- The career of an opera singer is 90% rehearsal,
10% performance.
Most people see the glamor of the performance,
the actual event, the glamor, the glitz,
the divo, the divas.
That's not what the career is about.
The career's about the hours
and hours of work ahead of time.
And it's not just rehearsing with colleagues.
It's the rehearsing on your own.
It's the translating, it's the studying of the period.
It's the learning the music on your own,
and then going to a coach.
It's the hours and hours.
And then the rehearsals,
the music rehearsals and the staging rehearsals.
It's all the unglamorous parts
that takes a lot of your career.
And you have to love that process almost more
than the performance itself.
And if you don't like rehearsing,
this is not the career for you.
But that whole process can become so exciting,
so then when you give a performance
then it's the icing on the cake.