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That's very alive in everything he does."She takes her time about her words; she really thinks about them. She prefers, doesn't she, to sing with period instruments when singing Baroque music?"I just like the sound of those instruments," she says "Ithas more structure. When I started I was 20, and got into the baroque scene through one of the best choirs in Stockholm, the Bach Choir, which used period instruments. I was in an a cappella quartet, we did mostly old music – Byrd, Monteverdi I also like the energy of period conductors Then things moved on.

Take what's happening right here now [Iphig?e was playing that night]. The Orchestra of the Enlightenment at Glyndebourne! Thirty years ago, the sound they make would have been off. Now we take it for granted."And after the Handel?"Lots of concerts. Then in December something new: a major European tour of Christmas music; very mixed, with and without microphone."Her two boys, 11 and 13, were arriving from Stockholm that afternoon to face five weeks without computers in the English summer. How does she fit her family into her schedule?She can't ever do a long run, she says, but that is fine with her."I read an interview with an actor once, who said what matters is the rehearsals I agree That's what's electric.

Learning: working together to create something as we're doing now; getting to understand the piece, say, 'Yes, this is how it should feel' Going on night after night, I'd feel cramped. I try to do things in Stockholm or space out performances – then I can fly back and be with the boys But it's hard. For instance, in the Metropolitan in New York you have to be there two days before you're on."She can wait till the kids are older?"But then I'll also be older. I can't go on to do the big mean-bitch roles as Christa Ludwig went on to do, like Elektra I'd have loved to.

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