Mezzo Sarah Connolly badly wanted to record Purcell’s Dido, which she felt nobody else sang the way she thought it should go. With no record label behind her, she put together the cast and raised the money herself. Same with her Handel “Heroes and Heroines” CD. “I know I don’t pay sufficient court to the media. I don’t chase them, and consequently they don’t chase me … I can out-diva anyone, but promotion is not my main priority.”