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Old 29-10-2008, 23:29
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FROM HAZ.de

http://www.haz.de/newsroom/kultur/ze.../art180,716975

Prelude to tour Germany: Casting Show-tenor Paul Potts

TRANSLATION:

From singing mobile phone seller celebrated tenor Paul Potts has appealed to kick his Germany tour in Hamburg, the audience excited. The British casting show winner occurs in nine other German cities.

Before 9500 spectators in the Color Line Arena presented the 38-year-olds with live orchestral accompaniment approximately two hours long known opera songs. Fans of any age group had gathered at the concert to the singer live. The northern Germans greeted him with warm applause as he opened the show. To the ice to break definitively, the British tenor kramte his German show: "It is unbelievable for me, I'm here. It is a beautiful city, "Potts said with a mischievous smile and a broad English accent.

While he "O Sole Mio" and later "Caruso" vortrug, he had the hall completely under control. If Potts sang, it seemed that the people stop breathing. The second half of the concert began with "The Music of the Night" from the "Phantom of the Opera." "Yours is my whole heart", he later his wife. Furthermore, the female opera singers gain fetched. The New Zealand soprano singer Elizabeth Marvelly gave a total of six songs for the best. Including "La Vie En Rose" by Edith Piaf and the duet "The Prayer" with Potts. Especially the song "Tarakihi", from their home in the language of the Maori, had the concert visitors are. The 19-year-old Potts had been in Australia and New Zealand on tour accompanied.

That the British succeeded in so many people for classical music to inspire, lies not only in his voice. His career reads like a modern fairy tale. By the summer of last year, the British mobile phones sold. In June 2007 he tried his luck in the television show "Britain's Got Talent". When he was seated in a bad suit uncertain announced that he wanted to sing opera, was the skepticism of the jury wrote in the face. These doubts were dispelled when the singer loslegte and the complete Puccini aria "Nessun Dorma" almost faultless vortrug. Both audience and judges were impressed. The singer's mobile phone seller won the talent competition and was a star in Britain.

Meanwhile, he wears his appearances in an immaculate tuxedo, has released his first CD and toured throughout the world. Nevertheless, there he is modest. On stage he drank tea and told anecdotes from his childhood and the time before the big breakthrough. "When I've sold more phones, I have never sweated so doll as now," joked the artist.

With "Time to Say Good Bye" the singer wanted to finally leave the stage. But minute-long standing ovations and roaring applause were clear: Without "Nessun Dorma" to sing, he would not go. With a grand finale goodbye to the Englishman from Hamburg.

Potts touring until 8 November through ten German cities simply for the concert in Leipzig are still cards to have. More stations: Berlin (October 27), Leipzig (28), Cologne (30), Bremen (November 1), Hanover (2nd), Mannheim (4th), Stuttgart (5th), Frankfurt / Main (6) and Nuremberg (8th).
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