Turbo-charged Marina Poplavskaya

The Russian soprano reveals why fame hasn't stopped her from feeling victimised and what prompted her to audition for the Boshoi chorus aged eightIn 2005, after winning the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens, the Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya was presented to one of the judges, the late Joan Sutherland, once the most stratospheric of virtuosi. "Ah," Poplavskaya said to me last week, "I thought I would have a nerve break! My knees were shaking as if I saw an angel, a miracle. She praised my t...

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