00:00I brought opera cake.
00:02I figured it's the least I can do
00:04since you're giving so generously of your time.
00:07Yes, it is somewhat uncharacteristic,
00:12but I feel that your reaction to Puccini
00:17makes it my cultural duty.
00:20Look at all this amazing stuff.
00:24Fritz, who runs the archive at the opera house,
00:27is desperate to get his hands on it all,
00:30but over my dead body.
00:33Oh, what's that? That knife?
00:37Oh, it's so shiny.
00:40That was the knife Tosca used to kill Baron Scarpia
00:44in a production in Philadelphia in 1968.
00:48Huh. What made that one so special?
00:51Nothing, except it was my first time.
00:55My parents took me.
00:57Oh, that's sweet.
01:00This is Leila Genger, by the way.
01:08I love how her voice is so high,
01:11but also so dark at the same time.
01:16Exactly.
01:19Now, where shall we start with your education?
01:22The history of the art form?
01:24The memory synopses from the standard rep?
01:27The principles of vocal technique?
01:29Oh, I'm interested in all of it.
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