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I
think Janacek wrote Marty as a glamorous figure to show how much people
look only at the surface, like a mask. The public can accept the
egomania of her personality because they see her as a larger than life
theater personality. But deep inside all that, the glamour is perfectly
meaningless. --
Anja
Silja
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I thought that someone from Bayreuth could come hear me in Dresden, and
that didn't happen, and apparently you
don't get
into Bayreuth unless you audition -- and send a picture! So right now
I'm
not singing at Bayreuth. --
Deborah
Voigt
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And so I thought: Hmm. I kind of like "Alessandra," actually.
"Alessandra." And then I had to choose a last name. Since the first was
long, the last should be short. Easy to pronounce, no matter what
country
I'm in. Easy to spell. "Marc" seemed to go well with "Alessandra," so
Alessandra
Marc was born. --
Alessandra
Marc
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My sound, until recently, was the only countertenor that appealed
to mainstream operagoers - the people who say, "Ugh, countertenors."
But
in a sense, that's unfair. Where would I be with all the countertenors
who came before? --
David
Daniels
I like theater; I like communication. I can appreciate a
really
great voice for about five or ten minutes, but if there's nothing else
behind it, then it gets boring. --
Catherine
Malfitano
When you're a kid from a small town in upstate New York, you
don't
think about going into opera as a career. It never occurs to you. You
know,
football is where it's at. --
Richard
Leech
One thing critics and performers have in common is they both
must
have big healthy egos. They're not going to be shaken. --
John
Ardoin
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Sam Ramey has always been my idol, one of the reasons why I started to
sing. In high school I listened to his recordings and said, oh my God,
I would love to be able to sing this way. --
Richard
Bernstein
The humor is there totally to communicate an ideal. Every
tiny thing has a reason, tied to some tradition, something that really
happened. I saw
a Scarpia move after he was dead - Bastianini eased himself into a more
comfortable position, and Tucci just
glared at
him. So
our Scarpia sneezes.
--
Ira
Siff
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My
father took me to hear Joan Sutherland in
Sonnambula in,
when, 1963? I can see it so perfectly in my mind, as if I just saw it
this year. The vision of Sutherland, in that pale green dress and that
long red
hair, sleepwalking - she just seemed like the most beautiful image, in
this romantic production. --
Charles
Busch
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