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Do you think you'll win? I don't know. I'm just having a ball. It's like it was with my audition [for Babel]. Whatever the outcome, the process itself never fails to amaze me. It's amazing that I'm even nominated and I'm very grateful...
If ever a role is going to expose a rising soprano's skills and flaws, it's that of Alcina. Running over four hours, the Baroque opera presents its leading lady with aria upon aria of fiendishly difficult coloratura singing (Ah! Mio cor! alone is a 12-minute, seven-stages...
TIME: What made you audition for Babel and how did you win the role out of 1,000 other aspirants?
Kikuchi: I spent about a year auditioning and learning sign language, I came to make friends with girls that were deaf. More importantly, as I was given the script scene by scene for the audition, I was constructing the character of Chieko feeling how she would have felt.
My work begins and ends at the film sets, so anything else, I just enjoy. I am just having a ball. It is like the audition. Regardless of the outcome, the whole thing does not fail to amaze me. Come to think of it, it's amazing that I am...