An interview with Susanna Phillips and Mariusz Kwiecien 3rd January 2009 just before act4 of La Boheme at the MET
M: Hello!
Q: At the end of act 3 you are calling each other very ugly names, viper, house painter, toad, witch . is it fun to do that on stage?
S : so much fun!
M: Especially with that girl!
(laughing)
Q: That girl.
M: That girl, Susanna, yes!
Q: Now here backstage you look lovely together but on stage Marcello and Musetta has very tempertuous relationship. Do you think they really love each other?
Susanna: I do. I think they are perfect match each other.
M: Yeah I think the same. you know, every relationship I got I was always fire and water. so this what we see on stage is basiclly fire, but you have to imagine that Musetta and Marcello had also waterish moment os relationship. I think it's always very necessary to have this kind of -- ah- ah-
S: Fireworks.
M: Yes.
S: No matter what good or bad our passionate.
M: Yeah.
Q: Even the way you're lookin' each other now like fireworks.
M: That's true!
Q: That's good.
(Met debut of Susanna)
M: Just keep your legs straight and voices in the right position. this was in the beginning toy toy? maybe babe? have this fire in you and show this fire to public. Susanna and I were getting Santa Fe Festival with Marriage of Figaro, she was the Countess and I was the Count. I was know each other and I know what kind of woman she is and I was sure that she will be fabulous here making her beautiful debut.
Q: And the role of Marcello for you, is it special to you?
M: Yes, I like it. In this age of my carrer and also as a person I have to start sing a little bit of older characters, it comes just naturally. so always coming back to sing Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro and Marcello in La Boheme always is the great thing remembering such a young and crazy moment of my life.
Q: Yeah. Do you know Marius today, actually it was yesterday, ten years ago was your MET debut.
M: Yes, I know!
M: Yes.
S: Congratulations! that's wonderful!
M: Thank you for your count. My performances here you see actually I think tonight is the last night is the hundred performance at the MET. so exactly ten yoears and hundred performances. Thank you for remembering that!
S: Congratulations!
Q: Maybe I will catch you ten years down the roles