IDA HAENDEL TALKS ABOUT CHOOSING HER COLLABORATORS

“I choose my collaborators very carefully – and I don’t want to appear condescending, but if I don’t respect them to the highest degree, I wouldn’t perform with them. That’s the first issue for me, to find a collaborator that I trust, I respect, and I listen to what they are doing. And I’m capable (I’m paying this compliment to myself) if I see that the interpretation of my collaborator is saying something completely different, and it’s more profound than I saw it, I’m fully prepared to change my concept. Very quickly. But I have to be convinced that it is so. Very often I am very lucky, because I do choose the most talented people to perform with, so that’s the answer.”