What if you didn’t have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have. Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
Opera – above and beyond anything else – is about the music, and it should be about the music. Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
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. Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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? Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc. Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age. Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
