My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
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I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
Music and opera are a big part of my life.
The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.
I love to conduct opera.
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
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 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.
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
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