When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.
I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.
I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.