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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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? "

" When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble. "

" I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear. "

" We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight. "

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" 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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" 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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