It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of ….

My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger hi….

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes grea….