I kind of envision my interviews for my profile to be free-flowing conversations that lend insight on the character who I'm profiling. However, here's a few of the questions I hope to walk away with decent answers to:
-How did you get involved in opera? Was it parental pressure, or did you take enough of a liking to it independently to want to do it for your life?
-When you were an undergrad what level of participation were you able to have in performances?
-What is it about opera that makes you love it enough to center your life around it?
- What's the daily routine of someone in graduate school for opera?
-What is your favorite aria/character, and what part would you most like to sing someday in your career? (generic questions like this can get people talking, anyway)
-What's the relationship of a singer in an opera to the musicians, the director, the conductor, and everyone else involved in the huge production?
-Why IU?
-How do you balance performing in operas with the coursework inherent in graduate school?
There will undoubtedly be more, but some of it will come right out of the conversation. I'm hoping to get more about her childhood, since deciding to be an opera singer seems like a weird thing for anyone under about 18 to do. I'm also going to try to play up some of the "high pressure life" angles, and hopefully she'll be receptive. I've sort of got to let the story breathe and let her guide me, but I think this is a good starting point.
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