Philosophy

I’m an early bird. I get up at 9 or 10.

I have a fantastic wardrobe. These shoes are by Louis Vuitton, and the dress is by Escada, who are dressing me for events and giving me many clothes for free.

If I have rehearsals, I am running because I will be late, probably.

I am reading books, and magazines like Hello! and Style Watch, about the stars.

Some of the opera singers are Koreans, and Korean food, it has lots of garlic, it stinks for two weeks. Those guys — their breaths will blow you away.

When I go on stage I feel a kind of sexual energy. The music is sometimes very erotical and to sing this you are using your whole body and it is… fantastic.

My voice has doubled in the past few years. It started suddenly to be bigger, because I was using the microphone between my tits!

I sleep naked. When it is cold I am wearing the flannel pyjamas.

—Anna Netrebko, A Life in the Day, The Sunday Times (8.12.07)

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LABOR DAY UPDATE: Work Ethic

Comments

[sfmike]

At first I thought you were making this up but no...the link takes one to the full, unadulterated madness. Do you think the microphone grew between her tits when she was older or do you think it was implanted, by the way?

[Lisa Hirsch]

Why did my girlfriend not tell me there was an opera singer in the Magazine?!

[Maury D'annato]

Oh dear god. What a train wreck, starting from the BBC magazine's designation of her as the world's greatest soprano and ending with someone's dumb editorial decision to, well, not edit. Amusingly, someone in the comments section calls her, what was it, madder than a bag of snakes?

[M. C-]

ending with someone's dumb editorial decision

oh, i don't think it was dumb. it's pretty clear they knew what they were doing.

[patty]

I read the thing several times, and kept waiting to read who REALLY put it all together. I know it's not April 1, but really, I couldn't believe it was real. But, as amazing as it seems, I guess it's an honest article ...?

[M. C-]

Do you think the microphone grew between her tits when she was older or do you think it was implanted

What I want to know is, if the mic's between her tits, where does she keep the battery pack?

[Mopsy]

Good lord, why didn't we buy the paper that day? The article is interesting......

[Shauna]

She is crazy. Cray-Cray.

[DJA]

No, no, no. Not crazy. We all know crazy, and this ain't it. She's just shallow -- conventionally shallow -- and either too dim or too entitled and sheltered to hide it.

[Maury D'annato]

Well the thing is she's quite probably a bit of an idiot but fair is fair, and if you're interviewing someone who learned English a couple of years ago... "I am wearing the flannel pyjamas" is very ha ha Yakov Smirnov and all but...eh, I dunno, I'd sound pretty stupid giving an interview in another language and I suspect many of us would. Can we get back to picking on her because she shouldn't be singing bel canto? Callas sounded fairly crazy in interviews herself, so maybe Netrebko is the...oh, nevermind.

[ACB]

"...I was using the microphone between my tits!"

Class. So much class...

Although this: "I am definitely crazy, but it comes out in a creative way, so I chose the right profession." That is pretty much spot on - for all of us in the business!!

[Tree]

We've been buying the Sunday Times and yes I totally loved reading this post - she was really something.

[Ben]

While I cant say I enjoy her singing that much, she is cute. And it seems very stupid as well. Maybe I have a chance to be that microphone in her tits after all.