Kay Metzger is currently Intendant at the theater in Ulm, Germany. In his long career he has been an active stage director and Intendant at three different theaters. I sang my first Tannhäuser with him in the small theater in Halberstadt and later a Siegfried in Detmold, as well as a Radames which he directed at the summer festival at Bad Hersfeld. He’s always been an excellent director and, as Sarastro says in Die Zauberflöte, “Mehr…er ist ein Mensch”. He’s a good guy with a heart for singers as the Germans also say, I want to show that a person is behind the anonymous voice we singers so often experience in auditions, so I asked him! He very generously arranged to take an hour out of his busy schedule, and you’ll soon see it on this site. I spoke to him in my non-grammatical but mostly fluent German as I have always done and we have included subtitles. I hope this will help you understand not just the substance of the interview, but also how German really sounds and how you’ll have to communicate when you audition here. Not all Intendants and Operndirektoren (Casting Directors) are as nice or as informal as Kay but they are all human, so seeing the person behind the voice at the back of the theater is, I hope, valuable. Listen, enjoy, and learn!