Boris Christoff

How old were you [when you first heard Der Freischütz]?

I'm been maybe at thirteen yes. About thirteen, twelve, thirteen years old.

What did you want to be when you were a boy?

My first um idea, my first dream. It was to be in Navy Engineer. Yes. I don't know why. In fact, you graduated in law at the Sofia University. That is the last one which I never supposed to be. The second dream is coming to be architect. And the last plan is coming the singing. But it was far away from my possibility and from my dream because it was impossible. For me to study singing, it was necessary to go in Italy and study them.

Did you practice law?

I practice as judge, not as lawyer. As a judge. But uh two, three months. No more.

Now, what did you do then [when Italy was invaded]?

that I was obliged to left Italy. And I'm going to Bulgaria where I find the king dead. All the situation completely different. In few months, two months I think I go to Salzburg to another teacher. Italian, always. So Bulgaria is coming on the side of Russia, England, the United States, etcetera. I'm remain until the end of the war. In Austria. And that point who is very close to Switzerland, Vorarlberg. And I remained there like a prisoner, not but as a worker in a camp.