David Krauss’s guest this week on Speaking Soundly is jazz singer and Macarthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, who comes out as a Puccini obssessive.
She says: ‘I wonder what it would be like to be cello 3’.
It’s a fascinating conversation.
Listen here.
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