Second in a series.
On Don Giovanni at Covent Garden: I am so sick. I am with cold since last weekend; I go out of opera house wearing too little clothes! Maybe I do not sing next performance.
On Puritani at the Met: I agree to sing this opera, then open score and don't like, it's crap, I want to cancel. And Met production was so dull, stage director no help. I had to do something, so I get on floor. Is fun to be a mad person; you are free, you do what you like.
On Otello at La Scala: I say OK to this, now I don't feel like it. Who knows?
On Je veux vivre: Is terrible, that piece! I am always singing sharp or cracking the high notes. Ooh, it make me scared.
On Sempre libera: Also I do not like. Very difficult, I panic!
On focus: I going shopping. Is therapy for the mind. I am thinking more about the shoes than the music. ... Not true! [laughs]
On language skills: I am now never in Russia, I am Austrian citizen.... But I do not read [German newspapers]. I do not understand German. I am learning!
On paying dues at the Kirov: What I washed? Entrance of theatre after performance starts. In Russia is winter half the year and public bring in big mud, poo. But I was useless. Old lady did work for me; she was always drunk, but very fast. Usually I sneak backstage with my girlfriend. We flirt with ballet dancers, try on their jewellery! Ah, the life is good!
—Anna Netrebko, Hitting the High Notes, Guardian (9.2.07)
When I read quotes, I laugh and think very clever.
Then I am to read article and am knowing that these are real sayings!!
And I think such is so crazy!
Posted by: Shauna | Sep 06, 2007 at 04:50 PM
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Posted by: brett | Sep 21, 2007 at 11:46 AM