Why I Love Russians II: Telling It Like It Is

Here's superstar diva Anna Netrebko again, and once again being very, very Russian and telling it like it is:

As the lunatic heroine of Bellini's Puritani, she [Netrebko] lay prostrate and let her head with its cascade of black hair droop upside down into the orchestra pit as she sang some of the most dementedly difficult music ever written. She looked like an Ophelia about to drown herself in a river of sound.

"Was crazy, no?" she said, remembering this stunt. "But felt good. Yes, was my idea. I agree to sing this opera, then open score and don't like, it's crap, I want to cancel. And Met production was so dull, stage director no help. I had to do something, so I get on floor. Is fun to be a mad person; you are free, you do what you like. Physically was easy for me, I was acrobat for five years."

Right on!, dear lady.

RTWT here.