Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2007-08-20


Interview:
Emmy Rossum, best known for her acting roles in Phantom Of The Opera, Mystic River, and The Day After Tomorrow, had her diversity validated when her recorded musical debut, Inside Out, landed at #14 on iTunes’ top album chart. Inside Out is a three song digital bundle exclusively sold on iTunes. Along with the songs each bundle comes with a free 18 minute documentary about the making of her full length album which is due out this fall. On top of the #14 ranking across all genres Inside Out was #3 on the iTunes Pop Charts, and is in the digital stores’ “Best of The Stores” section, where the iTunes staff picks 13 songs into an eclectic mix tape. Despite her being known primary as an actress, music has always played a major role in Emmy Rossum’s life. When she was seven years old, she was singing with the Metropolitan Opera, and by the time she was a teenager, she had auditioned, and won, the part of Christine in the film version of Phantom of the Opera, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.

You sang with the Metropolitan Opera at a pretty early age as well as numerous operas in different languages, how did you get started doing that?

Emmy: Well my second grade teacher in regular school, my chorus teacher, pulled me out of chorus class one day and said, “You know, I think you have perfect intonation, and I’d love to set up an audition for you at the Metropolitan Opera to go over and see if they might like to train you there.”

I was kind of completely taken back by that, and I didn’t really know what that meant. And she set up the appointment for me, I went and sang for them, they said welcome to the opera, and that was it.

Wow! Was that intimidating at all for you?

Emmy: No, it was really exciting for me. I really felt like the second I walked onto that stage, I really knew that I wanted to be in that kind of world for the rest of my life. I felt immediately at home and excited, and I felt like I was working on something that I really believed in and loved. It was just really exciting for me to find something like that, that I loved, at such an early age when most people spend their whole lives trying to find something that they really love and they’re good at, and I found it really really young. So if it wasn’t for that second grade teacher… I probably wouldn’t have even started.