(ooops! Wrong Angela! sry)
omg Angela is in London and for the first time after leaving Rome's Traviata in a huff she SPAKE (to the Times). Here, fresh off of the internets, are some choice quotes:
“Jonathan Miller? I barely know him. He just used my name to promote himself, that’s all.”
“There’s really nowhere to escape in a solo concert. Really, to make my debut at La Scala with a recital . . . I think it was very courageous.”
“I have a problem with many opera directors because they often don’t serve the music but just make productions about themselves. Either that, or they listen to me sing and just sit with tears in their eyes and don’t challenge me. I need to have help, and I don’t always get it.”
“To tell you the truth, I don’t read the critics.”
“Pop music is for the body, but opera is for the soul.”
But, then, the best part comes when she's asked if, because of her husband being loudly booed off the stage at la Scala she intends to retaliate -- as he had threatened -- by not singing there again:
“I won’t pay for anyone else’s scandals,” she says pragmatically. “Are you kidding? I have enough of my own.” Yes, but was he right to leave? “I don’t know, but I think it’s much more healthy for everybody to avoid these matters. I’m very sorry for Roberto and the public, but life must go on. You have to move on to the next stage.”
That's our girl!
If she doesn't run, she'll sing at the Barbican on Tuesday night. That's, of course, for "uneducated palates", etc.