Opera Instruments: Tuba (Feature, German language)

Beyond clichés. In this tuba talk with Vikentios Gionanidis, Emilio Potratz from the Young Chorus learns many surprising facts about brass, banda and bass tuba: mouth modulations, circular breathing, sound spectra (gentle-romantic to powerful-dangerous) and who would have thought that the tuba is a real Berliner?

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In the feature series "Opera Instruments", our education program Junge Deutsche Oper as well as musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin present instruments of the opera orchestra. In addition to obvious questions about sound, type of playing or range of use, our junior editors also want to know quite different things from the instrumentalists …

Film by Chris and the FATSOX

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