Sondra Radvanovsky Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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And if I don't sing, I don't get paid.

Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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

Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

Sondra Radvanovsky

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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.

Sondra Radvanovsky

I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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.

Sondra Radvanovsky

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

Sondra Radvanovsky

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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

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.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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.

Sondra Radvanovsky

HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.

Sondra Radvanovsky

After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.'

Sondra Radvanovsky

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

Sondra Radvanovsky

And if I don't sing, I don't get paid.

Sondra Radvanovsky