with your interviewee here - he doesn't have the best ears anymore, they labeled it like "30%" or so (because one ear is totally out). Are the most expensive front-most seats advisable, or will somethiing in the middle do, according to your estimation w.r.t. my imprecise description attempt? ;)

Did you call him a donkey 😂

Singers are craftsmen or artisans not artists

no tiene registro de pecho todo es cabeza!!

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