Ann Wroe
speaker
34 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And at that stage, an uncle suggested opera, that if she became apprenticed to an opera master, she could then, as her mother said, be fed by a hundred households.
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So she was sold for five copper coins or about $12 at the age of four and went under contract to an opera master.
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And this regime was absolutely brutal.
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The art of opera was completely beaten into her.
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If she was insubordinate, she'd be bludgeoned with a rolling pin.
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If she failed to do a perfect somersault, she'd be beaten with a sheep whip.
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And from this regime, she tried to run away, but she'd been taken to another part of the North and she had no idea where she was, so she had to stay.
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Also, the feeling was that perhaps she had been spared to sing.
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She hadn't been meant to die in the woods and she hadn't been meant to starve to death.
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She was meant to be a singer, so she persevered with this terrible training
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which even involved, in the wintertime, having to lie down on frozen lakes and sing and vocalize until she had melted a hole in the ice.
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The song My Motherland became famous from a film about the Korean War, where she featured as a soldier hiding in a cave singing this song, which became a monstrous hit in China.
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Her struggle had left her, she said, with a real layer of anger in herself.
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But she could also dissolve her anger and totally forget it when our whole audience roared her songs back to
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