If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
I am a very superstitious person.
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.