Muscat: Success in the world of opera requires more than singing, says Diana Damrau, ‘the Divine Diva’, who has been hailed as the world’s leading coloratura soprano.
In an interview, she said that opera is always a combination of both music and theatre and the audience of today is much harder to convince than in earlier times.
“We are spoiled through recordings, films and all the techniques involved to make the characters and their stories believable. So we have to sing like gods and play like for the Oscars! But the power of music and the words will always show you what to do and will carry you into spaces you would have never dreamt of,” she said.
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