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1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Uninterrupted rehearsal with artists I love and admire.

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2. What is your greatest fear?

Lacking the means to realize my dreams.

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3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Anxiety.

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4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Procrastination.

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5. Which living person do you most admire?

Jesus Christ.

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6. What is your greatest extravagance?

Books.

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7. What is your current state of mind?

Positive/stimulated.

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8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Caution.

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9. On what occasion do you lie?

When I wish to achieve what I believe to be the greater good.

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10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

Too thin.

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11. Which living person do you most despise?

I don’t despise anyone.

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12. What is the quality you most like in a man?

A stimulating and articulate intelligence, a sense of humour, and good looks.

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13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?

A stimulating and articulate intelligence, a sense of humour, and good looks.

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14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Marvelous.

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15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?

My partner in love and life, Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg.

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16. When and where were you happiest?

With Jeannette - early in the morning, in front of the Dragon Fountain on the grounds of Versailles – the morning after Opera Atelier's debut of Lully’s Armide in the Royal Opera House.

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17. Which talent would you most like to have?

I wish I could paint and sculpt.

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18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I would like to be more aggressive.

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19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Opera Atelier’s production of Charpentier’s Médée.

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20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

Myself at 18, knowing all that I know now.

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21. Where would you most like to live?

The town of Versailles.

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22. What is your most treasured possession?

I cannot possibly choose. I am hopelessly attached to my possessions!

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23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

To be governed by fear.

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24. What is your favorite occupation?

Rehearsing.

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25. What is your most marked characteristic?

Dogged determination.

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26. What do you most value in your friends?

Loyalty.

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27. Who are your favorite writers?

Ovid, Thackery, Tolstoy and Colette.

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28. Who is your hero of fiction?

Ulysses and Penelope in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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29. Which historical figure do you most admire?

George Balanchine.

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30. Who are your heroes in real life?

George Balanchine, Winston Churchill, Michelangelo.

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31. What are your favorite names?

Lucca, Celeste and Celina.

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32. What is it that you most dislike?

People who are ill-prepared and late for appointments.

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33. What is your greatest regret?

A lack of artistic direction as a child.

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34. How would you like to die?

In the theatre or rehearsal hall.

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35. What is your motto?

If it takes ten minutes or less, do it at once!

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Top photo: Marcel Proust.