[San Francisco Chronicle]: I’m certainly not the first person to observe how convincing you are in male roles. Would I be correct in thinking that the line outside your dressing room after these performances is rather, um, interesting?

[Alice Coote]; I gather there’s speculation about me all over the place. I seem to have attracted a lot of ladies with big crushes on me. But, you know, I think I’m properly gorgeous as a man. Gawd, sometimes I think I’d run off with me – must be something in my DNA. I can’t believe I just said that.