Seiji Ozawa will remain music director of this house.

If there ever was someone that one can call a real star today and a world-famous opera singer during her time then that was Frau Nilsson. What's more, she was a totally normal modest person with a lot of self-irony.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.