Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.