All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it...
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information...
In opera as with any performing art to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course but you must also be famous. The two are different things.