Philipp Mathmann divides his time between two demanding worlds. A familiar figure on international opera and concert stages, the soprano also pursues a career as a doctor. Here is the final instalment devoted to his unusual career path! 
By Philipp Mathmann
The life of a singer is demanding: learning scores, rehearsing, travelling, rehearsing again, giving concerts, recording… all while trying, if possible, to stay healthy and take care of the voice—the two tiny cartilaginous cords on which an entire artistic life depends. But Philipp Mathmann goes even further: alongside his career as a singer, he is a senior attending physician in phoniatrics and paediatric audiology at the Münster University Hospital, a teacher, a committed citizen, a generous volunteer, and a father. In this diary, he tells us how he inhabits all of these roles—both in life and on stage—how they harmonize or collide, what this plurality demands, and how much it also enriches him. Final instalment of the diary of a man with a thousand faces!
October 20-26 – Freiburg, the WHO, and the art of inhabiting several worlds at once
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