The retired American soprano, now 84, wrestles with a tough question from Zsolt Bognar: is music a worthier way to spend your life than helping other people?
Watch a diva assess moral value in performance.
Memo to Peter Gelb: Don’t read the Opera…
Leo Geyer, a doctoral student at Oxford University…
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See her here working with Stockhausen on his ‘Momente’
https://youtu.be/-wkA_XFus78?t=448
Before I knew anything about classical music, I knew Ms. Arroyo from her appearance on the Odd Couple. She sang for Felix, who was of course an opera buff: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0664322/
What a classy stand up lady! Thank you for the link
Her comments about tailoring teaching for the individual psyche are very important–ALL teachers of whatever subject should pay attention to this.
What a treat. Intelligent, unpretentious…was a lovelier person ever born? Thank you. “Living the Classical Life” has provided an invaluable archive.
Ms. Arroyo was a superb Aida. I heard her sing with Jess Thomas as Radames when I was a student in Hartford. She should have recorded that Verdi role commercially, rather than some of the sopranos who did.