Don't do anything that doesn't have meaning !

Astrid Varnay in conversation with Dieter David Scholz

Ms. Varnay, you are the child of a true theatrical marriage.  Your mother was a coloratura soprano and your father a tenor and theater impresario.  When did you first decide to become a singer ?

Actually, I wanted to become a concert pianist.  I did sing in the school choir.  Someone must have heard me and told my mother that my voice should be trained a…