I have known opera singers to be overcome by a sore throat, by sickness, by acute nervousness, by stage fright, so that in each and all of these instances the voice refused to obey the will. . But I have never known of any singer who was overcome by emotion.—William Lyon Phelps. It is screamingly funny to sing comic roles from the stage and no-one in the audience so much as cracking a smile because they can’t understand the language.Lawrence Tibbett.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 2
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