I would have liked an affair with Wagner

Leonie Rysanek in conversation with Opernglas

In December 1972, you sang Salome for the first time in a new production at the Vienna State Opera.  I remember that on the day of the premiere, an important Austrian newspaper printed a photo of you on the front page.  What was it like to have the attention of a whole city, even a whole nation, focused on you?

I never really followed people praising me…