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All Quotes by author - Sondra Radvanovsky
" After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.' "
Turn
Would
After
" And if I don't sing, I don't get paid. "
Sing
Paid
Get
" Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it. "
Us
Business
Deal
" Even when I'm not onstage singing, there's always music going on in my head. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - it's sitting in bed at night, trying to go to sleep, while the music keeps playing in your head - especially when you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to memorize it and get everything. "
Singing
Night
Music
" For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice. "
Me
Medicine
Voice
" For sure, one moment really defined the path that I was to take in the future, and that was when I won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York in April of 1995. I had just turned 25 two days before the finals concert, and when I won, I had no idea how my life would change because of it. "
New
Moment
Life
" HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym. "
Time
You
Cinema
" I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world. "
People
American
Live
" I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know? "
Father
Love
Me
" I am so proud to call myself Canadian! Thank you, Canada, for welcoming me with open arms! "
Me
Proud
Myself
" I don't like confrontation; I just like to sing. "
Like
Just
Sing
" I don't like happy stuff. I'm not funny. "
Like
Funny
Stuff
" If I can transport audiences for the three or four hours they're at the opera, to make them forget all of their worries, the bills they have to pay and all that, then I've done my job. That, for me, is very gratifying. "
I Can
Job
Three
" I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company. "
Gift
Experience
Mother
" I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that? "
World
Job
People
" I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too. "
Opera Singer
Too
Singer
" I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed. "
Side
Love
Like
" I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian. "
Canadian
Birth
Myself
" I'm going to the gym and really taking care of myself and trying to stay fit, eating properly. "
Care
Trying
Stay
" I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew. "
Big
Live
You
" I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear. "
Tell
You
Young
" I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. Morals. Ethics. People in Chicago do the right thing. If somebody falls on the street, someone will actually stop and help them up. That doesn't happen in certain other cities. "
Great
Do The Right Thing
Kindness
" I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in. "
Power
Think
Live
" It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful. "
You
Alone
Performance
" I walk around the house in my pajamas all day if I want to. "
Want
Day
Around
" I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record. "
Years
Old
Arts
" Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age. "
Seem
Better
Age
" My roots really instilled Chicago values in me. "
Me
Roots
Values
" Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music. "
Anything
Beyond
Music
" Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc. "
Opera
Revenge
Stories
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