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" I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais. "
Kristine Opolais
Wanted
Wife
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" As a person who wants to see and believe in the story, I don't think women at age 50 are able to sing young girls. "
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" I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer. "
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" I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying. "
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" The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances. "
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" When I go onstage, every situation I have to play, I feel pain. When I sing 'Madama Butterfly' I feel completely everything she felt: It's horrible. "
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" Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something. "
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" My voice is not angel voice. "
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" Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother. "
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" Having a child changes everything. "
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" I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom. "
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" I am not playing on stage. I am living the situation. I cannot cut emotions and sing. I never save myself. "
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" I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working. "
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" I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera! "
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" I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real for me. This is my life and my soul. "
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" That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection. "
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" Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me. "
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" Maybe I will end up in the movies. "
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" You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge. "
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" Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do. "
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Me
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