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I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Mozart is my first strength.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.