Portrait of the artist: Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano

'What have I sacrificed? Golly, pretty much everything – time with my parents, a home life, my own personal happiness'When did you realise you had a great voice? I wouldn't say I started off with a great voice, but I certainly had a good pair of lungs: I started screaming as soon as I came out of the womb, and didn't stop for two days. My mother nearly threw me out of the window.What was your big breakthrough?It came in 2000, when I sang Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina at the Edinburgh festival, ...

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