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

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

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

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

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

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.

I grew up performing in theatre.