Kristine Opolais Quotes

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

Kristine Opolais

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• I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

  

  Kristine Opolais
  • Mother
  • Stupid
  • Competition