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" After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.' "
Sondra Radvanovsky
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" 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? "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Father
Love
Me
" 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. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
You
Alone
Performance
" 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. "
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I Can
Job
Three
" 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. "
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Singing
Night
Music
" When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice. "
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Music
University
Up
" Trying to look glamorous while singing is not easy. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Singing
Look
Glamorous
" 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. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Big
Live
You
" You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Stamina
You
Go
" 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. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
New
Moment
Life
" I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed. "
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Side
Love
Like
" 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. "
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Power
Think
Live
" I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Canadian
Birth
Myself
" When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Start
People
Circus
" Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Sing
You
Voice
" For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice. "
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Me
Medicine
Voice
" You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Right
First
Play
" And if I don't sing, I don't get paid. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Sing
Paid
Get
" When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Good
Foundation
House
" Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
You
Voice
Tired
" Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Anything
Beyond
Music
" I walk around the house in my pajamas all day if I want to. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Want
Day
Around
" Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Seem
Better
Age
" People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Myself
Athlete
Eating
" My roots really instilled Chicago values in me. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Me
Roots
Values
" 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. "
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Years
Old
Arts
" I'm going to the gym and really taking care of myself and trying to stay fit, eating properly. "
Sondra Radvanovsky
Care
Trying
Stay
" When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera. "
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Chance
Stage
You
" Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine. "
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Walking
Voice
Like
" 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? "
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World
Job
People
" Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc. "
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Opera
Revenge
Stories