“So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.”

As quoted in Newsweek, Vol. 103, (1984), p. iv

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opera soprano 1929–2007

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“So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.”

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