saying congratulations on the extremely successful opening of the metropolitan opera season as the prima. donna now it's been a decade since your debut on the stage how does it feel to be back in such a dramatic role in one of the most famous stages in the world i'm not thinking about that i'm thinking about music in about what i have to perform but the. behind . it's past it's gone. to date different time with a different role and you have certainly one over the hearts of millions of people all over the world do you still sometimes get nervous before walking out on stage or i am getting nervous because. each performance it's a live performance singing without the microphone. anything can happen usually the rules are quiet tough and you have to be able to go through the whole evening. in quite a good level. i think to go on the stage in front of the thousands of people sometimes it's a million seafoods lifetimes mission it's even more scary and you know we get nervous that's normal and you have the leading cast in this in this op are all russians which is certainly a major source of pride for r

he felt fully confident to be able to control these had strong prima donnas. i know we are all kind of gazing back nostalgically. at think it is right to do so in terms of the brilliance and the area addition and integrity of these people, but it was a nasty political time. i did a piece for the "wall street journal" last summer on the founders. for instance, john adams, benjamin franklin, his entire life has been one continued insult to decency and good manners. franklin said of atoms, he is always an autumn honest man, sometimes a wise man, but sometimes absolutely out of his senses. this is kid stuff compared to adams and hamilton. adams called hamilton the bastard brand of scotch peddler. he said the hamilton had a super abundance of secretions which he could not find boards enough to draw off. it doesn't get any stronger than that. hamilton gave as good as he got. he rejoined, i shall send the lead to say that john adams is as wicked as he is mad. the only one who really rises above all of this partisan name-calling and mudslinging is george washington. a

>> two prima donnas.ey were and tech in the sense that mark twain was anti imperialists liberal and teddy roosevelt was and imperialists conservative. even if they had been politically harmonious they still would have fought and clashed because they read two giant egos and giant egos never get on well. >> what do you want to get across to the audience when you talk about your book colonel roosevelt? >> what will surprise most people is what an intellectual he was. although he was extraordinarily gifted politician he was also an intellectual who wrote 40 books. 1 50,000 letters, read and largely memorized a book a day. and he wrote some amazingly error date -- be erudite articles some of which have never been given much attention until i wrote my book. for example the conflict between orthodox religion and evolutionary science. the same feel logical debate we are having nowadays in the southern states. a lot of this stuff which i explored in the book speaks to our contemporary situation. >> being here is a

he felt fully confident to be able to control these had strong prima donnas. i know we are all kind of gazing back nostalgically. at think it is right to do so in terms of the brilliance and the area addition and integrity of these people, but it was a nasty political time. i did a piece for the "wall street journal" last summer on the founders. for instance, john adams, benjamin franklin, his entire life has been one continued insult to decency and good manners. franklin said of atoms, he is always an autumn honest man, sometimes a wise man, but sometimes absolutely out of his senses. this is kid stuff compared to adams and hamilton. adams called hamilton the bastard brand of scotch peddler. he said the hamilton had a super abundance of secretions which he could not find boards enough to draw off. it doesn't get any stronger than that. hamilton gave as good as he got. he rejoined, i shall send the lead to say that john adams is as wicked as he is mad. the only one who really rises above all of this partisan name-calling and mudslinging is george washington. a