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...LP: I liked to imitate roles according to my voice, like Rigoletto. I would play a CD and start singing along...
...LP: My parents didn't have any affinity for opera, though they do a bit now since I sing. It's not clear how got interested. I guess I started listening to classical music on the radio when I was little-- just by chance. I remember coming across vocal music later and finding that more pleasing [than purely instrumental music]. I liked the individual achievement, the idea of one person singing there with an entire orchestra...
...LP: I didn't sing outside of my house until I was in ninth grade. By that time, I'd been singing opera around the house for a few years and my parents thought that I had some sort of voice [a worthy voice], so they had me go sing for the school chorus teacher. He had good things to say and I started taking lessons with his father, who was a well-known local voice teacher. I started doing opera productions with the local [Long Island] company, Island Lyric Opera. The first opera I ever did was Bruno...
...LP: There was an episode when I was in 10th grade [with the Island Lyric Opera] and in 2-3 weeks La Boheme was supposed to open up, and the director came up and said 'Lee--do you think you can learn Schaunard in 21/2 weeks. My baritone can't do it, he's cancelled on me.' So I was like, 'yeah sure, why not?' so I learned that role--it's a great role. I was nervous initially, but afterwards I was pretty confident. I got a lot of compliments from the audience...
...LP: I was interested in the Columbia-Juilliard Program, where if you go to Columbia, they pay for your lessons at Juilliard. You have to apply to each school separately and they both have to say yes. There were a total of five people accepted and of the five, two of us came here. After I sang, one of the panelists for my audition was like- "Why are you going to a university?" The other panelists told him to be quiet, which is good because I didn't want to explain my whole schpeal about going to a liberal arts...