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The first opera i went to see was maria callas singing 'tosca'.
-Marianne Faithfull
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The First Opera I Went To See

Marianne Faithfull
The first opera i went to see was maria callas singing 'tosca'.
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When i was a teenager, i dreamed of being an opera singer like maria callas or a jazz singer like june christy or chris connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of billie holiday, or championing the downtrodden like lotte lenya. but i never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.
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Tom [courtenay] and albert finney met ron harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. it's a wonderful documentary. it's called tosca's kiss and mr hardwood told me about it when i asked him what the genesis was. it was made in 1983 and verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the scala and some were poor - could live there.
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